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- merchant burgess of Edinburgh
(silk) merchant and Lord Provost of Edinburgh from October 16th, 1711 till the end of 1713, and was knighted during his term of office (by August 1704).
He purchased Pireavie Castle from Archibald Primrose, 1st Earl of Roseberry
Sir Robert Blackwood, late dean of guild, ..., all owners of the ship St Andrew and her cargo,
Investor in the Darien scheme(?3000), South Carolina Company and cloth manufacturing in Haddington (New Mills)
- (Research):Robert (not Hugh) Hamilton, Bailie Clerk of Carrick, and Janet Blackwood,* his spouse, were, on the resignation of Hew Kennedy, in 1670, admitted to the lands of Clongall, Olongall Muir, Clongall Montgomerie, Nether Clongall, Dupillburn, &c.
* Daughter of Robert Blackwood, merchant in Ayr, ancestor of Sir Robert Blackwood of Pitreavie.
A coat-of-arms was recorded in the Lyon Office in 1704, for Robert Blackwood, Dean of Guild, with the addition of a mascle gules for difference. It was used by his descendants, the Pitreavie Blackwoods; but it is most probably an incorrect one, as a saltire and chief almost invariably betokens an Annandale origin and it may be worth noting that this coat-of-arms is the same as the old Johnstone coat, except that they carried cushions argent instead of the leave of the chief. It is just possible that a wrong name had been put above it (which occasionally occurs in the MS).
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