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50 NOTES AND QUERIES. —I seek genealogical details of this family.

(12 S. viii. 108).—With regard to my query at this reference relative to the ancestry of Alexander Sutherland, a farmer of Ackergill, I give hereunder a copy of a letter which may lead to the discovery of the ancestry of Alexander Sutherland, and which is also interesting in connexion with the oft-expressed doubt as to whether the Duke of Sutherland is the rightful holder of the ancient earldom of that county:—

The inference to be gathered from this letter is that the Kilpeter branch of the family should have succeeded to the earldom, and it would be interesting to know whether there are any charters extant which bear out this contention.

I have not been able to discover the pedigree of this branch of the family, and should esteem any genealogical details thereof, especially of the three sons of the last Laird of Kilpeter. Is it possible that the second son was Alexander, a farmer of Ackergill, who migrated to Edinburgh, and whose second daughter, Margaret, married John Baillie in 1764?

The interior of the recently erected Cunard building in Lower Broadway, New York, is embellished with mural paintings of the first voyagers to America by the artist Ezra Winter, who trained in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the American Academy in Rome. The voyagers depicted in their order are Leif Ericson, Columbus, Cabot, and Drake. The first is shown in an orange viking ship with a high gilt dragon prow, and huge square yellow sail blazoned in black with his emblem the seahorse. There is a statue of Ericson at Boston, but the ' Ency. Brit.' states that Ameri- can professors are not agreed as to the spot on which this Danish mariner landed. Has any later information come to light to settle the point ? J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. 101, Piccadilly, W. Six LORDS : CHEWAR. Information in- vited as to the origin of the name " Six Lords," the sign of a public-house at Single- borough, near Winslow, Bucks ; also of "The Chewar," a thoroughfare in Bucking- ham. J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. 101, Piccadilly, W. MONKE. James Monke Was admitted to Westminster School in April, 1740, aged 8, and William Monke in Jan., 1743, aged 7. Any information about these two Monkea would be acceptable. G. F. R. B.