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 Forsyth Family iu Nezv Fngland.

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��FORSYTH FAMILY IN NEW ENGLAND.

By Frederic Gregory Forsyth.

��The family and pame of Forsyth are derived from the ancient barony and city of Forsath, now Fronsac, in Gas- cony, France. Robeit de Forsyth, a Gascon knight went to Scotland during the reign of Robert I. and his son Sir Osbert de Forsyth received from that monarch for fealty, " 100 sohdates in terrae tenemento de Salkill," in the Sher- iffdom of Sterling. — [Earl of Had- dington's Collection.]

From him were descended the Forsyths' Barons of Nydie, whose arms are emblazoned in Lindsay's Heraldic MSS., probably by Sir David Lindsay of the INIount, Lord Lyon, King of Arms, in 1542.

One of this family. Lord James Forsyth, a Lord Commissioner in 1560 (Oliphants in Scotland, p. 171), married the daughter and heiress of Lord Douglass of Dykes. His son was :

David Forsyth, iiaron of Dykes, a Commissioner of Revenue for Glasgow in 1594. — (Rolls of Scottish Parlia- ment for 1594.) His children were :

I. Tames Forsvth. died unmarried.

.11. William Forsyth, his successor.

HI. Robert Forsyth, an officer of the Royal Army, settled in County Down, Ulster, Ireland, in 1618, near Hills- borough Church, in which is embla- zoned his family coat-of-arms.

William Forsyth, Baron of Dykes, son of David, was Member of Scottish Parliament for Forres in 1621. — (Rolls of Scottish Parliament for 1 62 1.) One of his sons was :

John Forsyth, Member of Parha- ment for CuUen and one of the signers of the Commission to meet the English Parliament in 1652. — (Rolls of Scottish

��Parliament for 1652.) He married a daughter and heiress of Lord Living- ston of Kilsvth, and had :

I. James Forsyth, his successor.

II. Walter Forsyth, Regent for the College and Subdeaneries of Glasgow, in 1687.

James Forsyth, son of John, inherited from his mother the lands of Tailzerton- Palmaise and Kilsyth-Easter. He was Minister to Airth, in 1661; to Sterling 1665 • -K^ married a daughter and heir- ess of Bruce, Baron of Gavell, of the family of Bruce of Airth, who gained the estate of Airth by a marriage with the daughter and heiress of Sir William de Airth of that Ilk. His son was :

James Forsyth of Tailzerton, Mem- ber of the Council of Sterhng, in 1685, with the Duke cf Hamilton, Earl of Callander, Lord Elphinstone, Sir Wil- liam Livingstone of Kilsyth, etc., the Earl of Mar being the conveener. He was also Member of Parliament in 1676. His commission of inheritance reads, " Jacobcus Forsyth, heres talliae et prov- isionis Magistri Jacobi Forsyth de Tailzerton, magistri vobi Dei apud ec- clesium de StirUng " — "in terris de Palmaise vocatis Palmaise-Tailzerton pro principali, terris Kilsyth, vocatis Kjlsyth- Easter in speciale Warrantum earundam . . ."

His oldest son :

W^illiara Forsyth, bora 16S7, '^'^'as granted Freedom of the City of Glas- gow in X735, and married Elspet, daughter of Gerard of Walkerhill, Aber- deenshire. His son was :

William Forsyth, born December t8, 1 721. Granted Freedom of the City of Glasgow, in 1746, married 175;'. Jean.

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