[Ancestor] Witherspoon

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1 M David Witherspoon ¹

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Witherspoon

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The Witherspoon family is lineally descended from Robert Bruce, one of the claimants to the throne of Scotland after the death of William the Lion, through his daughter Margaret, whose son Robert (1316-1390), became the first of the Stuart sovereigns of Scotland. Robert (II) married Lady Isabel Mure. Their third son, Robert Stuart, Earl of Menteith and Fife and Duke of Albany, by his first wife, Lady Margaret, had Murdoch Stuart, who married Isabel, daughter of Duncan, Earl of Lennox; they had Sir James Stuart, who died in Ireland in 1451. His son, Walter Stuart, of Morphie, married Lady Elizabeth Arnot, and had Andrew Stuart, third Lord Evandale, who married Lady Margaret Kennedy, daughter of Sir John Kennedy. They had a son, Andrew Stuart, who exchanged the barony of Evandale for that of Ochiltrie, and died in 1548; he married Margaret Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, and their son, Andrew Stuart, the second Lord Ochiltrie, married Agnes Cunningham, and had a daughter, Margaret Stuart, who married John Knox, the famous Scottish reformer. Margaret Stuart was Knox's second wife, whom he married in 1564; they had a daughter, Elizabeth Knox, who married Rev. John Welch, minister at Ayr, who was one of the first Presbyterian ministers to be banished by James I of England, through his zeal for episcopacy in Scotland. The Rev. John and Elizabeth (Knox) Welch had a daughter described as Daughter Welch, who married the Rev. James Witherspoon, minister of Yester, Haddingtonshire. He was a son of David Witherspoon. The name is said to have been originally Wodderspoon.

This family descends from the Scotch family of Witherspoon, who were seated in the parish of Yester, near Edinburgh. The family had long possessed a considerable landed estate. [GPHNP, 247] ¹

1 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 336.