JOHNSTONE, Samuel 7th of Elphinstone, 1st Baronet of Elphinstone, Sir ²

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Samuel married Jean DOUGLAS 'of Spott', daughter of James DOUGLAS Prior of Pluscarden and Anna HOME.¹ (Jean DOUGLAS 'of Spott' was born about 1590.)

  Marriage Notes:

"The great-great-grandson of the last Gilbert (Johnstone), named Samuel, was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1628. He died in 1637, and was succeeded by his son, Sir John, second Baronet, who, dying in 1662, left a son, Sir James, third Baronet. For several generations they had worked the coal in East Lothian, and in the end apparently these operations ruined the family. The third Baronet had to part with his lands, and his fate is unknown."

from The Heraldry of the Johnstons




"Samuel (Johnstone) married Jean Douglas of Spott, and, besides John, the second Baronet, left five daughters - Jean, Elizabeth (who married, first, John Seton, and for her second husband the Earl of Hartfell), Helen, Mary, and Anna."

from History of the Johnstones ^{1 2}