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Pete,
You have the Cargill families mixed up. James Cargill, b. Aghadowey (Derry) North
Ireland, 1687, d. Mendon MA, Oct 1753, m.Pawtuxet RI, 1725, Phebe Smith of Warwick (Kent)
RI, b. 05 Dec 1699, d. South Kingstown RI, 1738 were the parents of Benjamin Cargill, b.
South Kingstown RI, 11 Apr 1737.
James father was John Cargill, b. abt. 1660. His mother may have been named Mary Anne. I
have not found positive proof of his mother as yet. The 1660 John was a son of John
Cargill, b. Rattray, Perthshire, Scotland, 03 Dec1620 who was the third child and second
son of John Cargill, b.abt.1582 and Jeane Gray. The 1582 John was the eldest son of
Donald Cargill, Vicar of Rattray, b. abt. 1550 and Margaret Blair.
Dr. Featherston Cargill of London England, researched the Cargill families of the Scottish
Highlands for about 25 years before he died without finding a direct tie of the John
Cargill of Dunedin to the Rhode Island Cargill's or in fact to the Rattray
Cargill's from whom Donald Cargill, the Martyr and Covenanter descends. Donald, the
Martyr, is a grandson of Donald Cargill, Vicar of Rattray and the eldest son of his
youngest child, Laurence Cargill.
Donald the "Martyr" had no descendants. He married in Aug 1655, a widow,
Margaret (Brown) Bethune, dau.of Nicol Brown, burgess of Edinburgh, and widow of Andrew
Bethune, who had died in 1653 leaving her liferentrix of the estate of Blebo,which lies a
few miles east of Cupar, not far from St. Andrews. She died one year and one day after
their marriage without issue.
The John Cargill you reference in Dunedin was one of seventeen children of Captain William
Cargill and Mary Ann Yates and was the father of Dr. Fetherston Cargill. Captain William
was a son of James Cargill and Marion Jamieson. Their ancester is James Cargill, b. prob.
Dundee Scotland, 1703, d.1779, m. Elizabeth Wilson, dau. of Francis Wilson and Margaret
Ogilvy. This is as far back as Dr. Featherston Cargill could trace his ancestry back with
any degree of surety.
Roger