George Buchanan (abt. 1728 - 1762)

Born about 1728 in Drumpellier, Lanarkshire, Scotland (assumed)

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Died 1762 at about age 34 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland [uncertain]

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Biography

George was born about 1726.

George was born in 1691. He passed away in 1759.

Sources

• LXXVI. Mount Vernon; see my 11/9/18 EM:

(II.) GEORGE BUCHANAN of Mount Vernon, younger son of Provost Andrew, Virginia merchant, born 1728, died 1762.

We can see from what he did what the profits of the Virginia trade were like in its palmy days. In 1758, when not thirty, he was able to buy Mount Vernon from Adam Fairholm, and to build and plant and lay out there; and before his death in his thirty-fourth year, he had built himself on the two acres on the Lang Croft a town house, only equalled by the Shawfield mansion. This was the famous Virginia mansion, which was only removed in 1842 by the Union Bank. (8) George Buchanan married Lilias Dunlop of Garnkirk, sister of Provost Colin Dunlop of Carmyle. By her he had a daughter Marion (the wife of her cousin, James Dunlop first of Tollcross, Carmyle's eldest son, and the mother of Colin Dunlop, M.P., and grandmother of James Dunlop, now of Tollcross), and two sons, Andrew and David.

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