Alexander Skene of Newtyle (1621-aft1679)

On 15 January 1625, being the son of a burgess of Aberdeen, he was admitted burgess "jure paternitatis et dispens. cum jure jurando quia pupillus est et infra aetatem". On 20 June 1648 he served heir to his father and was infeft in the tenement "in vico lemurum." By 1656 he was a magistrate of Aberdeen. In 1657 he acquired, from Sir Alexander Forbes of Foveran, the lands of Newtyle, in the parish of Foveran (on the main road to Aberdeen about a mile south of the Foveran Burn). In 1669 he and his wife became Quakers. In 1677 he published a pamphlet "The Way Cast up", and in 1679 he wrote an address to the Presbyterians: "A Plain and Peaceable Advice to those called Presbyterians in Scotland" (published in London, 1681). He produced other literary works, including the "MS.A" used by his relative in compiling the source of these notes. His arms: "Parted per chief azur and gules three skenes argent hefted and pomelled or, surmounted of as many woolf-heads couped of the third". Crest: "A dexter hand holding a corona triumphalis". Motto: "Sors mihi granta cadet".