Robert Patrick , esq. of Trearne and Hazlehead , in the county of Ayr. Succeeded his father in 1795, and acquired, in 1807 , the estate of Hazlehead, adjoining that of Trearne . He is inspector-general of hospitals, on halfpay since 1815 ; and a magistrate for the counties of Ayr and Renfrew . He is likewise in the deputy lieutenancy of the former shire. "The ancestors of the different families of the name of Patrick who now hold property in Ayrshire (says Robertson ), were settled, and held situations about the monastery of Kilwinning , long prior to the Reformation." John Patrick attests, as a notary public, a charter connected with the church, dated 19 Jul 1459 , afterwards ratified in parliament; and William Patrick is a subscribing witness to a tack of the teinds of Dalry , granted by Alexander , commendator of Kilwinning, to John Hamilton , in 1549 . The Patricks , becoming early converts to the Protestant religion, joined the reformers under the Earl of Glencairn ; and some of them, accompanying the expedition to the north of Ireland under Hugh Montgomery , of Broadstane , afterwards Viscount Ardes , who, as expressed in his patent from James VI. ?? brought a colony of Scots into Clandebora and Ardes toward the increase of the restored religion,' settled in that country, where their descendants still possess property, near Derry ."
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