STRACHAN, Patrick later Minister of Dramoir, Ireland, Reverend Mr ¹

   Another name for Patrick was STRACHAN, Peter.²

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  General Notes:

"In the next year, 1664, George Keith, who had been convinced of the rectitude of the doctrines held by Friends, coming to visit his brethren at Aberdeen in the love of the gospel, was cast into gaol, and detained there ten months. Patrick Livingston also, for the same offence, became his fellow-prisoner during the space of seven months. While they were here, one Peter Strachan, son to Andrew Strachan, the public minister of Kintore, confined with them for debt or some misdemeanour, violently beat and abused them; and, taking away their papers, sent them to the magistrates. This man afterward became troubled in his conscience; and, under a sense of his wickedness in thus ill-treating the innocent, cried out fearfully, that the judgments of God were upon him for his behaviour towards them, and repeatedly begged forgiveness of them in the presence of several witnesses."

from The Diary of Alexander Jaffray ²

  Research Notes:

PETER AND PATRICK

'Peter' and 'Patrick' are regularly used interchangeably in Scots and Irish culture historically.