LESLIE, Alexander Lord Balgonie ^{1 2 3}

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Alexander married Margaret LESLIE, daughter of John LESLIE 6th Earl of Rothes and Anne ERSKINE.¹ (Margaret LESLIE was born about 1620, died in February 1688 ⁴ and was buried in 1688 in East Wemyss, Fife, Scotland ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Lady Margaret, married, first, to Alexander Leslie, Lord Balgony. John, Earl of Rothes, in behalf of his daughter, Lady Margaret Leslie, executed a marriage contract with Sir Alexander Leslie of Balgony, General of the Swedish army in Westphalia, and Dame Agnes Renton his spouse, in behalf of Colonel Alexander Leslie, their eldest son, whereby the said Sir Alexander Leslie bound himself to iiifeft Lady Margaret Leslie in certain lands in liferent, and obliged himself not to redeem certain lands from his son, and not to sell his other lands, or burden them, except with the sum of 100,300 merks, of which 72,000 merks should be provided for his daughters, Christian, Janet, Agnes, and Mary, and should any of them die, their portions were to fall to the others ; and if any of them should be foris familiae during their father's lifetime, their infeftment should be void ; and the Earl of Rothes bound himself to pay as the tocher of Lady Margaret Leslie the sum of 6000 merks at Whitsunday 1637, and 4000 merks at Whitsunday 1638. Sir Alexander Leslie of Balgony, Field-marshal to the Queen of Sweden, and Dame Agnes Renton his spouse, granted a discharge to John, Earl of Rothes, for the above 10,000 merks, 16th June 1638."

from Family of Leslie ¹