succeeded by his son also called Colin on the on 23 April 1674. Colin Campbell, Baron of Lundie was succeeded by a member of the Duncan family. The Duncan family were prominent merchants and burgesses of Dundee during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. William Duncan of Seasyde was born in 1652[This date must be incorrect because Alexander Duncan, who married Anna Drummond in 1673, was baptised at Dundee in 1653.] . He was a leading merchant and burgess of Dundee and father of Alexander Duncan. His testament was confirmed with the Commissariot of Brechin 11 September 1678. His son Alexander Duncan was also a merchant and Provost in Dundee from 1681 to 1689. The lands and Barony of Lundie passed to him during the 1670s. On 31 July 1686 he and his wife Anna Drummond of Megginch were officially granted the Barony of Lundie. [NRS.SIG1.41.7] & [NRS.Rand S38.S3.V.352]. In 1696 Alexander Duncan, Baron of Lundie died. His wife, Ann Drummond died in 1693. The testaments of Alexander Duncan of Lundie were confirmed with the Commissariot of Brechin on 5 November 1696 and on 23 August 1707. Their son Alexander succeeded on the death of his father in 1696 to the Barony of Lundie. He too was a merchant burgess of Dundee and married to Isobel, daughter of Sir Patrick Murray of Auchtertyre. Alexander Duncan of Lundie in 1704 was granted the lands of Gourdie and the lands of Wester Keith in 1707. [RGS.80.92; 83.58]. 1700 to 1800 During the Jacobite Rising of 1715, Alexander actively supported the Hanoverians. This resulted in him being appointed Deputy Constable of the burgh and Deputy Lieutenant of Forfarshire in 1715-1716 NRS.GD45.15.47. . Alexander Duncan, Baron of Lundie, died in Lundie Castle on 2 January 1719. He had two sons Alexander, who succeeded to Lundie, and William physician to King George II. In September 1723, Alexander Duncan succeeded his father as Baron of Lundie. He was also a merchant burgess and Provost of Dundee from 1717 to 1719. He married Helen, daughter of John Haldane of Gleneagles [NRS.RS35.XI.68]. Alexander Duncan and his wife Helen Haldane had two sons Alexander and Adam. Alexander, the elder son, succeeded to the lands and Barony of Lundie on his father's death in 1777. Alexander, the eldest son, was a British Army officer. On 6 August 1766, Alexander Duncan, a Lieutenant Colonel in the 55th Regiment of Foot was granted