(1) cont. 1 September 1627, Robert Alison, merchant burgess, Dunfermline : (2) John Messone, burgess of Culross); Elizabeth (married cont. 4 April 1623, William Gibbon, indweller in Banhaird); Margaret (married David Robertson, of Murton-Elginch, and was great-great-grandmother of Principal Robertson, the historian) Works The Historie of the Kirk of Scotland from the year 1558 to August 1637, with a Continuation to July 1639 by his son John Row, Principal of King's College, Aberdeen. [Row's Historie, based on papers left by his father-in-law, David Fergusson, found its way into circulation by means of several manuscript copies, one of which — in Edinburgh University Library — was first printed by the Wodrow Society (Edinburgh, 1842), an edition being printed also that same year for the Maitland Club, 2 vols. In his later years Row compiled a memorial of on the government of the Church of Scotland since the Reformation. For the earlier years of his Memorial he made use of the papers of his father-in-law David Ferguson. The work found its way into circulation in manuscript, and copies of it were made. In 1842 it was printed for the Wodrow Society, chiefly from a manuscript in the university of Edinburgh, under the title ‘Historie of the Kirk of Scotland, from the year 1558 to August 1637, by John Row, Minister of Carnock, with a Continuation to July 1639, by his son, John Row, Principal of King's College, Aberdeen.’ An edition was also printed in the same year by the Maitland Club. Bibliography Memorials of the Family of Row [edited by James Maidment] (Edinburgh, 1828) Baillie's Letters, i., 129 Gordon's Scots Affairs, i. 147, ii. 127 Notes prefaced to the Historie Livingstone's Characteristics Chalmers's Dunfermline, ii. Ross's Aberdour and Inchcolme, 220, 229 Cunningham's Culross, 92-4 Beg. of Deeds, ccccxvii. 53, ccclxxiii. Ill Perth Sas., v., 137 References Citations Sources Attribution 1568 births 1646 deaths Writers from Perth, Scotland Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 17th-century Scottish historians 17th-century Protestant religious leaders