denied him. Thereupon he emigrated to North America, where he established a plantation at Charlestown Neck, South Carolina. On 28 October 1685 his estate in Scotland was exposed to sale by public roup, and was bought by the Earl of Mar at seventeen years' purchase. Cardross, having been driven from the settlement in Carolina by the Spaniards, went to Holland, and in 1688 he accompanied the Prince of Orange to England. In the following year he raised a regiment of dragoons and served under General Mackay against Dundee. An act was passed restoring him to his estates, and he was also sworn a privy councilor and constituted general of the mint. In July 1689 the Duke of Hamilton, the king's commissioner, at a meeting of the council, fell 'with great violence' on Lord Cardross, asserting that it was by his dragoons that the episcopal minister of Logie had been prevented from entering his church; but Cardross denied all knowledge of anything asserted to have happened. Service of the King Cardross was engaged in the Battle of Killiecrankie, of which he sent an account to Lord Melville in a letter of 30 July. When the Duke of Hamilton proposed a new oath to the council, Cardross objected to it as contrary to the instrument of government, and also 'because the maner of swering by the Bible is nether the Scottish nor the Presbiterian forme, and seems to raise the Bible as more than God'. In the instructions sent by King William on 18 Dec. 1689 to 'model three troops of dragoons,’ Cardross was proposed as lieutenant-colonel and captain of the first troop. In 1690 he was appointed one of a commission to examine into the condition of the universities. In October 1691 he went to London along with the Earl of Crawford to support the proceedings of the Scotch council against the episcopalians. He died at Edinburgh on 21 May 1693. He had four sons and three daughters. His eldest son, David Erskine, 4th Lord Cardross, succeeded to the earldom of Buchan in 1695. Family His granddaughter Katherine Erskine, married Gilbert Laurie of Polmont (1729–1809), twice Lord Provost of Edinburgh. References 1650 births 1693 deaths Members of the Convention of the Estates of Scotland 1689 Henry