• General Notes

  Notes from http://books.google.com/books?id=yd0AAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA167&lpg=RA3-PA167&dq=john+anderson+notary+clerk+glasgow+1539&source=web&ots=wreBZMeJ3j&sig=lRVHQ-uQvqDrdSXrak-1BYHfRA8#PRA3-PA168,M1
  Biographical Memoir of the Late Charles Macintosh by George Macintosh
  Appendix No.3 --Family of Anderson of Dowhill
  
  pg 168
  "In 1556, John Anderson was one of the stentors of the merchants, employed to levy the Glasgow portion of the tax imposed that year upon the royal burghs of Scotland, by the unfortunate and calumniated Mary; and in 1577, he was possessed, with other property, of a tan work, in the Dowhill, which, it is somewhat remarkable, continued to be occupied as such, in the possession of the family, till it was sold in 1754, by Dr. John Moore, their remote descendant; being tenanted at the time by James Wyllie."
  
  "John Anderson, left a son, Ninian, by his wife Janet Andrew; and who would appear to have been one of the magistrates who so long resisted the importunities of Andrew Melville, the reformed Principal of the College, and the Presbyterian divines of the town, to grant them permission to destroy the cathedral of Glasgow in 1579, in conformity to the acts passed by the Estates of the Realm, at the desire of the General Assembly. The Earls of Arran, Argyle, and Glencairn, were the vandal barons entrusted with the execution of this brutal decree in the west of Scotland. Upon Melville and his noble coadjutors, however, attempting to put their savage design in force, "the incorporated trades" of Glasgow took arms; and declared that the first man who injured a stone of the cathedral should answer with his life, upon the spot, for his temerity. The threat was completely successful, and the casthedral remains at the present day a splendid monument of the civilization of former ages; and of the courage, good sense, and good feeling of the tradesmen of Glasgow, of the year 1579. Ninian Anderson is said to have owed his seat in the Town Council to his being at the time Deacon Convener of the incoporated trades. One almost feels disposed to apply to the burgesses of Glasgow at this time, in contrasting their conduct with the reformed nobles and clergy, Lord Byron's exclamation in repect to Spain --"Here all is great save fallen chivalry!"
  
  Pg 169
  
  "Ninian Anderson left a son, John, who was one of the magistrates of Glasgow, at the time that the city capitulated with James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, after his defeat of the covenanting army of General Baillie, at Kilsyth, in August 1645. Montrose had encamped in the neighborhood of the town, and demanded a contribution of shoes, bonnets and money, for his troops. Anderson, and some others of the magistrates, went to his camp to endeavour to get him to modify his terms, to which he consented, inviting them to dine with him, and treating them with much civility. In return, upon their retiring, it was alleged that they had kissed his hand, and wished him success. When this was reported to the covenanters, the Earl of Lanark came to Glasgow, and deposed from their offices the whole of the magistrates except the Provost, (Porterfield of Duchal), who had contrived to keep out of the way. John Anderson, however, protesting against the proceeding, in his own name and that of his deposed brethren. The date of this protest is 30th Sept. 1645."
  

Details of John's family with Janet Andrew