• The third son, Gawin, after due improvements in humanity at home, is bred a merchant in Glasgow; becomes a great and successful proficient therein; purchases, possesses, and manages some lands in Scotland, at the foot of Clide in..., and some lands in Ireland, at Hollywood, near Belfast; obtains a lease of the great Bann, near Colrain, and provides himself with three merchant ships, and carries the product of the aforesaid lands and fishings and other commodities of this country abroad, and brings home to Scotland, especially to Glasgow, and ....., viz., the Northern sea-ports and Dublin, wines and other effects from the places to which he had carried his other effects, and so becomes very wealthy and great in his station and way of living. [6885, p 310]

• He died under thirty years of age, and was creditably buried in the church of Colrain, with great lamentation. [6885, p 313]

• He was drowned near Coleraine by his boat overturning, aged 30. [8375, p 15]