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        JOHN BORLAND, apparently from Lanarkshire, Scotland, his brother Francis being a clerk in Glassford in that shire, came to Boston, Massachusetts, before 1683. He was a merchant, living on Milk Street, near Federal. In his will dated in 1726 he mentions his wife Sarah and son Francis; also his three nieces Cecil, Anna, and Euphemie, daughters of his brother Francis of Glassford, North Britain, deceased; his sister Anna (Borland) Mitchell, widow; sister Janet (Borland) Canady (Kennedy), and her daughter Susanna. John Borland died March 30, 1727, aged sixty-eight, and his wife died September, 1727, aged sixty-three. John Borland married October 23, 1683, Sarah Neale, daughter of Andrew Neale.

Children, born in Boston, Massachusetts:

1. Andrew, born September 26, 1686.
2. Beatrix, born December 31, 1690, died January 11, 1691.
3. Francis, born December 28, 1691, died at Boston, September 16, 1763.
   He was wealthy and distinguished. He appears in a petition as one of the proprietors of lands on both sides of the Merrimac River, partly in Dunstable Township, Massachusetts, and partly in Nottingham, New Hampshire, March 1, 1733-34; and also purchased a tract of four hundred acres in New Hampshire, which was exchanged for a strip between Peterborough and Lyndenborough, long known as Borland's Farm. He married (first), August 7, 1724, Elizabeth Mackintosh; (second), September 22, 1726, Jane Lindall; (third), March 21, 1749, Phebe, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Cutt) Penhallow, and widow of Leonard Vassal and Thomas Graves. He had three children, all by second marriage, John, Jane, and Francis L.
4. James, of whom further.

("New England Historical and Genealogical Register," Vol. XX, pp. 244-245. Vinton, "Giles Memorial," pp. 335-37.)