The Honourable John Drummond

Abt 1650 - 1714  (64 years)

• Name	John Drummond  [1]
  Title	The Honourable
  Birth	Abt 1650
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1680	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [2]
  	Master of Ordnance in the Kingdom of Scotland
  Role	1683	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Proprietor (absent)
  Legal	14 Mar 1682/83	London, England   [3]
  	Contract containing disposition by His Royal Highness James Duke of York to James, Earl of Perth, John Drummond of Lundie, Robert Barclay of Ury and others for East New Jersey
  Occupation	Feb 1683/84	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Lord Treasurer-Depute
  Residence	Abt Mar 1683/84	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Emigration agent for the Scots Proprietors
  Role	Apr 1684	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [4]
  	Emigration agent
  Property	1685	Argyll, Scotland
  	Created Viscount Melfort, receiving lands confiscated from the Earl of Argyll. Created Earl of Melfort on 12 August 1686
  Religion	1686	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
  	With his brother James, converted to Catholicism, the faith of their mother and King James
  Arrival	Bef Dec 1688	France
  	Having fled to exile
  Title Suffix	of Lundie, later Earl of Melfort
  Name	John Drummon
  Name	John Melfoord  [5]
  Residence	1692	Saint Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France
  	In exile with the Jacobite court
  Death	26 Jan 1714	France
  Person ID	I37595	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2025

  
  

  Father	James Drummond,   b. Abt 1615   d. 2 Jun 1675 (Age 60 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Ann Gordon,   b. 1613   d. 9 Jan 1656 (Age 43 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1639
  Family ID	F23372	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Sophia Maitland,   b. Abt 1651, Scotland d. Bef 1680 (Age < 28 years)
  Marriage	1670
  Marriage Contract	30 Apr 1670
  Family ID	F23373	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Dame Euphemia Wallace,   b. Bef 1654   d. 1743 (Age > 89 years)
  Marriage	1680
  Children	1. Margaret Drummond,   b. 1683, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F23374	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Occupation - Master of Ordnance in the Kingdom of Scotland - 1680 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Legal - Contract containing disposition by His Royal Highness James Duke of York to James, Earl of Perth, John Drummond of Lundie, Robert Barclay of Ury and others for East New Jersey - 14 Mar 1682/83 - London, England Occupation - Lord Treasurer-Depute - Feb 1683/84 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Residence - Emigration agent for the Scots Proprietors - Abt Mar 1683/84 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Role - Emigration agent - Apr 1684 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Property - Created Viscount Melfort, receiving lands confiscated from the Earl of Argyll. Created Earl of Melfort on 12 August 1686 - 1685 - Argyll, Scotland Religion - With his brother James, converted to Catholicism, the faith of their mother and King James - 1686 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Residence - In exile with the Jacobite court - 1692 - Saint Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3661] Malcolm, David, A Genealogical Memoir of the Most Noble and Ancient House of Drummond. [S3811] Historical Manuscripts Commission, Reports of the Manuscripts of the Earl of Eglinton, etc, pp131-132. [S3526] National Records of Scotland, (Location: Edinburgh;), GD305/1/122/515. [S3659] Scots Proprietors, The, Advertisement to All Trades-Men, Husbandmen, Servants and Others Who Are Willing to Transport Themselves unto the Province of New-East-Jersy in America, a Great Part of Which Belongs to Scots-Men, Proprietors Thereof, p2. [S3652] "Early Land Records, 1650-1900s", State of New Jersey, Department of State, Early Land Records, 1650-1900s, B(EJ): Folio 364-365 (SSTSE023).