Samuel Guthrie

1654 - 1686  (31 years)

• Name	Samuel Guthrie
  Birth	Oct 1654	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
  Baptism	20 Oct 1654	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [1]
  	Witnesses: Samuel Guthree, Litster, John Meakle, James Broun, cordiner, Alexander Garedin, David Guthree, Samuel Meakle
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1683	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
  Arrival	1685
  Departure	1685
  Role	1685	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Free emigrant
  Title Suffix	gent.  [2]
  Name	Samuel Guthree
  Property	1685	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [2]
  	Deed borrowing £200 sterling from David Vilant, offering as security his house on "the land market in the South Side of the Street in Edinburgh".
  	Agents in Edinburgh: James Donaldson and James Somervaill
  Residence	31 Dec 1685	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA   [2]
  	When signing his deed to David Vilant
  Will	31 Dec 1685	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
  	When "sick at the house of Richard Paull". Executor and sole heir: David Vilant. Withesses John Allance, John Walkins
  	Detail from 'American Guthrie and Allied Families' by Lawrence R. Guthrie (1933) p1
  Death	1686	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
  Probate	10 Aug 1686	Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
  	Granted to David Vilant. Subsequent bond by Vilant and Robert Hardy 30 August 1686.
  Person ID	I46278	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

  Father	James Guthree,   b. 1624, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Margaret Broun
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Abt 1653
  Family ID	F31894	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine Inglis
  Marriage	25 Jan 1675/76	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [3]
  Children	1. Sarah Guthrie,   b. 1676, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Catharine Guthrie,   b. 1677, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Samuell Guthrie,   b. 1679, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Jean Guthrie,   b. 1680, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. James Guthrie,   b. 1682, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F32000	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Oct 1654 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Baptism - 20 Oct 1654 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Marriage - 25 Jan 1675/76 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Residence - 1683 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Property - Deed borrowing £200 sterling from David Vilant, offering as security his house on "the land market in the South Side of the Street in Edinburgh". - 1685 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Residence - When signing his deed to David Vilant - 31 Dec 1685 - Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Will - When "sick at the house of Richard Paull". Executor and sole heir: David Vilant. Withesses John Allance, John Walkins - 31 Dec 1685 - Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Death - 1686 - Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Probate - Granted to David Vilant. Subsequent bond by Vilant and Robert Hardy 30 August 1686. - 10 Aug 1686 - Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Likely to have come from a burgess family of litsters and merchants in Edinburgh descended from Alexander Guthrie of that Ilk. Either: born to 'James Guthree', merchant and Margaret Broun, baptised on 20 Oct 1654 (OPR 685/1 50/540) or to 'David Guthree' and Agnes Fairlie, baptised on 6 February 1655 (OPR 685/1 50/557), witnesses: Samuel Guthree, litster, James Guthree, laird of Guthree, John Meakle, James Guthree, Alexander Guthree, Samuel Meakle, goldsmith

  
  

• Sources

  [S3614] Births (OPR) Scotland, Edinburgh 685/1 50/540. [S3652] "Early Land Records, 1650-1900s", State of New Jersey, Department of State, Early Land Records, 1650-1900s, A(EJ): Folio 265-266 (SSTSE023). [S3608] Marriages (OPR) Scotland, (Name: National Records of Scotland; Location: Edinburgh;), Edinburgh 685/1 440/165.