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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MARTYR'S GRAVE (White) James Whites Grave
James Whites Grave
Mr. James Boyd Fenwick
Mr. Charles Ross, Fenwick
Paterson's History of Ayr
New Statistical Account of Ayr & Bute
013 This is one of the Martyr's Graves in the Grave Yard belonging to the Parish Church, on the Gravestone, is the following Inscription.
"Here lies the body of James
White who was shot to death
at Little Blackwood by Peter
Inglis and his Party 1685,
Renewed by Subscription 1822."

"This Martyr was by Peter Ingles Shot.
By Birth a Tyger rather than a Scot.
Who, that, his monstrous extract might be Seen
Cut off his head and Kickt o'er the green.
This was that head which was to wear a Crown
A football made by a profane Dragoun."
Paterson's History of Ayr.

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County of Ayr Parish of Fenwick

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