The Silver Bowl: 1768 Agreements between John & Andrew Coulter

Artickells of agreement made and concluded and agreed by and between John Coulter [1] of Cavananore [2] in the County of Louth farmer of the one part and Andrew Coulter [3] of the same Wittnesseth that whereas John Coulter and Andrew Coulter heath in the County of Armagh and parish of Creggin awhole Towen Land Called by the name of Maghban [4] & a Joyint Lease of Lives under Edw^d Tipping [5] Esqr and Rich^d [Joans] Esq^r and party the Lease thereof had may morefully appear, it is therefore concluded and agreed upon by and between the Said John Coulter and Andrew Coulter that Iff it Shall happen to Plaise God that the Sd. John Coulter Shd. depart this life before the above Andrew that then the heirs Exr^s. Admr^s. or Assigns of the Said John Coulter Shall peaceably and quaitly and without the least Hindrance or oppisittion from the Sd. Andrew Coulter his heirs Exr^s. admr^s. or assigns Injoy the full half of and Benefitt Arrissing out of the Lands of Maghbane, that he the Sd. John now heath and Shall not be Disturbed nor Mollisted by Said And^w or any other cleaming from him or by or under him during Sd. Lease he paying the full half of the rents and other things falling due on Sd. Lands which Sd. John is obliged to doe by Sd. Lease and at present doath, And Iff it Shall happen that the Sd. Andrew Coulter Shd. depart this Life before the Said John Coulter that then the Sd. heirs Exr^s. admr^s. or Assigns of the Said Andrew Coulter Shall peaceably and quaitly and without the least Hindrance or Oppissittion of y^e Said John Coulter his heirs Exr^s. admr^s. or assigns Injoy the full half of Said Lands in Maghbane as he the Said Andrew now doath that they or Either of paying the full half of the rents and other things falling due on Sd. Lands The Sd. John Coulter doath Oblidge himself his heirs Exr^s. Admr^s. or Assigns in the full sum of three Hundred pounds. [?] unto the Sd. Andrew Coulter his heirs Exr^s. Admr^s. or Assigns that he will [per]form and Accomplish all the above Classes and Conditions and Agreements Above Specified that is on his part ought to be fullfild and Keept And the Sd. Andrew Coulter doath oblidge himself his heirs Exr^s. Admr^s. or Assigns in the full Sum of three Hundred pounds [Ster] unto the Said John Coulter his heirs Exr^s. admr^s. or Assigns that he will [per]form and Accomplish all the Above Classes and Conditions and Agreements Above Specified that is on his part ought to be fullfild and Keept as Wittness our hands & Seals this fourth day of August one thousand Seven Hundred & Sixty Eight 1768

[1] John COULTER. In all liklihood, this is the John Coulter who was the brother of Andrew, Barbara (1721-1795), Elizabeth, Mary, Nathanial, & Susanna. (see 1775 will of Andrew Coulter). Their parents were Samuel COULTER & Grizell SYMPSON (aka SIMSON aka SIMPSON). or he could have been the father of Andrew.

[2] Cavananore – a townland of 219 acres in Upper Dundalk, Co. Louth

[3] Andrew COULTER, son of Samuel COULTER & Grizell SYMPSON (aka SIMSON aka SIMPSON) and a brother to Barbara (1721-1795), Elizabeth, Mary, Nathanial, John & Susanna.

[4] Maghban (?) aka Moybane, Parish of Creggan. It is south of Urcher (separated by the townland of Sheiland) and has 342 acres within its boundaries.

[5] Edward TIPPING. Mary Coulter married an unnamed Tipping. James Tipping was mentioned in Thomas Bradford’s will. How the Tippings fit, I don’t know. There is also a townland: Tullyvallan (Tipping) East 151 acres in Co. Armagh.

[6] Nathanial COULTER, brother of Andrew Coulter who had a daughter, Mary Coulter, although his wife’s name is at present unknown.

[7] Thomas Breadford (also Bradford) (husband of Barbara Coulter) brother-in-law to Andrew Coulter

[8] Rev Patrick SIMPSON Rev. Patrick SIMPSON (NOTE: I am operating on hunches for this connection) was the second named Presbyterian Minister in the Dundalk Presbyterian Church (which was founded in 1560 and is one of the oldest non-conforming churches Ireland). He was allied to the M'Neill family. It is recorded in local history that two brothers, Archibald and Malcolm M'Neill, officers in the army, landed at Dundalk in 1688, fought in the great battle of Ballymascanlon and succeeded in taking the castle formerly occupied by the Scanlons—a Celtic family, who were afterwards driven into exile. Soon after their settlement they brought over from the Island of Islay two Presbyterian Ministers, the Rev. Patrick SIMPSON and the Rev. Mr. Drummond, one of them to minister at Dundalk and the other at Scanlon Castle, near which a Presbyterian church had been built on the ancient site of which the present church of the Protestant Episcopal Communion now stands. The Minister's house and farm then occupied the site of the present residence of the MacNeill family, Mountpleasant. Archibald MacNeill gave £100—a large sum in those days—towards the building of the old Presbyterian church in Linenhall Street. Mr. SIMPSON died in 1760, at the age of 99 years, and was succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Drummond, who also died in Dundalk in 1778, aged 38 years. His remains lie alongside those of his predecessors in the family burial ground of the MacNeills. SOURCE: Tempest’s Jubilee Annual 1909.

Gravemarker: SIMPSON. This Burying Place Erected/by Margaret Simson widow/to the Memory of the Late/Rev PATRICK SIMPSON/Dissenting Minister of/Dundalk who departed this/Life October the 5th 1780 aged/99 years. SOURCE: http://www.faughart.com/inscriptions-page22352.html
In the 1829 publication, Ordination Service by the Dublin Eustace Street Congregation (page 64), we learn that Mr. SIMPSON had not joined the ejected members till near the conclusion of the discussions, when he told the Senate that he observed much partiality in them, and he would have no more to do with them, but would take his lot with the nonsubscribers. His elder, Capt. McNeill, concurred with him in this determination. This generous adaptation of a persecuted cause shows a very noble mind. I have the pleasure of being acquainted with several descendents of this excellent man, who are not unworthy of their progenitor.
The History of Dundalk and its Environs from the Earliest Historic Period. John D’Alton and James Roderick O’Flanagan. Dundalk. 1864. p311 it states that `he had no family`. Perhaps he had no sons.
In the Kintyre Mag: Malcolm's daughter married Rev. Patrick SIMPSON, the son of old Lachlan Buidhe's fifth daughter Isabel McNeill and her husband Rev. David SIMPSON, Minister in Islay. Rev. Patrick was Minister of Dundalk. He was second of four Scottish Ministers in that charge. He became quite an extensive landowner and was in great demand as a preacher of Gaelic. He took part in the translation into Gaelic of a catechism and with others was charged with the task of preaching in Gaelic to Highland soldiers stationed in Dublin. http://www.kintyremag.co.uk/1999/27/page6.html
He was one of the Non-Subscribing or New Light Presbyterians, one of 16 parishes in Antrim in 1725.

[9] Dungooley – a townland of 609 acres in the Barony of Upper Dundalk, the Civil Parish of Faughart, Co. Louth

[10] Anaghavackey A townland of 369 Acres in the Civil Parish of Creggan, Barony of Upper Dundalk, Co. Louth