We'll all be deid and rotten....

The Longcase Clock has been in the family for generations.    Ninian Davidson was a Clock and Watchmaker in Duns 1798 to 1820. Born c 1767 he had been apprenticed to John Scott watchmaker in Newcastle-upon-Tyne  for five years from 1783. He worked in Edinburgh in 1788. Married Elizabeth Sligh, daughter of Adam Sligh, farmer Drakesmyre, Berwickshire. At least one daughter who emigrated to New Zealand. He later gave up life as a clockmaker and became a farmer at Foulden New Mains. He died there on 10th. October 1845 and is buried in the Churchyard at Foulden.

Found inside one of his clocks at the House of Binns in Linlithgow during a restoration was an old note that read 
"Dunse May 6 1808 
I can say when this put in but Lord 
knows when it will be taken out again. 
We'll all be deid and rotten by that time"