1691 David Heart was awarded a masters degree from the Unviersity of Edinburgh. "Manumissa Anno Domini 1691, e Disciplina Magistri ... 6 Aprilis David Heart."[1]
1697/98 On January 20, David Heart, clerk, was commissioned as a Chaplain and Peter Heart, gentleman, as an Ensign in Colonel Gibson's regiment of foot. [2]
Jan. 20. Kensington. Commissions to George Watkins, esquire, to succeed Captain Alexander Gibson, deceased, in Colonel Gibson's regiment of foot. [S.P. 44. 167. p. 307]; Luke Spicer, esquire, to be captain lieutenant of Colonel Gibson's company; Peter Morin, gent., to be lieutenant of Captain Rigby's company; Thomas Simons, gent., to be lieutenant of Captain Petit's company; David Gibsone to be lieutenant of Major Handaside's company; Bryan Stapleton, gent., to be ensign of Captain Hargrave's company; William Levingston, gent., to be ensign of Captain Brexton's company; Francis Gibsone, gent., to be ensign of Captain Foulkes' company; Joseph Gabriell La Font, gent., to be ensign of Captain Smith's company; John Muniss, gent., to be ensign of Captain Rigby's company; Peter Heart, gent., to be ensign of Captain Boyd's company; David Heart, clerk, to be chaplain, William Durham, gent., to be adjutant; Humphry Haven to be ensign; all in Col. Gibson's regiment. [Ibid. pp. 308, 309.]
1697/98 Payments in March to David Heart, chaplain, and to Ensign Peter Heart of Col. John Gibsone's Regiment were listed among the warrants in the Treasury Book. [3]
Col. John Gibsone's Regiment.
12s. to the Colonel; 8s. 6d. to Lieut. Col. Thomas Dore; 7s. 6d. to Major Thomas Handiside; 5s. each to Captains Medburn Smith, Clifford Brexton, Griffin May, Robert Dalyell, John Foulk, Edward Rigby, Joseph Hargrave, Hugh Boyd, Geo. Watkins, John Fra. Petit; 2s. 4d. to Capt. Lieutenant Luke Spicer and to Lieutenants Gilbert Abbot, Alexander Hardine, George Heron, Nathaniell Lawson, James Desromaines, Peter Morin, Jermyn Archbold, Thomas Symons, David Gibson, Robert Grigg, William Lilburn, Lewis Liermont and Jacob Boyce; 1s. 10d. each to Ensigns James Gibson, Roger Handiside, Isaac Gabriell, — Houghton, Peter Heart, Francis Gibsoner, William Wanless, John Meeniss, — Overton, Humphry Haven, William Livingston, and Bryan Stapleton; 3s. 4d. to David Heart as chaplain and 2s. 4d. to William Sloan as Quarter Master. (Total Establishment 6l. 18s. 4d. per diem.)
1701 Payments to David Heart, chaplain, and to Ensign Peter Heart of Col. John Gibson's Regiment were listed in the Journals of the House of Commons. [4]
[1] A Catalogue of the Graduates in the Faculties of Arts, Divinity, and Law of the University of Edinburgh Since Its Foundation (Edinburgh: Neill and Company, 1858), 140, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[2] Edward Bateson, ed., Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III, 1698 (London: HMSO, 1933), 39, [HathiTrust].
[3] William A. Shaw, ed., Calendar of Treasury Books, 1697-1698, Volume 13 (London: HMSO, 1933), [BritishHistoryOnline].
[4] Journals of the House of Commons Vol. 13, 454, [HathiTrust].