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 * Article title: Abercromby, Patrick
 * Author: Grosart, Alexander Balloch
 * LEAD: ABERCROMBY, PATRICK (1656–1716?), Scottish antiquary and historical writer, was the third son of Alexander Abercromby of Fetterneir in Aberdeenshire, a branch of the house of Birkenbog in Banffshire, and which again was a migration from Abercromby of Abercromby in Fifeshire.
 * Errata: Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.1
 * LEAD: ABERCROMBY, PATRICK (1656–1716?), Scottish antiquary and historical writer, was the third son of Alexander Abercromby of Fetterneir in Aberdeenshire, a branch of the house of Birkenbog in Banffshire, and which again was a migration from Abercromby of Abercromby in Fifeshire.
 * Errata: Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.1

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