`  Milligan's son, David, born 1789, died in Jamaica in 1818.   Archer's Memorial Inscriptions records his grave and mentions Robert Milligan's career in Kingston as a partner in the merchant house of Dick and Milligan, but nothing about any family plantations.  There is an OPR baptism of a Robert Milligan in Dumfries at the end of August 1746, which records the father, James, as ``innkeeper``.   Two merchants are witnesses.   Another Robert is born in Kirkcudbright in 1756.   The birth of a natural son christened James to a Robert Milligan is recorded in Kingston, Jamaica in December 1778  `