Background
He was son of George Logan of Ayrshire, by his wife, a daughter of A. Cunningham, minister of Old Cumnock.
He was son of George Logan of Ayrshire, by his wife, a daughter of A. Cunningham, minister of Old Cumnock.
He was educated at Glasgow University, and graduated Master of Arts
In 1696. He was successively minister of Lauder, Berwickshire, 1707. Sprouston, Roxburghshire, 1718. Dunbar, East Lothian, 1721.
And Trinity College Church, Edinburgh, 1732.
He strenuously supported the Hanoverian accession, and on the approach of the Jacobite army towards Edinburgh in 1745, was a warm but unsuccessful advocate for placing it in a state of defence. During the occupation of the town by the rebels his house near the Castle Hill, which he had left, was occupied by them as a guard-house.
He died on 13 October 1755, at seventy-seven years of age.