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About John Paul Jones
A GARDENER’S SON
John Paul, (he added the Jones later) was born on the estate of Arbigland, south west Scotland on 6th July 1747.
He was the fourth child of John Paul and Jean Duff. They had seven children in all but two died in infancy.
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His father was the head gardener of the estate. Originally the family were from Fife but John Paul Snr was born in Leith, near Edinburgh where Adam Craik, the owner of Arbigland had met him and hired him to lay out his gardens.
John Paul went to Kirkbean School but spent much of his time at the nearby port of Carsethorn on the Solway Firth, which was the port for Dumfries until the end of the 1800s.
In later life William Craik’s son recalled that he would run to Carsethorn whenever his father would let him off, talk to the sailors and clamber over the ships; and that he taught his playmates to maneuver their little boats to mimic a naval battle, while he, taking his stand on the tiny cliff overlooking the roads