Blair Collection > Celtic monthly > Volume 5, 1897

THE CELTIC MONTHLY.
MINOR SEPTS OF CLAN CHATTAN.
By Chakles Fraser-Mackintosh, F.S.I., Scot.
The MacGillivrays. — Continued.
cT=\lA.RQUHAR appears also to have got in the
Vlpl/ year 1G54 assignation of a heritable tack
'^' J of the two plough lands of Wester Lairgs
and Easter Gask, in Strathnairn, by James, Earl
of Moray, to Hector Mackintosh in 1632, with
the usual obligation iroui the Earl to grant a feu
charter when he coukl; but in consequence of the
quarrels and ill feeling betwixt the Morays and
the Cawdors the over superiors holding of the
Crown, it was not until after the Battle of
Culloden and the passing of the Jurisdictions
Acts that the Moray Strathnairn heritable
tacksmen got their holdings converted into
feu, without Lord Moray incurring the danger
of recognition.
Farquhar and his two sons, Dalcrorabie and
Lairgs, sign the Clan Chattan Bond of 1064,
which, as an important historic document, is
now given. It is signed by twenty eight gentle-
men, Heads of Families, including nine Mac-
phersons. five Mackintoshes, four Farquhars<3ns,
three MacGilhvrays. two MacBeans, two Shaws,
one Macqueen, and two others by initials.
" Wee under subscryt, Gentlemen of the name
of Clan Chattan, in obedience to His Majesty's
authority, and Letters of concurrence granted by
the Lords of His Majesty's Privie Coimcil in favour
of Lauchlan Mackintoshie of Torcastle, our Chieffe,
against Evan Cameron of Lochyield, and certain
others of the name of Clan Cameron, and for the
love and favour we beare to the said Lauchlan, do
hereby faithfully promitt and engage ourselves
everie one of us for himself, and those under his
power, in case the prementional Evan Cameron and
those of his kin, now rebells, do not afjree with the
said Lauchlan anent their present ditl'ers and con-
troveries before the third day of February next
ensuing, that then and in that case, wo shall
immediately thereafter upon the said Lauchlan
his call, rise with, fortify, concurr and assist the
said Lauchlan in the prosecution of the commission
granted against the .said Evan to the uttermost of
our power, with all those of our respective friends,
followers, and defenders, whom we may stopp or
lett, or who will anyway be counselled and advised
by us to that effect. Now thereto we faithfully
enwace ourselves upon our reputation and credite
and the faith and truth in our bodies by these
subscribed at Kincairne the nineteent day of
November and year of God, Sixteen Hundred,
Sextie and Four Years."
Farquhar died about 1678. His eldest son,
AUister, died young, and by law the active
management of affairs fell to the uncle, Donald
(though the grandfather was alive), so well
known as the Tutor, a man of considerable
talent and business capacity. The date of
Alexander's death is uncertain, but before 1658,
and besides his son and successor, he had, at
least, one daughter, Margaret, who married, m
1670, William Eraser, apparent of Meikle
Garth.
VI. Farquhar, only son of Alhster, is first
noticed in March, 1058, when he gets a precept
on the half of Culclachie from Alexander, Earl
of Moray, as heir to his father, Alexander,
sometime tiar of Dunmaglass. On his marriage
in 1681 with Emilia Stewart of Newtoune, he
settles a jointure on her, furth of Wester
Lairgs, Easter Gask, and Easter Culclachie.
By this lady, who seems to have been shrewd
and sensible (her letters to Inverness merchants
sometimes from Dunmaglass, sometimes from
Gask, always stipulate 'a good penny worth").
Dunmaglass had a numerous family. Farquhar,
who succeeded. Captain William, Donald, -i anet,
Magdalene, and Anna, all married. This
Dunmaglass sold the half of Culclachie, and
died early in 1711, his widow surviving until
about 1730.
In 1685 Farquhar is named a Commissioner
of Supply by Act of Parliament, and the district
continued so disturbed after the Revolution,
that in 1691 Sir Hugh Campbell of Cawdor
recommended a huudred soldiers to be stationed
for a time at Dunmaglass as ane convenient
centre It was in time of this Farquhar, styled
"Fiadhaich," as he was of haughty and tur-
bulent disposition, that the question of marches
at Lairgs with The Mackintosh arose, when a
witness who swore falsely for Dunmaglass, and
convicted of perjury on the spot, was buried
alive, the place of burial being still pointed out.
Captain William, the second son, married
Janet Mackintosh, daughter of Angus Mac-