Breve cronicle of the Earlis of Ross

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nephew Charles, second son of George, thirteenth Lord
Ross, who was killed in 1745, at the battle of Fontenoy.
He, again, was succeeded by his father, who died in 1754,
and was also succeeded by his son William, fourteenth,
and last Lord Ross. He survived only two months, on
which the estate devolved on James Lockhart, the son of
Grizel, daughter of William, twelfth Lord Ross, and
Sir James Lockhart of Carstairs, Bart. He died without
issue in 1760, and was succeeded by Sir John Lockhart
Ross, a very eminent Naval Officer. The present baronet
is Sir John's grandson.
The estates formed the subject of several very keenly
contested lawsuits, between Sir James and his son Sir
John on the one side, and Pitcalnie, as heir-of-line and
heir-male of David Ross, and also Mr. Gilmour of Craig-
miliar, and John Murray, Esq., as descended from other
branches of the Halkhead family, in whose favour David
Ross had at different times executed settlements.
George Ross, Esq., of Pitcalnie, now claims the
character of heir-male of the older family of Ross of
Balnagown, and of the Earls of Ross, as being descended
from Nicolas Ross, the son of Alexander Ross of Balna-
gown, by his second wife, Catherine Mackenzie, daughter
of Kenneth Mackenzie of Kintail.