Genealogical account of the Highland families of Shaw

GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE SHAWS. 97
the vanquished clansmen fleeing for their lives. 1 They
soon heard also of the death of many of their nearest
and dearest friends — among them James Dallas of
Cantray, Angus' brother-in-law and an officer in the
Clan Chattan regiment. In the few expressive words
of Mr. Hossack, Provost of Inverness in 1745, " the
brunt of the battle fell on Clan Chattan," for out of
the twenty-one officers of the Clan Chattan regiment
eighteen were left dead on the field.
By his wife Anne, daughter of Dallas of Cantray, 2
Angus had three sons and two daughters : —
Alexander.
^iEneas, who served in the first American War
as Captain in the Queen's Eangers (64th Foot).
He rose to the rank of Major-General in the
Army, was Adjutant-General of the Canadian
Militia, and a Member of the Legislative
1 A kinswoman of the writer's, making a communication to a periodical
in September 1872 on the transmission of historic recollections, mentions
the following circumstances: — "My grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel
Alexander Shaw, was a little child when the battle of Culloden was
fought. His home was within sight of the muir. Amid the din of
battle and the dismay caused by the defeat of Prince Charlie, the child
was forgotten ; towards evening a hue and cry was made for him, and he
was found asleep in an empty malt cart in the yard. When roused he
said he had gone there to hide from the big guns. That was in 1746.
My mother (his daughter) died a few months ago (in January 1872),
aged 75, from whom I heard this My grandfather was at the taking of
Quebec, and saw the death of General Wolfe." A son of Alexander's
died so recently as in November 1875, and a grandson who remembers
him is still living (aged 80 years).
2 Anne's sister Agnes married Duncan Mackintosh of Castle Leathers,
and was mother of Alexander, twenty-fourth chief of Mackintosh, and
great-grandmother of the present chief.
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