New Spalding Club > Records of Invercauld MDXLVII - MDCCCXXVIII [1547- 1828]

ESTATE PAPERS: TULLOCHCOY. II3
"Balmoral 4th November 1772
Against the twentieth of December Seventeen hundred & Seventy
two years pay to me or order at the Coffee house in Aberdeen Six hundred
pounds Sterling value due to —
To James Farqrson of Peter Farqrson.
Invercauld Esqr. dLLKpLs Ja?. Faiqison "
The back contains the following notes : —
" Pay the Contents to John Forbes of Bellabeg or order, value
Received — Peter Farqrson."
" Pay the Contents to Mr. George Forbes, Minister of Leochel, or
order, Value Received
John Forbes."
"Aberdeen 22 Decemr. I have Received payt. of the Contents Pd.
Geo : Forbes."
John Forbes of Bellabeg, father of the founder (also John Forbes) of the great commercial
house of Forbes & Co., Bombay, was father-in-law to Peter Farquharson of Tullochcoy — a
relationship that was afterwards of benefit to Farquharson's descendants.
Mr. George Forbes, minister of Leochel, was elder brother of John of Bombay, and father
of his successor. Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., of Newe & Edinglassie.
The date of this bill, " Balmoral, 4th Novr. 1772", is interesting in regard to the connection
of the Inverey Farquharsons with Balmoral. It appears to indicate that Peter Farquharson had
already in November 1772 left Tullochcoy, and was then staying at Balmoral with his second
cousin, Alexander Farquharson of Inverey. Balmoral, or (as it appears to have been at first
generally written), " Balmurell" or " Balmurrell," came before the end of the 17th century into
the possession of Charles Farquharson, grandson of the first Inverey and half-brother of John, the
"Black Colonel," probably through an intermarriage with one of the Gordons of Abergeldie.
Charles was succeeded by his nephew, James Farquharson of Balmurrell, who was " out " in the
risings both of 1715 and 1745, was severely wounded at Falkirk in Januarj' 1746, and was
thereby, and also probably by advancing years, precluded from taking any further part in that
campaign and from being present with the clan at Culloden. He died soon afterwards, and by
his death and that of his nephew, Finlay of Inverey, the descendants of the first Inverey by his
first wife, Catherine Gordon, became e.\tinct. The estates of Inverey and Balmoral then fell to
Alexander Farquharson, the third Laird of Auchindryne, descended from the first Inverey by the
latter's second wife, Agnes Ferguson. It was this Alexander who was second cousin of Peter of
Tullochcoy, and who was at Balmoral in 1772. As one or more members of his family, whether
of Inverey, Balmoral, or Auchindryne, had taken part in every rising in the Highlands, first under
Montrose in 1645, then under Dundee in 1690, and afterwards in 1715 and 1745, and all
invariably on the Stuart or losing side, they must have suffered considerably both in person and
estate. Although for many years owners of and resident at Balmoral, these Auchindryne- Invereys
always designated themselves simply as Farquharsons "of Inverey." Alexander was succeeded
by his son James, who sold Inverey, Balmoral, and Auchindryne to the second Earl of Fife, and
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