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Folio 63. Copy of declaration of Heritors, Elders and Residenters in Lochbroom [Ross-shire]....

Catalogue reference: SP 36/94/1/63

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This record is about the Folio 63. Copy of declaration of Heritors, Elders and Residenters in Lochbroom [Ross-shire].... dating from 1747 Feb 9 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 36/94/1/63
Date
1747 Feb 9
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Folio 63. Copy of declaration of Heritors, Elders and Residenters in Lochbroom [Ross-shire]. They have discovered no evidence that Lord Cromartie or his son Lord [John] MacLeod forcibly enlisted to the [Jacobite] army, burnt houses, or stole cattle. They believe any of Cromartie's tenants forced into rebellion by violence were raised by Alexander MacKenzie of Ardloch [Perthshire] and Alexander MacKenzie of Keppoch [Inverness-shire], currently fugitives, who claimed to have Cromartie's warrant to raise men, but were unable to produce it. Signed: Evan Cameron Elder; Simon Mackenzie of Loggie; Ken [Kenneth] Mackenzie of Languall; Aulay McAulay of Auchindrain; Murdoch Mackiver of Leckmilin. Countersigned by Donald Ross, minister late of Lochbroom now of Fearn [Ross-shire]. Dated at Lochbroom.

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Folio 61
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Open Document, Open Description
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