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Date Posted: 16:34:09 12/19/02 Thu
Author: Ben MacDonald
Author Host/IP: 12.42.34.10
Subject: McDonalds of Glenurquhart prior to 1775

I need some help from any MacDonalds in the Glenurquhart/Glenmoriston area of Inverness in finding the origins of this MacDonald family who left Glenurquhart in 1775 for North America.

Iain or John MacDonald (Iain MacEoghainn Oig (Ewen)) - born in Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire, Scotland abt 1723. (A record says he was "over 60" when he finally settled in Nova Scotia in 1784).

A written account ("Rawdon and Douglas: Two Nova Scotia Towns") tells of a grandfather named Ewen escaping from the Massacre of Glencoe in 1692 carrying a young grandson in his arms. John Og MacDonald was said to be that grandson. Another written account tells of this John [Iain Mac Eoghainn Oig] serving under the banner of Bonnie Prince Charlie at the battle of Culloden in 1746.

This MacDonald Family arrived in America in the fall of 1775 as paid passengers on board the emigrant ship Glasgow. on arrival in New York Harbour, the ship was intercepted by the Royal Navy as the American Reviolution had broken out.

Four of Iain [John] MacDonald son's, James, Duncan, Alexander and Hugh (Ewen) and also John (Iain), the father] were conscripted into the 2 Batt., 84th Royal Highland Emigrant Regiment in Nov 1775. After the war, the family settled on land grants on the East River of Pictou County, Nova Scotia in the area known as A' Gleann Boidheach [Beautiful Valley]

A memorial cairn is located on the roadside near Sunny Brae, Nova Scotia dedicated to Iain Mac Eoghainn, Oig (John) and his 4 sons who served in the Army.

From the webpage of "Pictonians at Home and Abroad"
"In 1784, a settlement of disbanded soldiers was made at Pictou Nova Scotia on the East River at the close of the American War. They were, originally, from the Highlands of Scotland. The names of these first settlers at East River were: Donald Cameron, his brothers Samuel and Finlay, Alexander Cameron, Robert Clark, Peter Grant, first elder in the settlement, James McDonald, Hugh McDonald on the east side of the river. James Fraser, Duncan McDonald, John McDonald, brother of James, John Chisholm, John McDonald, 2d, John Chisholm, Jr.

from the book "Rawdon and Douglas",
"John McDonald was about eight years in the 84th Royal Highland Emigrant Regiment, and three of his sons fought with him in the Revolutionary War on the Loyalists' side."
He was married twice. By his first wife he had Duncan (Loget 1740), Alexander (Loget 1742, Mary and Christy.
By his second wife, Margaret Grant, he had James, Hugh (Ewen), Ann and Helen (Ellen)(Twins b. Drumnadrochit-July 1772).

Any further information on this branch would be appreciated, especially the years prior to emigration [1775] from Glen Urquhart

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