The Men of Glenmoriston

Highland men who aided Charles Edward Stuart in evading capture. Alexander MacDonald, seventh of Glenaladale gives eight names (in Copy of a Letter from Major McDonald of Glenalledell the names of Glenmoriston-men, etc. November 10. 49.), confirmed by Patrick Grant (in Leith, Friday, Octr 18th, 1751. At my own House, by ten o'Clock, Forenoon, taken down from the Mouth of Patrick Grant (commonly called Black Peter of Craskie) one of the famous Glenmoriston-Men, Donald MacDonald, Taylor in Edr, being Interpreter, as the said Patrick Grant could speak Nothing but Erse.): brothers Alexander, Donald, and Hugh Chisholm, Patrick Grant, Alexander MacDonell, John MacDonell, Gregor MacGregor, and Hugh MacMillan. Hugh MacMillan is sometimes excluded and the number reduced to seven, perhaps because, according to Patrick Grant, MacMillan was not involved in the post-Culloden “Association (by Oath) of Offence &and Defence Agt the D: of Cumberland &and his Army [...] never to yield, but to die on the Spot, never to give up their Arms, &and that for all the Days of their Lives.” See Alister MacDonald, "The Seven Men of Glenmoriston," in Voices from the Hills (Guthan o na Beanntaibh), ed. John MacDonald (Glasgow: The Highland Association, 1927), pp. 264-69, and William Mackay, Urquhart and Glenmoriston: Olden Times in a Highland Parish, 2nd ed. (Inverness: Northern Counties Newspaper and Printing and Publishing Company, 1914), p. 302.