Malcolm Ross, younger of Pitcalnie

According to a contemporary account by Daniel Munro, Minister of Tain, Malcolm was an Ensign "in Sir Harrie Munroe's Company" in Loudoun's Regiment when he was taken prisoner at Prestonpans, and later released upon parole. Attempting but failing to lead a company to join him, he returned to the Jacobite army in their service. This was certainly against the wishes of both his father and Duncan Forbes of Culloden, who was Malcolm's grand-uncle (see letters printed in Read, Rossiana, pp. 128-29). Munro alleges that Malcolm was drawn by the promise of being made Laird of Balnagowan ("Account of the Late Rebellion", in Blaikie, Origins of the 'Forty-Five, pp. 105-106).