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rank of captain. He served at the battle of Bunker Hill, and was prominently associated with the military movements in and about Boston during the years 1775 and 1776, his name frequently appearing on the minutes of the board of war as having received orders for the delivery of clothing and ammunition. July 25, 1777, the minutes of the board of war show that Captain Thompson was to furnish thirty-one tons of pig iron to be sent to Titicut Furnace, Bridge- water, Massachusetts, for the manufacture of cannon. May 15, 1777, Colonel Hugh Orr is directed to complete twenty cannon, twelvepounders, for the Con- tinental ship "Raleigh", to be sent by Captain Thompson to Province, where he was to receive a quantity of pig iron from the ship "Columbus". At about this time Captain Thompson entered the marine service. He was a lieutenant of marines on the brig "Tyranicide", July 15, 1778, and on the brig "Active", May 10, 1779. At the close of the war Captain Thompson returned to Middletown, Massachusetts, where he was intermittently prominent in public affairs until his death, March 14, 1816. He married Deborah Sturtevant, of a prominent New England family, and had several children. His daughter, Boadicea, mar- ried Simeon Leonard, and was the mother of Mrs. Kent.
Mrs. Kent was a student in the first class of the first normal school in this country, established and fostered by Horace Mann. She showed great talent and intellectual ability, and throughout her life was conspicuously active and earnest in the cause of education. After her marriage and settlement in Dela- ware county she wrote and strove continually for the greater perfection of the public school system, and a more intelligent training of children. She died at her home at Clifton Heights, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, July 29, 1901. Thomas and Fanny (Leonard) Kent had six children.
Hannah Kent, the eldest child of Thomas and Fanny (Leonard) Kent, born June 3, 1853, married, October 23, 1873, Frederick Schoff, of Massachusetts, but since 1877 they have resided in Philadelphia, where Mr. Schoff has carried on a successful business.
HENRY THOMAS KENT, the second child and eldest son of Thomas and Fanny (Leonard) Kent, was born at Clifton Heights, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1854. He was educated at private schools in Philadelphia, and at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He was associated with his father in the conduct of the manufacturing business for fifteen years prior to the latter's death, in 1889, and became thoroughly conversant with the large manufacturing business built up by his father. On the incorporation of the Thomas Kent Man- ufacturing Company in 1890, he became president and treasurer of the plant and the business. The business of the company has been greatly enlarged under his management. In 1899 twenty acres of land was secured at Clifton Heights at the junction of Darby creek with the Pennsylvania railroad, and a large and substantial brick mill erected thereon, which is considered one of the finest mills of its kind in the United States. During the war with Spain the several mills of the company were operated day and night, turning out more than two mil- lion dollars worth of goods for the use of the United States government. The large business of the concern is devoted almost exclusively to the spinning and weaving of American grown wool, millions of pounds being purchased annually. Henry Thomas Kent is the president of the First National Bank of Clifton Heights, of which he was one of the organizers. He is a member of the Penn-
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sylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Mayflower De- scendants, and of the Union League and other clubs.
He married, October 1, 1885, Louise, born February 12, 1867, daughter of Captain Nahum and Phebe (Cowing) Leonard, of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. She is a direct descendant of John and Priscilla (Mullens) Alden, of Ply- mouth, both passengers on the "Mayflower", immortalized by the poet Long- fellow in his "Courtship of Miles Standish". Mrs. Kent is a member of the Daughters of the Revolution, and of the Society of Descendants of the May- flower. Her father was a captain in the Fifty-eighth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, during the Civil War, and later represented Plymouth county in the State Legislature. He was an attorney at law in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Henry Thomas and Louise (Leonard) Kent have six children, all born at Up- per Darby, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, viz: Henry Thomas, July 16, 1887; Everett Leonard, June 25, 1889; Russell Hathaway, August 31, 1891 ; Evelyn, November 9, 1892; Warren Thompson, May 19, 1894; Rosamond Kingman, March 29, 1901.
Louise Kent, the second daughter of Thomas and Fanny (Leonard) Kent, born April 13, 1856, married, November 23, 1887, Nathaniel Seaver Keay, of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He came to Pennsylvania in 1889, and had since been associated with the Thomas Kent Manufacturing Company. Mrs. Louise (Kent) Keay has filled the position of regent of the chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution since its organization, in 1894, and also as the vice-president and a director of the National Society of the Daughters of the Revolution, who erect- ed the first monument at Valley Forge to the memory of Washington and his army. She is also a member of various historical and. colonial societies, and active in club work. She and her family occupy the old homestead on Baltimore avenue, Clifton Heights, erected by her father in 1860.
Francis Leonard Kent, daughter of Thomas and Fanny (Leonard) Kent, born in 1858, died in infancy.
Samuel Leonard, second son of Thomas and Fanny (Leonard) Kent, born at Clifton Heights, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, August 24, 1859, was asso- ciated with his brother and sisters in the incorporation of the Thomas Kent Manufacturing Company, and assisted in its management until 1898, when he withdrew from the company. He married, May 21, 1885, Annie Josephine Ahrens, and they and their children Frances, Eleanor, Samuel Leonard, Jr., Daniel and Margaret, now reside at Lansdowne, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. Mr. Kent is a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolu- tion, the Union League, Corinthian Yacht, and other clubs of Philadelphia.
Mary Augusta Kent, youngest daughter of Thomas and Fanny (Leonard ) Kent, was born June 22, 1861, and resides at Clifton Heights, in a beautiful home erected on her father's estate. She is a member of the Thomas Kent Manufacturing Company, and has been an officer of the Pennsylvania Society of the Daughters of the Revolution since its organization, and has also served as an officer of the National Society of the same organization for a number of years. She is also a member of a number of historical and colonial societies. She is unmarried.
FRANCIS WILLIS ROUSE
FRANCIS WILLIS ROUSE JR. was born in the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, November 27, 1846, and is a son of Francis Willis and Susanna (Wells) Rouse, both natives of Maryland.
PEREGRINE ROUSE, grandfather of Francis Willis Rouse, was born near Hills- boro, Caroline county, Maryland, in 1776, belonging to a family that was among the early settlers in what was then Dorchester county on the eastern shore of Maryland. He was actively associated with public affairs in Caroline county. In July, 1812, he was commissioned by Governor Robert Bowie and the exec- utive council of Maryland as ensign of Captain Taylor's company in the Nine- teenth Maryland Regiment, and saw active service in the second war with Great Britain. He died at Hillsboro, March 15, 1821. He married, at Easton, Talbot county, Maryland, May 22, 1805, Sarah Willis, who was born near Denton, Caroline county, in 1784, and died at Easton in the same county, September 15, 1857. She was a daughter of Andrew and Sarah (Pritchett) Willis.
The Willis family of Caroline county was descended from Sir Richard Willis, who came from England with the Washingtons and Fairfaxes early in the his- tory of the Virginia colony. A grandson of Sir Richard Willis removed to Dorchester county, and settled near the site of the present town of Preston on the Patuxent.
Andrew Willis, father of Sarah (Willis) Rouse, was born near Denton, Car- oline county, Maryland, about 1750, and spent his whole life there. He was enrolled in the first organized militia of Caroline county, and when the "Flying Camp" was organized to assist General George Washington on the landing of the British forces on Long Island, Andrew Willis was enrolled in a company that formed part of the Fourth Battalion, commanded by Colonel William Richard- son, of Caroline county. He suffered great hardships in the disastrous cam- paign on Long Island and the subsequent retreat across New Jersey, and returned home barefoot, ragged and penniless. On February 14, 1777, however, he was enrolled in a company commanded by lieutenant Thomas Wynn Lockerman, in the Fifth Regiment, Caroline county militia, with which he served until Febru- ary 14, 1780. He married Sarah Pritchett, of Denton, Maryland, born 1740, died 1830.
FRANCIS WILLIS ROUSE SR., son of Peregrine and Sarah (Willis) Rouse, was born in Hillsboro, Maryland, October 14, 1815, died at Vicksburg, Missis- sippi, November 21, 1847. He married, at Easton, Talbot county, Maryland, June 6, 1844, Susanna Wells, who was born in Baltimore, Maryland, March 19, 1825, died there July 25, 1884.
The Wells family, like that of Rouse, were among the earlier settlers on the eastern shore of Maryland, in what was originally Dorchester county, out of which Caroline county was formed in 1773.
FRANCIS WILLIS ROUSE JR., son of Francis Willis and Susanna (Wells) Rouse was born at Vicksburg, Mississippi, November 27, 1846. His father dying when
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he was a year old, his mother returned to Baltimore, Maryland, where his child- hood was spent. He was married at "Woodside", Wissanoming, Philadelphia, January 17, 1888, by the Rev. William A. White, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, to Emma Elizabeth Angstadt, daughter of William Angstadt, D. D. S., and his wife Margaret Ellen (Fisher) Angstadt, of the well-known Fisher fam- ily of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
William Angstadt, D. D. S., is a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted Au- gust 7, 1862, at Milton, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, in Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was pro- moted to corporal, December 14, 1862. The regiment was in active service in the Army of the Potomac, and suffered severely in the battle of Fredericksburg. Cor- poral Angstadt was wounded severely in the battle of Fredericksburg. Corpor- al Angstadt was mustered out with his regiment May 23, 1863. He re-enlisted and on February 16, 1864, was mustered into Company D, Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, with which he served to the close of the war.
Francis Willis and Emma Elizabeth (Angstadt) Rouse have one child, Hat- tie Madeline, born January 24, 1893, married William John MacMullin, Janu- ary 24, 19II.
HARRY GILLAM BARNES
RICHARD BARNES, paternal ancestor of Harry Gillam Barnes, was born in Westboro, Worcester county, Massachusetts, November 16, 1747. He served as a private in Captain Seth Morse's company, Major-General Ward's Massa- chusetts regiment, on the Lexington Alarm of April 19, 1775; also on the Alarm of Lexington, August 21, 1777. He was also a private in Captain New- ton's company, Colonel Whitney's Massachusetts regiment, and on the alarm list of the town of Westboro, Massachusetts. He married and among his chil- dren was Luther, see forward.
LUTHER BARNES, son of Richard Barnes, married Ruth Hardy and among their children was Gillam, see forward.
GILLAM BARNES, son of Luther and Ruth (Hardy) Barnes, married Relief Whitney and among their children was Edward Luther, see forward.
EDWARD LUTHER BARNES, son of Gillam and Relief (Whitney) Barnes, mar- ried Harriet Louise Hale, daughter of Warren and Rhoda (Stone) Hale, grand- daughter of Bernard and Celia (Towne) Hale, the latter of whom was a daugh- ter of John Jr. and Mary (Babbitt) Towne, and granddaughter of Captain John Towne, born in Oxford, Worcester county, Massachusetts, December 5, 1729, died January 9, 1820, in North Danvers, Massachusetts, who commanded a com- pany which marched from Oxford on alarm of April 19, 1775, and he was also captain of a company in Colonel John Holman's regiment, January 20, 1777.
HARRY GILLAM BARNES, son of Edward Luther and Harriet Louise ( Hale) Barnes, was born in Orange, New Jersey, June 25, 1864.
THOMAS EVANS BAIRD JR.
THOMAS EVANS BAIRD JR., was born in Philadelphia, April 7, 1875, son of Thomas Evans Baird, Sr., and his wife Fanny (Brown) Baird.
George Brown, maternal ancestor of Thomas E. Baird, Jr., was born in Leicestershire, England, in 1642. He came to Pennsylvania in 1679, landing at New Castle where he married Mercy - -, who came from Leicestershire in the same ship with him. . He settled near the Falls of the Delaware in Bucks county, taking up a tract of land under patent from Colonel Edmund Andros under authority of the Duke of York. He was commissioned a justice by the Court at Upland in 1680, being the first Englishman commissioned to that office in Pennsylvania. He died in Bucks county in 1726.
Samuel Brown, one of the younger of the fourteen children of George and Mercy Brown, was born in Falls township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Novem- ber II, 1694. He married, July 9, 1717, Ann Clark, and settled on land inherited from his father. He took a prominent part in public affairs and was several years a member of the Colonial Assembly of Pennsylvania. He died October 3, 1769.
John Brown, second son of Samuel and Ann (Clark) Brown, was born in Falls township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1724. He married, September 20, 1750, Ann, daughter of Benjamin Field, many years a member of the Colonial Assembly from Bucks county, and otherwise prominent in pub- lic affairs, and a great-granddaughter of Governor Samuel Jennings, of New Jersey. John Brown died January 1, 1802.
Samuel Brown, eldest son of John and Ann (Field) Brown, was born in Falls township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1751-52. He married, April 10, 1773, Abi White, who was born in Bucks county, 1752. After resid- ing for some years in Bucks county, Samuel Brown removed with his family to near Saratoga, New York, at the site of the present town of Brownsville, where he died September, 1813. This Samuel Brown was a member of Captain Robert Patterson's company, in the Second Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant-Colo- nel John Keller, Bucks County Militia, and was in active service.
: Jacob Jennings Brown, second son of Samuel and Abi (White) Brown, was the distinguished General Jacob J. Brown ( 1775-1828), the hero of Lundy's Lane in the second war of Independence, and later Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army.
Samuel Brown, one of the younger sons of Samuel and Abi (White) Brown, was born in Falls township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, November 3, 1782. In the year 1800, Samuel Brown and his father joined his two elder brothers, John and Jacob Jr., who had settled in the wilderness on the Black River in New York, where Samuel, Jr., spent the remainder of his life, dying at Sara- toga, New York, June 24, 1842. He was twice married; his second wife, whom he married at Utica, New York, April 19, 1816, was Elizabeth Skinner, who was born at Williamstown, Massachusetts, June 19, 1793, died at Brownsville, New York.
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William Hobart Brown, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Skinner) Brown, was born at Brownsville, New York, February 4, 1828, died at Philadelphia, Febru- ary 14, 1887. He married, in Philadelphia, September 23, 1853, Annie E. Gale, who was born in Philadelphia, July 22, 1833.
Thomas Evans Baird, father of Thomas E. Baird, Jr., was born in Philadel- phia, married Fanny, daughter of William Hobart and Annie E. (Gale) Brown, above mentioned.
DANIEL LAMMOT, JR.
DANIEL LAMMOT, paternal ancestor of Daniel Lammot, Jr., of Germantown, Pennsylvania, was born September 11, 1782, died September 20, 1877. He mar- ried Anna Potts Smith, born December 17, 1793, died July 23, 1875, daughter of Robert and Rebecca (Hobart) Smith. (A sketch of the Smith family ap- pears elsewhere in this work).
DANIEL LAMMOT, son of Daniel and Anna Potts (Smith) Lammot, was born July 4, 1821, died June 1, 1883. He married Dolores de Murguiondo, of Wilmington, Delaware. Among their children was Daniel, see forward.
DANIEL LAMMOT, son of Daniel and Dolores de (Murguiondo) Lam- mot, was born in the city of Wilmington, Delaware, April 10, 1856.
GEORGE MECHLIN WAGNER
GEORGE MECHLIN WAGNER is a descendant of John Nicholas Wagner, an ear- ly German immigrant to Philadelphia. On the maternal side he is a descendant of Thones Kunders (Conrad) and his wife Ellen Streypers, who came to Penn- sylvania with the first German colony that founded Germantown, in 1663.
WILLIAM WAGNER, grandfather of George Mechlin Wagner, was born in Philadelphia, December 7, 1779, died in that city, December 4, 1865. He mar- ried, May 5, 1804, Maria Mechlin, born in Philadelphia, March 3, 1784, died in the same city, August 5, 1870.
Samuel Mechlin, Jr., father of Maria (Mechlin) Wagner, was born in Phil- adelphia, April 30, 1753, died there, July 10, 1817. He was a private in the Fourth Company, Captain Noah Townsend, Seventh Battalion Philadelphia County Militia, and rendered active service in the Revolutionary struggle. He married, September 5, 1782, Maria Bockius, of a family long prominent in the vicinity of Philadelphia.
CHARLES MECHLIN WAGNER, son of William and Maria (Mechlin) Wagner, and father of George Mechlin Wagner, was born in Philadelphia, April 27, 1821, died at Burmont, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1883. He mar- ried (first) November 22, 1849, Mary Conrad, born in Philadelphia in 1827, died there, March 17, 1859, daughter of John Conrad, born in Philadelphia in 1776, died there, December 7, 1851, by his wife, Eliza Kittera, born in Philadel- phia, 1786, died there, September 14, 1868. He married (second) Eliza Caul- field, by whom he had one son, Charles Mechlin Wagner, Jr., of Philadelphia.
John Wilkes Kittera, father of Eliza Kittera, who married John Conrad, in 1805, was born in Fairville, Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1752, died in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, June 13, 1801. He graduated at Princeton College in 1776 and studied law under George Ross, of Lan- caster county, signer of the Declaration of Independence. While a
law student in 1777, he enlisted in the Third Company, Captain Martin Bowman, Tenth Battalion Lancaster County Militia, under com- mand of Colonel David Jenkins. He was commissioned May 10, 1780, ensign of the Seventh Company, Captain James Davis, Eighth Battalion, Lieutenant-Col- onel James Ross, Lancaster County Militia. He was admitted to the Lancaster county bar in 1782, and rose to considerable prominence in the practice of his chosen profession. He was elected to the Second United States Congress in 1791, and re-elected to the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Congresses, serving until 1801. On the expiration of his last term in Congress, he was appointed United States District Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
GEORGE MECHLIN WAGNER, son of Charles Mechlin and Mary (Conrad) Wagner, was born in Philadelphia, December 5, 1857. He was educated at Germantown Academy, Rugby Academy, and the University of Pennsylvania. Receiving his degree of LL.B. from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania in June, he was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, July 1, 1882,
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and began the practice of his profession in his native city. He was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and in March, 1900, to the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Wagner is a director of the Merchants' Company of Philadelphia and a manager of the Northern Dispensary. He is a member of the Union League, Art, Germantown, Cricket, and Penn Clubs. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, Historical Society of Pennsylvania and Photographic Society of Pennsylvania. He is past master and trustee of Franklin Lodge, No. 134, Free and Accepted Masons, a member of Harmony Chapter, Marys Commandery, Philadelphia Consistory, Ancient Scottish Rite Masons, and Lu Lu Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
CHARLES FRANCIS WIGNALL
CHARLES WIGNALL, paternal grandfather of Charles Francis Wignall, was born in Birmingham, England, February 20, 1794, came to Philadelphia when a young man, and was engaged in business there until his death, July 22, 1839. He married, August 5, 1828, in Philadelphia, Frances Coates Humphreys, who was born in Philadelphia, May 8, 1792, died there August 31, 1878.
The Humphreys family are of Welsh origin and amongst the earliest settlers on the Welsh tract near Philadelphia. The earlier generations of the family were members of the Society of Friends. James Humphreys, father of Fran- ces (Humphreys) Wignall, was born in Philadelphia, October 17, 1757. He followed the business of a shipwright, which had been that of his ancestors for several generations in Wales. He was a cousin of Joshua Humphreys, the first naval constructor of the United States and designer of the United States frigate, "Constitution", and a number of vessels of that period. James Humphreys was a leader among his fellows, and at the outbreak of the Revolution was very ac- tive in the cause of the colonies, and gave his services freely in the line of his occupation where his skill was required. He was for a number of years mas- ter-carpenter for Stephen Girard, superintending the building and repairing the vessels of that eminent merchant and shipper. James Humphreys was a private in Captain John Hewson's company, in the Second Regiment of Foot, Philadelphia militia, commanded by Colonel Benjamin G. Eyre, and was in active service at different periods from 1777 to August 31, 1780. He died in Philadelphia, February 10, 1825. James Humphreys married, in Philadelphia, March 19, 1779, Mary Gilyard, of Richmond, Virginia, where she was born November 20, 1753, died in Philadelphia, September 26, 1820.
Saulsbury Gilyard, father of Mary (Gilyard) Humphreys, was a private in the Virginia Rangers, known as the "Virginia Blues", in the early part of the French and Indian war and participated in the Braddock expedition against Fort Duquesne in 1755, and was later in Captain Lee's company in the Forty-fourth Regiment of Foot and with that famous fighting regiment was at Fort Niagara in 1760.
JAMES CHARLES WIGNALL, son of Charles and Frances ( Humphreys) Wig- nall, and father of Charles Francis Wignall, was born in Philadelphia, December 12, 1829. He learned the trade of a shipwright with the late William Cramp, whose niece he later married. James C. Wignall, soon after becoming master of his trade, began the building of yachts' boats and had an enviable reputation for this line of work. He supplied many of these boats to the United States cruisers and those of Russia and Japan built at the port of Philadelphia. He died in Philadelphia, June 14, 1900. He married, May 13, 1855, Adaline Hall, born in Philadelphia, April 15, 1828, died there May 27, 1873.
CHARLES FRANCIS WIGNALL, son of James Charles and Adaline ( Hall) Wig- nall, was born in Philadelphia, December 26, 1856. He graduated from the Central High School of Philadelphia in 1873 and entered the law department
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of the University of Pennsylvania in 1879, from which he was graduated with the degree of LL.B., June, 1881. He was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, Oc- tober 8, 1881, but has never engaged in the active practice of his profession, having been engaged in the Western National Bank of Philadelphia from July, 1873, and has for the past several years filled the position of cashier of that institution. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution and of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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WILLIAM McKENNAN REED
The McKennan family of Western Pennsylvania is descended from the clan Mackinnon, of Skye, which was thus described by Monroe, dean of the Isles, in 1594: "At the shore of Skye lyes one iyle called Pabay, full of woods, good for fishing, and a main shelter for thieves and cut-throats. It pertains to M'Kynnoun". This ancient tribe can be traced to Ferchar Oig, and includes Finlay, the son of Fingon, from whom sprang the Clan Fingon. The name oc- curs in many a feud and strife during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In a history of the clan we are told that in the charter chests of Lochbuy there is preserved a charter to which John Mackinnon, abbot of Iona, affixed his seal as one of the council of the lords of Isles who were forfeited in 1476. He died in 1500, the date on his tomb in Iona. Not far from it is the tomb of his father, Lauchlan, inscribed thus: "Haec est crux Lacolani M'Fingone, et ejus filli Johannis Abbatis de y facta anno Domini MCCCCLXXXIX". In 1503 Mac- kinnon of that ilk is mentioned among the chiefs to take action against Duart and Lochiel, forfeited for treason. In 1515 the Mackinnons took part in the rebellion of Sir Donald, of Lochalsh; and Ewennan Cath, the chief, was sum- moned for acts of rebellion, in 1545. In 1579 Fynnoun MacKynnoun, of Strat- hardill, and Lachlane Oig, his son, were reported to the king, together with Lochbuy and the MacLeans, by John, bishop of the Isles, for preventing him re- ceiving the rents of his see. Mackinnon and his clan accompanied the Mac- Leans on an expedition against the MacDonalds, when a desperate conflict en- sued at a place called Bern Bigs. This was soon after the battle of Lochgruin- ard, in 1598. The Mackinnons served under Montrose, and in 1645 were at the battles of Inverlochy and Auldearn. In 1650 Lachlan Mackinnon and his clan fought for the king, at Worcester. In 1715 John Dhu Mackinnon of that ilk with one hundred and fifty of his clan, fought for King James, at Sheriff- muir, and was attainted, but pardoned in 1727. The clan was "out" in the year 1745, and fought at Culloden; their old chief was taken, and after being long a prisoner in the tower and Tilbury Fort, died in his seventy-fifth year, in 1756.
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