of Brea, with surviving issue, among several
others already mentioned, Alexander, who as nearest male heir
collateral, succeeded to the lands and barony of the family as
XI. ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, eleventh of Hilton and Brea, who was,
as has just been shown, the great-grandson of Colin, third son of
Murdoch, V. of Hilton, and his heir of line. Alexander was born
at Tigh-a-phris of Ferintosh, on the 3rd of July, 1756. He was
educated at the University of Aberdeen, but was afterwards bred
a millwright to qualify him for the supervision of family estates
and business connections in Jamaica, where he subsequently became a
Colonel of Militia. On the death of his maternal uncle, Alexander
Mackenzie, VIII. of Davochmaluag, in 1776, and of that gentleman's
grandson, Lieutenant Kenneth Mackenzie, who was killed at Saratoga
in 1777, Alexander of Hilton succeeded also to the Davochmaluag
estate. The adjoining properties of Davochpollo and Davochcairn
having been previously acquired by his father, John Mackenzie,
second of Brea, Alexander combined the three properties into one,
and gave it the name of Brea, after the former possession of the
family in Ferintosh.
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