of Gairloch,
in 1696.
The sons of Hector, Portioner of Mellan, joined in the Rising
of 1715, and on that account found it necessary to leave their
native county, crossing in an open boat from the Black Isle to the
town of Nairn, from which they naturally found their way to the
neighbourhood of their kinsmen in the upper districts of Morayshire
and Inverness-shire, a place in which several of their relatives
held influential positions in the Episcopal Church, and in other
situations. The Rev. Murdoch Mackenzie, Hector's second cousin,
descended from John Glassich Mackenzie, II. of Gairloch, and
Episcopal minister successively of Contin, Inverness, and Elgin,
had only very recently, in 1677, been transferred from the Bishopric
of Moray to that of Orkney, while several of his near relations
were still in the district, among them the Rev. Hector Mackenzie,
the Bishop's nephew, and third cousin of Hector's son John, who
was minister of Kingussie from 1670 until he was translated to
Inverness in 1688. There were also several intermarriages between
them and the families of Grant of Freuchy and Grant of Easter
Elchies and Edenvillie. Some of Hector's sons are found not many
years after in the Strathspey district, John, the eldest, having
two farms on the estate of Edenvillie, in the parish of Aberlour.
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