5. Alice, who married, first, in 1698, as his second wife, John
Macdonald of Balcony, son of Sir James Macdonald, IX. of Sleat;
and secondly, John Maclean, M.D., Inverness.
He was killed at the battle of Mulroy in Lochaber in 1688, [Scott
gives the following account of Captain Mackenzie's death - "He was
brave, and well-armed with carabine, pistols, and a halbert or
half-pike. This officer came in front of a cadet of Keppoch, called
Macdonald of Tullich, and by a shot aimed at him, killed one of
his brothers, and then rushed on with his pike. Notwithstanding
his deep provocation, Tullich, sensible of the pretext which the
death of a Captain under Government would give against his clan,
called out more than once, 'Avoid me, avoid me.' 'The Macdonald
was never born that I would shun,' replied Mackenzie, pressing on
with his pike on which Tullich hurled at his head a pistol, which
he had before discharged. The blow took effect, the skull was
fractured, and Mackenzie died shortly after, as his soldiers were
carrying him to Inverness." - "Tales of a Grandfather."] and was
succeeded by his eldest son,
III. KENNETH MACKENZIE, third of Suddie, who, in 1706 married
Katharine, daughter of John Shaw of Sornbeg, Ayrshire, with issue -
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