He also left three hundred and twenty-one merks Scots
to Thomas Graham, his sister's son, and the annual rent of one
thousand merks to Isobel Cuthbert, wife of his said brother and
executor, and discharged his sisters of all the monies they borrowed
from him.
Thomas of Lochluichart died before 1619. His eldest son,
I. JOHN MACKENZIE, was the first of the family who possessed Ord
and was designed thereof, though it was previously held in tack by
his father. John was locally called "Ian Dubh a Ghiuthais," or
Black John of the Fir. He obtained a charter from Kenneth, XIIth
Baron and first Lord Mackenzie of Kintail, of the lands and mill
of Ord, and the half of Corrievoulzie and Strathvaich, dated 23rd
July, 1607, and on the 15th of September, 1637, George second Earl
of Seaforth granted him a regular free charter of the whole.
John married Isobel, daughter of Alexander Cuthbert of Drakies,
by his wife Christian Dunbar, who long survived him, with issue -
1. John, his heir and successor.
2. Thomas, from whom the Mackenzies of Highfield.
3. James, who married a daughter of the Rev. Farquhar Clark. He
is cautioner, with his brother Kenneth of Ord, for Thomas Mackenzie,
III.
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