He fought under
Montrose against the Covenanters, and was in consequence summoned
to appear before the Presbytery of Dingwall on the 5th of March,
1650, as a Malignant. He confessed to have been at the head
of a Company at Balvenny, professed his grief and desired to be
received to the Covenant and public satisfaction.
He was ultimately ordained on the 19th of November, 1650, "to
make his repentance to James Graham's unnatural rebellion, the
unlawful engagements, and the late insurrection in the North, in
the kirk of Dingwall, in his own habits, the next Sabbath, and
to be received, and to subscribe the Declaration." On the 13th
of October, 1653, he is appointed to take charge of the Earl of
Seaforth's forest of Fannich, for which he is to receive a certain
number of boils victual yearly. On the 22nd of April, 1655, he
is tried by Court Martial in Edinburgh, for plundering the lands
of Fowlis on the 9th of November preceding, found guilty, and
sentenced to repair the damage to the extent proved, out of his
lands of Ord, and to be committed to prison until the General's
pleasure should be known thereon.
He married Magdalen, daughter of William Fraser of Culbokie (marriage
contract 21st July, 1633; tocher 2500 merks Scots) with issue -
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