!SOURCE: Rev. Thomas Whyte, AN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL
ACCOUNT OF THE BETHUNES OF THE ISLAND OF SKYE, Edinburgh, 1778,
reprinted London, 1893, by Alfred A. Bethune-Baker, reprinted by
ScotsPress, p. 9.
He was a prudent man and of good esteem in the country, and tho'' the
M''Donalds and M''Leods, the most powerful clans in that country, were
often at variance, yet he was loved and much caressed by both sides.
He had two sons, Ferquhard senior, and Ferquhard junior.