!MENTION: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS
-- THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "MacLeod Cadet Families",
Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, p. 11.
!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS:
THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The
Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, pp. 272, 283.
Succeeded to the Gesto tack.
John MacLeod received possession of the tack of Gesto held by his elder
brother, Murdo, until 1708. In 1714, when George I became King of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Earl of Mar, anxious to display his influence in
the Highlands, persuaded a large number o fHighland Chiefs and
Chieftains to sign an address of Loyalty to him. Among the signatories
were several of the prinipal men of the Clan MacLeod of Harris and
Dunvegan, whose Chief happened to be a minor at the time. Among these,
we find the signature of John MacLeod of Gesto. The new King, however,
had been warned against ''Bobbing John'', Earl of Mar, and refused to
receive him or the Address of Loyalty. Such behaviour of course was
interpreted in the Highlands as a gross discourtesy and overt proof that
the new King was not well disposed towards them. John MacLeod 12th of
Gesto, who was dead by 1718, married his first cousin, a daughter of the
Rev. John Bethune of Bracadale and his wife Marion, daughter of John
MacLeod 2nd of Drynoch. They had issue.