!SOURCE: 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, pp. 66-67, 71.
John was brought up at the Court of St. Germain, and was a page to
James, THE OLD CHEVALIER. On 5th September 1723, he was created a
Knight and Baronet, with remainder to his heirs-male. [Ruvigny: THE
JACOBITE PEERAGE, p. 109.] When Prince Charles Edward Stuart decided,
in 1745, to attempt to win the British Throne for his royal father, THE
OLD CHEVALIER, he appointed John MacLeod an aide-de-camp.
[BANNATYNE MANUSCRIPT] Throughout the 1745 campaign the Prince had
not a more faithful nor devoted officer than John MacLeod. Although he
was severely wounded at Culloden, John managed to avoid capture, and
made his way to Skye, but, feeling insecure there, he returned to France.
After the Act of Indemnity was passed in 1747, he came back to Skye,
with ''broken fortunes and ruined constitution''. John Dubh MacKinnon,
Chief of the MacKinnons, who himself was an ardent Jacobite, and had
been ''out'' in the 1715 and 1745 Risings, gave John MacLeod, rent-free,
the tack of Swordale in the MacKinnon ''country''. It must have been at
this time that he married, as his first wife, Margaret, daughter of Angus
(not Lauchlan, as stated in the BANNATYNE MANUSCRIPT) MacQueen of the
MacQueens of Totaroam [MACQUEEN MANUSCRIPT in the compiler''s
possession.] in Trotternish. About 1760, he married, as his second wife,
Jane, daughter of John Hunter of Long Calderwood, Lanarkshire
(great-grandson of Hunter of Hunterston), who was a merchant in
Glasgow, [John Hunter was married to Agnes Paul, and had a family of
ten children. One son, Dr. William Hunter, was a famous physician,
anatomist and physiologist, and was the founder of the Hunterian
Museum, now in Glasgow University. Another son, Dr. John Hunter, was a
noted surgeon and anatomist. A daughter, Dorothea, married the Rev.
James Baillie, Professor of Divinity in Glasgow University, with issue.
The daughter, Jane, was the wife of John MacLeod (McLeod: OUR MACLEOD
ANCESTRY, 1942. Privately printed and published in the United State of
America. pp. 11-12, 39-40).] and had issue. In 1770, he, with his wife
and several members of his family, emigrated to North Carolina and
settled at Wilmington. For some reason he, in 1775, crossed the
Atlantic to Africa, and when at St. Helena he heard that his wife died,
and so great was his grief that soon afterwards he himself passed away.
He was buried at sea off the coast of Madagascar. His brother,
Alexander, who had emigrated, as already noted, and was in North
Carolina at the time of his sister-in-law''s death returned to Scotland,
and sent his two sisters, Elizabeth and Isabella to look after the three
orphans. [McLeod: OUR MACLEOD ANCESTRY, 1942, p. 12.] Alexander did
not return to North Carolina.
By his first wife, Margaret MacQueen, John MacLeod had issue.
By his second wife, Jane Hunter, John MacLeod had issue.
John MacLeod, the Jacobite ''Knight and Baronet'' was succeeded in the
representation of the first MacLeod family of Glendale by his second son
of his first marriage.