!SOURCE: THE MACLEODS OF ARNISDALE, compiled by Rev. Donald
MacKinnon, Portree, Skye, Scotland, 1929, reprinted by The Clan MacLeod
Society USA, Migration Project Publications Series, Number 1, 1984, pp.
12-13.
He entered the Army, as a Matross in the Royal Artillery, on 6th January
1734. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in March, 1751; 1st Lieutenant
on 1 March 1755; Captain on 1st April 1756, and Major on the 28th
February 1782. He left a widow, a Dutch lady, Hannah Waldon, and five
children....
When Major William MacLeod returned from America to Fort George, in
1781, he was accompainied by an English servant whose Christian name
was Abram. It was the dying request of the veteran Major that his
servant should remain with the widow and family. Abram was a faithful
domestic, strongly attached to his mistress and her children. He wrote a
Journal, from which extracts were published in the "Inverness Courier,"
in January 1854. Major MacLeod''s widow died on the 4th January 1803,
and was buried on the 7th of the month in MacLeod of MacLeod''s burial
place in the Chapel Yard, Inverness.
!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A
CLAN, Section III, "Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society,
1970, pp. 101, 102.
William... entered the army, on 6th January 1734, as a Matross in the
Royal Artillery, and was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in March 1751, 1st
Lieutenant on 1st March 1755, Captain on 1st April 1756, and Major on
28th February 1782. He served in the American War, and returned to this
country in 1781, and died, on 24th March 1782, at Fort George. He
married a Dutch Lady, Hannah Waldon, with issue.
When Major William MacLeod returned from America to Fort George, in
1781, he was accompanied by an English servant, whose Christian name
was Abram. It was the Major''s dying request that his servant should
remain with his widow and family. Abram was a faithful domestic,
devotedly attached to Mrs. MacLeod, and remained with her to the end of
her life. He wrote a Journal, from which extracts were published in the
INVERNESS COURIER, January 1854. Major MacLeod''s widow (Hannah
Waldon) died on 4th January 1803, and was buried, on 7th January, in
MacLeod of MacLeod''s burial place in the Chapel Yard at Inverness.