!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 67, 71, 74, 212.
According to the BANNATYNE MANUSCRIPT, William was studying
medicine at the University of Edinburgh when his father emigrated to
North Carolina in 1770, and remained in Scotland. After he finished his
medical course, he settled, first in South Uist and afterwards in Harris,
as a doctor, and married Isabella, daughter of Alexander MacLeod, 2nd of
the MacLeods of Luskintyre, Harris, with issue.
Dr. William MacLeod, described by the Rev. John Lane Buchanan, S.P.C.K.
missionary in Harris, as ''our little tyrannical country Surgeon'', [TRAVELS
IN THE WESTERN HEBRIDES (1793), p. 67. The Rev. John Lane Buchanan is
not a very reliable authority, and his statements must not be accepted
unless confirmed by trustworthy sources.] left Luskintyre about the
beginning of the century, and settled at Borline in the MacLeod ''country''
in Skye, where he died on 10th August 1811. He was succeeded in the
representation of the MacLeods of Glendale by his eldest son. [MacKenzie
is wrong in stating in his HISTORY OF THE MACLEODS (p. 212) that Dr.
William MacLeod was succeeded by his third son.]
!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, p. 212.