!BIOGRAPHY: BURKE''S LANDED GENTRY, Eighteenth Edition, Vol. II, London,
Burke''s Peerage Limited, 1969, pp. 416-417.
Father of Capt. Malcolm MacLeod, who joined his uncle Malcolm, 6th of
Raasay, in arms for Prince Charles Edward in 1745.
!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE
MACLEODS--THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section II, Edinburgh, The Clan
MacLeod Society, 1968, p. 67.
Was styled ''of Crowlin'', and married (marr. contr., dated, at Arnisdale,
Glenelg, 2nd May 1723) Janet, daughter of Donald MacLeod of Arnisdale,
with a numerous issue [CLAN DONALD, pp. 321-3.] The most outstanding
of which was John, known as ''Spanish John'', whose remarkable career in
France, Spain and in the Highlands after Cullodon is given in his own
autobiographical narrative. [SPANISH JOHN, BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE
EARLY LIFE OF COLONEL JOHN M''DONELL OF SCOTTOS, written by himself.
Printed by the Royal Celtic Society (Blackwood, Edinburgh and London,
1931.)] After many adventures, Spanish John was taken prisoner by the
ruthless Captain Ferguson of the FURNACE, adn was detained in Fort
William for nine months. For want of evidence against him he was
released, and afterwards settled in Knoydart, where he had the tack of
Inverguseran. He emigrated, in 1775, to Canada, and died, in 15th April
1810, at Cornwall, Upper Canada (now the Province of Ontario). He
married, in 1747, a daughter of D. MacDonell, who was killed at Culloden,
with issue.