!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A
CLAN, Section III, "Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society,
1970, p. 134.
John... after spending some years at sea, and going round the world with
Lord Anson as purser of the famous CENTURIAN, settled at Charleston,
South Carolina, where he was appointed British Agent for the Carolinas.
He is said to have been the sole survivor of the massacre at Fort Loudoun
on the Tennessee River in 1760. In the American War of Independence he
took the British side, and, on the conclusion of the war, he left America
and settled in England. [SIDELIGHTS ON HIGHLAND HISTORY, p. 202.] He
married a lady of the name of Dickson from London, with issue.