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- "One of the Officers injured in the battle was Donald MacLaren, drover from Invernenty. Donald was a Captain in the Atholl Regiment. He was injured at Culloden but was carried off the field. He and other Atholl men made it back to Balquhidder and then on to Leny where he was injured during a skirmish with the Perthshire Militia on the 19th of July, 1746. MacLaren was taken into custody along with Major David Stewart of Ballahallan, Captain Malcolm MacGregor of Concour, Sergeant King alias Macree (from Lord Murray's regiment) and three privates.[14] By the newspaper accounts of the day, all the men captured were from the Atholl brigade. These men were transported to Stirling Castle and imprisoned.[15] He was treated by the prison physician for his wounds on the 20th of July and subsequently, on September 3, 1746, bound to a dragoon for transfer to Carlisle to stand trial for treason.[15]
During the course of that transport MacLaren was freed or freed himself (the escape has been related both ways) and escaped by throwing himself off a cliff called the Devil's Beef Tub near Moffet. Although the King's dragoons fired after him, the mist hid his movements and his escape was successful.[14] He remained in hiding as a fugitive in Balquhidder until the amnesty of 1757.[2]" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_MacLaren)
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"Donald, in Easter Invernenty, was famed as a cattle dealer and drover-these terms were more or less synonymous-and it was he who led Clan Labhran to join the Appin Regiment in the “Forty-five”. His kinsman, John, in Wester Invernenty, did not live to see that exploit. Donald’s wife, Elizabeth Stewart, was a grand-daughter of Donald Stewart of Invernahyle in Appin; John’s wife’s name was Beatrice Stewart, who had a brother, John Stewart. Each of these MacLarens held his land under charter from the Duke of Atholl as feudal superior, which conferred on the holders the feudal rights of barony giving them wide authority over lesser tenants and vassals. They had, in fact, the standing of lairds and Donald was MacLaren of, not merely in, Invernenty, while John chose to be known as Stob-Chon, from the name of a prominent hill within his barony, which would be called, in English, the Hound’s Peak." (Gordon Stewart, "Drumlich". https://stewartsofbalquhidder.com/2023/10/06/drumlich/)
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Donald MacLaren of Invernenty was captured at Culloden and taken to prison but escaped and lived in secrecy in 1757. His lands at Balquidder were captured by other troops. (https://trossachs.co.uk/clans/maclaren/)
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"Re: Elizabeth Stewart, wife of Donald Mclaren, was not only the granddaughter of Donald Stewart of Invernahyle, but the daughter of Rev Duncan Stewart of Strathgarry and also the great aunt of the Rev. Duncan Stewart at Balquidder. She is believed to have emigrated to Canada." (Alexander Stewart of Strathgarry)
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The following account of the capture of Donald McLaren of Invernenty after the Battle of Culloden was found in the Index to the Belfast Newsletter at www.ucs.louisiana.edu/.
Belfast Newsletter
[8] Aug 1746, page 3
Extract of a Letter from Sterling, dated July 22.
Upon the 15th Instant, Capt. James Campbell, commanding the Perth Volunteers in Balquhidder, having information of several Rebel Officers having returned to the Braes of that Country, went himself with a Party by the South side of the loch, whilst Daniel M’Euen, his Ensign, went up the Strath of that Country, towards Glenkarnock; but notwithstanding all the precaution used by the Captain, they found Means to escape, 12 towards the Braes of Brodalbine, and 18 towards the Breas of Lenny, and the Forrest of Glenartney.The Captain having Information thereof, marched with about 30 of his Men towards the Breas of Lenny, divided them so as to surround a party of them in a Sheill, and to guard the Passes below, that none of them might escape.About Five o’Clock the Party under Ensign M’Euen surrounded a Lodge or Sheilling hut, from which they received a very brisk Fire, from the Door and two Windows, for 15 Minutes or upwards, which was returned by the Volunteers with the same Alacrity; afterwards the Rebels lodged in the Hutt, being all wounded except one, surrendered, viz. Major Stewart, Brother to the Laird of Advorlick; Capt. Malcolm M’Gregor of Comour; Capt. Donald MacLaren; Sergeant King, Alias M’Ree, late of Sir Patrick Murray’s Highland Regiment, and three private Men.Of our Men none were hurt tho’ several Balls went through their Cloaths, especially Thomas More the late Lieutenant Follie, who always shewed himself upon every Occasion, willing to destroy Rebels.
The Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, Monday, September 15, 1746 - Page 3 says
We hear Mr. Maclaren, a Drover, who was carried Prisoner for Carlisle in the last Corps that went from this Place, has made his Escape from the Party who escorted them.
Other contemporary accounts are:
The Scot’s Magazine
Volume 8, July 1746
Page 340
(English Literary Periodicals, Reel 46, University Microfilms International)
And on the 15th, seven rebels were surprised in a hut in the Braes of Lenny, by the Perth voluntiers, under the command of Capt. James Campbell and Ens. Daniel Maceuen.The voluntiers having surrounded the hut, were fired at from the door and two windows; which they returned.When the firing had continued briskly about fifteen minutes, the rebels, being all wounded except one, surrendered, and were carried in prisoners to Stirling, viz. Major Stewart, brother to Ardvorlich, Capt. Malcolm Macgregor of Comour, Capt. Donald Maclaren, Serjeant King, alias Macree, late of Ld John Murray’s regiment, and three private men.The voluntiers received no hurt.Lieut. Fawlie, or Folie, who was broke at Montrose, p. 147, and who serves as a private man in this corp, was one of them, and very active.
The Scot’s Magazine
Volume 8, September 1746
Page 441
(English Literary Periodicals, Reel 46, University Microfilms International)
Donald Maclaren, drover, who, with about nine others, was carried from Edinburgh, Sept. 5 to be tried at Carlisle, made his escape.At Ettrick braehead, having given one of the soldiers the charge of his horse, on pretence of retiring to ease nature, he swaddled himself in his plaid, and rolled down the brae; and tho’ he was pursued, and fired at, yet he got off.
It was this escape that formed the story of "Pate in Peril" in Walter Scott's Redgauntlet.
It was Donald's son, James, who emigrated to Prince Edward Island in 1803, just ahead of a legal notice carried by Walter Scott on his first trip to the Highlands. (see the notes to Rob Roy).
Rennie McOwan postulates that "the ruined MacLaren house of Invernenty to the west of Loch Doine is the likely site for the famous clan confrontation and piping scene" in Stevenson's novel Kidnapped.This is in "The Breck Trek," pp. 92-96 of Robert Louis Stevenson: Bright Ring of Words, comp. and edited by Alanna Knight and Elizabeth Stuart Warfel.Nairn:Bslnain Books, 1994.McOwan's article is an account of walking trips to retrace the path of David Balfour and Alan Breck Stewart as described in the novel.
(https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/mclaren/710/)
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see also: https://clanmaclaren-history.org/donald-the-drover
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Abt 1715 - UNKNOWN
