Angus MacDonald, 9th of Largie

Biographical Summary

"IX. Angus. He joined Montrose in the Civil War, and was at the burning of Inverary in 1647. That year he was with Alastair Mac Colla when he made his last stand at Tarbet, Kintyre, and had to retire before Sir David Leslie and the forces of the Government. He was first Captain of the Regiment that went to Ireland in 1648 under Alastair Mac Colla, and of which Donald, younger of Clanranald, was Lieutenant-Colonel. He was forfeited by the Committee of Estates in 1649, and his property given to the Marquis of Argyll. In 1661, after the Restoration, he was one of the Commissioners in Argyll for regulating the uplifting and ordering of the monies levied for the service of the Crown. That same year an Act was passed rescinding his pretended forfeiture. He was a Commissioner of Supply in 1667, and was served heir to his father in 1669. This latter year he got sasine from Argyll of the island of Cara, as possessed by his deceased father, Alexander Macdonald of Largie. He married, and had two sons —

• Archibald, who succeeded.
• John, who succeeded Archibald.
• A daughter, who married Rev. Angus Macdonald, minister of South Uist, known as the Ministear Laidear.

We have no precise data for fixing the date of the death of Angus Macdonald of Largie, but it must have been before 1687, for in that year there appears on record his older son and successor."

SOURCE: The clan Donald; by the Rev. A. Macdonald, minister of Killearnan, and the Rev. A. Macdonald, minister of Kiltarlity; Vol. III; 1896; page 383