[-?-] Mackay

4. A dan. m. Hugh Mackay in Kylestrome, son of John Mackay and his spouse "Elizaheth Mackay, lawful dau. and only child of the deceased John Mackay, tacksman of Forsinain, also apparent heir of the deceased Angus Mackay, sometime tacksman of the said lands of Forsinain, her grand-uncle, who was also sometime curator to the deceased George Mackay of Bighouse

(Reg. of Deeds, Mackenzie Office, 22nd June, 1733). The known issue of Hugh in Kylestrome was a son :— Colonel William Mackay. In a letter from Major James Mackay, a Judge in St. Louis, to his brother Captain Robert Mackay of Hedgefield, near Inverness, 5th November, 1 817, the following occurs :—" In 1785, before I left Canada for the north-west, Colonel William Mackay, a son of Hugh Mackay of Coylestrome in Lord Reay's country, who was an officer in the Queen's Rangers during the American Revolution, became acquainted

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THE BOOK OF MACKAY BY ANGUS MACKAY, M.A. (St. Andrews University) Minister at Westerdale, Caithness EDINBURGH : NORMAN MACLEOD, -25 GEORGE IV. BRIDGE CANADA : EDWARD MACKAY, ST. PETER'S MANSE, MADOC, ONT. M DCCCC VI

with me and my friend .... at the same time he was preparing to settle on his land, in the Bay of Kenty, on Lake Ontario."