the uncertainty and unrest coalesced into the Jacobite rising
Highland chiefs were calling to their retainers to fight - on both sides
Lochnell, Ardchattan, Barcaldine .. all Campbells fighting for the British Army
There may have been individuals who went to fight on the Jacobite side .. how do we find out ?
Queen Anne died in August, the last Stuart monarch, and King George 1 took the throne
What records do we have for Ardchattan
Campbell of Lochnell
Campbell of Barcaldine
Campbell of Ardchattan
Campbell of Inverawe
MacIntyre of Glenoe
Events in Scotland -
From wikipedia
Monarch – Anne, to 1 August 1714; then George I
Secretary of State for Scotland: The Earl of Mar to 24 September; then The Duke of Montrose
Law officers
Lord Advocate – Thomas Kennedy of Dunure
Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir James Stewart, Bt jointly with John Carnegie of Boyseck
Judiciary
Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange
Events
July – first Catholic seminary in Britain opens at Eilean Bàn on Loch Morar.[1]
Commissioners of Police for Scotland appointed.
The first Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow, William Forbes, is appointed.
Kirkcaldy Brick and Tile Works established on the Links.
Births
14 April – Adam Gib, religious leader (died 1788)
6 September – Robert Whytt, physician (died 1766)
25 October (bapt.) – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, judge and comparative linguist (died 1799)
4 November – John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow (died 1775)
Rob Donn, Gaelic poet (died 1778)
Alexander Garden, politician (died 1785)
Alexander Wilson, surgeon, type founder, astronomer, meteorologist and mathematician (died 1786)
Deaths
1 August – Anne, Queen of Great Britain, last Stuart monarch (born 1665 in England)
17 August – George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie, Secretary of State for Scotland (born 1630)
Robert Ferguson, presbyterian minister and political conspirator (born c. 1637)
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