THE FRASERS OF DELL
and their Connections with Early Frasers in Canada
by Harry W. Duckworth [article from Canadian Explorer, September 1998 with updates]
Among the Frasers who were prominent in Canada in the first generation after the Conquest, the merchants known as Simon Fraser senior, and Simon Fraser junior, both of Quebec, have remained somewhat mysterious.
Simon Fraser senior first appeared as a retail merchant at Quebec in the mid-1760s. He may well have been a member of the old 78th Regiment of Foot, Fraser’s Highlanders, who, like so many others of that Regiment, had chosen to be demobbed in America. Over the next thirty years or more, he quietly prospered at Quebec, making some of his money by trading fish to the West Indies and bringing rum back, and the rest of it through his retail business in British manufactured goods. Sometime late in the 1790s Simon Fraser senior retired to Scotland. He was still alive there in 1804.
Simon Fraser junior
is a more colourful figure. He first appears in the fall of 1774, when a ship on
which he was travelling from Quebec to Dominica in the West Indies, the Lady Lovat, was
wrecked on Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St Lawrence, and he and his companions spent an
uncomfortable winter on that desolate shore. By
fall 1775 he was a partner in an aggressive Quebec business called Shaw and Fraser, which
made money selling rum to the British army during the American Revolution, but
overextended itself and was driven into insolvency at the end of that War. The failure of Shaw and Fraser brought down their
major London supplier, John Fraser of Achnagairn (1745-1825), who spent the next six years
recovering what money he could from the spider’s web of debts and obligations that
Shaw and Simon Fraser had left in Canada.
Simon Fraser junior later formed a new partnership in Quebec with an up-and-coming young Scotsman, John Young. From this partnership John Young built a fortune, but Fraser himself soon fell ill, and died in London in 1796. Simon Fraser junior probably never married, but formed a relationship with Mary (née Fitzgerald), widow of a sergeant of the 47th Regiment named William Whitman. Fraser bought a house for Mary Whitman in Quebec city in 1781, and perhaps other property; and they had two daughters, Nancy Fraser (born 1780) and Isabella Fraser (born 1782). Mary Fitzgerald Whitman, their mother died in 1791, aged 43, and the girls are found in the care of the administrators of their father’s estate, in 1797, as we shall see further below.
W.S. Wallace,
historian of the Canadian fur trade, seems to have simply guessed that Simon Fraser senior
and Simon Fraser junior were father and son, but he stated it as a fact. A
census of Protestant males living at Quebec city about September 1775 does show Simon
Fraser junior, aged 23, and his partner William Shaw, aged 22, living in the house of
Simon Fraser senior, in the Market Place, Lower Town, but the age of Simon Fraser senior
is given as 36, showing he cannot have been the father of Simon Fraser junior. They probably were related, but how?
The key to this question is a document dating from soon after the death in 1796 of Simon Fraser junior, by which Fraser’s brothers and sisters in Scotland gave Power of Attorney to the Canadian merchant and Fraser connection, Simon McTavish, to administer their brother’s property in Canada. Curiously, this document was discovered by Mr. Paul Lessard in the course of his researches in the notarial records of Quebec, attached to the marriage contract of another Simon Fraser, of Ste. Anne’s – this must be the result of an old filing error. The document names Simon Fraser junior’s brothers and sisters as Alexander Fraser of Dell; John Fraser, Lieutenant, 53rd Regiment; Lillias Fraser, wife of Hugh MacDonald, Tacksman of Kinlochmoidart; Jean Fraser; Betsy or Elizabeth Fraser; and Ann Fraser, wife of Hugh Fraser “Late tacksman of Erchite now of Balloan”. With this definitive information the genealogist can leap across the Atlantic, and land safely in Stratherrick, the broad valley up behind Loch Ness that was part of the Barony of Lovat, and home to so many Frasers.
Alexander Fraser of
Dell (d. 1814), factor of the Estate of Lovat, was the son of Hugh Fraser of Kinbrylie
(the older name of Dell), a farm in Stratherrick. Thus
Simon Fraser junior of Quebec, Alexander’s brother, must have been another son of
Hugh Fraser of Kinbrylie, and a member of an established Stratherrick family.
Not much is known about the Frasers of Kinbrylie or Dell. The location of the farm itself is not absolutely certain. Alan B. Lawson, the historian of Stratherrick, identifies it with the modern place called Dell Farm, National Grid Reference NH490170, but this is in the parish of Boleskine, while Kinbrylie is known to have been in the next parish, Dores, though family graves are actually in Boleskine. The Frasers of Dell were evidently one of those “new” families that came into prominence in Stratherrick after the struggle for the Lovat Lordship between Simon Fraser and Mackenzie of Prestonhall had come to an end. In the beautiful Boleskine Old Churchyard, partway up the slope from Loch Ness, is the cluster of graves and wall plaques commemorating members of the Frasers of Dell, and two of the older members, John and Simon Fraser, are described on memorial plaques as sons to “Dunchea”. The Frasers of Dunchea were one of the old Stratherrick families, a junior branch of the most prominent among them, “Clan William”. The Frasers of Foyers were descended from Hugh Fraser, second natural son of Hugh Fraser of Lovat, later 1st Lord (c. 1436-1501), before his marriage to the daughter of Lord Glamis circa 1459; whereas the Frasers of Fairfield were descended from Thomas Roy, first natural son of Hugh Fraser of Lovat. From the second natural son, Hugh Fraser of Aberchalder, came the Frasers of Foyers, Kinmonavie, Dunchea, Drummond, Dalcrag, Kinbrylie (later known as Dell), Garthmore and Bunchegovie.]
I’ll outline what is known about the pedigree of the Frasers of Dell in a moment, but first, what can be said about the family of Simon Fraser senior, of Quebec? Various documents among the notarial records of Quebec provide clues. One states definitely that Simon Fraser junior was nephew to Simon Fraser senior - it was on the strength of this that Fraser senior, was granted curatorship of his nephew’s estate in 1796. Another document, from 1789, shows Fraser senior establishing a trust fund for another nephew, John Fraser, “being a Boy, and has as yet got little or no Education but is at present in Mr Keiths school in this City of Quebec”. This document names young John’s father as “my said deceased Brother Hugh Fraser”, leaving little doubt that Simon was a brother of Hugh Fraser of Dell.
This John Fraser was evidently the brother of Simon Fraser junior who was
mentioned in the survivors’ list as a lieutenant in the 53rd Regiment of Foot - no
doubt having purchased his commission with the assistance of his wealthy uncle, Simon
senior. The Army Lists show John Fraser
entering the army on April 9, 1794, at the rank of ensign, then the most junior
commissioned rank in the British army. He was
promoted Lieutenant on September 7 1795, and is found among the lieutenants of the 53rd
regiment from 1796 to 1803, when he was the senior lieutenant. He disappears from the Army Lists after that, and
is not in the half-pay lists, indicating that he either died or sold his commission. His further history has not yet been discovered,
but he may have benefited from his uncle Simon Fraser, senior, retired to Scotland.
Here, then, is what
little we know about the Frasers of Dell or Kinbrylie:
The history begins with Thomas Fraser of Kinbrylie, who in 1716 attacked a
house in Moray at the orders of Simon, Lord Lovat. In
1721, when a Bond of Confederation was signed between 26 representatives of the branches
of Clan William and the McTavish families of Stratherrick, Thomas Fraser of Kinbrylie was
one who signed, followed immediately by “John Fraser, son to Dunichea”.
This John Fraser seems to have succeeded Thomas, for “John Fraser, Dunchea’s
son”, is listed as tacksman of Kinbrylie in a rental of the Lovat estate dating from
1743. John died in 1751, and his wife
Christian, daughter of William Fraser of Balloan, died in 1753; both are buried at
Boleskine. Their children included Hugh Fraser (born about 1720, see next); Thomas Fraser
(born 1736); and probably, as we have seen, Simon Fraser senior, merchant of Quebec (born
about 1739).
Hugh Fraser (1720?-1786), tacksman of Kinbrylie or Dell, married Isobel Chisholm (1735?-1792), “niece of Mr. Chisholm of Chisholm”; this marriage seems to be recorded in the Kilmorack parish register of 1750. They are buried at Boleskine. Their children included Simon Fraser junior of Quebec, and the list of his brothers and sisters already given. One of the daughters, “Miss Ann Fraser, Dell”, married Hugh Fraser, Erchite, in 1773, and the Dores register records the baptisms of eleven of their children: Elizabeth (1774-1791); Simon (born 1785); Isobel (1777-1790); Ann (born 1779); John (born 1781); Hugh (1783-1784); Hugh (born 1785); William (born 1787); Mary (born 1788); Angus (born 1790) and Alexr (born 1793).
The family continued at Dell for two more generations. Alexander Fraser of Dell (1763?-1814), son of Hugh Fraser of Dell, was factor of the Estate of Lovat, Archibald Fraser’s senior administrator in the district. A son of his, William Fraser of Dell (1810-1874), still held the tack of Dell in 1826, when he married Mary Fraser (1807-1869), daughter of William Fraser, tacksman of Borlum, and Christina McIntosh his wife. By 1835, one Robert Gentle was tacksman of Dores, so a Fraser was no longer on the property. William Fraser of Dell died in Aberdeen in 1874; his wife had died there five years earlier. A son of theirs, Hugh Fraser (1841-1900) spent 36 years in Ceylon, but did not forget his Highland roots, for a memorial stone that his wife erected at Boleskine mentions that he was Director of the Highland Society of London and Member of the Gaelic Society, among others.
The two daughters of Simon Fraser junior also ended up in Stratherrick – a natural place for their father to care for them, after their mother’s death at Quebec in 1791. Their presence there is shown by a further group of documents, again a discovery of Paul Lessard’s, in the records of the Quebec notary Charles Voyer. These papers relate to the sale of a piece of property near Quebec, belonging to the estate of Mary Whitman. The sale itself was agreed on March 17 1803, and the two daughters ratified it by a document signed at Dell in Stratherrick on March 6 1804. Isabella (born 1782) was still unmarried, but Nancy (born 1780) was the wife of a member of the local Fraser establishment, Alexander Fraser of Dalcrag, tacksman of a property less than a mile NE of Dell farm. The name Dalcrag, as usual, is spelled various ways; this is the spelling on the modern Ordnance Survey maps. The Boleskine parochial register records the marriage of Ann Fraser "at Dell" and Alexander Fraser of Dalcrag on January 12 1799. So this was Nancy, daughter of Simon Fraser, junior (1752?-1796), and Mary Whitman (1748?-1791). She was not yet nineteen years old. The celebration of this marriage was perhaps muted in light of the fact that another woman, Janet Fraser, was already carrying Dalcrag's child - a daughter Katharine who was born on March 7 1799, also according to the Boleskine register.
Little is known of
the Frasers of Dalcrag, and the few references are not enough to construct a continuous
pedigree. One Hugh Fraser of Dalcrag obtained a wadset of the property from Hugh,
Lord Lovat, in 1639, and he had a son Alexander of Dalcrag who died in 1680. The
Bond of Confederation of 1721, by which representatives of various branches of the Frasers
of Foyers undertook to live in peace with the Mactavishes of Stratherrick, included one
William Fraser of Dalcrag and his sons John and Thomas. William Fraser of Dalcrag,
perhaps the same, paid rent to the Commissioners of Annexed Estates in 1749. In 1763 one
James Fraser in Dunturcat, "nearest and lawful heir of Hugh Fraser of Dalcrag, his
great-grandfather", obtained title to a property called Ardochy in the Braes of
Stratherrick, which he promptly sold [Warrand, Some Fraser Pedigrees, p. 141; Mackenzie, History of the Frasers of Lovat, pp. 697-8]. There is then a gap of thirty years before another
Fraser "of Dalcrag" is mentioned: in 1794 Alexander Fraser of Dalcrag witnessed
the baptism of a son of Rev. Patrick Grant (1733?-1807), minister at Boleskine
(1770-1799).
Alexander and Ann
(Nancy) Fraser of Dalcrag had six children, according to the Boleskine register: Simon
(born Nov 24 1799); Hugh (born Apr 29 1802); Jean (born May 11 1803); Isabella (born Nov
26 1805); Eliza (born Feb 17 1808); and Alexander (born Oct 15 1810). At present nothing more is known about this
family. Alexander Fraser was still tacksman
of Dalcrag in 1810, when the youngest child was born, but by 1826 the tack had been taken
over by a different Alexander Fraser.
This Alexander
Fraser (1792-1870), married to Magdeleine McTavish, kept Dalcrag until 1838 at least, and
they had a large family. The births of five
of their children are recorded at Dores: Isabel (1817-1874); Alexander (1818-1892);
Christina (1819-1868); Magdalene (1821-1894) and Ann (born 1823). The births of six of their children are recorded
at Boleskine: Hugh (born 1826); Simon (1828-1893); John (born 1830); Donald (1832-1898);
Thomas (1834-1920) and Elizabeth (born 1838).
In 1841 this family emigrated to the colony of Victoria in Australia, where several Fraser
descendents are known.
It seems a good guess
that the first Alexander Fraser of Dalcrag, and his wife Ann, Simon Fraser junior’s
daughter, also left Stratherrick, and may well be discovered among the immigrants to
Canada or Australia of their generation. Perhaps
a reader somewhere already knows the answer.
At least three loose ends regarding Simon Fraser senior (born about 1739) and junior (born about 1752) still need to be cleared up. First, Simon senior was a “cousin” of Simon Fraser, seigneur of Matane (d. 1805), whose family connections, except for this reference, are completely obscure. Second, Simon senior was the “cousin” of Simon McTavish (1750?-1804), the guiding genius of the North West Company of Montreal. His portrait, attributed to John Hoppner, was likely painted between Dec 1793-May 1795 when McTavish was living in London. Simon McTavish’s father was John McTavish (1701?-1774), tacksman of Garthbeg in Stratherrick and Lieutenant in the old 78th Regiment, Fraser’s Highlanders; Simon’s mother was Mary Fraser (1715?-1770), but her family is unknown. McTavish had business connections with Simon Fraser senior over at least twenty years, and mentioned him in his will. Third, one of the administrators of the estate of Simon Fraser junior was Peter Stuart of Quebec, described as “fourth cousin of the deceased by marriage”.
The claimed
relationship must have been through Stuart’s wife Jane Fraser (1755?-1816), daughter
of Ensign John Fraser, 60th Regiment, who had settled on land bought on 19 Jan 1765 from
Malcolm Fraser (1733-1815), seigneur of Mount Murray, Quebec, also a Lieutenant in
Fraser’s Highlanders. The word
“cousin” is imprecise in Scotland, as elsewhere, but it always means something. There are specific relationships yet to be
discovered about these early Frasers in Canada.
Sources of information.
W.S. Wallace, Documents Relating to the North West Company (Toronto: The Champlain
Society, 1934). H. Provost, ed. Les premieres
anglo-canadiens à Québec. Essai de
recensement 1759-1775 (Quebec: Institute québecois de recherche sur la culture, 1983). A.B. Lawson, A Country Called Stratherrick
(Inverness: John G. Eccles, 1987). Monumental
inscriptions at Boleskine and Dores, transcribed in A.G. Beattie & M.H. Beattie, eds.,
Inverness District East Memorial Inscriptions Pre 1855 (Scottish Genealogy Society, 1996). A. Mackenzie, History of the Frasers of Lovat
(Inverness: A & W Mackenzie, 1896). Boleskine
and Dores Old Parochial Registers. Quebec
Gazette, Apr 27 1775. Personal communications
of Army List entries, documents in the Quebec notarial records and church registers from
Marie Fraser, and through her from Paul Lessard.
September 1796 - Power of Attorney, to administer property of Simon Fraser junior in
Canada
KNOW ALL MEN by these presents That we Alexander Fraser of Dell Brother German of the now
deceast Simon Fraser Esquire Junior Merchant in Quebec for myself and as taking burden on
me for John Fraser my Brother German presently Lieutenant in the Fifty third Regiment of
Foot serving in the West Indies, Lillias Fraser otherwise Macdonald Sister German of the
said deceast Simon Fraser Esquire now Spouse to Hugh MacDonald Tacksman of Kinlochmoidart
Jean & Betsy or Elizabeth Fraser also Sisters German of the said deceast Simon Fraser
Esquire and Mrs Ann Fraser also Sister German of the said deceast Simon Fraser Esquire
Spouses to Hugh Fraser late Tacksman of Erchite now Balloan, all in the county of
Inverness in North Britain and we the said Hugh MacDonald and Hugh Fraser for ourselves
and as taking burdern on us for our said spouses, Have Made Constituted and Appointed as
we do by these presents Make Constitute and Appoint Simon MacTavish Esquire Merchant in
London presently in Canada in North America whom failing by now acceptance or otherways,
Peter Stuart Esquire and Colonel Malcolm Fraser both of the province of Quebec and Mr.
John Munro Merchant in Quebec jointly or any two of them which is hereby declared to be a
quorum, our true and lawful Attorney or Attornies Giving hereby and Granting to the said
Simon MacTavish Esquire whom failing to the other persons before named full power and
commissions for us and in our names to ask demand sue for recover and receive all such sum
and sums of Money debts and demands of whatever nature which were due and owing
to the said deceast Simon Fraser Esquire our Brother at the time of his death by any
person or persons either in his own right or as Executor or Assignee of any other person
or which have become due and owing to us since his death as heirs Executors and only
nearest relations to him and upon payment or recovery to Grant releases Acquittances and
Discharges for the same and also intromill with Sell and dispose of all Lands
Hereditaments Mortgages and other Subjects Effects and Chattels of what kind soever real
or personal which belonged to our said deceast Brother or which he was possessed of or any
way interested in at the time of his death in America and which are now deemable to us as
heirs and Executors to him and also to settle all matters accounts claims debts or things
whatever between him and any other person or persons who were Trustees Managers or
Attornies for our said Brother with whom he was in company Trade or had any dealings
whatever and upon such settlement the said Trustees Managers Attorneys and other persons
concerned to release and discharge; and particularly to settle and adjust all matters
accounts claims debts or things between the said deceast Simon Fraser Esquire, and John
Young Esquire Merchant in Quebec or any other person or persons with whom he was in a
copartnery Trade or who may have administered to the Estate of our said Brother, and to
receive from the said John Young Esquire or any other person or persons the share
belonging to our said Brother of the Stock in such joint Trade or the value thereof and
the whole Lands Hereditaments and Estate of whatever kind real or personal which
belonged to our said Brother and which the said John Young Esquire or other person or
persons have intromilled with in consequence of his or their administration or otherways
and in our name and for our use to enter into the full possession of the premises and upon
payment or delivery to acquitt release and discharge the said John Young Esquire and such
other person or persons and Giving and thereby Granting full power to the said Simon
MacTavish Esquire whom failing to the other persons before named to enter into all
transactions and references necessary or which he or they may Judge expedient for the
Settlement of our said Brothers affairs and recovery of his said Lands Hereditaments Debts
Chattels and effects and to grant compositions or eases to his debtors, and to make Grant
Execute and deliver all proper deeds and Conveyances in relation to the Lands
Hereditaments Debts Chatters Effects and others before mentioned, which may be necessary
for the effectual release and Conveyance thereof in the most ample manner and giving
Likewise and Granting to the said Simon MacTavish Esquire whom failing to the other
persons before named full power to Establish proper Titles in our persons to the said
Lands Hereditaments Debts Chattels and Effects real & personal which belonged to our
said deceast Brother in America as heirs and nearest relations to him, According to the
Laws and practices of the country where such Lands Effects and others are situated, and
also Giving hereby and committing full powers to our said Attorney or Attornies for us
& in our name to commence and prosecute all Suits and Actions at Law, recover Decrees
and put the same to Execution and to use and take all lawfull ways and means for recovery
of the said Lands Hereditaments Debts Chattels and effects & others which the
said Simon MacTavish Esquire or othe other persons above named shall find necessary and
Generally for us and in our names to do execute and perform all and every thing in and
about the premises and every part thereof anent the recovery Management or disposal of the
same which we could or might do ourselves if personally present and which our said
Attorney or Attornies shall Judge expedient and proper, ratifying Hereby and approving all
and whatever matters or things, our said Attorney or Attornies shall lawfully do execute
and perform or cause to be done, Executed and performed in and concerning the premises And
our said Attorney or Attornies is be acceptation Hereof Bound and Obliged to a just
Account reckoning and payment to us or those employed by us of his or their Intromissions
in value hereof when required after deduction and allowance of all necessary charges and
expenses and a reasonable gratification for his or their trouble IN WITNESS whereof we
have hereunder Set our names and seals at the places and of the dates herein after
mentioned viz: Alexander Fraser Ann Fraser and Hugh Fraser at Balloan the Sixteenth day of
September in the year Seventeen hundred and ninty six, the said Jean ffraser and Elizabeth
Fraser at Dell the Seventeenth day of the said Month of September and year foresaid And
the said Lilias Fraser and Hugh MacDonald at Kinlochmoidart the twenty first day of
September in the said year Seventeen hundred & ninty six. [sic] Alex Fraser, Anne Fraser, Hugh Fraser, Elizabeth
Fraser, Lillias Fraser, H. Macdonald
Signed Sealed and Declared being the first day stampd agreeable to the Laws of this
Country. IN PRESENCE of Simon ffraser, Donald Munro, Robert Ewart, James Ewart,
Robert Ewart, Farquhar Fraser
The above or below named Simon Fraser residing in Belloan in the parish & county of
Inverness North Britain one of the Subscribing Witnesses to the Execution of the Power of
Attorney written on the two preceding pages being solemnly Sworn Examined and Interrogated
Maketh Oath and sayeth That he was present and did see the before named Alexander ffraser
of Dell Mrs Ann ffraser and Hugh Fraser Sign Seal and Execute the Letter or power of
Attorney before written and that the names of heirs the said Simon Fraser and of Donald
Munro Writer in Inverness another of the subscribing Witnesses to the said power of
Attorney are of the proper handwriting of the Deponent and the said Donald Munro
respectively and he further maketh Oak that it consists with his knowledge that the said
Alexander ffraser of Dell Lieutenant John Fraser of the Fifty third Regiment of Foot
Lilias Frasr Ann Fraser Jean Fraser and Betsy or Elizabeth ffraser the parties to the
forgoing Power of Attorney are the only Brothers and Sisters German of the now deceast
Simon Fraser Esquire Junior Mercht in Quebec. Simon ffraser
SWORN before me this twenty sixth day of September in the year Seventeen hundred and ninty
six. John Mackintosh, Provost
THE before named Robert Ewart residing in Dell in the parish of Dores county of
Inverness in North Britain aforesaid one of the Subscribing Witnesses to the Execution of
the forgoing Power of Attorney being Solemnly sworn Examined and Interrogated Maketh Oak
and Sayeth that he was present and did see the before named & designed Jean Fraser
Elizabeth Fraser, Lillias Fraser and Hugh MacDonald Sign Seal and Execute of their own Act
and Deed the Letter or Power of Attorney written on the two preceding pages and that the
names Robert Ewart twice Set or Subscribed thereto is of the proper handwriting of the
deponent and the names James Ewart and Farquhar ffraser two of the subscribing Witnesses
who were present at the Execution of the said Power of Attorney is of the proper
handwriting of James Ewart residing in Dores in the parish and county aforesaid and of
Farquhar ffraser House Carpenter in Kinlochmoydart in the parish of Ardnamurchan and
County of Inverness respectively And the Deponent further Maketh Oath that it consists
with his knowledge that Alexander ffraser of Dell Lieutenant John Fraser of the Fifty
third Regiment of Foot Lilias Fraser Ann ffraser Jean Fraser Betsey or Elizabeth Fraser
the Parties to the forgoing Power of Attorney are the only Brothers & Sisters German
of the now deceast Simon Fraser Esquire Junior Mercht in Quebec. Robert Ewart
SWORN before me this twenty sixth day of September in the year Seventeen hundred and ninty
six. John Mackintosh, Provost
TO ALL and SUNDRY to whose knowledge these presents shall come I John Mackintosh Esquire
Present Provost & Chief Magistrate of the Burgh of Inverness in that part of Great
Britain called Scotland Do hereby certify and attest that upon the day and date hereof
personally came and appeared before me Simon Fraser and Robert Ewart the persons mentioned
in the forgoing Affidavits being Persons of Good Name well known and worthy of Good
Credite and upon Solemn Oath Administered by me to them upon the Holy Evangelists of
Almighty God Did Solemnly and Sincerely swear Testify and depone to be true the whole
matters and things in their said Affidavits mentioned and contained respectively,
IN FAITH and Testimony whereof I the said Chief Magistrate have Subscribed these presents
and have caused the public Seal of the Burgh of Inverness to be hereunto put and Affixed
At Inverness this Twenty sixth day of September in the year Seventeen hundred and ninty
six And of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain France
and Ireland the thirty forth year. [sic] John Mackintosh, Provost
Ardnamurchan is a parish, partly in the county of Argyll and partly in the county of
Inverness.
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