The Highlanders of Scotland - Clan Strachan Society

304 THE HIGHLANDERS [part ii
insurrection of 1745, is well known to ever\- one, and his conduct
was such as to i^ain him the respect and admiration of all.
The estates of the famil}- became of course included in the
numerous forfeitures of that period ; but they were afterwards
restored, notwithstanding that this clan had taken a part in
every attempt made b_\' the Highlanders in favour of the family
of Stuart.
Anns.
Or, paly, barry, gules.
Badoe.
Oak.
Principal Seat.
Locheil.
Oldest Cadet.
Cameron of Locheil was oldest cadet, and has been captain of the clan
Cameron since the fourteenth century.
Chief.
Previous to the fifteenth century, Macmartin of Letterfinlay.
Force.
In 171 7, 8co. In 1745, Soo.
Clan NachtiDi.
The traditions of the M'Nachtans derive them from Lochtay,
where they are said to have been Thanes, but the genealogy
contained in the manuscript of 1450, puts it beyond all doubt
that they were one of the clans descended from the tribe of Moray,
and formerly united under its Maormors. The whole of the
ancient district of Mora)- is still occupied by clans descended
from that tribe, with the exception of one portion of consider-
able extent. This portion consists of that part of the ancient
district which extends between the lordship of Badenoch and
Strathnairn and the southern boundary of Ross, and comprehends
the extensive districts of the Aird, Glenurchart, Glenmori-
son, Abertariff, Stratherick, &;c. This northern division of the
ancient district is intersected b)' Loch Oich and Loch Ness, and
is chiefly in pos.session of the Erasers, Grants, and Macdonalds,
but as all these families can be traced as having acquired posses-
sion of the lands at different periods, and as deriving their origin
from the occupiers of other districts, it is plain that we must