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Cluny Macpherson of i6oj.
CLUNY MACPHERSON OF 1603.
the April and May numbers of the Highland Monthly
for last year, I wrote about Clan Chattan. and dis-
cussed the Mackintosh pedigree and the Macpherson
claims for the chiefship of Clan Chattan. I treated the
subject in no partisan spirit, I believe, and, as a conse-
quence, I have incurred the grave displeasure of both
Mackintoshes and Macphersons. After all the criticisms,
both public and private, that have been made upon the
articles in question, there is only one correction which I
can accept. This is in regard to Andrew Macpherson, the
Cluny of 1603.
Andrew Macpherson is the first chief of the Mac-
phersons who has any contemporary record of his
existence. He is mentioned at least five times in various
documents of the time. He first appears in the "Clan
Farson" Bond given to Huntly in 1591, where he is called
"Andrew Makfersone in Cluny." He was merely tenant
of Cluny, as the preposition in proves, a fact corroborated
by the second mention of him in the 1603
The entry in the Rental is—
" Clovnye,
Huntly Rental.
three plenches.
. . , Andro McFarsen tenant to the haill." But in
1609, in the bond of union which Mackintosh of Borlum
got drawn up and signed by the leading members of Clan
Chattan, he is called Andrew Macpherson