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YEAR BOOK AMERICAN CLAN GREGOR SOCIETY 37
(G en. XX)
Gen. XX
of Lochiel, then of course his brothers were also MacGregors.
The main line of the Lairds or Chiefs of MacGregor was in doubt
about that time and several branches claimed the Chieftainship.
It is believed (H.L.M.) that with Col. James were his two
brothers, Alexander, b. 1610, and John, b. 1614.
Jo hn (II) MacGruder was captured during the battle of Worcester,
1649, and sent with his brother, Alexander, and 150 other Scott ish
prisoners via Barb adoes to Virginia, and thence to Maryland.
John shared the same fate as his brother and finally we hear of him
as constable of the Lower Hundred of Kent Co., Md., Mar ch ;n ,
1668.
Alexander (II) Mac Gruder, b. 1610, in Perthshir e, Scotland, and
called vari ously Mac Gruther, MacGr ouder , MacGregor, and
Mac Gruder. H e arrived in Md. before 1652 as a prisoner and
shortly thereafter obtained his first deed to the many tracts of
land he would acquire before he died in 1677. He established a
strong and historic line that exists to this day, and whose descendants
in the American Clan Gregor, glorify the great long line of
Chiefs who made the Clan Gregor one that will never die.
Note by M.M .-PART FOUR , tracing Alexander's (XX) mother's
lineage has already been prepared and will appear in another
Year Book. It also shows descent from Alpin, ancient Scottish
Kings, the Bruces, Stewarts, Campbells and others of Royal
descent.
REFERENCES
1. MOTTO: My Tribe is Royal. Page 54, A.e. G.S., year book, 1919.
2. British Antiquity by Willi am Playfair , Esq., Vol. 7, pages 506-513.
3. T he Baronage of Scotland , by Sir Robert Dougla s, 1798, Vol. I, p. 493.
4. Th e Clan Gregor, Clans and Regts of Scotland, by Adams.
5. The H ighlands of Scotland, by Skeen.
6. Cabinate of Hi story, by Sir Walt er Scott .
7. Forfeited and Extinct Peerage, by Burke.
8. Th e Highlands and Gaelic Scotland, from the earli est times, till the close of
the "Forty Five", by Dugal Mitch ell.
9. Irish Pedegr ees of Scotland, by John O'Hart, Vol. 2, page 234.
10. Hi story of Th e Clan Grego r, by Amelia Georgianna Murray MacGregor,
Vol. #1 pub. 1898, Vol. 2 pub. in 1901, Brown, Edinburgh.
11. The Country of Sir Wa lter Scott, by Alcott, page 375.
12. Over The Border , by Winters, page 159.
13. The American Clan Gregor Society year books : 1909-10, 1913, 1917, 1918,
1922, 1923, 1927.
14. Th e American Clan Gregor Society year book, 1911-1912.
15. In Scotland Again, by Mortan, page 181.
16. The Scotti sh Nati on, by W. Anderson, Vol. I pub. 1866.
17. The Encyclopedia of History, Historical and Biographica l, pp. 501 at '08.
18. Burke's Peerage, 1949, page 1290 and 1291.