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Therefore, during the Jacobite risings, the Clan Drummond were largely supporters of the Jacobite cause and the House of Stuart. [4] Chief James Drummond, 2nd Duke of Perth joined the Jacobites during the Jacobite rising of 1715 and fought at the Battle of Sheriffmuir. [3] [4] He later fled in exile to France, [3] and his estates were forfeited ...
James Pittillo (b. 1690–1698 Scotland – d. 1754 Dinwiddie County, Virginia) was a Scots laborer and Jacobite rebel, who became a major landowner after being deported in 1716 to the Colony of Virginia. After completing service of his indenture, in 1726 Pittillo was granted 242 acres (1.0 km 2) on Waqua Creek in Brunswick County, Virginia.
James Drummond, 6th Earl and 3rd titular Duke of Perth (11 May 1713 – 13 May 1746) was a Scottish Chief of the Name of Clan Drummond best known for his participation in the Jacobite rising of 1745, during which Charles Edward Stuart attempted to regain the British throne for the House of Stuart.
Perth Parish is bounded: [2] [12] [13] on the north by a line running true east from the northwestern corner of the Tobique 20 Indian reserve on the Saint John River;; on the east by the Royal Road, [a] starting about 14.5 kilometres inland and running southerly or south-southeasterly along a path passing west of Birch Ridge, through Red Rapids, to the Carleton County line north of Chapmanville;
New Brunswick: 142,560 Prince Edward Island: 50,685: ... following the failed Jacobite risings ... exert great influence in Ontario was the Perth ...
The second son of James Drummond, 3rd Earl of Perth (c. 1615–1675) and Lady Anne Gordon (c. 1621–1656), his elder brother James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth, was a close political ally. In September 1670, Melfort married Sophia Maitland, heiress to the estate of Lundin in Fife and niece of the Duke of Lauderdale ; they had six children ...
He commanded a troop of Jacobite horsemen involved in the taking of Perth on 16 September 1715. [1] On 5 October 1718 John Hay was created by James III & VIII (the "Old Pretender") Earl of Inverness, Viscount of Innerpaphrie and Lord Cromlix and Erne in the Jacobite Scottish peerage. The Old Pretender appointed him his Secretary of State in ...
Anne Drummond, Countess of Erroll (5 January 1656 – c. 1719) was a Scottish Jacobite conspirator and naturalist. She contributed to reference books on the history and fauna of Scotland and used her home, New Slains Castle, to oversee communications between Scotland and France about the Jacobite effort to instate James Frances Edward Stuart as king.