John Cameron Of Lochiel

Highland Papers:

From The Baronage Of Angus

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Letter Of Norman MacLeod

Scots Abroad
Emigration from Scotland: Emigrants' Correspondence

Year: 1813
Reference: Fassiefern Papers, Acc. 11910/32
Description: Letter of Norman MacLeod, Minister of Morven, to Ewen Cameron of Fassiefern with details from the parish register of the family of Captain Donald Cameron, now living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada [Source - National Library of Scotland]

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Donald Cameron Capt in the Kings American Rangers and whose surviving family are now living at Montreal N. America lived in this parish of Morven for the space of twelve years in which time he had five children (three sons and two daughters) born to him in lawful wedlock by names William, Nancy, Mary, John & Alexander and whose ages are as follows

William born in Feby 1791 age 22
Nancy in March 1792 21
Mary in October 1795 18
John in Jany 1797 16
Alexander in March 1798 15

That the above young people were born in this parish in the years & months herein named & were all of them baptized by me is [?certified] and attested at Morven Manse this 20th August 1813 by Norman McLeod

 [?] at Morven

Samuel Cameron [?]

Sir—Morven Manse 20 Aug 1813

                Your letter of July last inquiring of the ages of our friend Capt Cameron’s children, born in this parish came to ? hand by ? ? Oban &  As there was no correct register left there in the parish, I had to examine ? & others before I could make out a proper certificate ? ? now I hope it will answer their ? ? a gentleman I had a great regard for and ? ? well to his family

Colonel Cameron Of Fassifern's Memoirs

Dublin University Magazine, Volume 43 (excerpt):

Examination Of Sir Ewen Of Fassfern

The Celtic Monthly: A Magazine for Highlanders, Volume 8:

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Letter To Ewen Cameron Of Fassiefern

Scots Abroad
Emigration from Scotland: Emigrants' Correspondence

Year: 1813
Reference: Fassiefern Papers, Acc. 11910/32
Description: Letter of Norman MacLeod, Minister of Morven, to Ewen Cameron of Fassiefern with details from the parish register of the family of Captain Donald Cameron, now living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Joan, Daughter Of John Cameron Of Fassiefern

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James, eldest son of Dr. Donald Macintyre, was born in Newburgh, Orange County, New York, in 1785. He went to Scotland in 1806. He was a factor during several years. He married, in 1817, Ann, daughter of Peter Campbell of Corries, in Glenurchy, by his wife Joan, daughter of John Cameron of Fassiefern. He returned to the United States in 1822, and settled on a farm about four miles north of Johnstown, in Fulton County, New York. He had six sons Donald, Peter, James, Ewen, Archibald,
and Martin. He died in 1863. His wife died February 26th, 1887. She was born at Inverary in 1792. She was ninety-five years of age, except five months, at the time of her death.

Colonel John Cameron Of Fassifern

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By Direction Of Mrs. Cameron

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"Shawls and gowns of twisted worsted, and' tartans of the most lively colours, beautifully diversified, and various other articles, all spun and dyed in the family, under the inspection, and by direction of Mrs Cameron of Fassfern."

Cross-posted at Detour Through History

Fassifern Inventory At A Library

Cameron of Fassiern Inventory at the National Library of Scotland here.


"These papers were purchased by the Library in 1986. They comprise letters of and to members of the Cameron of Fassifern family (chiefly John Cameron of Fassifern, Sir Ewen Cameron of Fassifern and Sir Duncan Cameron of Fassifern, and, to a lesser extent, Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel and Donald Cameron of Lochiel), estate and household papers, legal deeds and accounts and other papers concerning Lieutenant Colonel John Cameron and his regiment, the 92nd Foot."

After Fassifern

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Fassifern and His Campbell Wife

From the Highland Papers, Volume III:

[John Cameron's] Fassifern's wife was a daughter of John Campbell of Achalader.

Winter of 1748 I came the north road to town to advise about Lady Lochiel and her childrens' claims and other claims upon some of the forfeited estates...in company with Donald Cameron....

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The Camerons Of Fassiefern From The History Of The Camerons

History of the Camerons with Genealogies of the Principal Families with an index here.

From the Index:
Fassiefern, The Camerons Of...................................................................... 281-284

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The Incident With Fassiefern's Foster-Brother Ewen McMillan

From the Celtic magazine:

FASSIEFERN'S FOSTER-BROTHER AND THE FRENCHMAN.

Colonel John Cameron of Fassiefern, while serving in the Netherlands, was attended by his foster-brother, a young Highlander named Ewen Macmillan. One day this youth was at one of the British outposts, when he observed a Frenchman some distance off, and it immediately occurred to him to try and stalk the Frenchman, as he used to do the deer in his native forests of Loch-Arkaig. Accordingly, he crept silently towards the unsuspecting Frenchman, and was in the act of taking aim over a low dyke when his intended victim, having probably heard some slight sound, turned about, and seeing a head peering over the dyke, and the long barrel of a rifle pointed full at himself, he fired his musket, the shot carrying off Ewen's ear. Ewen, however, was revenged; for he brought down the Frenchman next moment, and then rushed forward and transfixed him with his bayonet. He then returned to his master, the Colonel, and, in his expressive native tongue, said, "The devil's son! Do you see what he did to me?" Fassiefern, though sorry for his mishap, said, "You well deserved it, Ewen, in going beyond your post." "He'll no' do it again, faith!" was Ewen's pithy reply.—Mackenzie's History of the Camerons

Colonel Cameron - 92nd Regiment Of Foot

From Memoir of Colonel John Cameron of Fassiefern :

Sir Ewen Cameron of Fassiefern

From  The Celtic Monthly:

In the rising of 1745, the Camerons and Macdonalds were ever in front with Prince Charles. It is matter of common report that their houses and papers were then burned by express order of the Duke of Cumberland. In the case of Glengarry this is certain, but the evidence given by Sir Ewen Cameron, of Fassfern, at Fort-William, upon the 14th day of May, 1825, shows the astonishing fact that before the house of Achnacarry had been burnt by the Duke, the Lochiel papers then at Achnacarry, with some exceptions, were burnt by Donald Cameron, of Lochiel's own tenants.
From these depositions it would appear that Sir Ewen Cameron was born in 1740, and that his father, John Cameron, died in 1785. From other papers—that after Donald Cameron of Lochiel's death in France shortly after Culloden, the sole means of subsistence of the Lochiel family in Lochaber consisted of a Wadset of Glendessary, originally in the person of John Macphee, tenant there granted to him as far back as 1690, and acquired by friends for behoof of John Cameron, eldest son of the attainted Lochiel. Fort-William, 14th May, 1825.