Hidden Treasure At Loch Arkaig

From a blog post entitled "The Jacobite Treasure of Loch Arkaig…:"

"Six caskets...were brought to Loch Arkaig (just north of Fort William) and hidden. Their secret was entrusted to Murray of Broughton, one of the Jacobite fugitives. Murray began the distribution to clan chiefs, but when he was apprehended by the government (and later turned state’s evidence the treasure was entrusted first to Locheil, the chief of Clan Cameron, and then to Macpherson of Cluny, head of Clan Macpherson. Cluny was hiding in a cave at Ben Alder, which came to be known as ‘the cage’, and when Charles briefly joined him there, Cluny had control of the money, which was still hidden at Arkaig."

"If the Highlanders were encouraged by hopes of French assistance, the French treasure stored at Loch Arkaig served a practical purpose in supporting them during a period of irksome inactivity."

"It amounted at first to about 440,000, and Prince Charles seems to have wished to take what remained of it in September with him to France. The proposal was debated at a long Council of War and the clansmen and their Chiefs, as might be expected, disliked the proposal. The gold, therefore, remained in its hiding place at Loch Arkaig."  (Cluny's Treasure) [Source]

From The Jacobite Peerage

From "The Jacobite peerage..." By Melville Henry Massue Ruvigny et Raineval:

See the link to the book for other Camerons.

The excerpt above noted that John Cameron of Lochiel "was present at Prestonpans, and being attainted, retired to France, where he lived for over thirty years in exile."

Three Jacobite Cameron Women Transported

From Jacobite gleanings from state manuscripts... by J. Macbeth Forbes, published in 1903, three Cameron women in the Transportations (to North America, possibly Martinique):

THE TRANSPORTATIONS IN 1745

Flora Cameron, age 40, Spin and knit, from Lochaber, black hair
Efy Cameron, age 28, ", Lochaber, black hair and swarthy
Anne Cameron, age 30, " ", Lochaber, Little woman