_John MACLEOD _______
_John Mor MACLEOD __|_Maria MACDONALD ____
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| |_Margaret MACLEOD __|_Catherine CAMPBELL _
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| |_Marion MACLEOD ____|_Catherine CAMPBELL _
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!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, pp. 284, 287-288. He succeeded his father Roderick 13th in the tack of Gesto and later became an Ensign in one of MacLeod's Independent Companies on 15th November 1745. Thereafter he joined the Scots Brigade in Holland and rose to the rank of Major. In 1782 he made his will, still preserved in Dunvegan Castle, leaving to each of his three daughters £100 sterling to be paid from money left at interest to John MacLeod of Raasay, Lachlan MacKinnon of Corriechatachan and John Lamont of Lamont. The daughters were also to receive a house called the 'New House', with a fourth part of 'my kail garden', and the liberty of 30 milking sheep, with their followers in the common pasturage. To his son, Neil, he left his moveables, stock and tack and a bond of £64.12.6 due to him by MacLeod of MacLeod. Neil was also to pay his mother's yearly annuity and give his sisters three couple of milking cows every summer and harvest and six bolls of meal yearly. John's marriage contract with Annabella, daughter of Neil MacKinnon of Borreraig in Strath, also survives in the Muniment Room in Dunvegan Castle. It it, a sum of 3,000 merks was settled on the young couple, which proves that the family was prosperous at the time. If Annabella survived her husband, she was to have a third of all the cows, horses and crops and half the household plenishings or instead of the latter, a sum of 700 merks. In 'compliment' she was also to have a riding horse and all the sheep and goats and as her father had already settled 1,000 merks on her, she was certainly well cared for. John MacLeod of Gesto and Annabella MacKinnon had issue.