What great reading...love this board.

I have a copy of a petition my four great grandfather Gray Macdonald made to Lord Macdonald April 3, 1803 pleading to stay on his rented land in someplace I've yet to locate called Peinchoinnich. Probably on the North end of the Trotternish Penisula of Skye.

He must have been successful since his son and grandson didn't sail for Cape Breton Island until 1854. My grandfather Murdoch wrote me that they were headed for Virginia/North Carolina to link up with kin but got blown off course by a storm and were so sick by the time they made land they stayed. No one's ever said if they were sailing of their own choice or were part of the last of the clearances.

Thanks for the book lists too.

Ron