Sorry, this one is kind of going to meander, but bare with me. I posted a while ago about my puzzling family in Yorkshire. However on my mothers side some extremely interesting people were found. One branch of the ancestors were Andersons who immigrated over to Ulster following the land grants there. (yeah I think the Irish are still bitter about that one). They then immigrated to the U.S. at some point. However, on one branch of my mothers side of the family one of my ancestors was captured in one of the Jacobite Uprisings and sentenced to slavery in the Americas. On his arrival in the Virginia colony that sentence was commuted to Indentures Servitude with an indefinite term. (He eventually went on to purchase the plantation he worked from his "owner." There has to be good story there.) His name escapes me right now, I would have to go look it up on my wifes computer. Anyway, the region where he lived (around Perth) was predominately Clan Hay and Moncriefe. Now this ancestors name doesn't show up on any of the septs or lists of those clans, or sept of any clan for that matter. How would your average Scot fit into the clan structure in the late 1600 to early 1700's. I'm guessing this would have been some average guy who probably wasn't of particularly high standing in the community. I don't have a lot of information on him other than the slave ship manifest which has notations on the judgement and crime.