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• General Comment. " Col DUNn McPHERSON, departed this life Decr 12th Ano Domini 1810, aged 74.
On a marble tablet in the monument , surmounted by the coat of arms of the clan, there is the following inscription:--
"Sacred to the memory of Colonel DUNCAN MACPHERSON of Bleaton, who died at Kingussie the l2th day of December 1810, aged 75 years; and his wife, MARGARET MACPHERSON, who died 6th November 1808, aged 66, and daughter of the late EWEN MACPHERSON, Esq. of Cluny, and Chief of Clan Chattan. This monument was erected by their youngest and only surviving son, Colonel ROBERT BARCLAY MACPHERSON, C.B. and K.H."
The Colonel Duncan Macpherson mentioned in the two last-quoted inscriptions was the "Captain Duncan M'Pherson of his Majesty's late 89th Regiment" referred to in the foresaid memorial. The estate of Bleaton, says Mr Fraser-Mackintosh, which Colonel Duncan possessed as early at least as 1786, "is a small property in Perthshire at the foot of Glenshee; but when he acquired it, and when it was parted with, I do not know. He was also proprietor of Gask and of Flichity, both in Strathnairn; but his affairs became embarrassed, and both were sold." It would appear that he had some intention of purchasing a portion of the Gordon property in the parish of Kingussie. Before he finally settled there, where he died in 1810, we find him writing in 1804 to Mr Tod, the Duke of Gordon's factor at the time, the following letter:--
"AVIEMORE, 14th March 1804.
DEAR SIR, -- Mrs Macpherson and I went up lately to look at your property in Kingussie, with which we were so much pleased that I do certainly flatter myself with the hopes of deriving (if I live) much comfort from it. The only thing that distresses me is the want of a few tenants to cast and assist in bringing home my peats; where I can find such aid I cannot with propriety say. Strone is the only place that occurs, and would answer my purpose. But I do not feel myself inclined to interfere directly or indirectly with the worthy lady who at present holds it off the Duke, unless there are other offerers for the place. I therefore request the favour of you to acquaint me if there are one or more bidders for Strone and the Glen, as I shall be determined by a report you are pleased to make me on the part of the Duke of Gordon.--- I am, dear sir, your most obedient and most humble servant,
Dn. M'PHERSON.
"WM. TOD, Esq."
Colonel (latterly General) Robert Barclay Macpherson (the son of Colonel Duncan), by whom the monument was erected, and whose remains are also interred here, was born at Breakachy in 1774, and died at Stirling on 30th December 1858, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. He entered the army as ensign in the 88th Regiment, Connaught Rangers, 3d June 1795, saw much service in the West and East Indies and South America, and commanded the first battalion of his regiment at Vittoria and Pyrenees, Orthes and Toulouse, and went to Canada in 1814. In 1815 he received the gold clasps for Vittoria and Orthes, with silver medal and clasps for the Pyrenees, Niville, and Nive; in June 1854 he attained the rank of Lieutenant-General, and on the 11th of February 1857 obtained the colonelcy of his own regiment. A great grandson of Simon, Lord Lovat, and grandson of Cluny of the '45, "the lamented General's sympathies were strongly with the brave Highlanders of Scotland, and since 1819 a resident near Stirling, he always spoke of the Highlands as his home. Quiet and unobtrusive in his manners, those who knew him most liked him best; his noble qualities endeared him to every acquaintance. A good man who died full of years and honours. His remains were removed to the Highlands for interment in the burial-place of the Breakachy family at Kingussie, of which he was the last lineal descendant." 18
Within the enclosure there are also interred the remains of Marjory the sister (who is stated to have died about 1820) and of her daughter Margaret the niece of Colonel Duncan Macpherson, styled of Bleaton. Mr Fraser Mackintosh recently erected a very chaste and appropriate tombstone in memory both of the mother and daughter, with the following inscription:--
Stewart's Highlands and Highlanders, secons series, 1860, 276.
"In memory of MARJORY MACPHERSON of Breakachy, spouse of EDWARD MACKINTOSH, seventh of Borlum; and MARGARET MACKINTOSH, their only child, married firstly to ANGUS MACEDWARD, Kerrow; secondly, to JOHN MACPHERSON, Gallovie; and died without issue at Gallovie, 7th December 1840, aged 68. Erected 1892."
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Duncan married Margaret MacPherson, daughter of Ewan MacPherson and Janet Fraser. (Margaret MacPherson was born after 1742 and died on 6 Nov 1808.)
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