The Highlanders of Scotland - Clan Strachan Society

CHAP. VIII] OF SCOTLAND 341
heir/ Malcolm le Grant, probably a descendaiit of Robert, the
younger son of Gregory the Grant. Christina had married
Duncan Fraser, a cadet of the house of Lovat, aftd Fraser,
finding that a peaceable possession of these properties in the
midst of the clan Grant and at a distance from his own chief,
was not to be expected, exchanged the properties in Strathspe}'
with JVIalcolm Grant for that of Stratherrick, which its vicinity
to Lovat rendered the more desirable possession for a Fraser.
In this manner the greater part of Strathspey remained in the
possession of the chief of the Grants, while their original property
went into the family of the Frasers.
After Malcolm we know little of the Grants, until we find
Duncan Grant de eodem at the head of the clan in the middle
of the fifteenth century, and from this period the\- began gradu-
ally to increase in extent of pos.sessions and of power, until
they rose to be a clan of no ordinary importance.
At different periods they acquired Glenmorison, Glenurchart,
and man}' other estates, and continued in the ranks of the
principal clans, until at length the extinction of the noble
family of Finlater added the peerage of Seafield to their former
possessions.
Ar/;is.
Gules, three antique crowns, or.
Cranberry heath.
Principal Seat.
Strathspey.
Oldest Cadet.
The Sliochd Phadrick, or Grants of Tullochgorum, appear to
have been oldest cadets.
Chief.
Grant of Grant, now Earl of Seafield.
Force.
In 1715, 800. In 1745, S50.
Clan Fingon.
Of the history of this clan but little is known ; having
settled at a very early period in the island of Sky, they
became followers of the lords of the Isles, in whose history
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Eobertson's Index.