Duncan Stewart

Duncan Stewart was a tailor from Strathbrand, Dunkeld. he was captured at the surrender of Carlisle. At his trial at York, 2nd October 1746, evidence was brought that the district in which he lived could have produced 350 men but only one man came out, that 100 Frasers came down and forced the inhabitants out, and that he was one of them who was taken to Edinburgh.

The other men all deserted, but he did not; and although he once tried to desert at Ashbourne he was subsequently seen in arms at Carlisle. He was sentenced to death but was later reprieved.

Ref:—Scots Mag., Oct. 1746,484 ; S.P.D., 88-42; P.R., 3625-21 ; Baga, lxix. 190.