Bohuntine

The first tacksman of Bohuntine, Iain Dubh MacDhòmhnaill, was born illegitimately during the early 16th-century to Ranald, the 7th Chief of Clan MacDonald of Keppoch, and a weaver woman from Clan Cameron whose name does not survive. Her father, however, was Lachuinn Mòr Mac a' Bhàird ("Big Lachuinn, son of the Poet"). For this reason, Iain Dubh's descendants were referred to as Sliochd an Taighe ("The Family of the Household") and as Sliochd na Ban-fhigich ("The Family of the Weaver-Woman"). After they fought for Prince Charles Edward Stuart during the Jacobite rising of 1745, the two sons of the Tacksman were sold into indentured servitude in the Carolinas as punishment for having taken…