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 were the origin of the gallant 42d regiment long known by the name of the ‘Highland Watch.’ Rob Roy’s birth, as a gentleman, and his respectable connections, when he attained to manhood, procured him access to the first families, and admission into the best company in the country. He formed a matrimonial engagement with a daughter of M‘Gregor of Comar, a woman of an agreeable temper and domestic habits, active and economical in the management of her family. But she took no part in the predatory concerns of her husband, except on one occasion, afterwards mentioned.

Rob was not possessed of any patrimonial property, but became master of the estate of Craigcroston, in the following manner,—‘When M‘Gregor of M‘Gregor, was driven from his possessions in Glenorchy, by the Campbell’s, he bought the Lands of Inversnait and Craigcrostan, then of small value, though of considerable boundaries, extending from the head of Loch Lomond, twelve miles along its eastern border, and stretching far into the interior of the country, and partly around the base of stupendous Ben Lomond. On the death of his chief, in 1693, he left his property to a natural brother, who was