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Facts and Events
| Name |
Capt. William Cleland |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death? |
1685 |
Muirdyke |
References
- Cleland, John Burton. The ancient family of Cleland: being an account of the Clelands of that ilk in the county of Lanark; of the branches of Faskine, Monkland, etc.; and of others of the name. (London: Hicks, Wilkinson and Sears, 1905)
Pages 77, 78.
6th GENERATION.
(a) James Cleland (190) of Faskine.
In 1675, James Cleland of Faskine is named heir of his father, James Cleland of Faskine. (Inquisitionem ad Gapellum Domini Regi Retornatarum.) In 1676, "the deceased James Cleland, elder, of Faskine, and James Cleland, younger feir theirof," are mentioned. (Comm. Glasgow.)
(b) In 1678, William Cleland (191) of Faskine is named heir of his brother James. (Idem.) "William Cleiveland," in "Acts of Privy Council," 14th May, 1678, is appointed lieutenant of a troop of Dragoons. Commissioner of Supply for Lanark, 1685. (Thomson.)
Captain William Cleland is mentioned in " Wodrow " as being an officer in the Royal Army, opposed to Argyle in his rebellion of 1685, and was killed in a skirmish at Muirdyke by Sir John Cochrane. (See "Memoirs of Veitch," p. 328.)
Commission by the lords of his Majesty's Privy Council to various persons to search for and bring to trial heritors and others suspected guilty of rebellion. Commissioner for Clydesdale, Captain William Cleland of Foscane, 1683. His troop sent to Ayrshire, 1684, 80 prisoners carried from Dumfries to Peebles under a guard of three troops of dragoons, commanded by Captain Cleland, 1684. (Wodrow.)
- Patrick Hogue (Samples). The Samples / Semples Family.
Sir John Cochrane was the son of William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald and Eupheme Scott. He married Margaret Strickland, daughter of Sir William Strickland, 1st Bt. and Margaret Cholmley, in March 1656. He died after 23 June 1707. He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Ayrshire [Scotland] in 1669. In 1683 he was suspected of complicity in the Rye House Plot, and fled to Holland. In 1685 he returned to Scotland and took part in Argyll's uprising. Sir John and his son took refuge in the house of his uncle, Gavin Cochrane of Craigmuir, whose wife Margaret Cleland was the sister of Captain Cleland, killed at Muirdykes, and out of revenge she betrayed them to the royalists, and they were conveyed to the Tolbooth of Edinburgh. He was imprisoned and his lands confiscated. In 1690 he was restored to his estates. He lived at Ochiltree, Scotland.
*Descendants of JOHN, of Dundonald, of Paisley, Scotland, who went over to Ulster in the north of Ireland circa 1680 - 1684, or before, with three of his sons: HUGH, JOHN, and JAMES, believing they would be free to follow their faith in the Presbyterian church. But this was not to be. They were not allowed to worship openly and their marriages were not honored unless done in the State Church. They were taxed heavily and had no rights in government. So they fled Ireland to save their wealth, if not their lives, and came to America, very likely before 1720. Before 1724 COCHRANS first settled on the Susquehanna river, then the frontier. Scotch Irish fighters served as a shield to Penn's Quakers.
- Anderson, William. The Scottish nation, or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. (Edinburgh: A. Fullarton, 1867-1868)
Vol. 2, Page 100.
Sir John and his son took refuge in the house of his uncle, Gavin Cochrane of Craigmuir, whose wife Margaret Cleland was the sister of Captain Cleland, killed at Muirdykes, and out of revenge she betrayed them to the royalists, and they were conveyed to the Tolbooth of Edinburgh.
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