Patrick Grant of Muckerach, afterwards of Rothiemurchus. In 1570 he received from his father a charter of the lands of Muckerach and others, and before 26 April 1572 he must have received the lands of Rothiemurchus, as in the charter by Colin Mackenzie of Kintail to his sister Barbara Grant of that date he is designated "of Rothiemurchus" and on 26 December 1580, upon his own resignation, he received another charter of the same lands, in which he is designated "of Rothiemurchus". In 1610 he obtained a grant of the lands of Hempriggs in the barony of Kinloss to him and his spouse Jean Gordon. He died after 20 August 1623, on which date he was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the shires of Inverness and Cromarty. He married Jean Gordon, said to have been a daughter of the Laird of Gight, and was the progenitor of the Grants of Rothiemurchus. The second family of Grants of Ballindalloch, now Macpherson Grant, are cadets of Rothiemurchus.
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