GRANT, James 'an Tuim'
User ID: Q54 General Notes: "James Grant, the famous Strathspey freebooter, commonly called James an Tuim. In a decreet obtained against him by John Grant of Ballindalloch, on 4th August 1632, be is designed brother to the deceased Patrick Grant of Carron. Ballindalloch complained that James Grant and others were harrying his lands, and committing slaughter. He was for some time the terror of Strathspey, but, being taken, was conveyed to Edinburgh, and imprisoned in the castle. He escaped from thence, and fled to Ireland; but in a letter from John Hay to the Laird of Grant in 1635, he is said to have returned from Ireland. He committed several depredations and murders, and a new summons was issued for his capture on 14th April 1636, in which the fact of his escape from Edinburgh Castle, and his supposed concealment in the house of the Tutor of Carron, are stated. A commission was granted by George Marquis of Huntly, on 9th November 1639, to James Grant of Carron, for the apprehension of John Due Garre and his complices, and he afterwards assisted the Marquis against the Covenanters. James Grant had an illegitimate son, George, who engaged in the desperate undertakings of his father, and, being taken, was executed in Edinburgh in June 1636." |