Neil MacKinnon
On his appointment he "gave his grite and solemn oathe that he sall treulis, according to his knowledge, give up to the Clerk of Counsell the names of all the Papists whom he knew within the Ilis".[1] By 4 August 1633, when he entered into a contract to foster Iain Breac Macleod of Dunvegan, he had been translated to the parish of Sleat, in which he was confirmed in 1661.[3] He was noted for preaching in full Highland dress "and from the distracted state of the times never went to the pulpit without being fully armed".In October 1651, the Synod appointed him "twelve bolls victual out of the vacancies of Kintyre", partly as an acknowledgment of his work in translating the Shorter Catechism into Gaelic, and partly on account of "his great necessitie and penurie".They had five sons, including Donald, who served for a period from 1675 as minister of the united parishes of Strath and Sleat.