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Macdonald, Flora 1722-90
Scottish Jacobite heroine
Born in South Uist in the Hebrides, she was adopted by Lady Clanranald. After the Battle of Culloden (1746) which finally broke the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, she took the Young Pretender, Charles Edward Stuart, disguised as her maid 'Betty Burke', from Benbecula to Portree. In 1750 she married the son of Macdonald of Kingsburgh, where in 1773 she entertained Dr Johnson. In 1774 she emigrated to North Carolina with her husband, who fought in the American Revolution. She returned to Scotland in 1779, followed by her husband two years later, and they settled at Kingsburgh.
Bibliography: Alexander MacGregor, Life of Flora MacDonald (1882)
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