Memory still niggles that the recruiters when they made a trawl of the highlands were only able to recruit 42 inferior men at a period before the 1743 mutiny mentioned by Lighter. My memory seems to have been mixing up two distinct events when I recalled the name of Farquar Shaw as beimg involved in the incident that lead to this boycott of the recruiters.
Could I have the story of the failure from Grants Deeside Tales?, a book I loaned to a sassenach some 50 years back and have not seen since, Des, if you are still to the fore and are reading this, please return my book.