Identity: the Antiguan genealogy names him as Dr Daniel Mackinnon of Dickenson’s Bay, Antigua, second son of Lacklin More Mackinnon, chieftain of the clan. Chiefly tradition often calls the emigrant Donald, while the Antiguan family record uses Daniel. For our map, he is the branch founder: the man through whom the Antigua family later reconnects to the chiefship.

Colonial activity: Daniel was established at Dickenson’s Bay, sat in the Antiguan legislature, and represented St John’s in the Assembly convened on the twenty-second of May, seventeen hundred and ten. The source calls him one of the most influential men of his day, which places him not as a marginal migrant but as a serious Antiguan planter-politician. Family continuation: Daniel married Alice Thomas, daughter of William Thomas of Antigua. Their children included William, Charles and Elizabeth. This matters because the line that later becomes chiefly runs through William, while the family also intermarried with other major Antiguan and West Indian families, including Thomas, Yeamans, Frye, Carlisle and Payne connections.

Plantation reality: the later estate record shows Mackinnon’s Estate in Antigua as a slave-worked plantation with hundreds of enslaved people recorded across the early nineteenth century. UCL lists totals of two hundred and ninety-three enslaved people in eighteen hundred and seventeen, two hundred and seventy-seven in eighteen hundred and twenty-one, two hundred and seventy-eight in eighteen hundred and twenty-four, two hundred and seventy-one in eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and two hundred and seventy-six in eighteen hundred and thirty-two.

Named enslaved testimony: Juncho, an elderly woman formerly enslaved on McKinnon’s estate, gives the strongest surviving human testimony we have so far. She described cane-hole digging, weeding cane, picking grass, being forced away from a sick child, and watching a child tied by the hands to a tree or stretched on the ground while the driver whipped him. This is not abstract “plantation ownership”; it is coercive field labour, family separation, punishment, and maternal helplessness under plantation discipline.

Identity: William Alexander Mackinnon was born on the second of August, seventeen hundred and eighty-four, in Dauphiné, France, and died on the thirtieth of April, eighteen hundred and seventy. UCL identifies him as politician, landowner, Tory MP, chief of Clan Mackinnon, and claimant or beneficiary in British slave compensation records.

Chiefship and inheritance: he became chief in eighteen hundred and nine after the death of his grandfather William Mackinnon. UCL says he inherited the estates, was already wealthy from his father’s West Indian success, and used some of his money to buy back Mackinnon lands in Scotland. That is a key line for our map: colonial wealth helped restore a Highland chiefly identity after the old Scottish patrimony had been lost.

Slavery compensation: Mackinnon’s Estate was the subject of Antigua claim number thirty-five. The claim, dated the tenth of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, covered two hundred and seventy-six enslaved people and a total award of three thousand nine hundred and forty-two pounds, two shillings and one penny. The award was split among several parties, with Call and Mackinnon receiving two thousand three hundred and seven pounds, thirteen shillings and seven pence.

Public life: he sat in Parliament for Dunwich, Lymington and Rye, and UCL also records him as connected with the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Asiatic Society, the RSPCA, and the Colonization Commission for South Australia. This gives him the classic nineteenth-century imperial gentleman profile: politics, learned societies, colonisation, estate wealth and moral reform language existing alongside direct benefit from slavery compensation.

Slavery silence: in the records found so far, he appears as an owner, inheritor and compensation beneficiary, not as an anti-slavery figure. The contrast is sharp because the UCL profile preserves his animal-welfare associations, but the same record anchors him to compensation for enslaved people on Mackinnon’s Estate.

Identity: Francis Alexander Mackinnon was born on the ninth of April, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and died on the twenty-seventh of February, nineteen hundred and forty-seven. He became thirty-fifth chief after his father’s death in nineteen hundred and three, so we should correct the working table: his start date is nineteen hundred and three, not nineteen hundred and forty.

Public profile: he is remembered less as a planter descendant and more as a late Victorian and Edwardian gentleman: cricketer, Kent figure, Cambridge man, justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant. He played one Test for England in the eighteen seventy-eight to eighteen seventy-nine tour of Australia, which gives him a public sporting identity almost completely detached from the Antiguan estate history.

Legacy: his long life creates a massive memory bridge. He was born only fourteen years after emancipation in Antigua and died after the Second World War, yet the public story around him is cricket, county status and chiefly continuity, not the enslaved people whose labour helped build the branch’s wealth.

Identity: Alasdair Neil Hood Mackinnon, often appearing as Neil Mackinnon of Mackinnon, was born in nineteen hundred and twenty-six, became thirty-seventh chief in nineteen hundred and sixty-four, and died in nineteen hundred and eighty.

Clan society role: during the late nineteen seventies, as the old United Kingdom society had declined, Neil gave permission for the formation of the North American society. By nineteen hundred and eighty, Clan MacKinnon Society of North America was constituted. This makes him central to the diaspora revival of the clan. Legacy: he represents the transition from chiefly descent as a British landed identity into chiefly descent as a global diaspora identity. Again, the public frame is Scottish roots, society-building and clan fellowship, not a deep reckoning with the Antigua branch’s plantation past.