Career
Born in 1755 Macpherson was the illegitimate son of the Jacobite rebel and exile Ewen MacPherson of Cluny chief of the Clan Macpherson and grandson of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel a Scottish highland chieftain and the 17th Chief of Clan Cameron. Given the unproductive lands of Gaskmore, Macpherson join the British army in 1775 to fight against the American Revolutionaries. After being commissioned into the 71st Foot Macpherson became a lieutenant in the 4th battalion of New Jersey Volunteers.
He fought with his regiment at Staten Island and New York where he was based for most of the war.
He returned to Scotland in 1783 where he raised a company of clansmen from his father"s lands to fight in the British army called the Cluny Volunteers. In 1807 Macpherson was given command of Fort Kingston in Ontario where he served with distinction during the American Invasion of 1812.
