Barbecue, North Carolina

Iain Beutan (John Bethune), a native of Glenelg and ancestor of actor Christopher Plummer, who, around 1773, famously persuaded poet Iain mac Mhurchaidh, a major figure in Scottish Gaelic literature, to emigrate from Kintail to the Colony of North Carolina.

[2] As in other Gaelic-speaking communities in North Carolina, early Reformed worship at the Barbecue Presbyterian Church continued the 16th-century practice of congregational singing of exclusive psalmody in Scottish Gaelic, in an a cappella form called precenting the line.

Beutan sided with King George III at the outbreak of the American Revolution and served as a Loyalist military chaplain during what was later dubbed, "the Insurrection of Clan Donald."

Bethune was taken prisoner by Patriot militia following the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge on 28 February 1776 and was imprisoned in Philadelphia with the other Loyalist officers.

Bethune ultimately settled among his fellow Gaels at Williamstown, in Glengarry County, Ontario, where he organized the first Presbyterian Church in Upper Canada.