Siol Alpin

[3] In the discussions, which lasted fourteen days, it was agreed that if the proscription against the surname MacGregor could be reversed then the new clan would take that name, otherwise MacAlpin of Grant would then be used.

[6] The payment of the calp was a significant custom in Gaelic society; giving one's best animal to the person acknowledged as his Chief).

[9] Following the failed Jacobite rising of 1715, Iain Dubh, chief of Clan MacKinnon, lost his lands under the Act of Attainder.

[10] The author, Charles MacKinnon, claims that there can be no reason that a chief, so far removed from the Isle of Skye, bought another clan's lands and then gave them back - other than a belief in common ancestry.

[13] While the slogan of Clan MacKinnon is Cuimhnich bas Alpein (translation from Gaelic: "Remember the death of Alpin").