One of the most colourful clansman of this era was Sir Aeneas of Invereshie (1644-1705), another alumnus of Marischal College, Aberdeen, who became successively an Edinburgh lawyer and advocate; bailie of Badenoch for the earl of Huntly, grey eminence behind his chief -- Duncan of Cluny -- Sheriff of Aberdeen; courtier at the courts of Charles II and James II; friend of Sir William Penn who in 1685 granted him the 'Manor of Invereshie' in the Quaker Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, an estate that consisted of tens of thousands of acres; and Governor designate of the island of Nevis in the West Indies on the eve of Revolution of 1688. But events prevented him from ever enjoying these emoluments
After the revolution he became one of the principal Jacobite agents in Britain, was imprisoned several times and probably tortured by William III's officials in the Edinburgh Tolbooth prison, and finally found his way to the Jacobite court at St Germains in France. There his daughter, Mary married Sir John MacLean of Duart, a hero of the Battle of Killiecrankie.
The last years of his life were spent in poverty in Edinburgh writing the Loyall Dissuasive, one of the most vivid and zealous documents in the annals of the Clan Macpherson. He died on 28th June 1705 at Killiehuntly in Badenoch, still the hero of his clan. His legacy lies in his writings and in his great genealogical collection The Genealogie of the McPhersons since the Three Brethren, upon which our knowledge of the origin, structure and growth of the Clan is based.