A question more easily answered than those posed before is -- Where did the Macphersons go? Some were able to acquire more arable farms in other parts of Scotland. Others were able to attend the university and fill positions in schoolrooms and pulpits in Ireland as well as Scotland before 1700 while commerce, war, and the law attracted still more. Edinburgh and London replaced Inverness, Perth and Aberdeen as the Meccas of the clan's expatriates. Others found success in Holland, France, Spain and Russia among other lands.

      The first clansmen to reach the colonies in the New World were probably Royalist prisoners taken at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650 and the Battle of Worcester in 1651 and transported by Cromwell to Boston in New England and to Barbados in the West Indies, whence some managed to reach Virginia. Prisoners of the 'Fifteen and Forty-five' Risings were also transported to the American colonies ad West Indies as indentured labour. Others came to America as indentured servants voluntarily and later as family groups in sponsored settlement schemes. In the late 18th and mid 19th centuries their destinations included Africa, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South America and South Asia. Others travelled to these places as government administrators in the rapidly growing British Empire. Still others went as religious missionaries.

      These clanfolk heralded a movement that during the last three and a half centuries has carried the name into the farthest frontiers of the earth and has imprinted it on the map from the Great Dividing Range of eastern Australia to the Mackenzie Delta in the Canadian Arctic. While today few Macpherson families remain in Badenoch, Macphersons are on record in most corners of the British Commonwealth and in almost all of the 3,000 counties of the United States. Some have ancestors who have played a part in many of the great events of the English-speaking world, while others are descended from men who pioneered the forests and grasslands of new lands overseas and helped to establish many new nations.

      Panel 39 and the others that line the north hall of the Museum display the names, portraits and accomplishments of some of the Macphersons that chose to leave Badenoch "In Service to their Nations." And in their hearts and dreams they carried the spirit of Badenoch with them.