The Breadalbane estate papers confirm that some ‘warnings off’ or evictions were taking place on the Braes of Lorn and Netherlorn in the 1720s and 1730s, a generation or more before major clearances began elsewhere in the Highlands. Not surprisingly, therefore, in the 1730s, there came the first significant emigrations in response to these new ways. Small parties left from Argyll, Sutherland and the central Highlands to Georgia and the Carolinas across the Atlantic.
