Christian Findlater depones, that some years before the battle of Culloden, Hugh Mackie, stabler in the Gallowgate of Aberdeen, and James Wilson, stabler there, were employed for taking up boys to be sent to the plantations; and one time she saw the said Hugh Mackie driving a parcel of boys before him down the Gallowgate, with a staff in his hand, and she has seen him chasing boys in at closes.
Depones, she saw some boys looking out at the window of a barn in the Green, and she reckons they were kept there till they should be sent to the plantations; and she heard there were other places in town where boys were kept until they should be sent away.
Depones, that, according to her knowledge and belief some of these boys would have been twelve years of age, others of them thirteen, and some above and some less; and she saw among them 5 lads from the Highlands of the size of men, and women also; and the boys generally strapping boys.
Depones, that she heard one Mr Copland, in Aberdeen, was concerned in employing Hugh Mackie and James Wilson for the above purpose.
