1. Caledonian Mercury, 21 April 1724.
2. Robert Heron, Observations made in a Journey through the Western Counties of Scotland (Perth, 1793), vol. II, p. 27.
3. Cited in Alistair Livingston, ‘The Galloway Levellers’, unpublished M.Phil. thesis by research, University of Glasgow, 2009, p. 61. Mr Livingston’s work is a mine of useful information on this subject.
4. Cited in Alistair Livingston, ‘Galloway Levellers – 1724’, p. 11, http://westlandwhig.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/galloway-levellers-events-of-1724.html.
5. Ibid.
6. W. Prevost, ‘Letters Reporting the Rising of the Levellers in 1724’, Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 3rd series, vol. 44 (1967), p. 200.
7. Cited in Peter Aitchison and Andrew Cassell, eds., The Lowland Clearances (East Linton, 2003), p. 44.
8. Prevost, ‘Letters Reporting the Rising of the Levellers’, p. 196.
9. Caledonian Mercury, 2 June 1724.
10. Ibid., 16 June 1724.
11. Cited in Ian L. Donnachie and Innes MacLeod, Old Galloway (Newton Abbott, 1974), pp. 59–60.
12. Ibid., p. 57.
13. Cited in Livingston, ‘Galloway Levellers’, p. 69.
14. Comment by Christopher A. Whatley, cited in Aitchison and Cassell, Lowland Clearances, p. 50.