On 14 May, 1752, Colin Campbell, government appointed manager of the Ardsheil estate in nearby Duror, was shot dead on his way to evict Duror's farming tenants. Despite never finding the actual gunman, politicians in London insisted someone must pay. The sacrificial victim was to be James Stewart who, from his Duror home, had been organizing resistance to the dead man's planned evictions. He was arrested and hanged close to the murder scene, his body left suspended there for several years as a grim warning to anyone else thinking of challenging the state. That execution was very much a consequence of the Highland uprising which ended at Culloden in April 1746. Stewart was an officer in a rebel army at Culloden opposed to state-backed repression of the sort inflicted on his community when British troops were sent north to bring highlanders like him to heel.