 When Government troops were sent to Skye the baronet then fled to North Uist.In April 1716, the baronet offered to surrender himself in term of the recently passed Act of Parliament, pleading that he was not healthy enough to travel to Inverlochy to surrender in person as the act required.However, when he failed to appear he was found guilty of high treason, and his estates were accordingly forfeited (however his titled does not appear to have been forfeited).