I am trying to discover where the Porter family lived before the Kintyre Plantation by the Duke of Argyll. The Porter family first appeared in Kintyre in the Church records between 1660 and 1668. About this same time William Ralston was establishing his tack for the Duke of Argyll Saddell. James Drummond appears to be the early possor of the lease of Crossibeg Farm. Later William Montgomery and Robert Templeton are believed to have acquired the lease of Crossibeg around 1687. When the first "modern" leases were let in 1729, the Crossibeg lease was given 1/3rd to William Montgomery, 1/3rd to Robert Templeton and 1/3rd tp John and Robert Porter. The Porters had also lived for a time at Smerby and in the late 1700's and early 1800's part of them lived at Baraskomill Farm. My question is this: Ralston, Montgomery, Templeton,McNair,Drummond, Armour, Greenlees and others all seem to have "appeared " in Kintyre about the same time as a result of the "Plantation". CAN ANYONE HAZZARD A GUESS WHERE IN EXACTLY IN AYR OR RENFREW they came from??? All help appreciated. Carl S Porter