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|f_annotation='''BLACK JOCK O' SKELLATER.'''  Scottish, Reel (cut time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Black Jock o' Skellater" was composed by Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer and dancing master [[wikipedia:James_Scott_Skinner]] (1843-1927). <span>Skellater House sits at the base of Lonach Hill and overlooks the River Don four miles from Strathson, Aberdeenshire. It was built in 1727 for Lachlan Forbes of Edinglassie, and remained in the hands of the Forbes family until the beginning of the 19th century, when it was sold. In Skinner's time Skellater was occasionally occupied during the shooting season, and then was used for hay storage. 
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Skinner's title perhaps references John Forbes (1666-1716) of Invernan (a part of Skellater), known as "Black Jock," who came out as a Jacobite in 1715.  His daughter, Christian, married her cousin, George Forbes, 4th of Skellater.  Black Jock was wounded at the indecisive battle of Sheriffmuir and captured, then marched to Carlisle to be imprisoned awaiting trial.  He was subsequently condemned by died in prison, some say the day before the date fixed for his execution. 
|f_printed_sources=R. J. MacDonald ('''Collection of Reels & Strathspeys as collected from the MacIntosh, Morrison and Lowe Collections. Second Book'''), 1958. Skinner ('''Miller o' Hirn Collection'''), 1881; No. 87, p. 45.
|f_recorded_sources=Atholl Brose AB 003-D, Ron Gonnella - "The Scottish Sound of Ron Gonnella Playing a Stradivarius" (1984).
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