Davidson

The accompanying text in 'The Clans of the Scottish Highlands' by James Logan begins as follows: "CLANN DHAIBHIDH - THE DAVIDSONS There seems to be no traditional knowledge of the individual from whom the patronymic of this clan is derived. He bore a scriptural name, and 'the offspring of David' became numerous and powerful in Badenach, where their possessions lay. If little be known of their more remote history, they distinguished themselves throughout the fourteenth century by the protracted and sanguinary feuds which they maintained with such bravery and determination, that they were almost exterminated before they could be effectually suppressed."