The Graham clan of the Debatable Land — the most persistently troublesome of all the Border families — were subjected to forced deportation in 1605 by the Border Commission. Some two hundred Grahams and their dependants were forcibly shipped to serve as soldiers in the Low Countries under the terms of a scheme devised by the commissioners. Those who tried to return were hunted down. The deportation broke the coherence of the Graham clan as a territorial force. Many Grahams eventually returned informally or settled in Ireland under the Plantation, but as a raiding community they were destroyed.
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