In the winter of 1662, the judicial records of Bute preserve the case of a man identified primarily through his matrilineal connection: the eldest son of Katharine Moor Frissell. On January 28, 1662, this individual was brought into the sphere of a legal process (C/EGD/1540) that would ultimately lead to his appearance before the Justiciary Court (T/JO/1901). Within the socio-legal landscape of seventeenth-century Scotland, his identification as the son of Katharine Moor highlights the way familial associations were often documented alongside the accused in the archival ledger of the witch trials.
The sparse documentation concerning the eldest son of Katharine Moor reflects the fragmented nature of these historical proceedings, where lives were often distilled into administrative entries. Following his initial recording in January, the transition of his case to the Justiciary Court indicates the gravity with which the authorities regarded the accusations leveled against him. While the specific nature of the charges remains unelaborated in the surviving registers, his case serves as a point of intersection between the local administration of Bute and the centralized legal apparatus of the period, marking his place within the broader history of the 1563–1736 witch trials.