A direct descendant of the Trotter killed at Flodden fought for John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee at the Battle of Killiecrankie in 1689. His grandson was the Reverend Robert Trotter who was a distinguished academic who produced a work on the life of Christ and the Apostles. The work is still considered standard reading in many theology colleges. Dr John Trotter continued the family's Jacobite sympathies and treated wounded Scots soldiers returning from England.