Rodney MacFergus was born in Lochearnhead, Scotland. He was an carpenter anda soldier. After being recruited as a Watcher, he was assigned the Immortal Alistair Wallace from 1809 to 1813.
Thereafter, he was assigned to Duncan MacLeod, following him to the New World. In 1818, in Fort Anthony in the western territories of the US, he met a woman he wanted to marry and having "...found peace and happiness at last..." tendered his resignation. He retired in 1818