As a result of his Jesuit beliefs, Farquharson was variously imprisoned and exiled, moving among Inverness, Douai, France, and the Netherlands, oftentimes with his community. A Gaelic poem by him, Rabhadh MhicShimidh (‘Warning to Lord Lovat’), is extant; he also "transcribed a volume of Gaelic poetry, mostly Ossianic, from oral sources, which was left at Douai and later maltreated and destroyed" (DNB). Like Edward Evan, Farquharson is an example of a poet in the Celtic bardic tradition whose work was not published/well-preserved in print.