 Abt 1719 - 1799 (~ 80 years)
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| Name |
Chief of the Tuckabachee Lachlan McGillivray |
| Title |
Chief of the Tuckabachee |
| Nickname |
Liath |
| Born |
Abt 1719 |
Dunmaglas, Strath Nairn, Inverness, Scotland  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
16 Nov 1799 |
Isle of Skye, Scotland |
| Person ID |
I616715240 |
Eby/Aebi and Bernethy Family |
| Last Modified |
3 Mar 2013 |
| Father |
William McGillivray, b. Aft 1681, d. Apr 1734, Nairn, Scotland (Age ~ 52 years) |
| Mother |
Janet McKintosh, b. Abt 1695, Glen Kyllachy, Woodside (Farr), Scotland , d. 1878, Inverness, Scotland (Age ~ 183 years) |
| Married |
9 Feb 1714 |
Dunmaglass, Valley River Nairn, Scotland |
| Family ID |
F546692465 |
Group Sheet |
| Family |
Sehoy II Marchand, b. Apr 1722, Wetumpka, Elmore County, Alabama , d. 1799, Alabama (Age ~ 76 years) |
| Married |
1740 |
Wetumpka, Elmore County, Alabama |
| Notes |
Married:
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 about Lachlan Mcgillivray
Name: Lachlan Mcgillivray
Gender: Male
Birth Place: SC
Birth Year: 1719
Spouse Name: Sehoyi II Windclan
Spouse Birth Year: 1722
Marriage
Year: 1740
Number Pages: 1
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| Children |
| + | 1. Sophia McGillivray, b. Abt 1741, Coosa River, Elmore County, Alabama , d. Aft 1799 (Age ~ 59 years) |
| + | 2. Jennett McGillivray, b. Abt 1742, Coosa River, Elmore County, Alabama |
| | 3. Elizabeth McGillivray, b. Abt 1744, Elmore County, Alabama , d. Unknown, Died In Childbirth |
| + | 4. Alexander McGillivray, Sr, b. 15 Dec 1750, Coosa River, Elmore County, Alabama , d. 17 Feb 1793, Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida (Age 42 years) |
| | 5. Sehoy McGillivray, III, b. 1759, Coosa River, Elmore County, Alabama , d. 1811, Baldwin County, Alabama (Age 52 years) |
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| Last Modified |
3 Mar 2013 |
| Family ID |
F546595688 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
- Frances Thornton Smiths book:
Frances has a copy of a letter from Robert McGillivray of Edinburgh Scotland telling that lachlans fahter had been murdered and his mother had died. This tragedy had promted him to run away from home.
It was around 1735 that we read in Pickett's "History of Alabama" where he tells us:
"A Scottish boy, of sixteen years of age, who had entered a ship in Dunmaglass and had arrived without accident at the Port of Charlston." It was here that he set foot upon American soil.
Pickett goes on toe descibe him for us:
"He only had a shilling in his pocket, a suit of cloths upon his back, a red head, a stout frame, and honest heart, a fearless disposition, and cheerful spirits, which seldom became depressed."
Lachlan had come to this country around 1735 and was able to get along with everyone. He had lived in the forest with the Indians and he had enjoyed his life. He had been happily married and had raised five children here. They were all grown and married and had children of their own. Heartache and strife came to them and it does everyone.
His amily in Scotland has always fought for the King of England. Lachlan had uncles who gave their lives in the battles of Culloden. When the Revolutionary War started he helped the British with supplies. The people, up until that time, had truly been free. However, the Indians resented the white people from the outside, coming in and taking their land. lachlan McGillivray was called a Tory.
The state of Georgia had put Lachlan on the top of the list of Loyalists who were to be killed. He, at that time, deeded his land to his children and left what money he could before going back to Scotland. By this time Sehoy had passed.
Peter A Brannon wrote in a newspaper article on August 2, 1931. "It was during the siege of Savannah in 1792 that Sophia, her husband and little boy, Lachlan Durant, went with her father to say good-bye. When the city surrendered to the Americans, she said good-bye to her father through a flood of tears. Lachlan sailed back to Scotland with the British soldiers."
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Information here based on the work of Joan Case, William Bell, Steve Travis and Woodrow Wallace, among others, who have graciously shared their material:
From Dr. Marion Elisha Tarvin's "The Muscogees or Creek Indians, from 1519 to 1893-- also an Account of The McGillivray Family and Others of Alabama": "Lachlan McGillivray, a Scotch boy of sixteen summers, had read of the wonders of America. He ran away from his parents at Dunmanglass, Scotland, and took passage for Charleston, S.C., arriving there safely in 1735, with no property but a shilling in his pocket, a suit of clothes, a stout frame, an honest heart, a fearless disposition and cheerful spirits. About this period the English were conducting an extensive commerce with the Muscogees, Cherokees and Chickasaws. McGillivray went to the extensive quarters of the packhorse traders in the suburbs of Charleston; there he saw hundreds of packhorses, pack-saddles and men ready to start to the wilderness. The keen eyes of the traders fell on this smart Scotch boy, who, they saw would be useful to them.
"Arriving at the Chatahoochie his master, as a reward for his activity and accommodating spirit, gave him a jack-knife which he sold in Charleston on his return. The proceeds of this adventure laid the foundation of a large fortune. In a few years he became the boldest and most enterprising trader in the whole country. He extended his commerce to Ft. Toulouse in the Muskogee or Creek nation. At the Hickory Grounds a few miles above the fort, at the present town of Wetumpka, Alabama, he found a beautiful girl by the name of Sehoy Marchand, of whose father we have already given an account. Her mother, was a full-blooded Creek woman of the Wind family. Sehoy when first seen by Lachlan McGillivray was a maiden of sixteen, cheerful in countenance, bewitching in looks and graceful in form. It was not long before Lachlan and Sehoy joined their destinies in marriage. The husband established a trading house Little Tulsa, four miles above Wetulmpka, on the east bank of the Coosa, and then took home his beautiful wife." Dr. Tarvin was Sehoy's great-great grandson through David Tate and his manuscript has proven invaluable for providing familiy ties (many thanks to Joan Case for this contribution).
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From Woodrow Wallace: In America the McGillivray Clan was fur traders, a very lucrative business in those days. The Dunmaglas Estates in the Scottish Highlands had fallen on bad times, since the Battle of Culloden, in which the McGillivrays were participants on the side of the Stuarts, who lost to the present English first family. Another branch of the McGillivrays were commissioned from the king in the fur trading business in Canada and around the Great Lakes. Lachlan and Lt Col John were commissioned for the Southeastern Indians. Lachlan with the Creeks, and I think also the Cherokees. Lt Col John McGillivray was a prominent citizen of Mobile as well as being the Indian Agent duing the British tenure (1765-1780). Lachlan and Lt Col John McGillivray never married but fathered children by Indians, who were not recognized in the family because there was no recognized marriages by British law. Lachlan was practically forced to recognize his son Alexander and remember him in his 1762 will, because of his prominence and practical acceptance of him in Georgia. No mention is made of Sophia and Jeaanette, although Sophia was very much attached to her father.
The history of the McGillivray Indian descendants is not considered in the history of the McGillivrays of the Scottish Highlands.
Woodrow Wallace points out that from the perspective of the prominent McGillivray family of Dunmaglas in the Scottish Highlands, Lachlan's story is not of the poor lad of sixteen first appearing in Charleston, but of a business man who came to the New World to engage in the fur trading business. That contradicts the colorful Pickett story of a 16 year old runaway coming to Charleston and making it rich.
The trader James Adair who lived among the Creeks admired Lachlan McGillivray and also George Galphin. He felt very strongly that either one of them should be the Superintendant of Indian Affairs for the English. He writes on page 393 of "Adairs history of the American Indians by Samuel Cole Williams LL.D Editor, (Prommontory Press, New York) First published in 1930 by Colonial Dames of America and dedicated to "Hon. Colonel George Craghan, George Galphin and Lachlan McGillivray Esquires": "There might be introduced even among the Indian I have described, a spirit of industry, in cultivating such roduction as would agree with their land and climates; esecially if the superintendantcy of our Indian afairs, westward, was conferred on the sensible public-spirited and judicious Mr. George Galphn, merchant, or Lachlan Mcgillivray, Esq. of equal merit. Every Indian trader knows from long experience , that both of these gentlemen have a greater influence over the dangerous Muskohge, than any others besides. And the security of Georgia requires one or the other of them speedily to superintend our Indian affairs. It was chiefly the skillful management of these worthy patriots, which prevented the Muskohge from joining the Cherokee, according to treaty, against us in the year 1760 and 1761. -- to their great experience and hazard of life..."
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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Lachlan Macgilivray
Name: Lachlan Macgilivray
Year: 1735-1736
Age: 16
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1719
Place: Georgia
Source Publication Code: 1322
Primary Immigrant: Macgilivray, Lachlan
Annotation: From a manuscript volume in the University of Georgia Library. Covers 3,000 immigrants to Georgia, 1732-1742, with much information. The 1967 edition contains item no. 1312 as well. See also no. 3388.
Source Bibliography: COULTER, ELLIS MERTON, AND ALBERT B. SAYE, editors A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1949. 2nd ed., 1967. 111p.
Page: 83
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