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	McGillivray, Alexander. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He was born in the Creek country now within the borders of the state of Alabama, the son of Lachlan McGillivray, a Scots trader, and Sehoy Marchand, his French-Creek wife.
		McGillivray, an intelligent diplomat, accepted, meanwhile assuring Spanish authorities of his loyalty, and was well received.
		McGillivray himself accepted a brigadier generalcy and a yearly pension.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mc/McGilliv.html (305 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Lachlan McGillivray (1719-1799)
		McGillivray joined a company led by his relative, Archibald McGillivray, and obtained a license to trade in several villages in the Upper Creek country on the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers, in present-day Alabama.
		McGillivray enhanced his status by marrying Sehoy Marchand, the daughter of a French officer and a woman of the prestigious Wind Clan of the Creek Nation.
		McGillivray and Galphin were largely instrumental in persuading the Creeks to come to Augusta in 1763 to cede a strip of land between the Savannah and Ogeechee rivers to Georgia.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1030 (997 words)

	Alexander McGillivray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander McGillivray (1750 – 17 February 1793) was a leader of the Creek (Muscogee) Indians during and after the American Revolution who worked to establish a Creek national identity and centralized leadership as a means of resisting American expansion onto Creek territory.
		McGillivray was born Hoboi-Hilr-Miko at Little Tallassie in Alabama on the Coosa River.
		"Alexander McGillivray, Emperor of the Creeks" from "Chronicles of Oklahoma" (1929)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_McGillivray (231 words)

	ALEXANDER McGILLIVRAY - LoveToKnow Article on ALEXANDER McGILLIVRAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		South Carolina, McGillivray received a good education, but at the age of seventeen, after a short experience as a merchant in Savannah and Pensacola, he returned to the Muscogee Indians, who elected him chief.
		In order to serve Indian interests he played off British, Spanish and American interests against one another, but before he died he saw that he was fighting in a losing cause, and, changing his policy, endeavoured to provide for the training of the Muscogees in the white mans civilization.
		McGillivray was polished in manners, of cultivated intellect, was a shrewd merchant, and a successful speculator; but he had many savage traits, being noted for his treachery, craftiness and love of barbaric display.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MG/McGILLIVRAY_ALEXANDER.htm (1765 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Alexander McGillivray (ca. 1750-1793)
		A controversial Creek Indian leader in the 1780s and 1790s, Alexander McGillivray was one of many Southeastern Indians with a Native American mother and European father.
		McGillivray was born probably in 1750 in Little Tallassee near present-day Montgomery, Alabama.
		McGillivray used his connections as the nephew of Red Shoes, the Koasati leader, and his control of trade goods to weaken his opposition.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-690&pid=s-42 (732 words)

	Chronicles of Oklahoma
		Alexander McGillivray has been described as the most gifted man ever born on the soil of Alabama by a man who was a noted soldier, prolific historian, and president of the United States.
		McGillivray had great influence at this time and he was approached by the British through Colonel Tait who was stationed on the Coosa; bestowing on the chief the rank and pay of a British colonel they hoped to secure the aid of the Creek Nation in the conflict against the rebellious Americans.
		McGillivray was not of a robust constitution and while he led several expeditions during the war his particular ability lay in his great gift of diplomacy and his power to control men, and raise forces for the king.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /Chronicles/v007/v007p106.html (4822 words)

	Alexander McGillivray - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Alexander McGillivray (1750 – 17 February 1793) was a leader of the Creek Indians people during and after the American Revolution.
		McGillivray, whose mother was a half-French Creek and father was a Scottish trader, worked to establish a Creek national identity and centralized leadership as a means of resisting American expansion onto Creek territory.
		"Alexander McGillivray, Emperor of the Creeks" from "Chronicles of Oklahoma" (1929) (http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v007/v007p106.html)
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Alexander_McGillivray (120 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Magazine
		Alexander’s childhood was a peculiar mixture of red and white.
		McGillivray was sure to learn of this, and the Spanish feared that he might transfer his loyalty to the Americans in the belief that an Anglo-Spanish war would cut off his source of supply and leave him helpless against the Georgians.
		McGillivray was made an honorary member of the St. Andrews Society, an organization of true Scotsmen, and- most amazing of all—the Creek chieftain ate at the same table with the somewhat uncomfortable senators and representatives of Georgia.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1975/6/1975_6_28.shtml (7351 words)

	Creek Indian Chiefs and Leaders
		McGillivray is first heard of in his new role as "presiding at a grand national council at the town of Coweta, upon the Chattahoochie, where the adventurous Leclerc Milfort was introduced to him" (Pickett, Hist.
		The versatile character of McGillivray was perhaps due in part to the fact that there flowed in his veins the blood of four different nationalities.
		Another wife, the mother of his son Alexander and two daughters, died shortly before or soon after her husband's death, Feb. 17, 1793, at Pensacola, Fla. He was buried with Masonic honors in the garden of William Panton, his partner.
	www.accessgenealogy.com /native/tribes/creek/creekchiefs.htm (1424 words)

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		Alexander McGillivray, chief of the Creek Nation, and have the pleasure to announce that a majority of them, a few moments since, arrived at this place, and that, without delay, they shall be ready to proceed to business.
		McGillivray on the subjects of our negotiation, at the camp of the Indians, on the evening of the 21st, and at the quarters of the commissioners, the 22nd, where Mr.
		McGillivray, and the day was employed by the commissioners in completing the draught of a treaty, and other communications to be laid before the great council of the nation.
	www.gbl.indiana.edu /archives/dockett_317/317_36b.html (2273 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -McGILLIVRAY, ALEXANDER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		McGillivray contended that the Creeks would have to achieve an unprecedented degree of unity if they were to maintain their autonomy.
		McGillivray spurned the federal government's efforts to force the Creeks to recognize the treaties with Georgia.
		McGillivray received a salary of twelve hundred dollars and a commission as a brigadier general in the U.S. Army.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_058100_mcgillivraya.htm (505 words)

	Alexander McGillivray Biography / Biography of Alexander McGillivray Biography Biography
		Alexander McGillivray lived until the age of 14 at his father's trading post on the Tallapoosa River.
		After the war, McGillivray's alliance with British traders in Spanish Florida against the Americans was of great importance, for, at his mother's death, the council chose him as their tribal leader.
		McGillivray's goal was to form an alliance of southern Indians and use aid from England and Spain to force the United States to withdraw from Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-alexander-mcgillivray/index.html (534 words)

	Year 2000: The Series, Week 16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Alexander McGillivray was one of the major figures among the Creek Indians, a loosely structured society of 20,000 that stretched across the present-day states of Georgia and Alabama.
		He was the son of a Scottish merchant and an Indian woman and was educated in Charleston, S.C. McGillivray stood to profit from several secret provisions in the 1790 treaty, including one that made him a brigadier general and awarded him an annual pension of $1,200.
		McGillivray was accustomed to an expensive lifestyle — he owned a plantation, complete with slaves, on the Coosa River.
	www.savannahnow.com /features/150years/week16 (700 words)

	Alexander McGillivray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		McGILLIVRAY, Alexander, Indian chief, born in the Creek nation in 1740; died in Pensacola, Florida, 17 February, 1793.
		His father was Lachland McGillivray, of Dunmaglas, Scotland, his mother a half-breed Creek princess of the influential Wind family, whose father had been a French officer of Spanish descent.
		McGillivray was a curious compound of the wild savage and the educated white man. He indulged in a plurality of wives, and had a barbarian's delight in tinsel splendor; yet he had scholarly tastes, and an intellect so keen as to be a match in diplomacy for the ablest statesman.
	www.famousamericans.net /alexandermcgillivray (788 words)

	The Creek Stories 2
		McGillivray's mother was not the daughter of a Frenchman or French soldier.
		I knew Alexander McGillivray's children well; his daughter Peggy was the wife of Charles Cornels, and died before Cornels hung himself.
		Vicey Cornells, the second daughter of Joe Cornells, married Alexander McGillivray; and after he died, she married Zach McGirth, and raised several daughters--one married Vardy Jolly, one Ned James, one Aleck Moniac, one Bill Crabtree, and the youngest, Sarah, went to Arkansas.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~cmamcrk4/crkst2.html (1806 words)

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		But always understood her to be a full Indian, and the mother of Tate and Weatherford to b.e a half-breed, and the most interesting woman in the nation of her time.
		Alexander and (not James Alexander) all Indian fighters and frontiermen -- knew McGillivray well and all spoke of him and admitted him to be a man of great natural sense, but never learned from any of them that he was an educated man.
		The idea of McGillivray, (with the learning you give him,) suffering himself dubbed General, in a government where the organic law of the land prohibited his being a citizen, is as absurd as any thing can be.
	jrshelby.com /creek/woodward21jun.htm (2013 words)

	The Creek Families 2
		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.
		Alexander and his siblings were thereby deprived of their inheritances.
		Alexander McGillivray was shrewd and cunning and was a man of affairs, not a military man. He had been a Lt.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~cmamcrk4/crkfm2.html (3286 words)

	A Royal Procession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week, arrived in town from the southward, thirty chiefs and warriors of the Southern tribes of Indians on their way to the seat of the general government of the United States.
		The names of these chiefs are, Quo is McCaa, king of the Talisees--Opai McCaa, his son--Samariack, brother in law to McGillivray, an orator and young warrior--Ochipovia, a brave warrior--Tang, a young chief of distinguished courage and conduct in the field--Newmgenstonagi, about 30 years of age; celebrated for having 37 scalps, all his own conquests.
		ALEXANDER McGILLIVRAY, EMPEROR OF THE CREEKS from The Chronicles of Oklahoma
	www.historypoint.org /columns2.asp?column_id=793&column_type=dispatch (600 words)

	Indian Treaties with Georgia
		This extraordinary man was the son of Lachlan McGillivray, an enterprising Scotsman of good family, trading among the Indians, and of Sehoy Marchand, a beautiful half-breed Creek girl, whose mother was of the tribe of the Wind, the most powerful and influential family in the Creek nation.
		When the Revolutionary war broke out, Alexander McGillivray received the rank and pay of a colonel in the British service, and during the whole of that eventful period remained, like his father, a firm and devoted loyalist; often acting in concert with McGirth and his Florida rangers, in harassing the frontiers of Georgia.
		Leaving Graison's, the party, accompanied by McGillivray and his servant, arrived on the 4th of May at the Hickory ground-a portion of the Creek territory, which the Indians considered holy-where there was a large town, and in it one of the residences of the chief.
	www.georgiagenealogy.org /history/indian_treaties_with_georgia.htm (2509 words)

	Works cited
		Caughey, McGillivray of the Creeks, 15; Carolyn T. Forman, "Alexander McGillivray Emperor of the Creeks," Chronicles of Oklahoma, VII (March 1929), 107-108: Pickett History of Alabama, 419.
		Tarvin, The Muscogee Creek Indians, 129; Caughey, McGillivray of the Creeks, 66,100; Donnell, Alexander McGillivray." 174.
		Caughey, McGillivray of the Creeks, 25; Whitaker, "Alexander McGillivray, 1783-1789," 189.
	www.weatherfordenterprises.com /alexanderworkscited.html (682 words)

	MacGillivray Family
		John Loynachan McGillivray born September 24, 1850 in Lachute and died February 14, 1927 and is buried in Lachute, Quebec, Canada.
		John McGillivray was killed in a railroad crossing accident in the city of Staples on February 13, 1893 and of his children, only Alex still resides in Todd county.
		Alexander McGillivray, son of John and Mary, was born at Port Arthur, Canada, on January 28, 1874, and was a little boy of five years at the time the family settled on the homestead in Staples township.
	rootie.geeknet.com /mac.html (2506 words)

	ALEXANDERMcGILLIVRAY
		McGillivray, Alexander (1759-1793) Principal Chief of the Creek Indians: McGillivray was of mixed Creek and European ancestry.
		His father, Lachlan, was well-connected in the trade with Native Americans, allowing Alexander McGillivray to move comfortably in Savannah circles and in the world of Creek civilization.
		A powerful presence for Creeks in the southern frontier, McGullivray served his mother's people until the end of his life, and his death left a vacuum in leadership that was never adequately filled.
	www.multied.com /Bio/RevoltBIOS/McGillivaryTimothy.html (219 words)

	Alabama Review: McGillivray and McIntosh Traders on the Old Southwest Frontier, 1716-1815, The
		The bewildering array of McGillivrays and McIntoshes in the records of the southern colonial frontier has confused generations of historians who have attempted to sort out one Scot from another.
		Amos Wright does not attempt to interpret the significance of the McGillivrays and McIntoshes in the larger scheme of things, nor does he place his characters in a political, social, or economic context.
		Wright asserts that no direct evidence exists to suggest that Alexander McGillivray of Charlestown was brother to Lachlan the trader, despite the fact that Lachlan was reported to have gone to Charlestown in 1758 to visit his brother (p.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3880/is_200201/ai_n9045530 (890 words)

	hist1213
		McGillivray led a pro-British faction, while the Tallassee King and the Fat King were in support of the Americans.
		McGillivray's support came from the Upper Towns but he was undermined by the Lower Towns who had closer contact with Augusta and Charleston.
		The attempt of Alexander McGillivray to unite the Creeks into a centralized force at the end of the eighteenth century was counter to the traditional government and world view of the Creeks, or Muskogees.
	nativenewsonline.org /history/hist1213.html (1825 words)

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		He was the natural father of Sehoya, or Schoy McPherson, and she was the mother of Davy Tate and Billy Weatherford was a sister to Alexander McGillivray.
		I never knew McGillivray, but I think I know his true character as well as any now living, and better than many that knew him when living, as I have mingled much with both whites and Indians that knew him well.
		McGirth; she was McGillivray's last wife; spoke good English, -- from none of these did I ever learn that he was a scholar.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/tcnigal3.html (7687 words)

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