“On 12 June 1767 Lachlan made his will and his cousin John also made his first will a few months later in December 1767. Lachlan left his estate to is cousins John and William Macgillivray. Only in case the intent of the will “cannot, by rules of law go in a manner as I have herein before given and bequeathed, “ the estate would be divided among his many relations in america and Scotland. his son Alexander was only one of the many relations mentioned. His Indian wife Sehoy was not mentioned, nor his two daughters Sophia and Jeanette.

Ref; Of the "Wind Clan" AKA. Sehoy Hatall .
Her first husband was either Malcolm McPherson or a Chief of the Tucabachee, and had a daughter from this union--Sehoy III, who became the mother of the great William " Red Eagle" Weatherford.
Alt. Marriage date; 1738
http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1473672&id=I103491

Sehoy MCGILLIVRAY

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Author:  Suzanne Gorey
Date:  25 Jan 2003 6:37 AM GMT

 
Surnames:  MCGILLIVRAY

 
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Would like to get in touch with other descendants of Alexander McGillivray, a Creek (Muskokee) Indian. There seems to be an incredible amount of misinformation circulating on the Internet about his family. For one thing, the Sehoy who married Lachlan McGillivray was not half white, and she was not the daughter of Georges Marchand.

Georges Marchand was the commander of the French garrison at Mobile. Technically, Fort Toulouse, Alabama, was under his jurisdiction, but there is no evidence whatsoever that he ever visited it during his stay in what is now Alabama, much less that he was there long enough to court and marry an Indian girl. Nor was he killed in a mutiny. There was some sort of disturbance at Ft. Toulouse that could have been called a mutiny, but no one was killed, and Marchand was not there at the time. I have citations from well-documented histories if anyone is interested.

Sehoy I, if you want to call her that, was married to a full-blood Creek. His name was "The Runner." She was NOT a "princess," as there was no such thing in Creek society. There is no documentation that she was of the Wind Clan. The Wind Clan was the creme-de-la-creme of Creek society, so I guess it is logical to think that a woman who did so much with her life would have been a member of that clan, but it is not documented anywhere.

"Little Tallassee" is not on the Coosa River. It is located on the Tallapoosa River at the site of the present-day town of Tallassee, Alabama, my home town.

I have seen information on the Internet saying that Sehoy, Alexander McGillivray's sister, married a "Tukabatchee" Indian named Eagle Wings. Tukabatchee is a place, not a tribe. There were two Creek villages on opposite sides of the Tallapoosa River from each other. Tukabatchee (translates as something like "wild and incorrect place" in Muskokee) was a "Red," or war town. Talisi ("old place") was a "White," or peace town.

My grandmother was almost a full-blooded Indian and a direct descendant of Alexander McGillivray. I lived with her when I was growing up. I speak Muskokee and can tell you the story behind the name "Sehoy," which is also my Indian name. I was amazed when I saw all these stories about Sehoy circulating on the Internet. They are romantic, and I guess they could be considered sort of fun, but they aren't true. It is hard enough to document your ancestry if you are an Indian person without muddying the water with misinformation, and once this stuff is out there, it tends to be accepted as fact by future generations.

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