“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.

“The Colonial powers used the Indian trade for political purposes in addition to its economic contribution to England. It very quickly dominated the Indian way of life and when they became dependent on the trade by the middle of the 18th century, their ultimate fate was cast. Trade brought on debts by the Indians who could only pay those debts with commodity most wanted by the settlers—land. With the trade brought traders who lived in the Creek country, married Indian women and fathered many half-bloods. These half-bloods went on to become the leaders and chiefs as three destiny more and more intertwined with the colonial nations.”232

As the Creek Indians became more dependent on the trade goods of the “white man” their winter hunts also became less productive as game became more scarce. The devastating Creek Wars of 1813-1814 and 1836 left the Creeks almost destitute. The trade was almost dead; they could not remain in one place long enough to raise a crop; land speculators settlers, and the militia continually harassed them, until the frantic Indians, under sever duress and threat, finally agreed to emigrate in 1838 to Indian Territory.”232

Ref; The Creek Families 2 -- The McGillivrays -- http.//homepages.roots.com/~cmamcrk4/crkm2.html
A Scottish trader out of Charleston, S. C. , At 16yrs. of age he ranaway from Dunmanglass, Scotland and took passage for Charleston, S. C. arriving 1735.
Ref; " The Muscogees or Creek Indians, from 1519 to 1839
Ref; The McGillivary Family and Others of Alabama.
Became the boldest and most enterprising trader in the whole country. From commerce to Ft. Toulouse in the Miskogee or Creek Nation.
In Wetumpka, Alabama he found a beautiful girl name of Sehoy Marchand, her mother being a full-blooded Creek woman, of the "Wind Family" and joined in marriage.
Lachlan may have had a sister - Margaret McGillivray
In 1782, nearly 40 years in the wilderness , because of his loyality to the Crown, Lachlan was forced to return to Scotland at the end of the Revolutionary War.
A perspective of the prominent McGillivray family of Dunmaglas, Scottish Highlands, states Lachlan was a business man who came to the New World to engage in the fur trading business, not the runaway as told in the story.
Title: World Family Tree Vol. 3, Ed. 1
Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc.
Publication: Release date: February 9, 1996
Note: Customer pedigree.
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Family Archive CD
Page: Tree #5553
Text: Date of Import: 27 Jan 1999

Author: James Albert Pickett
Title: History of Alabama
Publication: 1851, Republished in 1962 by Birmingham Book and Magazine Co.
Text: Several pages of stories about Chs Weatherford, William Weatherford, Sehoy, David Tate, Alexander McGillivay
Repository:
Name: Jared Jones Personal Library

D: I2641
Name: Lachlan MCGUILLIVRAY 1
Sex: M
Birth: 1719 in Drumnaglass, Inverneshire, Scotland 1
Death: AFT. 1787 in Isle of Skye, Scotland 1
Note:
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Two stories are told of Lachlan McGuillivray. One tells of a sixteen year old
Scotch boy who ran away from his parents at Dunmanglass, Scotland and took
passage for America. He arrived in Charleston, SC with naught but a shilling in his
pocket, a suit of clothes, a stout frame, an honest heart, a fearless disposition and
cheerful spirits. He went with a group of traders to the Indian territory, met and
married Sehoy II, and within a few years was a very wealthy trader. He and Sehoy
lived in Little Tallassee in AL. In 1782, after nearly 40 years in the Wilderness, he
was forced to return to Scotland because of his loyalty to England during the
Revolutionary War.
Another story says that he was not the penniless youth, but came to this country
to seek a fortune to replenish that which was lacking in his Clan back in Scotland.
His marriage to Sehoy was not recognized by his family because it wasn't perform-
med under English law.
Another story says that he didn't live with Sehoy much but lived chiefly at Mount
Royals, his plantation in SC.


http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=maryt&id=I2641

Lachland was a Loyalist, when fighting erupted at Lexington and Concord, he left for Scotland.

Father: William "Captain Ban" McGillivray b: AFT 1681
Mother: Janet Mackintosh b: in Kyllachy, Scotland

Name: Lachlan MACGILLIVRAY
Sex: M
Birth: ABT. 1719 in Dunmaglass, Iverness, Scotland
Death: 16 NOV 1799 in Dunmaglass,Iverness, Scotland
LDS Baptism: 7 OCT 1724 Dunmaglass, Iverness County, Scotland
Note:
He sailed for South Carolina in 1735, on the ship "Prince of Wales"out of Iverness, Scotland, which arrived in Tybee Roads off Savannah January 10, 1736. He became an Indian Trader and went among the Creeks in what is now Georgia and Alabama. He married Sehoy Marchand who was the daughter of Captain Jean Baptist Marchand and his wife, Kogee or Sehoy, a woman of the Wind Clan in the Creek Indian Nation. He sided with the British during the Rev. War and at the end all his property was confiscated by the US and he returned to Dunmaglass, Scotland in 1782, where he lived untill his death

The McGillivray family belonged to the Muskogees of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Country and not connected to the Creeks in Georgia. Lachlan owned the "Vale Royal Plantation" located just outside Savannah, Georgia containing approximately 1,000 acres. He also owned approximately 281 acres, part of an island located just off shore from Savannah named Hutchinson's Island.

Lachlan could not adjust to the Indian custom of the wife governing the family
and in 1756 he became a permanent resident of Georgia. In March 1857 he was elected Justice of the Peace of the districts of Halifax and Augusta, and in 1768 was elected to the Georgia General Assembly. He was also Commissioner of Roars in 1780. By petitioning the Council over the years , Lachlan finally became the owner of 100 acres in Augusta, many acres in Hardwicke, 500 acres on the Little Ogeechee River and eight lots in Savannah and Augusta. All in all he had accumulated over 7,000 acres of land and 49 slaves. After returning to InvernessScotland, Lachlan was known as Lachlan Lia (grey lachlan).


Father: William MACGILLIVRAY , Capt. b: UNKNOWN in Dunmaglass, Scotland
Mother: Janet MACINTOSH b: UNKNOWN in Kyllachy

Marriage 1Sehoy MARCHAND b: BEF. 1722 in Hickory Ground, Creek Indian Nation (Now Al.)
Married: ABT. 1745 in Creek Indian Nation (Now Alabama)