THE HISTORY of THE ZANGERL & ALLIED FAMILIES
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Name: ALEXANDER MCGILLIVRAY
Given Name: ALEXANDER
Surname: McGILLIVRAY
Sex: M
Birth: 15 Dec 1750 in Creek Village, Little Tallassee, on Coosa River, Alabama
Death: 17 Feb 1793 in Pensacola, Florida
Title: GENERAL
Birth: 15 Dec 1750 in Creek Nation 2
Death: in Buried with Masonic Honors
Death: Wft Est. 1751-1840 1
Death: 17 Feb 1793 in Pensacola, Florida 2
Event: Fact Unknown Bet. 1770 - 1793 Chief of the Creek Nation for twenty-three years, 1770 to 1793 4
Event: Fact Unknown Was of a taciturn nature (speaking little) unless in engaged in conversation.
Event: Fact Unknown 1790 Sent out by Washington from New York to the Creek Nation in Alabama (see pg. 7. of the Dr. M.E. Tarvin' Book).
Burial: Feb 1793 The Garden of William Panton, in the city of Pensacola. 5
Event: Military status Unknown 1790 Made a Brigadier General by President George Washington, with full pay of that office.
Event: Education Man of towering intellect and vast information.
Event: Cause of Death (Facts Pg) Unknown Feb 1793 Inflamed Lungs and stomach troubles.
Note:
REFN: 6361
Excerpt taken from Tarvin Lifeline Newsletter - Vol XV - Apr 2000 No.
1 - pg 4.
written by Dr. Marion Elisha Tarvin
John Tate's wife was Sehoy McGillivray , a sister of the noted
General Alexander, principal chief of the Creeks from 1770 to his death
in 1793, whose family history is very closely interwoven with that of
Alabama."
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Combined Matches: 1
Name: Alexander "Hoboi Hili Miko" McGilllivray
Birth Date: 1759
Birth Place: Creek Village, Little Tallassee, Alabama
Death Date: 1793
Death Place: Pensacola, Florida
Marriage Date
Marriage Place
Spouse
Father: Lachlan McGillivray
Mother: Sehoy Marchand
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Search Terms: MCGILLIVRAY (15), ALEXANDER (11166)
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Surname Given Name Maiden Name Birthdate Birthplace
Biographical Info Reference
MCGILLIVRAY, Alexander
Coweta Co. Chronicles
with lineage pages. By
Mary Gibson Jones [et
al.] Atlanta, Ga, 1928.
(14, 869p.):11-13
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Search Terms: MCGILLIVRAY (1), ALEXANDER (683)
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Combined Matches: 1
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable
Americans: Volume IX
Robertson, John
ROBERTSON, James, pioneer, was born in Brunswick county, Va.,
June 28, 1742; of Scotch-Irish descent. In 1750 his parents removed to
Wake county, N.C., where he worked on his father's farm,and was married
in 1767 to Charlotte Reeves (1751–1843) of Virginia. Having joined Daniel
Boone's third expedition across the Allegheny mountains in 1769, he came
upon a valley in the present Watauga county, N.C., which he conjectured
was a part of Virginia, and which seemed to him a feasible location for a
settlement. Accordingly he planted corn; returned home, and in the spring
of 1770 conducted sixteen families to the valley, where they continued to
prosper, although, as it subsequently appeared, they had taken
possession of land belonging to the Cherokees, form whom they were
obliged to obtain a lease. In 1772 Capt. John Sevier (q.v.) of Virginia joined the
settlement, and in 1776 the fort which he had built was attacked by the
Indians under their chief, Oconostota, aided by the British. During the
siege of twenty days that followed Robertson served as lieutenant under
Sevier, and with a force of forty men they succeeded in driving off the
assailants. For his conduct in this affair Lieutenant Robertson was
appointed by the governor of North Carolina to defend Watauga county
against further assaults from Oconostota. On Dec. 25, 1779, he made a
second settlement on the present site of Nashville, Tenn., which was soon
augmented by the Watauga settlers under Sevier, Robertson acting as civil
and military bead of the combined forces, 256 in number. These, however,
were soon greatly reduced by the attacks of the Indians, desertion and
starvations, and the 134 remaining threatened to abandon the settlement.
Robertson sought out Daniel Boone in Kentucky, from whom he obtained
ammunition. On April 2, 1781, he defended the fort of Nashville against
1,000 Indians, in which attack he would have been killed save for the
heroic intervention of his wife. He subsequently succeeded in thwarting
the British control of the Choctaws and Chickasaws, and effected terms of
peace with the Cherokees.

From 1784 until 1796 he was compelled to
defend his settlement against ALEXANDER McGILL


Father: LACHLAN MCGILLIVRAY b: Abt. 1719 in Dunmanglass, Scotland
Mother: SEHOY II MARCHAND b: Abt. 1722 in Ft. Toulouse, Alabama

Marriage 1VICEY CORNELLS
Note: REFN37539
Marriage 2W\o Alexander MCGILLIVRAY b: Abt. 1740
Married: Abt. 1770 in Creek Nation 2
Note: REFN37541
Children
Peggy MCGILLIVRAY b: Abt. 1771 in Creek Nation
Lizzie MCGILLIVRAY b: Abt. 1772 in Creek Nation

Marriage 3ELISE JANIE MONIAC
Note: REFN37540
Children
ALEXANDER, JR. MCGILLIVRAY b: 8 May 1780 in Alabama
ELIZABETH MCGILLIVRAY
MARGARET MCGILLIVRAY

Marriage 4Vicey CORNELLS b: Abt. 1745 in Creek Nation
Married: Abt. 1773 in Creek Nation 2
Note: REFN37546

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Repository:
Author: Dr. Marion Elisha Tarvin
Title: PACKET of INFORMATION from DOROTHY TARVIN GIBSON
Publication: Pg. of Muscogee & Creek Indians - 1519 -
Note: Excellent
Repository:

Page: Pg. 3
Author: Dr. Marion Elisha Tarvin
Title: PACKET of INFORMATION from DOROTHY TARVIN GIBSON
Publication: Pg. of Muscogee & Creek Indians - 1519 -
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Author: Dorothy Tarvin Gibson, Membership Secretary, Tarvin Family Association.
Title: PACKET of INFORMATION sent to the Zangerl Family from DOROTHY TARVIN GIBSON

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As described by Dr. Marion Elisha Tarvin: "Gen. McGillivray was six feet high, remarkably erect in person and carriage, and a charming entertainer. He had a bold and lofty head; his eyes were dark and piercing and he was often spoken of and looked upon with admiration. His fingers were long and tapering, and he wielded a pen with great rapidtity. His face was handsome and indicative of quick thought and much sagacity. Unless interested in conversation he was disposed to be taciturn, but he was always polite and respectful. When a British Colonel he dressed in British uniform, and when in the Spanish service lie wore the military dress of that country. When George Washington appointed him Brigadier General he sometimes wore the uniform of the American Army, but never In the presence of the Spaniards. Pickett calls him the "Talleyrand of the South".

Alexander McGillivray
Born: 12/15/1750, in Little Tulsa, Elmore, AL, according to Lachlan McGillivray's will, which was written in GA; Married: 2nd-about 1779 in Otciapofa, Elmore, AL; Died: 2/17/1793 in Pensacola, FL while visiting on business and staying with William Panton. Alexander McGillivray is buried somewhere there in the garden of Panton's home. See the obituary, from Gentlemen's Magazine, and also see the letter Panton wrote to Lachlan McGillivray.
Parents: Sehoy II and Lachlan McGillivray
LifeNotes: Born into the Wind Clan of the Creeks, he was sent to school in Charleston, SC under the tutelege of his father's cousin Rev. Farquhar McGillivray. His sister Sophie also was sent to school in Charleston; she didn't stay as long as Alexander. Alexander mastered of Latin, and Greek and grew to be a man. He missed his family and his home in the Wild. He was needed by his people and they let him know. So Alexander decided to return west.
From Dr. Marion Elisha Tarvin: "About this time the Chiefs of the Creeks were getting into trouble with the people of Georgia, and with anxiety they awaited the time when Alexander HoGillivrey could, by his descent from the Wind family, assume the affairs of their government, His arrival was most opportune. The first time we bear of him after he left Charleston, was of his presiding at a grand national Council at the town of Coweta upon the Chattahoochie, where the adventurous Leclerc Milfort of France was introduced to him; he was at this time about thirty years of age, and was in great power, for he had already become an object of attention on the part of the British authorities of the Floridas, when Col. Tate, a British officer who was stationed upon the Coosa, had conferred upon Alexander McGillivray the rank and pay of a Colonel, and he and Tate were associated together in the interests of King George. Col. Tate, according to Pickett's history of Alabama, had now become acquainted with the most gifted and remarkable man that was ever born upon the soil of Alabama... " Alexander was made Emperor of the Creeks. He had been away from his people so long that he has lost his Muscogee language; his sister Sophie McGillivray served as his translator. Alexander's greatest desire was that the tribes should unite in a confederacy.
Alexander had a successful plantation at Hickory Ground, near present-day Wetumpka, AL. Was business partners with William Panton of Panton, Leslie & Co., the great trading house in Pensacola. His constant companions were the black hero Paro and the mixed blood David Francis. Alexnader McGillivray did much to further the interests of his people. In the 1790s, Alexander McGillivray went to Philadelphia, PA to receive a special commendation from George Washington.
From Dr. Marion Elisha Tarvin of his great great-uncle Alexander McGillivray: "He was humane and generous to the distressed, whom he always sheltered and protected. He had many noble traits, not the least of which was his unbounded hospitality to friend and foe.He had good houses at the Hickory Grounds and Little Tulsa, also called 'Apple Grove' (his birthplace) where he entertained distinguished government agents and persons traveling through his extensive domain, with ample grounds and all the comforts desirable. He said he prompted the Indians to defend their lands, 'Although I look upon the U.S. as our most natural ally'. He could not but resent the greedy encroachments of the Georgias, to say nothing of their scandalous and illiberal abuse. He also says, 'If congress will form a government southward of the Altamaha, I will be the first to take the oath of allegiance,' This, he said in a letter to his friend Panton at Pensacola, in relation to his treaty with Washington, 'In this do you not see my cause of triumph in bringin these conquerors of the old, and the masters of the New World, as they called themselves, to bond and supplicate for peace at the feet of a people whom shortly before they had despised and marked out for destruction?'"
During the Revolutionary War, Alexander McGillivray was made a Colonel with full pay by Col. John Tait / Tate (who was married to Sehoy III). In 1784, he as Emperor of the Creeks and Seminoles, went to Pensacola to make a treaty with Spain.
On the other hand, the Whigs in Georgia confiscated all Lachlan McGillivray's (Alexander's father) lands and monies, and Lachlan, due to his loyalties to the Crown, was forced to leave his family and flee to Scotland. Alexander and his siblings were thereby deprived of their inheritances.
See some letters of Alexander McGillivray.
At this time, in the late 18th century, Spain held the large trading posts at the port cities of Pensacola, Mobile, St. Augustine and Savannah. The Creeks looked to the Spanish for help.
In 1785 Alexander McGillivray wrote a letter to the Governor of Florida and pleaded with him to urge his King (the Spanish King) to help the Indians; McGillivray reminded the Governor that the "Treaty of Peace between the King of Great Britain and the States of America:" claimed their land and added "declaring that as we determined to pay no attention to the manner to which British navigators has drawn out the lines of the lands in question ceded to the States of America -- it being a notorious fact to the Americans -- known to every person who is in any way conversant in, or acquainted with American affairs, that his Brittainic Majesty was never possessed with, by session, purchase, or by right of conquest to our territories, and which the said Treaty gives away. We have repeatedly warned the states of Carolina and Georgia to desist their encroachments, and to confine themselves within the lands (granted) to Britain in the year 1773. To these remonstrances we have received friendly talks and replys it is true; but while they are addressing us by appellations of FRIENDS and BROTHERS, they are stripping us of our natural rights by depriving us of that inheritance which belonged to our ancestors and hath descended from them to us since the beginnng of time."
In 1790, went to New York to make a treaty with the American government; he received the rank of brigadier general with full pay ($1200 per year, increased to $3500 in 1792).
Read the Treaty with the Creeks 1790, among others, on the Library of Oklahoma web site.
Alexander McGillivray was shrewd and cunning and was a man of affairs, not a military man. He had been a Lt. Colonel in the French Army, a Colonel in the Spanish Army, a Brigadier General in the American Army, with salaries from all. He was recognized as a statesman by Great Britain, America, Spain and France and called Emperor of the Creeks. Clearly he was the last great leader of the Creeks and the only one to be able to hold them together.
As described by Dr. Marion Elisha Tarvin: "Gen. McGillivray was six feet high, remarkably erect in person and carriage, and a charming entertainer. He had a bold and lofty head; his eyes were dark and piercing and he was often spoken of and looked upon with admiration. His fingers were long and tapering, and he wielded a pen with great rapidity. His face was handsome and indicative of quick thought and much sagacity. Unless interested in conversation he was disposed to be taciturn, but he was always polite and respectful. When a British Colonel he dressed in British uniform, and when in the Spanish service lie wore the military dress of that country. When George Washington appointed him Brigadier General he sometimes wore the uniform of the American Army, but never In the presence of the Spaniards. Pickett calls him the "Talleyrand of the South".
Abigail Adams, wife of the vice-president and later president John Adams, remarked when she met McGillivray that he was "much of a gentleman."
In 1792 Alexander McGillivray gave up his home to Captain Oliver, a Frenchman, whom he has so well established in the affections of his people. He then moved to Little River, Baldwin County, AL, where lived many wealthy and intelligent people whose blood was a mixture of white and Indian. This colony had formed at an early period for the benefit of their large stock of cattle.
The account of his death will here be given in the language of the great Scottish merchant William Panton, in, a letter dated Pensacola, 4/10/1794, and addressed to Alexander's father, Lachlan McGillivray, at Dunmanglass, Scotland: "I found him deserted by the British, without pay, without money, without property except sixty negroes and three hundred head of cattle, and he and his Nation threatened with destruction by the Georgians unless they agreed to cede them the better part of their country. I pointed out a mode that succeeded beyond expectations. He died Feb. l7th, 1793, of inflamed lungs, and stomach troubles; no pains no attention was spared to save the life, of my friend, but he breathed his last time in my arms. I had advised, I supported, I pushed him on to be the great man he was. Spaniards and Americans felt his weight, and this enabled him to lead me after him so as to establish this house with more solid privileges than without him. He had three children, now left without father or mother, and with no friends except you and me."
Read a Description by Benjamin Hawkins, 1799, of Hickory Ground, 6 years after the death of Alexander McGillivray (and printed in Swanton's Early History of the Creek Indians)
In 1799, the American government took control of the old Ft. St. Stephens (near York); they established there Ft. Stoddart-- this was a stockade fort with one bastion. There was a large settlement at Tensaw, first settled by Captain John Linder with the help of General McGillivray; here was the first American school and here with John Pierce as teacher, were students with the names of Tait, Weatherford, and Durant; other names were Linder, Mims.
1st-Wife: Elise Moniac (also seen spelled Manaque)
Born, Married, Died: shortly after 1793
Parents: William Dixon Moniac and Polly Colbert
LifeNotes:
Their children were:
• Alexander McGillivray, Jr., born about 1780 in AL. He and David Tate were sent to Inverness College, Scotland, by Panton of Pensacola, Florida.
After his father died (his mother had died shortly before), John Innerarity of London acted as his guardian; Innerarity wrote to Wm. Panton in 1798, about Aleck, "he bids fair to make a good scholar and what is better a good man."
Four years later, in 1802, John Leslie wrote to Forbes that "poor Aleck McGillivray labours under a consumption, " and that the doctor gave the young man only three months to live. Alexander McGillivray, Jr. died there in Scotland.
• Margaret "Peggy" McGillivray, born about 1782 in AL. She was probably named for her aunt Margaret McGillivray. Married 1st-Sam Isaacs (according to Thomas Woodward: "a name that he borrowed from an old trader who died some years back in Lincoln county, Tenn., and who was one of the most cunning, artful scamps I ever saw among the Indians."). Married 2nd-in approximately 1802 in AL to Charles Cornell / Oche Finceco, son of Richard "Dick" Cornell and Sukey Cornells, daughter of Alexander Cornell / Oche Hadjo / Hickory Hadjo and Big Woman / Big Lizzie / Liba. Their daughter: Lizzie Cornells (who married and had a daughter).
• Daughter, born about 1784 in AL.

“Alexander’s will, which was quickly written and witnessed at his death bed, left his property to his children in equal parts. His wives should receive “but little.” His will was taken on 16 February and he asked that Panton and Forbes be the executors.”232

“Alexander had three children by his wife that lived at Little Tallasee. he later had another wife who lived at his home on Little River in Baldwin County. There were no known children from this union.”232

In a letter to Lachlan McGillivray, William Panton wrote:

“Your daughters conduct is unjust and cruel in the extreme but I impute a great part of the business to the Villany of Durant & Weatherford who are their husbands.” Panton asked that Lachlan write “Sophy and Jenny & Sehoy” a letter asking them to at least give up the slaves for the children. The sisters had seized all his property, according to Creek custom, and had paid no attention to Alexander’s will which left everything to his children. The girls lived with their mother’s sister after she died, and later we find them living with their uncle, Sam Moniac, who was probably married to the sister of Alexander’s wife.

“..there is no evidence that Lachlan ever recognized nor offered help to his two granddaughters who were orphans living with their uncle, Sam Moniac The Indian family ties were strong and they supported their relatives in need.”232