- Alexander McGillivray
Alexander McGillivray (
December 15 ,1750 –February 17 ,1793 ) was a leader of the Creek (Muscogee) Indians during and after theAmerican 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-Hili-Miko ("Good Child King") at Little Tallassee in
Alabama on theCoosa River . His father,Lachlan McGillivray , was a Scottish trader (of theClan MacGillivray chief's lineage). His mother, Sehoy Marchand, was the daughter ofJean Baptiste Louis DeCourtel Marchand , a French officer atFort Toulouse , and Sehoy, a full-blooded Creek woman of the prestigious Wind Clan. [http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1704986&id=I79039665] Educated inCharleston, South Carolina , where he learned Latin and Greek, McGillivray returned to the Wind clan at the beginning of the American Revolution after Georgia confiscated the property of his loyalist father, who then returned to Scotland.A loyalist like his father, he resented much of American Indian policy, however, did not wish to leave the Untied States. McGillivray became a leading spokesman for all the tribes along the Florida-Georgia border areas. In 1790,
George Washington invited him to attend a conference inNew York City that resulted in theTreaty of New York , an attempt to pacify the Southern frontier. He became a resident of Pensacola and a member of the Masonic Order.ources
* Forman, Carolyn Thomas. [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v007/v007p106.html "Alexander McGillivray, Emperor of the Creeks"] , "Chronicles of Oklahoma" 7:1 (March 1929) 106-120 (retrieved August 18, 2006).
External links
* [http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_021700_mcgillivraya.htm Encyclopedia of North American Indians]
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