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 receive their 200-acre Lochiel lots.
 `Big' Alexander's was lot 33, conc. 7 at present
-day Laggan, and Archie 'King's' was lot 17, conc.
+day Laggan, and Archie 'King's' was lot 17, conc. 6, west of Dalkeith, later known as Spring Creek
+Farm.
+Another reason for Archie's nickname was
+likely his role as overseer for the construction
+of Glengarry's first road, the King's Road. His
+abilities as a leader were recognized soon after
+he arrived on the Glengarry frontier. and he was
+named roadmaster to supervise the construction of
+the first all-weather road across the province. The
+military and service road, called the King's Road,
+was a major undertaking for the time, providing
+military defence, economic and social development
+as a postal route, and a market road necessary for
+settlers to transport their goods to gristmills and
+markets.
+As the King's Road roadmaster, Archie. 'King'
+lived at lot 1, conc. 7, Charlottenburg. Before
+the migration, Archie had remarried in Scotland,
+taking Catherine McIntosh as his bride. Their five
+children, Murdoch, Flora, Donald (the second
+son of the same name), John, and Mary, were
+all baptized in Glengarry by Rev. John Bethune
+spanning the years 1795 to 1803.
+In 1810, Archie `King' was re-assigned to oversee
+the construction of a military road, the present-day
+Hwy. 34, from Lancaster to Alexandria. Soon, later
+in 1812, Archie 'King,' then around 56 years of age,
+was called up for duty With the Glengarry Regiment
+of Militia where he served as the company's senior
+non-commissioned officer.
+Archie 'King' and his son Donald cleared their
+land at lot 17, conc. 6, in Loehiel, first erecting
+a log cabin in 1797, and in 1830 raising a large comfortable log home set on a stone foundation
+just west of the original cabin.
+The extra space was needed — Donald married
+Mary McMillan and they proceeded to have 11
+children. Donald and Mary's fourth son Donald,
+`Dan King' (1833-1919) took over the farm.
+Donald married Catherine McIntosh, and the next
+heir to the farm, their son Archibald King, known
+As _Archie 'King of the creek,' married Cassie
+McMaster. Their only son Donald 'Archie King'
+married Ruth McGillivray in 1929. The couple had
+three children, Evelyn, Anne and Garry.
+Faith was an important guiding light in the lives
+of the Archibald `King' McGillivray family. Rev.
+Bethune baptized the children and the family
+worshipped regularly in the home until 1822 when
+a wood frame church, later replaced by The stone
+St. Columba's, was erected at Kirk Hill.
+In the McGillivray home, the large family Bible
+occupied pride of place and family readings were
+common. Like other settler families in the area, the
+"Auld Kirk," and later St. Columba, maintained the
+connections between the family's Scottish identity
+and their Church of Scotland faith.
+Today, Archie 'King's' great-great-great-grand-
+daughter, Anne MacGillivray, lives in her
+ancestor's 1810 log home, and her brother Garry
+owns the original lot's back 75 acres. Spring Creek,
+fed by springs, still runs through the property,
+dropping 20 feet in elevation. The original 'King'
+property remains as farmland.