Loyalists and their descendants from the MacLeod emigration have left their marks upon the Glengarry scene.
Archie 'King' named a second son Donald in April 1799, so the first born on Mull had likely died by then, but sister Ann wed Duncan MacMillan(1782-1841) in January 1809 while wintering at her father's assigned Lochiel lot. Rev. John Bethune recorded this happy event, as he had also done for Archie and Catherine's baptisms, at St. Andrew's Church, in Williamstown. Duncan's half-brother, Donald 'Cairbh' MacMillan (1766-1854), like Duncan, had emigrated from Lochaber's Glenpeanbeg to Lochiel Township in 1794. In 1810 my ancestors Ann and Duncan bought Lot 25.6th Lochiel from Alexander 'Cooper' MacMillan (c1750-1817), a Loyalist from Johnson's Kortright Patent, NY. In 1797 Donald 'Cairbh' wed Sus(h)annah McMillan (c1776-1859), daughter of Catherine (MacDonell) and Donald McMillan (UEL). Their ten children all married, including sons 'Long' Donald and 'Big' Angus who were succeeded by large MacMillan dynasties.
The only son of Ann (McGillivray) and Duncan MacMillan, became known as 'Duncan the Hook' MacMillan (c1819-1896) when he lost his right arm at age 28 in a threshing accident. He married Ellen MacLeod (1828-1907), a daughter of Alasdair, Kenyon Township, and they settled on his father's Lochiel S½Lot 25.6th, where they had 11 children. With a hook he “could chop wood, plough, mow, and was considered the best teamster in the county.” Latterly he carried the mail- between Kirkhill and Alexandria. “He was a very congenial spirit, one of the good old stock, always kind, generous and neighborly ….” There were 120 carriages in his funeral procession — one of the largest ever held at St. Columba Church.^xi
Ann and Duncan's daughter Catherine MacMillan (1815-1866) married John Munro (1794-18664), an emigrant blacksmith from Ross-shire, Scotland. They were wed at Breadalbane, Lochiel, in December 1834, with her uncle Old John 'King' as a witness, who was to receive his father's 30-acre Lot 1.7 Charlottenburgh in October 1835. The other 170-acre section of this lot north of the King's Road was sold in 1840 to lawyer, later Ontario's first premier, John Sandfield Macdonald for £190 or $950 then. (In 1834 Archie 'King' sought extra land and Loyalist status, but officials stalled two years only to deny his claim in 1836. About 80 that fall, Archie deeded most of his Lochiel lot to son, Donald 'King' McGillivray (1799-1877).
After their first child was born, John Munro set up his smithy at MacGillivray Bridge, Charlottenburgh, midway between Martintown and Williamstown. Blacksmiths, like coopers, were important to pioneers of that era. My great grandfather, Duncan Monroe (1842-1936) was the second son born at MacGillivray Bridge in a family of ten. After junior school there he lived with his maternal grandmother Ann and learned Gaelic in upper grades at Kirkhill, but quit school at 14 to clerk in a store at Buckingham, Quebec, for seven years, where he learned French. Settling in Cornwall he was store clerk for 13 years with ex-mayor, Wm. Mattice. He then opened an insurance business which expanded across ten counties in Ontario and Quebec. After 30 years he was “famous as the Insurance King of Eastern Ontario ….” For over 60 years after he died his old firm retained his name. He was a Dunvegan Volunteers during the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870; he received a medal and 160 acres of now profitable bush land near New Liskeard, Ontario.
Archie's son, Donald 'King' McGillivray (1799-1877), was pioneering on Lot 17.6th Lochiel when he wed Mary MacMillan (1804-1884) in March 1822. She was a sister of