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MacLeod Settlement: In 1793 some forty families,
including members of several clans, emigrated from
Glenelg, Scotland, under the leadership of Alexander
MacLeod and landed at St. John's Island (now PEI) The
following year they came to Glengarry County and
petitioned for land. In August, 1794 the majority were
authorized to occupy 200 Acres each in the vicinity of
Kirkhill, which was for many years known as Glenelg.
Alexander MacLeod who was located on this property in
1794, was instrumental in founding on of the earliest
Presbyterian parishes in Upper Canada here in Lochiel
Township. During the War of 1812 he served as a
Captain in the 2nd Regiment of Glengarry Militia and
died March 4, 1850. Archeological and Historic Sites
Board of Ontario. Erected by Clan MacLeod Society of Glengarry 1965.
Endnotes
iClan MacLeod Society of Glengarry, The MacLeods of Glengarry 1793-1993, (Revised edition),
33-34. It irks this writer and descendant of Archie 'King' McGillivray that no clan representative was included in this 1965 ceremony — not even the Cairn committee's treasurer, Wm.J. MacGillivray, or closest neighbour, Donald A. (Archie King) McGillivray. The Seaway Valley Tourist Council Centre has lists and maps of historic sites at Box 884, Cornwall, ON, K6H 577.
iiIbid, 24-25, 29-30, and 158.
iiiibid., 24-25, 29-30, and 158: LDS IGI for INV.SCT lists Normand McLeod wed to Mary McRae on 17 June 1752, at inverness, INV., where their son Alexander was torn in 1756 at the “town of Inverness”, in the County of Inverness: as per his 71st discharge certificate.
iv The Macleods of Glengarry 1793-1971, (1st Ed.), 44-53; and History of the British Army, Chap 16 The Old 71st Regiment Fraser Highlanders, 1775-83,1138-152.
Tortoisk village, Kilninian & Kilmore parish, gained fame when Allan MacLean (1725-1798), a son of Torloisk's 5th laird, became Bgen commanding the Royal Highland Emigrants (later the 84th Regiment) in the Revolutionary War. See Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol IV, 503-504. In 1986 my wife and I visited Torloisk's attractive Kilninian Kirk, then unaware of my ancestor's Kilmore Kirk a few miles off In Dervaig — also noted for its Bellachroy Hotel and Mull Little Theatre.
Kilninian & Kilmore, Mull, OPR 54411 (LDS Film #1041080), 42 & 44; and J.G Bartholomew The Survey Gazetteer of the British Isles; Kilbeag was possibly an earlier name for today's Dervaig and its fine Church of Scotland first built in 1754. The U.C. 1851/52 Census of Lochiel Township lists Ann as born, in Scotland c1786, so 811 Ann(e)s MCGilvray (+ other variants) in Argyll- and Inverness-shires were searched in the Mormon IGI and no other Ann was born to an Archibald in that decade.
v Captain Alexander MacLeod's quotes are from his Upper Canada Land Petition (c131 Dec 1837 oh NAC Reel #2139, Bundle #21, Document 46); PEI Archives. St. John's Is. List of Shipping, Inwards Accession #2567 Item I, per Mrs. Mary (MacMillan) Beaton; and Grant MacGilrivray, 'The Daring Glenelg Settlers of 1794,“ in The Clansman, Apr/May 1993, 16.
“Return of Sundry persons who have received land by order of the Board for the Eastern District….” found on PAO RG1 C-I-4 Vol. 9, p.1; Marianne McLean, The People of Glengarry Highlanders In Transition, 1745.4820). 123, and Endnote little resemblance to
I I which cites this PAO record; author McLean personally provided this petitioners' list which bears fvfecLeocPs 2nd Ed.. pp. 35-36.
” 'John Cameron served with 1KRRNY and then as a British spy during the 1776-1783 war yeap. Evicted postwar, his
family trekked north to settle on Lot 6.4th of Cornwall Township. but not gout their prized rose shoots — claimed to date
beck to Darnagcus in Crusader times. The rose flowers, stalks, leaves and hips were vital to pioneers as medicines, tea,
etc. He lived into his 100th and wife Mary into her 92nd year! Their Cameron Cernetary is now in Cornwall City just east of McConnell Avenue and on South Branch Road. Regrettably a Gravel pit is encroaching on this sacred Loyalist soil.
Clan MacLeod Soc., op. cit., (2nd Ed.), 27; and War of 1812 Militia Paylists (War Office 13, Glengarry 2nd, Vol. 3681), MAC Reel #13-3161, pp. 412 8► 414.
Miles McLeod's obituary in Alexantlda News dated 11 Dec 1896; published in 1995. my family history, Our Kindred
Spirits, tells much rnora about Ann (McGillivray) and Duncan MacMillan's descendants. (This history won the top award of the Ottawa OGS Gene-O-Rama In 1996. Rs editor James Robb, BA,BJ,MA, is an Ottawa author, who was long a copy editor and contributor at The Ottawa Citizen..)