Name | Alexander McGillivray | |
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Alexander McGillivray |
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Born | 15 Dec 1750 | Wetumpka, Elmore, Alabama ![]() |
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Gender | Male | |
Birth | 1759 | Tallassee, Upper Creek Nation ![]() |
Political | 08 May 1781 | Pensacola, Escambia, Florida ![]() |
Bernardo de Gálvez retakes Pensacola from the British, inaugurating the third Spanish period (1781-1821). McGillivray buys lots in the city of Pensacola (near Washerwoman's Bayou or present-day Spring Street) which would provide the headquarters for Panton, Leslie & Company. | ||
Political | 1783 | Tensaw, Baldwin, Alabama ![]() |
Present-day location. McGillivray establishes Tensaw as a link for the Creek Nation to Spanish West Florida | ||
Political | Nov 1783 | Augusta, Richmond, Georgia ![]() |
Treaty of Augusta is concluded with some Creek chiefs, including rival Hiboithle Mico, that ceded the territory between the Ogeechee and Oconee Rivers. McGillivray is absent. Washington and Franklin Counties are created. | ||
Occupation | 1784 | Mobile, Mobile, Alabama ![]() |
Partner, Mather and Company. This firm maintained the European trade with the Choctaw and Chickasaw. | ||
Occupation | 1784 - 1788 | Pensacola, Escambia, Florida ![]() |
Partner, Panton, Leslie & Company. This firm maintained European trade in the Creek Nation and McGillivray's ability to license white traders in the nation gave him considerable leverage over village chiefs and, consequently, the Spanish. His position was reduced to that of a silent partner as Spanish suspicions grew that he had gone over to the British-- rumors were circulated in Pensacola that he had made common cause with adventurer, William Augustus Bowles (1763-1805)-- and then the Americans. | ||
Political | 07 Aug 1790 | New York, New York, New York ![]() |
Treaty of New York is concluded wherein significant Creek territory in Georgia is ceded to the United States. McGillivray secretly receives an annuity and a Brigadier's commission | ||
Died | 17 Feb 1793 | Pensacola, Escambia, Florida ![]() |
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Buried | Escambia County Courthouse, Pensacola, Escambia, Florida / Choctaw Bluff, Clarke, Alabama ![]() |
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Person ID | I5051 | Dickinson |
Last Modified | 24 Sep 2012 |
Father | Lachlan Lia McGillivray, b. 1719, Scotland ![]() ![]() | |
Mother | Sehoy II Marchand | |
Family ID | F1355 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family | Elsie Moniac, d. 1794, Baldwin County, Alabama ![]() | |||||||
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Last Modified | 5 May 2010 | |||||||
Family ID | F1371 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Photos | ![]() | The Innerarity House
Pensacola, Florida, ca. 1890. Originally the Panton, Leslie warehouse. The warehouse was converted into the residence of the Inneraritys after the Pensacola fire of 1848 destroyed the original Panton-Forbes House. The Innerarity House was destroyed by fire in 1915. |
![]() | Old Pensacola Innerarity House. Charles Thomas Cottrell, photographer. | |
![]() | Crest of the Clan McGillivray |
Histories | ![]() | Coastal Encounters: the Transformation of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth Century Brown, Richard F. Brown, ed. (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2007) Preview |
![]() | Archaeology of Colonial Pensacola Bense, Judith Ann Bense, ed.(Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1999) Preview | |
![]() | Forty-second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1928) | |
![]() | The Muscogees or Creek Indians 1519-1893 Tarvin, Dr. Marion Elisha, Alabama Historical Quarterly (Wetumpka, Alabama: Alabama State Department of Archives and History, 1955), Vol. 17, pp. 125-134. Also includes Bartram, William, Extracts from the Travels of William Bartram, pp. 110-124. |
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