McGillivray Plantation ruins ....Wetumpka

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The McGillivray Plantation ruins can be found 4 miles N. of Wetumpka. Built around 1750, it was destroyed during an Indian attack sometime later. There are legends that a hoard of coins and silver tableware remains buried or hidden on the property.



Lachlan McGillivray (Dunmaglass, Inverness, Scotland, c. 1718 –1799) was a prosperous fur trader and planter in colonial Georgia with interests that extended from Savannah to central Alabama. He was the father of Alexander McGillivray and the great-uncle of William McIntosh, two of the most powerful and historically important Native American chieftains in the history of the Southeast
There is no record of M'Gillivray having married in the legal sense at any point of his life, though he entered into a long-term marital relationship with a biracial Creek woman named Sehoy Marchand. Sehoy Marchand's father (at least according to early chroniclers) was Jean-Baptiste Marchand, a French officer stationed at Fort Toulouse in the early 18th century (and according to most records murdered there in a 1722 mutiny, though this contradicts historical evidence). Sehoy Marchand's mother, also named Sehoy, was a member of the Wind Clan, a politically powerful lineage, of the Upper Creeks and her immediate family included several important chieftains in the nation
Alexander McGILLIVRAY
Born: 15 Dec 1750 Little Tulsa, Elmore Co, AL
Died: 17 Feb 1793 Pensacola, FLA
Married:
Spouse:#1 Elise ? MONIAC [sister of Sam MONIAC (a half breed who owned an inn on the old
[ Federal Road near Pintlala, Montogomery Co, AL.
Spouse:#2 Vicey CORNELLS
Living: *had a plantation at HICKORY GROUND near Wetumpka, Elmore Co, AL
on the left bank of the Coosa River, 2 mi above the
fork of the river, and 1 mi below the Falls

His principal residence was at Little Talasi, five miles above the present site of Wetumpka on the Coosa River, on what is now known as the Rose plantation. His plantation on Little River was known as "cowpen" and still another was at Hickory Ground, on the left bank of the Coosa two miles above Fort Toulouse, and below the present site of Wetumpka. He had three wives and left three children, Alexander, Jr., and two daughters. Last residence: Little Talasi, on the Coosa River.

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Some info on Fort Toulouse park from the City of Wetumpka website: http://wetumpka.al.us/Default.asp?ID...g=Park+History