Re: JAMES B. MACKAY 1759-1822 ST.LOUIS
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JAMES B. MACKAY 1759-1822 ST.LOUIS
Margie Uhlemeyer 9/21/01
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"I have two brothers alive, Robert, who is captain in the British army, where he served twenty odd years and is lately retired on full pay to a small estate he owns near the city of Iverness in Scotland.He has but one child, Margaret, who is lately married to a Major Mackay of the same army; his name is William.My other brother, George, the youngest of our family, is in Nova Scotia, has been overseer of the public works and is, I believe, removed to the Island of Cape Breton.He has a large family.My oldest brother John and his excellent consort are both dead and buried on Long Island near New York.Their three children, Elizabeth, Mary and Matilda, live with their grandmother, widow of Judge Paul Micheaux on Staten Island.I recommend them to your friendship for they are deserving.My brother William, younger than me, died many years ago at Petersburgh in Virginia, where he had been to establish a commercial house.My oldest sister, Jane, and her husband are dead and left a large family, some of them in the army and some in Scotland.My other and youngest sister, Catherine, married to a George Mackay and lives in Doverary in the County of Cathness, Scotland; they have a numerous family.Two of her sons, George & John, are merchants in Iverness.I have some relations in Boston, New England possessing much property.My uncle William Mackay came to North Carolina with his wife Isabella and eleven children in the year 1774.Before he left Europe, I was told by my father that William had lived in Rowan County before the Revolution, but I never heard anything from them since.I remember that they had several sons, the name of the oldest was James."
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