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Family And Life

Born: December 15, 1750, Coushatta village of Little Tallassee

Died: February 17, 1793, Pensacola, FL

Parents: Lachlan McGillivray (Father)

Alexander McGillivray

Alexander McGillivray

By: Evan Hughes, Owen Bates, Alex Ebel

Alexander McGillivray was known as Hoboi-Hili-Miko, he was a principal chief of the Upper Creek towns from 1782.

Georgia's Yazoo land scandal

  • In 1790 he sent a special emissary to the Southeast, who persuaded McGillivray and other chiefs to attend a conference with Henry Knox, the Secretary of War, in New York City, then the capital of the U.S. Resulted in Treaty of New York

Career

  • During the American Revolution was commissioned

colonel in the British Army

  • In 1783 he became the principal of the Upper Creek. At one point he wielded great power with 5,000 to 10,000 warriors
  • He opposed the 1783 treaty of Augusta under which two Lower Creek chiefs had ceded Muscogee lands from the Ogeechee to the Oconee rivers to the new state of Georgia.
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