John Cameron's Texas Land

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Kilmalie

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This parish which lies partly in Argyle and partly in Inverness...included the districts of Ardgour, Lochiel, Glenluy, Locharkeg, Achadromc, and Glengarry all lying within the ancient lordship of Lochaber.

Morvern, Scotland

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Emigration from Scotland: Emigrants' Correspondence
Year: 1813
Reference: Fassiefern Papers, Acc. 11910/32 
Description: Letter of Norman MacLeod, Minister of Morven, to Ewen Cameron of Fassiefern with details from the parish register of the family of Captain Donald Cameron, now living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

British Officers Serving In America

British Officers Serving In America:

Captain Cameron Of The Thirteenth Regiment In Tennessee

History of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, U. S. A ...,  By Samuel W. Scott, Samuel P Angel:

See his Wikitree profile here.

Cross-posted at Cameron Collections 

The Lairds Of Glenlyon

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Archibald Campbell's profile at Wikitree.  His wife, Jean, may be an ancestress of mine, through her husband Duncan Stewart.

Duncan Stewart m. Jean Campbell

Daughter Margaret Stewart m. Alexander Campbell

Daughter Isabel Campbell m. John MacEwen Cameron

Son John Cameron m. Jean Campbell

Son Allan Cameron m. Catherine Cameron

Son Allan Cameron m. Ann McMillan (top of tree below)

 Beatrice Cameron Powers' Ancestors

Diary From A Resident Of Sombra Township

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Alexander MacLeod

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Alexander Macleod's entry at Wikitree; Margaret (Cameron) Macleod's entry here. 

Also posted a reference to Margaret Cameron's Macleod marriage at my Cameron Collections blog.

Joined By Alexander Cameron

A portion of the text of the "Journal of a tour to North Carolina by William Attmore, 1787":


In May of the following year (ca 1767) Tryon went to Salisbury to have the boundary between the people of North Carolina and the Cherokees marked out. The design was to separate their respective lands so as to put an end to the disputes between the whites and the Cherokees in the west, which had resulted in bloodshed more than once. At Salisbury Tryon was joined by John Rutherford, Robert Palmer, and John Frohock, who had been appointed to run the line. They were later joined by Alexander Cameron, Deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the southern colonies. On May 21st they left Salisbury accompanied by detachments from the militia regiments of Rowan and Mecklenburg.

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Camerons In Initials and Pseudonyms

Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises,  By William Cushing:

The Lion's Whelp

The Lion's Whelp, by Nigel Tranter, was told from the point of view of Alexander Lyon (son of Patrick Lyon, 1st Lord of Glamis)*, who was a companion of James II Stewart.  After James II's father, James I, is assassinated, his mother, Joan Beaufort, married James Stewart The Black Knight of Lorne.

*Elizabeth II's mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, was a descendant of Patrick Lyon, through Alexander's brother, John Lyon, 3rd Lord of Glamis

There is a possible lineage from me to Joan Beaufort and beyond.

The Stewart connection goes as follows, starting with James IV Stewart's daughter Janet (great-granddaughter of "The Lion's Whelp,") whose daughter, Margaret Fleming, married John Stewart IV.  Her daughter, Janet Stewart, married Duncan Campbell.  Her son, Robert Campbell, had a daughter, Margaret, who married John Cameron.  Their son, Ewen Cameron, was the father of
John MacEwen Cameron of Lochiel.  I have many Cameron ancestors, including Lochiel Camerons.


A specific Cameron, Bishop Cameron, was also a character in The Lion's Whelp.

A Flame For The Fire

A Flame For The Fire, by Nigel Tranter:

"...but it was noteworthy to the Lowlanders that these Highland dignitaries had their own precedences and formalities, for it was only the three-feather men who advanced towards the king [James IV of Scotland], all chiefs of the name, no two-feathered chieftains venturing forward."  "But those who did made a resounding file: MacDonald of Dunivaig...and Cameron of Lochiel."

Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus, is portrayed early in this story as a rival for the King's favorite, Janet Kennedy (she with the flaming red hair).

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Though King James the Fourth had children by Janet Kennedy and others, a political alliance was made when he married Margaret, daughter of the English King, Henry VII.  The book mentioned the arrival of the young princess.  An historical account stated:

"Lammermuir was the first stage that Queen Margaret made in her new country At Lamberton Kirk the Archbishop of Glasgow with a grand company of Scottish nobles were waiting to receive their Queen." 

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The last major event featured was the battle of Flodden.

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Cameron Of Lochiel

Cameron of Lochiel,  by Philippe Aubert de Gaspé:

"This leisurely and loose knit romance of de Gaspers...has for hero one who was not a Canadian but a Scotch exile sojourning in Canada."

Lochiel (Cameron) In Wild Western Scenes

Wild Western Scenes ...,  By John Beauchamp Jones:

Lochiel and son, Charles Cameron, are part of this story.

Sir Walter Scott's Tales

Tales of a grandfather;: with stories taken from Scottish history.., By Sir Walter Scott:

I have called your attention at some length to this matter, because you will now have to remark, that a material change had gradually and slowly taken place, both in the kingdom of England, and in that of Scotland, when their long quarrels were at length, in appearance, ended, by the accession of James the Sixth of Scotland to the English crown, which he held under the title of James the First of that powerful kingdom.

A Cameron reference:

The Banner Of Montrose

From Loyal Lochaber and its associations....


From all sides the clans hastened to the banner of Montrose thirsting for the blood of the hated Campbell. The MacDonalds of Clanranald, Keppoch, Glengarry and Glencoe; the Stewarts of Appin; Camerons from Loch Eil and Glen Nevis, in Lochaber; Farquharsons, MacLeans and many others who had suffered from the rapacity of Argyll now eagerly joined the royal forces determined to carry fire and sword into the very heart of their enemy's country and if possible surprise Mac Cailean Mbr (Marquis of Argyll) in his stronghold of Inveraray by the shores of Loch Fyne.

Come And Take It In Georgia

The History of the Revolution of South-Carolina from a British Province to ..., by David Ramsay (and published in 1785):

Captain Moore of Brown's rangers was mentioned in the text above.

Reminiscences Of Sir Charles Alexander Cameron

Sir Charles Alexander Cameron of Dublin described "A Link Between Me And The Battle Of Culloden...":

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My ancestors were adherents of the Royal Family of Stuart; and although my father fought for King George III, and received eight wounds in his service (a French bullet and an American bullet accompanying him to his grave).....

Indian Agents

GA Coast

GA Mountains

 The Hornet's Nest, a novel of the Revolutionary War by Jimmy Carter, is concerned with the war "as it was fought in Georgia and the Carolinas ...".  Character Reuben Starling was someone "who represented the district Indian agent."  He said that his "license could only be issued by Indian Superintendent John Stuart, who directly represents the king.  I had to show familiarity with some of the languages, post a bond, and swear my own loyalty to the crown."

"The King's superintendent, John Stuart, was competent and respected by most of the settlers and native leaders.  He did everything possible to prevent any altercations between the whites and the Indians, and the older tribal chiefs joined in this effort to preserve the peace."

"Long before Clarke reached Blue Star's home, Cameron and his family had moved once again, to join Stuart in Pensacola."

Also see Thomas Brown In The Hornet's Nest.

Scots Of Erin

Source: Directory To Ireland

From The Irishman in Canada (1877):

"Early in our era the Scots of Erin colonised the west coast of Scotland and the adjacent islands."

"They acted with their friends in North Britain against the Roman and in the reign of Constantine's successor the Irish and Picts... ."

"There was a time when Clann nan Guidheal an guaillibha a cheile did not mean merely that a handful of Camerons or of Mackays or of Macdonalds should yoke themselves firmly together in crossing a burn or tracking a morass; far less did it teach that a small body of Celts was to be compacted together for purposes of offence towards another body of Celts."

"Even in the matter of war it is notorious how the Irish bore so brave a hand with the Highlanders in resisting the Danes, a fact of which the mixture of Irish and Scottish names and some of the confusion of Scottish and Irish history are the natural results. There is not a corner in our Scottish Highlands there is hardly a pedigree of an old Highland family which does not bear out this remark."