Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-09-30

went from village to village. returning
bringing slaves and peltry.
The traders who had posts among
the Indians generally had Indian wives.
They were the daughters Of the chiefs
and were married by the Indian cere-
mony. Few Of these foreigners were
contented with one wife, and like the
Indian chief. they practiced polygamy.
When they were ready to go back to
Scotland the trader abandoned his
wives OF the forest and went back to
Scotland 10 the wife he had left be-
hind him years before.
John Ross, John Ridge. Alex McGloer
and william Mcintosh, all OF them
sprung from these marriages. Among
the most successful Of these traders
was George Galphin. he was a Scotch
Irishman, who came TO this country
about I7S5. he came at once TO Fort
Monroe. and was In Augusta as soon
as II was founded. He made money
rapidly, bought negroes. opened PLAN
tatiOns and secured fine bodies of land.
He had kinsman named Thomas CAL
phin who was also q prominent man.
He had an elegant home at Silver
Bluff, below Augusta. on the Carolina
side, where he lived in a lordly way,
as a satrap. Tie Indians held him in
high repute and came TO him in all
their troubles. They became greatly
indebted to him, and when he took
sides with the Wings there was large
debt due him by the colonial govern
ment, which was taken from the Indi-
ans by purchase large body OF land
was OF no worth when the colony was
merged in the state, but an agreement
was made that the state would pay the
traders. and when the Union was
formed, the United States inherited
the debt, and in 1850 the celebrated
Galphin claim was settled.
Archibald McGilveray and Lochland
McGilveray, Highlanders, were among
the traders. OF these I know only Of
Lochland. He was a surveyor, and
when the line of the new purchase
was run he ran it, He lived among the
Creeks and married the daughter of a
chief. He had a son, Alexander, whom
he sent to Scotland TO be educated,
and who was afterward the famous
diplomat. Lochland was a man of very
large estate His home was in Savan-
nah, where he was one of the first
trustees of the Independent Presby-
terrain church. His property near Sa-
vannah and elsewhere was confscat-
ed by the state after the revolution,
and Alexander was the willy foe Of
the whites.
Among the traders was Governor
Tnoup's father. who was an English
loyalist, and who was living in Ala
bama when his famous son, George
Michael Troup. was born.
There were a number of traders in
Augusta in 1854 In addition to those
mentioned there were David Douglas,
McCartan, Campbell, John Williams,
John Spencer. Robert Dixon, Moses
Muncy, John Roe, Pat Clark, William
BOnar, William Little. John Peterson,
Richard Johnson, John Finley, Isaac
Barksdale. These were not all engag-
ed I'm the Indian trade, but most OF
them were. Some OF them were Scotch,
some Irish, and one a Portuguese Jew.
John Roe was the father-in-law Of
Governor Ebert and Governor Hab-
ersham. McCartan Campbell was Ia
nous trader and planter. He had a
large plantation where the upper part
OF Augusta Is now, and as he was a
Wing, this estate descended to his chill
dren and made them very rich. These
traders were some of them church
people, and they built the first st.
Paurs church as early as 1751, and had
a missionary to preach to them. As
they were traders and in easy reach
Of English markets, they secured for
themselves the luxuries which they
desired, and they desired many; so
they had fine furniture, fine liquors
and fine apparel. Many a large fortune
was made by the traffic, and there
was, alas! a lawless disregard of all
the laws OF mercy or morality by
many OF these traders.
VinevilIe, Macon, Ca