How the MacMillans got to Alabama. A short tale and a true story.

[Will Carry]

John MacMillan came to America in 1756 from Scotland and settled in Suffolk County Virginia. His son Sholto, went west and became a Scots-Trader with the Creek Indians in Alabama. He married and Indian woman and had twin sons. One looked like and indian and one looked like a Scot. When his boys were 12 years old their momma died of the fever. By then there were white settlers coming to the area so Sholto took a white woman to be his wife. There was one condition, she demanded that the half-breed boys had to go. Sholto told his sons they had to go live with their indian relatives. The boy that looked more like an indian went back to his mother's tribe but the boy who looked more like a scot went up to the "Tribe of the Wind" (A Creek tribe) where he lived and found a halfbreed indian woman who looked white. They married and moved back in with Sholto as white people and he called himself John MacMillan. When the Creek indians went on the trail of tears John MacMillan laid claim to thousands of acres of land in south Alabama that once belong to the Creeks. John MacMillan is one of my for fathers. I own 75 acres of the land he got from his indian relatives. The Creek indian tribe of Alabama said we Masons were too white to join, but I have a second cousin who is on the tribal council.

This story has been past down from my Uncle. Dr. Isaac Mason of the University of South Alabama. His book on the Fort Mimms massacre was based on our family.

Edited September 11, 2010 by Will Carry

[Murgatroy]

Good to know your history.

I don't know mine.

[Will Carry]

To tell you truth, I think Uncle Doc (Dr. Mason) made up what he couldn't prove. I would never say that to my family though.

[gregintenn]

Very interesting. Too bad more history hasn't been preserved. Thanks for sharing.

[ZZRguy]

What part of Alabama do own land? I grew up in a little town in Al. called Jemison.