Lachlan McIntosh was born near Inverness, Scotland, March 17, 1725. With his father, and 100 others of the Clan McIntosh, he emigrated to Georgia in 1736, in the train of Oglethorpe. The party founded New Inverness, in McIntosh County. Lachlan entered the Colonial army at the opening of the Revolution, and rose to be brigadier-general. In a duel with Button Gwinnett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, he killed the latter. General McIntosh was at the siege of Savannah in 1779, was a prisoner of war in 1780, a member congress in 1784, and in 1785 a commissioner to treat with the Southern Indians. He died at Savannah, February 20, 1806.––R. G. T.
The distance below Pittsburg is 26 miles. See p. 45, note, for notice of Shingiss Old Town, at this point.––R. G. T.
The distance, according to the shore meanderings of the U. S. Corps of Engineers, is 263 miles; the mileage of the channel would be somewhat greater.––R. G. T.
See p. 176, note, for notice of Grenadier Squaw’s Town, near Chillicothe.––R. G. T.
See p. 137, note, for notice of Jesse Hughes; also, Peyton’s History of Augusta County, p. 353.––R. G. T.