According to online research:
John served in the Revolutionary War as an ensign in the British ranks and as commissary agent for the British troops.In this capacity he proved effective at leading and supplying Indians, qualities that he would cultivate in subsequent merchandising efforts.After the war he settled on the Chickamauga River, carrying on a private trade through Pensacola among the Cherokees with goods bought at Charleston in defiance of Indian trading laws established by the fledgling United States.
Old Frontiers, John P Brown, pp 122-123;
"By the Treaty of Paris, Feb 10, 1763, all of North America east of the Mississippi came into the posession of England...
"Captain John Stuart was appointed His Majesty's Indian Agent for the Southern District...
"His [Stuart's] new appointment required that he should leave his friends the Cherokees.He therefore sent as his deputies to that nation, Alexander Cameron and John McDonald.
"John McDonald located at Chickamauga.He married Anna, daughter of the interpreter William Shorey who had died while on the way to England. Their daughter, Mollie McDonald, became the mother of Chief John Ross.
More About JOHN TI-TA-S-GI-S-GI MCDONALD:
1817-19 Reservations: July 1817, # 14, in right of wife, 1 in family
Blood: Non-Cherokee
Emigration: Abt. 1766, Charleston, SC
Residence: 1817, Lookout Mountain
Starr's Notes: D096; b:1747 Inverness, Scotland, d:8/29/1824
Christening • • 6 August 1745 Inverness-shire, Scotland
Arrival 1766 Charleston, South Carolina
John served in the Revolutionary War as an ensign in the British ranks and as commissary agent for the British troops.In this capacity he proved effective at leading and supplying Indians, qualities that he would cultivate in subsequent merchandising efforts.After the war he settled on the Chickamauga River, carrying on a private trade through Pensacola among the Cherokees with goods bought at Charleston in defiance of Indian trading laws established by the fledgling United States.
Old Frontiers, John P Brown, pp 122-123;
"By the Treaty of Paris, Feb 10, 1763, all of North America east of the Mississippi came into the posession of England...
"Captain John Stuart was appointed His Majesty's Indian Agent for the Southern District...
"His [Stuart's] new appointment required that he should leave his friends the Cherokees.He therefore sent as his deputies to that nation, Alexander Cameron and John McDonald.
"John McDonald located at Chickamauga.He married Anna, daughter of the interpreter William Shorey who had died while on the way to England. Their daughter, Mollie McDonald, became the mother of Chief John Ross.
More About JOHN TI-TA-S-GI-S-GI MCDONALD:
1817-19 Reservations: July 1817, # 14, in right of wife, 1 in family
Blood: Non-Cherokee
Emigration: Abt. 1766, Charleston, SC
Residence: 1817, Lookout Mountain
Starr's Notes: D096; b:1747 Inverness, Scotland, d:8/29/1824
Christening • • 6 August 1745 Inverness-shire, Scotland
Arrival 1766 Charleston, South Carolina
According to online research:
John served in the Revolutionary War as an ensign in the British ranks and as commissary agent for the British troops.In this capacity he proved effective at leading and supplying Indians, qualities that he would cultivate in subsequent merchandising efforts.After the war he settled on the Chickamauga River, carrying on a private trade through Pensacola among the Cherokees with goods bought at Charleston in defiance of Indian trading laws established by the fledgling United States.
Old Frontiers, John P Brown, pp 122-123;
"By the Treaty of Paris, Feb 10, 1763, all of North America east of the Mississippi came into the posession of England...
"Captain John Stuart was appointed His Majesty's Indian Agent for the Southern District...
"His [Stuart's] new appointment required that he should leave his friends the Cherokees.He therefore sent as his deputies to that nation, Alexander Cameron and John McDonald.
"John McDonald located at Chickamauga.He married Anna, daughter of the interpreter William Shorey who had died while on the way to England. Their daughter, Mollie McDonald, became the mother of Chief John Ross.
More About JOHN TI-TA-S-GI-S-GI MCDONALD:
1817-19 Reservations: July 1817, # 14, in right of wife, 1 in family
Blood: Non-Cherokee
Emigration: Abt. 1766, Charleston, SC
Residence: 1817, Lookout Mountain
Starr's Notes: D096; b:1747 Inverness, Scotland, d:8/29/1824
Christening • • 6 August 1745 Inverness-shire, Scotland
Arrival 1766 Charleston, South Carolina
John served in the Revolutionary War as an ensign in the British ranks and as commissary agent for the British troops.In this capacity he proved effective at leading and supplying Indians, qualities that he would cultivate in subsequent merchandising efforts.After the war he settled on the Chickamauga River, carrying on a private trade through Pensacola among the Cherokees with goods bought at Charleston in defiance of Indian trading laws established by the fledgling United States.
Old Frontiers, John P Brown, pp 122-123;
"By the Treaty of Paris, Feb 10, 1763, all of North America east of the Mississippi came into the posession of England...
"Captain John Stuart was appointed His Majesty's Indian Agent for the Southern District...
"His [Stuart's] new appointment required that he should leave his friends the Cherokees.He therefore sent as his deputies to that nation, Alexander Cameron and John McDonald.
"John McDonald located at Chickamauga.He married Anna, daughter of the interpreter William Shorey who had died while on the way to England. Their daughter, Mollie McDonald, became the mother of Chief John Ross.
More About JOHN TI-TA-S-GI-S-GI MCDONALD:
1817-19 Reservations: July 1817, # 14, in right of wife, 1 in family
Blood: Non-Cherokee
Emigration: Abt. 1766, Charleston, SC
Residence: 1817, Lookout Mountain
Starr's Notes: D096; b:1747 Inverness, Scotland, d:8/29/1824
Christening • • 6 August 1745 Inverness-shire, Scotland
Arrival 1766 Charleston, South Carolina
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