A SKETCH OF THE McINTOSH FAMILY


The sobriquet of " the fighting Mclntoshes " is a name well
applied to this ancient family, who have taken their part in
many a stormy scene and been thoroughly identified with many
stirring events in different periods of history, both in Scotland and
America, and who descend from an ancient line in Scotland of both
Royal and gentle lineage. Their career is so well known in Scotland
that it is needless to dwell upon it and, in America—well, history can
scarcely be written without the name of McIntosh being mentioned.
John Mhor (or More) McIntosh, an adherent of the cause of the
old Pretender, being deprived of all of his estate by the British Govern
ment decided to accompany Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia, to the
new Colony, and therefore with a band of one hundred and thirty High
landers, sailed with kinsmen and friends, of the best blood of the High
lands, and arrived in the province about 1735. Well was it for Georgia
that she had this sturdy band of Scots, for the young Colony was in need
of men who could defend her against the savage and the Spaniard, and
as she acted as a barrier to the South against the invasion by the foe, it
was a safeguard to the other provinces to have true and tried men as a
bulwark for them.
John More McIntosh was of the younger branch of McIntosh of
Borlum and chief of the Georgia contingent. He became President of
one of the two divisions of Georgia and also Member of the Provincial
Congress and took part in the invasion of Florida against the Spaniards.
Among the illustrious members of this family, the following may be
mentioned: His sons, Col. William McIntosh and the gallant Gen.
Lachlan McIntosh, and his grandson Col. John McIntosh of the Revolu
tionary War, who was first Captain then Lieutenant-Colonel and after
wards General in the War of 18 12, and also Capt. Lachlan McIntosh
of the Revolution whose son was Commodore James McKay McIntosh
of the United States Navy, and also a grandson of the former, Maj.
Lachlan McIntosh.
Gen. John McIntosh, son of Col. William McIntosh, was the father
of Maj. William Jackson McIntosh, Maj. John Nash McIntosh and
Col. James Simmons McIntosh of the United States Army and Mexican
War, whose sons were Capt. Leonidas McIntosh of Mexican War and
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Gen. John Baillie McIntosh of the Federal Army, who lost a leg at the
battle of Gettysburg, and his brother Gen. James McQueen McIntosh
of the Confederate Army, killed at Oak Ridge, and Judge McQueen Mc
Intosh of the United States District Court, whose line is now entitled to
the Chieftainship of Borlum, son of Maj. William Jackson McIntosh.
Besides all these gallant men, we may mention the well known
author Maria McIntosh, the daughter of Capt. Lachlan McIntosh of
the Revolution.
It is through Hester McIntosh, a daughter of Col. William Mc
Intosh, that the late Capt. John McIntosh Kell descended, the well
known Commander of the Confederate States Navy, subsequently made
Adjutant-General of Georgia in appreciation of his services. Also from
George McIntosh, son of John More McIntosh, who married Ann,
daughter of Sir Patrick Houstoun, whose son John Houstoun McIntosh,
married Eliza Bayard and had among others, George McIntosh, Minister
to France from the Republic of Texas, also Eliza Bayard McIntosh,
who married Gen. Duncan L. Clinch, ancestor of that well known family,
one of whose daughters, Eliza Bayard Clinch, married Major Robert
Anderson of Fort Sumter fame. We may also mention John Houstoun
McIntosh of the Confederate Army, killed at Sailors' Creek.
Hon. John E. Ward, a lawyer of New York, formerly minister to
China, was son of William Ward and Anne, daughter of Capt. Lachlan
(not Gen. Lachlan) McIntosh and the honorable family of Spalding of
Georgia descends from Marjory McIntosh, daughter of Col. William
McIntosh, who married James Spalding of Ashantilly; and also from
a branch of this ancient family descends that William McIntosh of
Indian blood whose mother was a Creek woman and who has descendants
living in the new State of Oklahoma; also George McIntosh Troup,
former Governor of Georgia, and also Duncan Clinch Heyward, the
late Governor of South Carolina, who was a son of Barnwell Heyward
and Catherine M. Clinch, daughter of Gen. Duncan L. Clinch and Eliza
Bayard McIntosh. We thus see this old Georgia family taking part in
all important events and leaving on the pages of history names of descend
ants who have done credit to this ancient name. The following is the
descent of John More McIntosh whose descendant, McQueen McIntosh,
Esq.. is now entitled to the Chieftainship of the Borlum branch of
Mclntoshes :
Shaw married Helena, daughter of the Thane of Calder and had:
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Ferquhard who married Mora, daughter of Angus Og of Isla and had:
.Angus who married Eva, daughter of the Clan Chattan, and had:
William who married Margaret, daughter of Ruari McLeod of the
Lewis, and had: Malcom Beg McIntosh who married Mora, daugh
ter of McDonald of Moidart, and had: Lachlan who subsequently
succeeded and who married Catherine, daughter of Sir Duncan
Grant of Freuchie, and had: Lachlan Beg, who succeeded and
who married Jean Gordon, daughter of Alexander Gordon of
Lochinvar, and had: William McIntosh who married Margaret,
daughter of Alexander Ogilvie of Deskford and Findlater and had: (be
sides others) Lachlan More, who married Agnes McKenzie of Kintail
and had: William McIntosh, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Innes
of Innermarkie of Royal descent, and had: Lachlan McIntosh, married
Helen Gordon, and had: (besides others William McIntosh who
married Mary, daughter of William Baillie of Dunain and Elizabeth
Forbes, descendant of Lord Forbes, and had, besides others, William
McIntosh, the celebrated Brigadier, and Lachlan McIntosh of Knock
nagael who married Mary Lockhart, daughter of John Lockhart Bailie
of Inverness and had : an elder son John More McIntosh, who married
at Dores, 1725, Marjory, daughter of Fraser of Garthmore and had:
I. William McIntosh, Colonel in Revolutionary War, married
Mary Mackay.
II. Lachlan McIntosh, famous General of Revolutionary War,
married Sarah Threadcraft and left issue.
III. John McIntosh.
IV. George McIntosh, married Ann, daughter of Sir Patrick
Houston, Baronet.
V. Ann McIntosh, married Robert Baillie of Culter Allers,
from whom descended the late J. W. Baillie and his nephew,
Robert Baillie of Scotland. Robert Baillie and Ann Mcin
tosh had besides others, Anna McIntosh Baillie, who mar
ried Judge Davies of Savannah, whose descendants are the
Harrises of Upper Georgia.
VI. Barbara McIntosh.
Colonel William McIntosh, oldest son of John Mhor McIntosh,
married Mary Mackay and had issue :
1. John McIntosh, Lieut. Colonel Revolutionary War. General,
War of 1812; married Sarah Swinton.
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2. William McIntosh, married and had William.
3.* Lachlan McIntosh (Captain), married (1st) his first cousin,
Miss Baillie (ancestor of Major Lachlan McIntosh).
4. George McIntosh.
5. Marjory McIntosh, married James Spalding, from whom de
scended the Georgia families of Spalding, Kenan, Wyllys and
others of Darien, Georgia.
6. Hester McIntosh, married Alexander Baillie, brother of Robert
Baillie, who married Ann McIntosh.
7. Barbara McIntosh married her cousin, William McIntosh of
" Mala," nephew of Rory McIntosh.
J. G. B. Bulloch, M. D.
Washington. 1908