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The following was originally posted by my friend and fellow clansman, Murray
McCombs, from Canada. I hope you all enjoy it.
The Clan, AYE!
Bobby
Further to discussion of USA General Alexander Macomb, War of 1812 hero, I
thought it worthy to direct readers to Marshall Lloyd's website on the MACOMB
family in America. http://mlloyd.org/gen/macomb/photoalb.htm
Also of note is the recent contribution of $6 million by an unknown patron to index
the old family archives (1768 to c1900) at the Burton Historical Society in Detroit.
As of December 2000, the index is complete, and restoration of these old documents
are being completed in NYC.
Of the MACOMB (aka McCOMB) records, the following have been found:
1) Personal journals of Alexander MACOMB Sr (the general's father), and William
MACOMB Sr.(uncle)
2) Business journals of Macomb, Edgars, and Macomb of Detroit, beginning in 1768.
3) Early business records of the formation of the NWCo. (furtrading) 1788 - 1796
4) unpublished works by Mark Twain (personal friend to Col John Navarre Macomb)
5) oldest surviving animal hide contract between whiteman and natives
6) unpublished letters from George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln
amongst other notables.
Other news of interest to MacKintosh researchers is that the loyal and trusted head
factor of the MACOMB, Angus MacKintosh would become Clan Chieftan to the Clan
MacKintosh c1830, followed by his son. They retired and lived in Southampton Upper
Canada, where at least one branch of McCombie of Scotland would settle.
I continue to research William MACOMB Sr and his father John Gordon MACOMB
(1717 - c1796) in Canada and abroad. William was first MPP to British Niagara
Legislature at Niagara on the Lake 1792-1796. Co-owner in the early China Trade,
various owner of West Indies trade, operator and coowner of NWCo., opeator of
shipping monopolies in upper Great Lakes, and at the time of his death in 1796, he
was considered the wealthiest individual in North America. It would take 35 years to
liquidate his estate.
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