I represent Alexander Cameron. I came to Georgia with General James Oglethorpe’s 42nd Regiment and served until the peace of 1763. I became acquainted with the illustrious John Stuart, then Royal Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southern District and he recruited me into his department. I lived among the Cherokee beginning in 1764 where I was affectionately called “Scotchie.” I married an Indian woman and we had three children: two daughters who were sent to England to be educated and one son who lived with my brother. In my 1778 petition for a land grant, I said that I had been granted land in South Carolina that had been seized and sold by the rebels. I had 4 children and 5 enslaved people in the province of West Florida to support my family claim. I had been serving as Deputy Superintendent for Indian Affairs, Cherokee Nation, but when John Stuart died in 1779, Governor Chester tapped me to replace him as Superintendent for Indian Affairs at Pensacola – though that office was eventually changed to the point I had little interest in it. Gen. Campbell putting the Indian agents under military control in April 1780 may have been the last straw for me. I retired at an advanced age in October 1780 and died in Savannah on December 27, 1781.
Sources: 7, 17, 23, 28, 32, 80, 83