I represent Robert Mackinen (also seen as MacKinnon or other variants). I was a Captain and the commander of His Majesty’s 35th Regiment of Foot. I was commissioned as a captain in July 1760; the 35th arrived in Pensacola in 1763, during the hard early years. In 1764 I was appointed to the West Florida council, which not only advised the governor but served as the Upper House in the provincial General Assemblies, but before Governor George Johnstone could get a letter off to his superiors I had resigned. That could be because I took part in some of the worst of the jurisdictional conflict between military and civilian leadership, once denying Governor Johnstone access to the fort until I got an order directly from General Gage (the commander of all British regiments in North America). My defiance didn’t last long, though – a 1767 probate record indicates I died at Pensacola. I was a bachelor.
Sources: 3, 13, 15, 42, 46, 67, 82