American soldier, born at the Castle of Edinburgh, Scotland, on the 13th of January 1746. He emigrated to Nova Scotia in 1749, and was brought up as a farmer. In 1770 he went into politics, occupied several local offices, and gained influence with the Indians. In 1777 Congress gave him a colonel’s commission, and with his Indians he protected the exposed line of the northeastern frontier. The authorities of Nova Scotia offered a price for his arrest; his house was burned, and his wife thrown into prison. In compensation for the losses he had sustained the Massachusetts government gave him 22,000 acres of land, and Congress granted him 2,000 acres in Ohio. He died in Lubec, ME, on the 7th of February 1805.
