![]() ![]() As such, these men had attained some standing there as spokesman for those from whom he collected rents for their common laird. John may even have been part of the scouting party sent in 1736 to identify a suitable region for the settlement of that growing band of Scots discontented with Jacobean rule some of those men remained behind when Black Neill returned to Scotland to further encourage and strengthen the movement to emigrate.Īmong the colonists were men designated 'heads of household', some of whom most certainly had been tacksman under their lairds in Scotland. ![]() This major emigration originating in the western isles of Scotland settled the region from the headwaters of the Cape Fear River southward, all along the river far below today's Fayetteville. John McPherson was a 'head of household' in "Black Neill" McNeill's Argyll Colony in 1739. Godfrey McNeill and "Big John" Johnston, neighbors, lived close by. 1767 and lived here until his death in 1791. His estate settlement shows John removed from Cumberland County with his son Daniel ca. ![]() The location of old John McPherson's farm on the north edge of Raft Swamp east of Red Springs and due south of Shannon. John" McPherson of the Argyll Colony This history is being rewritten July 2019. John McPherson of the Argyll Colony HOME "Old ![]()
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