!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS:
THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "MacLeod Cadet Families",
Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society), 1970, pp. 225-226.
Alexander MacLeod, Junion, ...was a Captain in the Army. He had a far
ranging military career ''above 22 years''. He took part in the Siege of
Quebec 1759, the capture of Pondicherry in India as well as operations
at Manilla in the Philippines. In 1774 he settled with his family in
Anson County in North Carolina. The American War of Independence broke
out the following year and Alexander joined Major Donald MacDonald''s
Royal Highland Emigrants at Cross Hill and was appointed Captain at the
head of a Company. He was made prisoner after the battle of Moore''s
Creek, 1776, and spent 7 months in gaol in Philadelphia and thereafter at
Baltimore. Altogether he was nearly 2 years in prison, when he was
exchanged in August 1778 and received half pay. He now went to
Jamaica, where there was more opportunity of military service. When
peace was restored to the island, he returned to Britain in September
1783. He settled at Claiginn, in Skye, and from here in June 1787 he
wrote an affidavit in support of Kenneth Campbell''s (of Scalpay) claim in
The Loyalist Papers. Among these Papers also can be seen claims
submitted by Captain Alexander MacLeod on his own behalf. He states
that he had been left 12 dependents, orphan children (the descendants of
three brothers, two of whom died in the King''s service) who remained in
the greatest distress in Anson County, North Carolina. He further adds
that his own wife "was far advanced in her pregnancy". It would appear
as if the orphan children, mentioned by Captain Alexander MacLeod were
those of his brothers, Captains Donald and William, killed at Moore''s
Creek, as well as the children of Captain Alexander MacLeod of St. Kilda,
who was captured and imprisoned and who later died in 1782. While
residing at Claiginn, Captain Alexander was made a Justice of the Peace
in 1788 and died sometime before 1799.