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MACHAPUNGA MACITSTTOSH, CHILLY 



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the annual importations by him and Pan- 

 ton were estimated in value at £40,000 

 (Am. St. Papers, Ind. Aff., i, 458, 1832). 

 Besides two or three plantations, he 

 owned, at the time of his death, 60 ne- 

 groes, 300 head of cattle, and a large stock 

 of horses. In jiersonal a])pearance 

 McGillivray is described as having been 

 six feet in' height, sparely built, and re- 

 markal)ly erect; his forehead was bold 

 and lofty; his fingers long and tapering, 

 and he 'wielded a pen witli the greatest 

 rapidity; his face was handsome and 

 indicative of thought and sagacity; un- 

 less interested in conversation he was 

 inclined to be taciturn, but was polite 

 and respectful. While a British col- 

 onel he dressed in the uniform of his 

 rank; when in the Spanish service he 

 wore the military garb of that country; 

 and after Washington appointed him 

 ])rigadier-general he sometimes donned 

 the uniform of the American army, but 

 never when Sjianiards were present. His 

 usual costume was a mixture of Indian 

 and American garments. McGillivray 

 always traveled with two servants, one a 

 half-blood, the other a negro. Although 

 ambitious, fond of display and power, 

 crafty, unscrupulous in accomplishing his 

 purpose, and treacherous in affairs of 

 state, the charge that he was l.)loodthirsty 

 and fiendish in disposition is not sus- 

 tained. He had at least two wives, one 

 (if whom was a daughter of Joseph Cur- 

 nell. Another wife, the mother of his 

 son Alexander and two daughters, died 

 shortly before or soon after her hus])and's 

 death, Feb. 17, 1793, at Pensacola, Fla. 

 He was buried with Masonic honors in 

 the garden of William Panton, his 

 ])artner. (c. t.) 



Machapunga (' bad dust'; from matrhi 

 'bad', jmngo 'dust' (Heckewelder), or 

 perhaps ' much dust,' from wassa ' great', 

 in allusion to the sandy soil of the dis- 

 trict). An Algonquian trilie formerly liv- 

 ing in Hyde co., n. e. N. C. In 1701 they 

 numbered only aljout 30 warriors, or per- 

 haps 100 souls, and lived in a single vil- 

 lage called INIattamuskeet. They took 

 part in the Tuscarora war of 1711-12 and 

 at its conclusion the remnant, together 

 with the Coree, were settled on a tract on 

 Mattamuskeet lake, where the two tribes 

 •occupied one village. (.t. m.) 



Machapunga.— Lawsoii (1714), Hist. Car., 383, rej)r. 

 iscu. Matehapangos.— Martin, X. C, I, '2G3, 1829. 

 Matchapongos. — Ibid., 260. Matchapungos. — Ibid., 

 214. Matchepungo.— Letter of 1713 in N. C. Col. 

 Rff.. n, 29, 1S8G. 



Machapunga. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy in Northampton co.,Va. It 

 was nearly extinct in 1722. 

 Matohapunko. — Hermann, map (1670), in Rep. on 

 Line between Va, and Md..lS73. 



Machapunga. A village on Potomac r. 

 al)outl612. 

 Matchopongo.— Straclaey (ra. Itil2), Va., 98, 1849. 



Macharienkonck. A Minisink village 

 formerly in the bend of Delaware r., in 

 Pike CO., Pa., opposite Port Jervis. — Van 

 der Donck (1656) quoted by Ruttenber, 

 Tribes Hudson R., 96, 1872. 



Machawa. A former Timucua town in 

 N.w. Florida, 24 m. e. of Ayavallafort, now 

 lola, on a river called Wicassa. 

 Machaba.— Jefferys, French Dom. Am., map, 1761. 

 Machaha. — Ibid., "map, 135. Hachalla. — Roberts, 

 Fla., 15, 1763. Machua.— French, Hist. Coll. La., 2d 

 s., 255, note, 1875. 



Machemni. A division of the jNIiwok 

 who lived between Cosumnes and Moke- 

 lumne rs.. in Eldorado and Amador cos., 



Cal. 



Matchemnes.— Hale, Ethnog. and Philol., 630, 

 1846. Omatchamne. — Baneroft, Nat. Raees, i, 450, 

 1874. Omochumnies.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, June 

 8, 1860. Omutchamne.— Bancroft, Nat. Races, 1, 450, 

 1874. Omutohumnes. — Ilale, op. cit. 



Machemoodus ( ]i r o p e r 1 y Matche-inu- 

 doffi', 'there is a bad noi.sc' — Trumbull). 

 A tract on the e. bank of Connecticut r., 

 now included in East Haddam tp. , INIid- 

 dlesex co., Conn., formerly the residence 

 of a " numerous tribe," who were inde- 

 ])endent and famous for conjuring. The 

 Indians sold the tract in 1662. For an 

 account of the "Moodus noises" see 

 Trumbull, Hist. Conn., ii, 91, 92, 1818; 

 Barber, Hist. Coll., 525, 1839. (.t. m.) 



Machamadoset. — Doc. of 1674 cited by Trumbull, 

 Ind. Names Conn., 18. l.s,sl. Machamoodus.— Doc. 

 of 1691, ibid. Mache Moodus.— Kendall, Travels, 

 1, 100, 1809. Machmadouset.— Doc. of 1671 cited by 

 Trumbull, op. cit. Matche Moodus.— Kendall, op. 

 cit. Matchi Moodus. — Ibid. Matchit Moodus, — 

 Doc. cited by Trumbull, op. cit. 



Macheno. An ancient village, probably 

 Timuquanan, in w. central Florida, lat. 

 29° 30^— Bartram, Voy., i, map, 1799. 



Macheto. A former village of the Awani 

 at the foot of Indian canyon, Yosemite 

 valley, Mariposa co., Cal. 

 Machayto.— Powers in Overland Mo., x, 333,1874. 

 Ma-che'-to.— Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., in, 

 365, 1877. 



Machias ('bad little place,' referring to 

 the current in Machias r. ; from matche 

 'bad', sis the diminutive). A village of 

 the Passamaquoddy on Machias r., Me. 

 Mechias.— Treaty rep. (1726) in Me. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 111,390,1853. 



Machonee. An Ottawa village, com- 

 monly called " Machonee's village," from 

 the name of the resident chief, formerly 

 near the mouth of An "N^aseau r., which 

 flows into L. St Clair, in lower INIichigan, 

 on land ceded to the United States by 

 treaty of May 9, 1836. The chief, whose 

 name is also spelled Machonce, Maconce, 

 and ]Makonee, was drowned, while intoxi- 

 cated, about the year 1825 (Mich. Pion. 

 Coll., V, 464, 1884). (.i. m. ) 



Machonee's village.— Detroit treaty (1807) in U. S. 

 Ind. Treat., 194, 1873 (misprint?). Machonee's vil- 

 lage.— Detroit treaty (1807) in Am. State Papers, 

 Ind. Aff., I, 747,1832. 



Macintosh, Chilly. A Creek chief. After 

 his brother William was slain by Menewa 

 forhaving betrayed theCreeks by "selling 

 the graves of their ancestors," he became 



