Lachlan McIntosh

Lachlan McIntosh was a BritishAmerican military and political leader during the American Revolution and the early United States. In a 1777 duel, he fatally shot Button Gwinnett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Lachlan McIntosh was born near Raits, Badenoch, Scotland. McIntoshs father, John McIntosh Mr, moved the family to Georgia in 1736 with a group of 100 Scottish settlers founding the town of New Inverness, at the mouth of the Altamaha River. John McIntosh led the colonists as they carved out the new settlement from dense forest. The dangers of frontier life were brought home to Lachlan in 1737 when his younger brother Lewis McIntosh was killed by an alligator while swimming in the river.

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