Sehoy II or Sehoy Marchand (b. c. 1722) was a

Muscogee The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek or just Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy ( in the Muscogee language; English: ), are a group of related Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands Here they waged war again ...

Creek Wind Clan woman who was part of the Sehoy matrilineage. She and her family are known for their intermarriages with white traders, with the children inheriting their tribal identities from the mother's side.

Family

She was born around 1722, the daughter of Sehoy I of the Wind Clan and a French officer, Marchand, who commanded at

Fort Toulouse Fort Toulouse and Fort Jackson are two forts that shared the same site at the fork of the Coosa River and the Tallapoosa River, near Wetumpka, Alabama, United States. Fort Toulouse Fort Toulouse (Muscogee: Franca choka chula), also called Fort ...

. (Some have argued that she was instead a 'full-blooded' indigenous American.) She was half-sister to Muscogean Chief Red Shoes II through her mother Sehoy's marriage to Red Shoes I.

Lachlan McGillivray

Sehoy married Scottish trader

Lachlan McGillivray Lachlan McGillivray (–1799) was a prosperous fur trader and planter in colonial Georgia with interests that extended from Savannah to what is now central Alabama. He was the father of Alexander McGillivray and the great-uncle of William McIntosh ...

about 1745. In 1851, Albert J. Pickett wrote that they met at

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a few miles from Fort Toulouse, married according to Creek forms, and settled at Little Tallassee. He said, 'The Indian tradition ran that, while pregnant with her first child, she repeatedly dreamed of piles of manuscripts, ink and paper, and heaps of books...', foreshadowing her son Alexander's career. Lachlan took advantage of Sehoy's influential connections in the Creek nation to extend his commerce. Their children were

Alexander McGillivray Alexander McGillivray, also known as ''Hoboi-Hili-Miko'' (December 15, 1750February 17, 1793), was a Muscogee (Creek) leader. The son of a Muscogee mother, Sehoy II, and a Scottish father, Lachlan McGillivray, he was literate and received a ...

(b. 1750),

Sophia Durant Sophia Durant ( – /1831) was a Koasati Native Americans in the United States, Native American plantation owner who served as the speaker, interpreter, and translator for her brother, Alexander McGillivray, a leader in the Muscogee Confederacy. ...

, and Jeannette/Jennet, who married Le Clerc Milfort, as well as two who died in childhood. Lachlan departed the country in 1757.

Other marriages and children

Sehoy II also had other marriages, to Scottish trader Malcolm McPherson and, according to family tradition, to an unnamed chief of the

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or Tuckabatchee. Her children by these marriages were

Sehoy III Sehoy III, also called Sehoy Weatherford (c. 1750 – c. 1815) was a Muscogee Creek trader who was part of the Sehoy matrilineage. Like her mother and grandmother, both also called Sehoy, she contracted multiple marriages with white traders. Acco ...

, Elizabeth, and Malcolm McPherson II, who predeceased his sisters so that they inherited his property. Sehoy II's marriage to McPherson is sometimes placed before and sometimes after her marriage to Lachlan.

Death

Sehoy II's death date is unknown, but her daughter Sehoy III's move to live with the Moniac family at the age of eight may suggest that Sehoy II had died by then. She was buried 'on the river bluff there near the Indian Mound in Montgomery.'{{Cite book , last=Wright , first=Amos J. , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A7T2HCPyMhkC&pg=PA190 , title=The McGillivray and McIntosh Traders: On the Old Southwest Frontier 1716-1815 , date=2007-02-28 , publisher=NewSouth Books , isbn=978-1-60306-014-1 , pages=186 , language=en

References

18th-century Native American women Muscogee (Creek) Nation people 1720s births Year of birth uncertain Year of death unknown