DESCENDANTS of MICUlVI McINTIRE A Scott.i.sh Highlander, deported by Oliver Cromwell after the Baul,e of Dunbar, September 3, 1650, and seul,ed at York, }Iaine, about 1668 Compild and PKblishd by ROBERT HARRY McINTIRE Fellow of the lnstituk of Am..'Tican Genealogy 1940 THE TUTTLE PtraLrsmxa CoMPAXY, fac. RUTLAXD, VER.\IO~"T PRISTEI> !S U. S. A. To my father H.4RRY JUDSON McINTIRE this volume is respedfully dedicated FOREWORD The information contained in this volume h:i.s been gathered from many :ind v:iried sources. More than fifteen thousand vital record entries in the six New England st:J.tes ha,·e been collected :1.nd compiled. Abstracts of hundreds of prob:lte records and registries of deeds in eighteen counties have been prepared. Inscriptions iu scores of cemeteries have pro,;ded m:iny addi­ tion!l! facts. An extensive correspondence with hundreds of dei;ccndants in every part of the country has en:ibled the compiler to tie into the family m:iny migratory branches which otherni,;e would never have been located. Use has been made of the records available at the Feder!l! Census Bureau and the Congressioll!l.l Libr:1.ry at Washington. Thousands of family gene!l!ogies, town histories and gener!l! reference volumes in libraries throughout the entire East have been consulted. Some have supplied a single item; others, several paragr::iphs of information. Although every precaution has been taken to :i:,sure a max­ imum of accuracy and every effort hll.S been made to complete rul :McIntire lines of descent, the author does not in any "ise infer that this volume is infallible and much less that it is com­ plete. He trusts that any error that m:iy have crept in will be judged as leniently as may be. In this volume it has been the author's intention to complete the records of :McIntire daughters only in the first generation, since ob,;ously a more complete history of their descendants properly belongs in genealogies of their respective family names. This has necessarily meant the omission of much material that hl!S been compiled. The author is indebted to a countless number of descendants who have furnished a wealth of material about their respecth·e family units. It would be impossible ~o name them all. Acknow­ ledgment, however, should be made to l\Irs. Samuel R. Putnam of Claremont, N. I~., who has generously contributed many records which she ha:; gathered, and who h:i.s furnished the m:1.p of Scotland and the family co:it-of-arm.;;;. Finally, the author is especially indebted to his father, Harry J. McIntire, without whose indefatigable interest and invaluable assistance it would ha,·e been impossible to complete this volwr.e fo: many years. ROBERT HARRY :VIch"TIRE G!enside, Pa. June 27, 1940 JltSTOIUCAL I.AN1111AltKf! OF TUil I\IAclNTnlt Ct,AN IN 8l'O'fLAND MACINTYRE CL.AN IDSTORY AIU!s-Quart 1 and 4; Or, an e!\gle displayed gules; 2: Argent, a galley, her sa.iJs furled sable, flags gules; S: Argent, a hand holding a cross-crosslet fitcbl-e sable. CRES'I'-A dener hand holding a dagger in pale proper. CLA.-: PIPE M'l1Sic-Gabhaidh rinn an ral.had mor. [We will take the highway]. BADGE-Fraoch gorm [Common heather]. Marro-Pu Ardua [Through Difficulty]. The MacIntyre arms are quartered. The original family arms, which appear in the upper left and are repeated in the lower right, consist of a red spread eagle on a gold background and indicate service in the foreign wars. The designs in the upper right and lower left are arms of the MacDonalds of Sleat and the Campbells of Breadalbane and were acquired through marriages of MacIntyre chiefs to heiresses of these families. Their background throughout is silver. The galley, black with red flags, indicates service in Spanish Armada campaigns. The de:,ign in the lower left and the cross-crosslet fitchee are s:i.ble and, consequently, indicative of a Crusader. The esquire's helmet above the escutcheon indicates the rank of the owner. It is surrounded by a mantlet or lamberquin in the original metal and color of the MacIntyre, red and gold. The torse, a ·1neath of ent'\'lined ribbon, surmounts the helmet and is a relic of the tournaments of the fourteenth century. The crest, a "dexter [right] hand holding a dagger in pale [perpendicularly] proper [in natural colors], pays tribute to the early ancestor who severed '\'lith a dirk the thumb on his left hand to fill a hole in the side of his vessel. The traditional history of the MacIntyre Clan indicates that they are probably a sept of the MacDonalds of Sleat, Sk-ye. This theory gains support by the fact that the Maclntyres have always lll!lde use of the MacDonald badge, the heather. A romantic legend suggests that on one oce&,ion the MacDon­ ald chief's galley sprang a dangerous leak. Without other means to stop it, a clansman forced his thumb into the hole and cut it off '\'lith his dirk so that he might be at liberty to assist in the work of sailing the vessel. By this drastic expedient he saved the crew from drowning and was henceforth ealled Saor na h-ordaig, the Thumb Carpenter. Another e:.\1)lanation which is equally fantastic if not quite so heroic suggests that two brothers of the MacDonald Clan quarreled over the ownership of an island. It was agreed that each row out to the island and that the first to touch it should become its owner. One brother realizing that he was losing the 8 DESCENDAl\"TS OF M1ctru Mch"TlRE race drew bis knife, cut off a left finger, and tossed it upon the shore whereupon his brother "cursed him long and loud and deep.'' The tradition adds that a son of the original thumb wright became known as .i1Iac-an-t-saoir, the Carpenter's Son. Resolv­ ing to seek his fortune elsewhere he departed from Sleat in his galley taking \\ith him his revered white ~ow and vowing that be would settle wherever she would first lie down to rest after landing. This she did at Glenoe near Bunawe in the dis­ trict of Lome, a place still known as Larach na Ba Baine, the Site of the White Cow.* From this point the history of the Clan is well documented. It is a certainty that the l\foclntyres of Glenoe occupied these lands from 1300 until 1806 and served as Hereditary Foresters of the Stewarts and Campbells, Lords of Lome. The tenure by which they held Glenoe from the Campbells of Glenorchy was a payment annually in summer of a snow ball and a white fatted calf. The snow ball was easily obtained at Cruachan. t As they always kept se,·eral white cows, a white fatted calf was readily procurable. &ch year it was delivered at a stone called Clach an Laoigh Bhiadhta, the Stone of the Fatted Calf. This arrangement continued until the beginning of the eigh­ teenth century when the tenant of Glenoe unfortunately agreed to the payment being commuted into money. In time this rent was increased to such a large sum that the Maclntyres were unable to meet their payments and in 1806 were obliged to leave their hereditary home. There was a large colony of l\faclntjTes resident for many generations at the village of Cladish, Loch Awe, where they carried on an e~"tensive wea,ing industry. A specialty "ith them was the production of very finely woven hose and garters which were made in the various clan tartans. No Highland costume, however expensive, was complete at that period \\ithout a pair of Cladish garters. There were Maclntyres in Badenoch who were attached to the Clan Chattan, while others of the clan in the district of Rannoch in Perthshire were famous for centuries a,; musicians and from 1680 were the hereditary pipers to Chiefs of the Clan Menzies. The ivfaclntyres of Glenoe have, however, been the clan's chiefs. After Donald, a doctor, succeeded to the cbiefship of 0 • A Je,rerid wbjc•l1 !ms ,-w,.•h·rd for i:cneration11 fl~tflll thnt durinc: lfontr<W1e t'I inVMion of .ArJO,·ll in l G·U . .Alruiter llncCulkf'itnch "ith hii,1 bris:nde m:srdJf!'d throu,th GJcnoe. Jn the hcljef th:tt he w:u• Mtm :imonJ: hiN traditional wemit'tl. the Campbclht. he ordered th:Lt :iJl the hou.~ he dt,,itro~·N!. Thf' u.~nt chief'"M dwelfin,: which wns rooff'd "ith he:i.ther w:u, the fi"'t to I~ ("Ortl'liJmiNJ to the flam~ A bumin:; coal was brou,:;ht from the hearth ~~ ~~~~d~~ t~~~ 1 ~l1~~~h~:: ~fib! ~~!~~~t~:T.~!.tth;M~~=~ .. and cxtin,::ui1'h the t'.:1m~. for it ill thf' boUNe of ouf' blood:• The coal. it mip:bt be Added. "n"D!I extrw~·ted from the roof and. ru- a n-lir to pro'\·e the rf"l,l_pert pa.id h'.I.· a. Scot.sm:in to thie tt:1ditionnry tit'!' <J( kindred. wu11 carefully pfftlen•cd by the l!ucIDtyreL'I for m:my ,:e,nemtionfil. t A mount:un ntnr Loch Awe. Cruacban bN:nme the wnr cry of the ;\laclntyn, Clan. D:escEN»A...-TS oF MrCUM McINTIRE 9 the clan, he went in li83 to Kew York. Eis oldest son, James, who was born two years later at Newburgh, sailed to Scotland in 1806, JlUIJTied Ann Campbell of Corries, Glenorchy, in 18li, returned to the United States in 1822, and settled on a farm in Fulton County, N.