Genealogical account of the Highland families of Shaw

98 GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE SHAWS.
Council of Upper Canada. He died of fatigue
in the American War of 1813, leaving five
sons (Alexander, Richard, C/iarles, jEneas, and
David, all officers in the army) and five
daughters [Isabella, married John Powel, son
of the Chief Justice of Upper Canada ; Anne,
married John Baldwin ; Sophia ; Mary ; and
Charlotte), mostly settled at Oak Hill (i.e.
Tordarroch) near Toronto.
John, 68th Eegiment, in which he rose to the rank
of Major. He was killed in action with a
privateer on a voyage to the West Indies.
One of his brother lieutenants in the 68th in
1776 was his second cousin John Mackintosh,
father of Sir James Mackintosh.
Anne, unmarried.
Margaret, 1 married Farquhar Macgillivray of
Dalcrombie, one of the three officers of the
Mackintosh Eegiment who escaped from
Culloden. She died in 1833.
Alexandeb, eldest son of Angus, received a com-
mission in the 60th or Eoyal American regiment of
1 Margaret Shaw or Macgillivray was in her time, as I have been told
by those who knew her, a living encyclopoedia of Highland legendary and
family history. From an old Bible which belonged to her I first
obtained the names of the several heads of the family of Tordarroch,
from Adam, grandson of Shaw Mor, to her brother Alexander, oidy the
name of Adam's son Robert being omitted. The general correctness of
her genealogy I succeeded in proving in every particidar, as the text
shows, by the aid of documents of various kinds and occasional notices
iu the Mackintosh MSS. and elsewhere.