Margaret Mackenzie was the daughter of Alexander Mackenzie, also of the 42nd Highland Regiment and listed with the Loyalist[1], and Catherine Johnston. There is an Alexander Mackenzie on a muster roll[2] during the French and Indian War issued at Lake George Camp – Ticonderoga on 24 October 1758 in Captain john Reid’s Company under the command of Captain James Murray. Whether this is our Alexander would require another Muster roll illustrating continuity with the regiment. This muster roll is following the Battle for Ticonderoga, otherwise known as the Battle of Carillon, On 8 July 1758. Here the British were severely defeated by the Marquis de Montcalm. If this is Alexander with the regiment at this date and he was still with them in 1783, he was likely at the fall of Montreal in 1760 and fought through the full Revolutionary War. 

Alexander Mackenzie and Peter Stewart Senior are both included on the memorial plaque at the 42nd Regiment Memorial Cemetery in Pleasant Valley, Nashwaak.

A history of Nashwaak[1] says Peter and Margaret (Mackenzie) Stewart moved to Miramichi before 1829. His father is reported to have died in 1794 in Northumberland, for which I have no formal record.

Both Peter Stewart and Alexander MacKenzie are included in the 1787 land grant (38205) where Peter Stewart received lots 52, 122 and 123 and Alexander received lot 2 in Nashwaak. This grant was registered on 16 June 1787.

There is another land grant (38308) in 1810 where Alexander MacKenzie received 200 acres of land in the Newcastle, Northumberland. This grant was dated 16 October 1810. I do not have collaborating evidence that this is Margaret MacKenzie’s father.


[1] Ina MacLaggan et. Al.; Nashwaak Families 1785-1885, page 118.


[1] Dr. Esther Clark Wright; The Loyalists of New Brunswick; publish. Justin B. Wentzell, Nova Scotia; 1955; page 249
[2] The Artholl Records, Volume 3, page 440.