Alexander Munro

Abt 1706 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Alexander Munro  [1]
  Born	Abt 1706
  	Estimate: This birth date is an estimate based on the birth dates of nearest relatives or contemporaries, or based on other clues such as christening date, marriage date, birth order, etc.
  Gender	Male
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I4831	Munro
  Last Modified	4 Sep 2009

  
  

• Notes

  "Monroe, Alexander. Probably from Inverness. To Georgia, 1736. Settled New Inverness, McIntosh County. Planter. Left colony, 1740." (From "A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to the U.S.A." Compiled & Edited by Donald Whyte) "As early as Jan 1739...a petition from the citizens of New Inverness... signed by eighteen men of New Inverness, headed by their chief, John Morh McIntosh...this was the first protest in all history against the employment of slaves..." (From "The Golden Isles of Georgia" by Caroline Couper Lovell) "3 Jan 1738/9 Petition of the Settlers and Freeholders at Darien against the introducing Negroes into Georgia. "We are informed that our neighbors in Savannah have petitioned your Excellency for the liberty of having Slaves: We hope & earnestly intreat, that before such proposals are hearken'd to, your Excellency will consider our situation, and of what dangerous and bad consequences such liberty would be of to us for many reasons... "5. It is shocking to human nature, that any race of mankind and their posterity, should be sentenc'd to perpetual slavery, nor in justice can we think otherwise of it, than that they are thrown amongst us to be our scourge one day or other for our sins: and as freedom to them must be as dear as to us, what a scene of horrour must it bring about! And the longer it is un-executed, the bloody scene must be the greater. "We therefore for our own sake, our wives and children, and our posterity, beg your consideration, and intreat, that instead of introducing slaves, you will put us in the way to get us some of our countrymen, who with their labour in time of peace, and our vigilance if we are invaded, with help of those, will render it a difficult thing to hurt us or that part of the Province which we possess. We will ever pray for your Excellency, and are with all submission Yr. Excellency's most obliged humble servts." (From the "Egmont Papers" at University of Georgia Libraries - Manuscript Division.) The above petition was signed by Alexander Munro and 17 of his neighbors on 3 Jan 1738/9. Ref: Clan Munro files - Elder, Charlotte ********** The following is a transcription of RW Munro's genealogy notes: [Alexander Munro] «i»along with William Munro, was one of the Highlanders settled in Darien, Georgia under Gen. Ogelthorpe who signed a petition (against the inroduction of slavery) in favour of the Georgia Trustees, dated New Inverness, 3 Jan 1739. ?Same as Alexander Monroe who arrived at Darien in Georgia 1736 with wife & child, & after many hardships left 1740 (acc. to his declaration printed in Georgia Hist. Colln'.) See Wm (fl 1739). J.P. MacLean, Highlanders in America, pp. 156-7, 158-9, 166 (from Georgia Hist. Coll vol.II, pp. 115 etc.); A.M. Mackintosh, Mackintoshes & Clan Chattan (1903), p. 385 note; 'Eagle Flyer' (winter 1998) p. 2; RWM memo to U.S. genealogist Charlotte Elder, 31 August 1979; Clan Munro Magazine ix 4; [G. Donaldson, Scots Overseas, p. 61]; I.C.C. Graham, Colonists From Scotland, p. 138 re petition. «/i»********** Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S668] RW Munro's Genealogy Database, Robert William Munro, (The collected genealogy notes of RW Munro, Hon. Historian of Clan Munro (Association) edited by Dr. Jean Munro, transcribed by Charles C. Munroe, III and others. Transcription completed Jan 2009. Original card file is kept at the "Storehouse of Foulis" near Foulis Castle in Scotland.), card 186 (Reliability: 3).