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The name MacLeod comes from Clan MacLeod which is said to have originated in the western isles of Scotland. Charles Campbell MacLeod (1863-1930) appears to have emigrated to America in 1884 from Inverness, Scotland. He settled in Lynchburg, Virginia. In 1888 he married Ileita Howard and they were the parents of five children. Descendants live in Virginia, Alabama and other parts of the United States.
Millions of Scots have left their homeland during the last 400 years. Until now, they have been written about in general terms. Scottish Exodus breaks new ground by taking particular emigrants, drawn from the once-powerful Clan MacLeod, and discovering what happened to them and their families. These people became, among other things, French aristocrats, Polish resistance fighters, Texan ranchers, New Zealand shepherds, Australian goldminers, Aboriginal and African-American activists, Canadian mounted policemen and Confederate rebels. One nineteenth-century MacLeod even went so far as to swap his Gaelic for Arabic and his Christianity for Islam before settling down comfortably in Cairo. This gripping account of Scotland's worldwide diaspora is based on unpublished documents, letters and family histories. It is also based on the author's travels in the company of today's MacLeods - some of them still in Scotland, others further afield. Scottish Exodus is a tale of disastrous voyages, famine and dispossession, the hazards of pioneering on faraway frontiers. But it is also the moving story of how people separated from Scotland by hundreds of years and thousands of miles continue to identify with the small country where their journeyings began.
George Nicholas Spaid (Spaht) was born in 1759 in Cassell, Hesse, Germany and was kidnapped for Hessian military service in the American Revolution in 1776. He married Elizabeth Cale (Kale) in 1782 and settled in Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia). In 1819 they moved to Guernsey County, Ohio, where he died in 1833.