Archibald McKay
Archibald McKay was born in Kintyre, in Argyll, in 1720. His father Alexander had come out to North Carolina in 1739 with the first party of Argyll families, and a family tradition has Archibald and his son Alexander following him to Cumberland County in 1752. His descendants' own history counts him as the first of them documented in America.
He settled on the road the Highlanders had cut through the sand hills, and the meeting place there was called McKay's. The Presbyterian missionary Hugh McAden preached there on his tour of the Carolinas, and when the congregation built its church about 1765 it took the name Long Street. Its first elders were Malcom Smith, Archibald McKay and Archibald Ray. The sermon was preached twice each Sunday, once in English and once in Gaelic.
He married twice and had sixteen children, eight by each wife. His first wife, Ann Gilchrist, was the mother of Janet, Sarah, Alexander, Isabella, John, Archibald, Malcolm and Neill. His second was Katherine Mullin, called Ketrin in Gaelic, who survived him and is named in his will. He died in 1797. By then his son Alexander had taken his own family to the Bahamas rather than live under the new government, and his granddaughter Ann had married the son of his fellow elder.
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Cite: Heirology, "Archibald McKay (1720-1797)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/archibald-mckay-1720-1797-2e97ef.