Alexander Cameron's Protege

*"Colonel Innes was a Scotchman.  He was probably a protege of his countryman, Alexander Cameron, the British Indian Agent among the Cherokees; and was, it would appear, an assistant commissary at the Long Island of Holston, at one time; and in the fall of 1777, returned to the Cherokee nation, taking up his  quarters with Cameron.  He was commissioned Colonel of the South Carolina Royalists, January 20, 1780; in 1782, he was Inspector General of the Loyalist forces.  Colonel Hanger, in his Reply to Mackenzie's Strictures states that Innes was living retired in 1789, probably on half-pay."