Allan MacDonald, however, proved to be a poor land agent and an even poorer businessman. After quarrelling with his landlord over debts and rent, he and Flora emigrated in 1774 to Anson County, North Carolina, and settled with other Clan Donald transplants on a plantation they named "Killegray", near Mount Pleasant, which is now Cameron Hill, North Carolina. When the American Revolutionary War began in 1775, Allan raised the Anson Battalion of the Loyalist North Carolina Militia, a total of around 1,000 men, including their sons Alexander and James.
