Margaret Mar-pi-ya-ro-to-win or Grey Cloud Woman Aird

  General Notes:

From, Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Vol. XV, page 372
Captain Thomas Anderson and Margaret Aird had three children; Mary,
Angus M. (an early Indian trader in Minnesota), and Jane, who married
Andrew Robertson.
Photo of (Andrew Robertson) sent to Wendell Hansen July 2005 by Carol Friemel.
Andrew Robertson
at
Pine Rock Union 1836 or 1837
Grey Cloud Island 1838
Kapiosia, Little Crows Village 1854
Yellow Medicine Agency 1854
Redwood Agency 1848
All in Minnesota
died at Redwood Agency
May 11, 1859.

From Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Vol. IX 1901 and
XV 1915.
Vol. IX, page ?, Narration of a Friendly Sioux, by Snana, in the notes;
Mahkpia-hoto-win, in translation Gray Cloud, was a noted Sioux woman
of early times who lived on the well known island of the Mississippi
below St. Paul, which still bears her English name. She first married
to a white trader named Anderson, by whom she had two children, Angus
and Jennie. The latter became the wife of Andrew Robertson, who became
prominent in Indian affairs in Minnesota.
After Anderson's death, which occurred in Canadan, Gray Cloud was
married to Hazen P. Mooer, another white trader, who was a
Massachusetts man by birth. By the latter marriage she had two
children, Mary and Jane Ann, of whom the latter unmarried. Mary was
married to John Brown, and still living at Inver Grove, near St. Paul.
(1901)
Vol. XV, 1915, page 371-8.
Historical Notes of Grey Cloud Island and its Vicinity, by John H. Case
The name Grey Cloud in the Dakota or Sioux language is
Mar-pi-ya-ro-to, with the addition of one more syllable, win, meaning
woman. It was the Sioux name of both the wife and the daughter of James
Aird, an Indian trader.
Margaret Aird was married to Captain Thomas Anderson about 1805 at
Praire du Chien. He was an officer in the British Army, and took part
in the capture of Fort McKay at that place in the war of 1812. He was
born at Cornwall, Canada, in January, 1778, and died at Port Hope,
Canada, in 1874. They had three children, Mary, Angus M. (an early
trader in Minnesota), and Jane, who married Andrew Robertson, Head
farmer for the government at the Yellow Medicine Agency, and afterward
superintdent of Indian schools on the reservation, from about 1854 to
1858.
In the Dakota language Margaret Aird was named Mar-pi-ya-ro-to-win,
the same as her mother. She separated from Captain Anderson after they
had been married about eight years, and later married Hazen Mooers.
Margaret died at Black Dog's village in 1850, and was buried there.

[Mary Lou writes: “I recently found reference to a "skeleton" in the family closet, that would be an Indian wife named Grey Cloud with whom T.G.A. had three children. Apparently Grey Cloud was a rather famous lady in her own right. She was the daughter of James Aird and the first Grey Cloud. There is an island named after her near the "Twin Cities" in Minnesota.”]

She was a powerful fur trader

Margaret married Captain Thomas Gummersall Anderson, son of Captain Samuel Anderson and Deliverance Bates, in 1805 in Praire du Chien. (Captain Thomas Gummersall Anderson was born on 12 Nov 1779 in Sorel, canada and died in 1874 in Port Hope, Canada.)

Margaret next married Hazen P. Mooers. (Hazen P. Mooers was born about 1796.)