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Mellisa:
What "page" (webpage?) are you referring to? Micum’s biological father in Scotland was not anyone named Pierce. John Pierce was an English settler of York, Maine, who was a sponsor for Micum and a couple of the other Dunbar scots who settled there, and was later Micum’s father-in-law. When Micum referred in his will to some property he received from “my father Pierce,” he is talking about his father-in-law, the man who had treated him like a son in the New World.
A member of the Micum McIntire Clan Association claims to have seen (or been told of) a record at the national archives in Edinburgh of the 1625 christening of a Malcolm MacIntyre at Archattan Priory on Loch Etive in Argyll, just a few miles from the clan’s home glen of Glenoe. I cannot confirm this. Micum's birth in 1625 would have meant he would have been 25 yrs. old at Dunbar (about right) and a very ripe 80 when he died in 1705 in York, Maine.
I also located two other Malcolm MacIntyres born or christened about the same time (1620-1630) in the LDS online records. One was in Perth, in eastern Scotland. The short answer is that the tradition says Micum was from Argyll. Beyond that, nobody yet knows.
General David Leslie’s troops at the Sept. 3, 1650 Battle of Dunbar were indeed largely composed of Lowlanders, but there were also a number of Covenanting Highland troops, including some from Argyll led by minor Campbell nobles, and some from the area around. It is likely that if Micum and his brothers/cousins Philip and Robert (also captured at the same battle and later shipped here on the Unity) were from Argyll, then they would have been in a Campbell-led troop, since the MacIntyre’s chiefly line had intermarried with the Campbells. Duncan MacIntyre, the Chief of record at the time, was married to Mary Campbell, daughter of Patrick Campbell II, lord of Barcaldine (a minor Campbell chieftain in Argyll). As an example, in the battle of Inverlochy in Feb. 1645 (a scant 5 ˝ years prior to Dunbar) Duncan himself fought alongside Mary’s nephew Colin Campbell under the Campbell banner, and later took Colin (who had been wounded) back to Glenoe, Duncan’s own home and the center of the Macintyre universe, to recover. [At Inverlochy, many of Duncan’s MacIntyre clansmen--with his blessing—fought under Montrose and Alisdair “Colkitto” MacDonald on the other side. All the Macintyres were just a wee bit careful where they placed themselves on the battlefield.]
Re the Scots Charitable Society, I recommend contacting one of their officers, Stuart MacIntire, a descendant of Philip MacIntire, at samco1208@aol.com.
A 1976 publication about the Saugus Iron Works, “The Scots at Hammersmith,” by Stephen P. Carlson, claims that Robert MacIntire (Micum's other brother/cousin), who worked the iron works with Engram Moody, was "one of three sons of Ebenezer MacIntire of Argyll." I contacted Carlson about this, but he couldn’t find his source and referred me to the National Parks Service folks at Saugus to whom he said he had given all his research notes for the booklet. The Parks Service folks were confused--they thought all they had was the booklet itself. Nobody knows where the research notes went. C’est la vie.
There are other ways to pretend to skin a cat. Micum McIntire had three sons, John, Daniel, and Micum, Jr. The then-traditional Scottish pattern was to name the first son for the paternal grandfather, the second son for the maternal grandfather and the third son for the father. Micum named his third son for himself, but named his first-born (my ancestor) for his father-in-law John Pierce (the maternal grandfather), breaking the sequence. Who, then, was Daniel? I suspect it may be the name of Micum’s father in Scotland.
Philip McIntire, Micum’s other brother or cousin, ended up in North Reading, Massachusetts. His first three sons were named Philip Jr., Thomas, and (ahem) Daniel. Philip didn’t follow the traditional pattern, putting his own name first, but there’s another Daniel showing up. Maybe Thomas was the father of Philip's wife Mary (we don't know her last name, unfortunately). Daniel was a popular 17th century Biblical name, and there’s no way to know, of course, but it’s always fun to speculate.
Finally, I wouldn't attach too much meaning to any variation in spelling you find for Engram Moody (Ingraham Moody?) in documents relating to his life. Spelling was an uncommon skill in early New England, and very casually practiced even among those who knew how to write. The first and last names of Malcolm MacIntyre (Calum Mac-An-t'Saior, in the Gaelic) were spelled with great and imaginative variety during his lifetime by the different official scribes he encountered--Malcolm became Micum, Micom, Mycombe, Mathan, Michum, and Micam; and MacIntyre became Micatere, Macheyntyre, Mackintire, Mackintyre, Mecantire, and so forth. The important thing is being able to recognize the name if you see it written, not how it is spelled.
Good hunting!
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