Ancestry and Posterity of Allan MacLean (1905) - Searchable PDF & Surname Index

Trace Your Clan MacLean & Colonial New England Roots from the Isle of Coll to Connecticut

Originally privately printed in Berkeley, California in 1905 by Mary McLean Hardy, A Brief History of the Ancestry and Posterity of Allan MacLean, 1715–1786, Vernon, Colony of Connecticut, New England, U.S.A. is one of the rarest transatlantic Scottish-American genealogies in existence. Drawing upon original 1759–1764 family letters from Glasgow, a 1731 Scottish family Bible, a 1738 Gaelic hymnbook bought in Mull, and the 1859 manuscript recollections of Colonel Francis McLean of Vernon and Reverend Allen McLean of Simsbury, this volume bridges over seven centuries of West Highland clan history with six generations of American pioneer records.

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• Complete 90-Page Restored Digital Edition (80 Original Printed Pages + 10 Pages of New Research Matter): Every historical page has been digitally cleaned and whitened to a crisp, pure white (#FFFFFF) archival background with all library barcodes, dark binding wrappers, call-number stickers, and blank flyleaves removed.
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• Newly Compiled Alphabetical Surname & Place Index (Back Matter): Over 145 family surnames and 100+ Scottish castles, Hebridean parishes, military regiments, and North American settlements indexed by exact page number.
• Heraldry & Clan Antiquities: Features the illustrated Coat-of-Arms of the MacLeans of Coll (Altera Merces / Virtus Durissima Terit) and a detailed account of MacLean's Cross on Iona.

Historical & Regional Overview

The first three chapters provide a rich genealogical chronicle of Clan MacLean (Clan Gillean) across the islands of Mull, Coll, Tiree, Islay, and Iona, as well as Morvern and Lochaber in Argyllshire. It traces twenty-five Chiefs of Duart from Old Dougall of Scone (c. 1100) and Gilleain of the Battle-Axe (c. 1250) through Red Hector of the Battles (slain at Harlaw, 1411), Hector Odhar (slain at Flodden, 1513), Sir Lachlan Mór (slain on Islay, 1598), and the Royalist Baronets of Nova Scotia who fought at Inverkeithing (1651), Killiecrankie (1689), Sheriffmuir (1715), and Culloden (1746). The lineage then follows the sixteen Lairds of Coll at Breachacha Castle and the cadet house of the MacLeans of Drimnacross and Grishipoll—anchored by Allan MacLean of Grishipoll and his wife Catherine MacLean of Balliphetrish (born 1668, living at age 96 in 1764).

The American chapters document the emigration of Dr. Neil MacLean (1702–1784) to Hartford in 1736 and his brother Lieutenant Allan MacLean (1715–1786), who sailed from Newport, Glasgow on July 22, 1740, landed at Boston on September 17, 1740, served five years at Stillwater, New York during the French and Indian War in Colonel Carlisle's Regiment, and settled in Hartford, Bolton, and Vernon, Connecticut. Exhaustive vital records trace the descendants of Allan MacLean and Mary Loomis through Captain Alexander McLean (1747–1806) and Johannah Smith across East Windsor, Manchester, Talcottville, Rockville, and Simsbury, Connecticut, as well as migrations to New York, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and California—including Rockville industrial founder Colonel Francis McLean, novelist Sally Pratt McLean Greene, University of California President William Thomas Reid, University of Iowa President George Edwin McLean, and Connecticut Governor George Payne McLean.

Surnames & Families Indexed in This Volume:

Abernethy, Acheson, Addis, Allen, Backus, Badet, Bailey, Baker, Barber, Bassett, Bayliss, Beaton, Beauchamp, Beecher, Belden, Bishop, Bissell, Blackburn, Blackie, Blood, Bosworth, Bottume, Brockett, Brockway, Bronson, Bruce, Bruson, Buchanan, Buckland, Bunce, Burnett, Bushnell, Butler, Cameron, Campbell, Carlisle, Case, Chapman, Chester, Childs, Christian, Clanranald, Clanroland, Clements, Coit, Corbitt, Cromwell, Cumming, Cunningham, Darrow, Davis, Dayton, Dennistoun, Dickinson, Doddridge, Dorchester, Dougall, Douglas, Dwight, Eaton, Eddy, Edwards, Eldridge, Erc, Erning, Ferry, Ford, Fraser, Frazer, Fyler, Gilleain, Gillean, Gillian, Gilman, Godred, Grant, Grattan, Greeley, Greene, Gregory, Griswold, Grover, Hall, Hardy, Harfagr, Hill, Hinckley, Hodge, Hooker, Hopkins, Irvine, Johnson, Kellogg, Kempff, Kennedy, Kidder, Kimberly, King, Kredel, Ladd, Lake, Lang, Lathrop, Le Turc, Leake, Lentzen, Lewis, Lincoln, Lockwood, Loomis, MacDonald, MacDougall, MacKenzie, MacLean, MacLeod, MacNeil, MacRath, Markham, Maynard, McClelland, McDonald, McDougal, McKinney, McLean, McLeod, Meekins, Montgomery, Morgan, Morrison, Mueller, Munsell, Neff, Noyes, Palmer, Parker, Parkhurst, Payne, Peck, Plympton, Pratt, Rathbone, Reed, Reid, Risley, Robertson, Rose, Russell, Rust, Scott, Sheldon, Sill, Sinclair, Skene, Skinner, Slater, Small, Smith, Somerled, Spalding, Spencer, Spottiswoode, Stacy, Stebbins, Stewart, Stillman, Strong, Stuart, Symson, Talcott, Taylor, Thompson, Thrall, Tinker, Tracy, Tryon, Watson, Watts, Wells, Wentworth, White, Wickham, Wilburn, Wilkinson, Willard, Williams, Wilson, Winchester, Woodbridge, Woodford.

Parishes, Townships & Settlements Indexed:

Scotland, England, Ireland & Europe: Annat Hill, Ardgour, Argyle (Argyllshire), Auchnabreck, Balliphetrish, Bannockburn, Ben Hogh, Ben More, Bloody Bay, Borreray (Boreray), Breachacha Castle, Brolass, Cairnburg Castle, Calais, Calgary (Mull), Carrick Castle, Coll (Isle of Coll), Craignish, Culloden, Dantzig, Drimnacross, Drum, Drumfin, Duard Castle (Duart), Dundee, Dunkeld, Edinburgh, Firth of Lorn, Flodden Field, Glasgow, Glencairn, Glendessary, Glenlivat, Gordon Castle, Gosford, Grisiboll (Grishipoll / Grisipoll Castle), Guirdhill, Harlaw (Harlow), Harris, Hebrides, Inch Kenneth, Inveraray, Inverkeithing, Iona (Icolmkill), Islay, Jura, Kilbride (Coll), Kilchoman, Killiecrankie, Kilmore, Kintail, Knapdale, Lennox, Lismore, Loch Breachacha, Lochaber, Lochbuy (Lochbuie), Lochiel, Lochy, London, Lovat, Mary's Lake, Memel, Morrer (Morar), Morvern, Mull (Isle of Mull), Newport (Port Glasgow), Pennycross, Rome, Roseneath, Rum (Isle of Rum), Salem (Salen), Scarba, Scaterzkill, Scone, Sheriffmuir, Sound of Mull, St. Oran's Chapel, Tallisker (Talisker), Tiree, Tobermory, Torlisk (Torloisk), Torrestan, Treshnish, Urquhart, Windsor.
North America & Abroad: Avon (CT), Baltimore (MD), Barre (MA), Belfast (Prince Edward Island), Belmont (CA), Berkeley (CA), Bloomfield (IL), Bolton (CT), Boston (MA), Brookline (MA), Brooklyn (NY), Cambridge (MA), Canterbury (CT), Canton (CT), Castleton (VT), Cherokee (IA), Chicago (IL), Cobalt (CT), Colchester (CT), Collinsville (CT), Crown Point (NY), Danbury (CT), Danville (KY), Davenport (IA), Des Moines (IA), Downey (CA), East Hartford (CT), East Orange (NJ), East Windsor (CT), Easton (PA), Elizabeth (NJ), Ellington (CT), Fort Duquesne (PA), Fort Leavenworth (KS), Fulton Wells (CA), Goshen (CT), Granby (QC), Great Barrington (MA), Hagerstown (MD), Hartford (CT), Havana (Cuba), Iowa City (IA), Ipswich (MA), Jacksonville (IL), Lexington (MA), Litchfield (CT), Logansport (IN), Los Angeles (CA), Manchester (CT), Manila (Philippines), Minneapolis (MN), Montreal (QC), Natal (South Africa), New Haven (CT), New London (CT), New York City (NY), Newbern (NC), Newton (IA), Newton (MA), Norfolk (CT), Norfolk (VA), North Bolton (CT), Norwalk (CA), Norwich (CT), Nova Scotia, Oakland (CA), Oxford (OH), Palmyra (NY), Pasadena (CA), Philadelphia (PA), Phoenix Village (CT), Plainfield (CT), Plainville (CT), Quebec (QC), Rockville (CT), San Francisco (CA), Santa Ana (CA), Simsbury (CT), Snipsic Lake (CT), Somers (CT), South Bend (IN), South Bolton (CT), South Hadley (MA), South Windsor (CT), Springfield (MA), St. Albans (VT), St. Armand (QC), St. Louis (MO), Stillwater (NY), Surbridge (MA), Syracuse (NY), Talcottville (CT), Ticonderoga (NY), Tolland (CT), Troy (NY), Vernon (CT), Wales (MA), Wapping (CT), Washington (DC), Westchester County (NY), Wethersfield (CT), Wilbraham (MA), Willington (CT), Wilmington (DE), Windsor (CT), Woonsocket (RI).