{"product_id":"ancestry-and-posterity-of-allan-maclean-1905-searchable-pdf-surname-index","title":"Ancestry and Posterity of Allan MacLean (1905) - Searchable PDF \u0026 Surname Index","description":"\u003ch2\u003eTrace Your Clan MacLean \u0026amp; Colonial New England Roots from the Isle of Coll to Connecticut\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally privately printed in Berkeley, California in 1905 by Mary McLean Hardy, \u003cem\u003eA Brief History of the Ancestry and Posterity of Allan MacLean, 1715–1786, Vernon, Colony of Connecticut, New England, U.S.A.\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat's Inside This Enhanced Fairbairn's Crests Digital Edition:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComplete 90-Page Restored Digital Edition (80 Original Printed Pages + 10 Pages of New Research Matter):\u003c\/strong\u003e Every historical page has been digitally cleaned and whitened to a crisp, pure white (\u003ccode\u003e#FFFFFF\u003c\/code\u003e) archival background with all library barcodes, dark binding wrappers, call-number stickers, and blank flyleaves removed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEvery-Word Searchable OCR Text Layer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Instantly search thousands of names, dates, Scottish islands, and New England townships using \u003ccode\u003eCtrl+F\u003c\/code\u003e (Windows) or \u003ccode\u003eCmd+F\u003c\/code\u003e (Mac).\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrand-New Fairbairn's Crests Front Matter (Pages i–iv):\u003c\/strong\u003e Includes a newly written Historical \u0026amp; Genealogical Introduction, exact Printed-to-PDF Page Offset conversion formula, and a 12-point Surname \u0026amp; Place Spelling Variation Guide.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNewly Compiled Alphabetical Surname \u0026amp; Place Index (Back Matter):\u003c\/strong\u003e Over 145 family surnames and 100+ Scottish castles, Hebridean parishes, military regiments, and North American settlements indexed by exact page number.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHeraldry \u0026amp; Clan Antiquities:\u003c\/strong\u003e Features the illustrated Coat-of-Arms of the MacLeans of Coll (\u003cem\u003eAltera Merces\u003c\/em\u003e \/ \u003cem\u003eVirtus Durissima Terit\u003c\/em\u003e) and a detailed account of MacLean's Cross on Iona.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHistorical \u0026amp; Regional Overview\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first three chapters provide a rich genealogical chronicle of \u003cstrong\u003eClan MacLean (Clan Gillean)\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cstrong\u003eLairds of Coll\u003c\/strong\u003e at Breachacha Castle and the cadet house of the \u003cstrong\u003eMacLeans of Drimnacross and Grishipoll\u003c\/strong\u003e—anchored by Allan MacLean of Grishipoll and his wife Catherine MacLean of Balliphetrish (born 1668, living at age 96 in 1764).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe American chapters document the emigration of Dr. Neil MacLean (1702–1784) to Hartford in 1736 and his brother \u003cstrong\u003eLieutenant Allan MacLean (1715–1786)\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSurnames \u0026amp; Families Indexed in This Volume:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbernethy, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eParishes, Townships \u0026amp; 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