Renaissance of the Clan MacLean 

Comprising also a History of 

DUBHAIRD CAISTEAL 

and the 
Great Gathering on August 24, 1912 



Together with an 



APPENDIX 

Containing Letters of Gen'I Allan MacLean 

Narrative of an American Party 

A MacLean Bibliography 




BY 



J. P. MACLEAN, PH. D. 



COLUMBUS, OHIO : 

THE F. J. HEER PRINTING Co. 

1913 




MAC LEAN PROVERBS. 



CLOIONN GHILLEATHAIN 's NA SEANFHACAIL. Cha 'n 'eil e idir na 
ioghnadh gu'm fine cho gaisgeil agus ainmeil ri Cloinn Ghilleathain 
air chuimhne anns na sean-fhacail. So iad mata, math is olc : 

"Spagadagliog Chlann Donuill agus leom Leathanaich" Macdonald 
swagger and Maclean airs. 

Leathanach gun bhosd, Donullach gun tapadh, agus Caimbeulach gun 
mhorchuis (Rare things) a Maclean without boasting, a Macdonald 
without activity, or a Campbell without pride. 

An t-uasal Leathanach 's an ceatharnach Raonalach The Macleans 
proud and the Clan Ranald courageous. 

Ged tha mi bochd tha mi uasal ; buidheachas do Dhia is ann de 
Chlann '111 Eathain mi Though I am poor I am proud; thank God I am 
a Maclean. 

Mar mhadadh ag 61 eanraich tha ainmean Chlann 111' Eathain 
Eachunn, Lachunn, Tearlach Like a dog lapping soup the names of the 
Macleans Eachunn, Lachunn, Tearlach (Hector, Lachlan, Charles). 

Mac '111 Eathain lamh-fhadach, Mac Shimidh ball-dubh, 's Mac 'Ilk 
Chaluim camachasach Long-handed Macleans, black-spotted Fraser, and 
bandy-legged Macleod (of Raasay). 

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BADGES OF THE CLAN. 



Dowart, Drimnin, Morvaren, Pennycross and Brolas Crowberry Heath. 
Ardgour, Coll, Dochgarroch and Macleans of the North Holly. 

TARTANS. 
There are two tartans the dress and hunting. 

The following will be interesting, viz. : The first indisputable re- 
ference to Highland Tartans occurs in the "Accounts of the Lord High 
Treasurer of Scotland," in August, 1538. "These articles formed part of 
the dress worn by James V. when hunting in the Highlands. While there 
can be little doubt that district tartans are older than clan tartans, it is 
interesting to note that there is -historic evidence to prove the existence of 
clan tartans as early as 1587. In a charter of that year, granting 
Hector MacLean of Dowart certain lands in Islay, the feu duty is made 
payable in the form of sixty ells' cloth of white, black and green colours, 
which correspond with the colours of the hunting tartan of the House of 
Dowart." 



Bas na beatha "Death or Life." 

Fear eile airson Eachainn "Another for Hector." Used alternatively. 

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



In the city of Glasgow, on Tuesday, September 4, 1912, the 
day was rainy, and gloom appeared to settle over all. But, oi 
entering the office of John MacLean, the Chairman of the 
Committee on Arrangements for the Gathering, I found that 
gentleman's face beaming with smiles, for his mind was in a 
happy frame over the success of the Gathering. The numbers 
present at the meeting far exceeded expectations, the weaiher 
was all that could be desired, and the arrangements carried 
out to a full satisfaction, without a hitch or any incident to 
mar the occasion. All in attendance had expressed themselves as 
satisfied beyond their expectations. 

Mr. MacLean informed me that there appeared to be a 
general desire that the occasion, with its proceedings, should be 
preserved in permanent form ; that he had been requested to 
take up the work, and, still others had suggested him, that 
the writer should assume the burden. He urged me to shoulder 
the charge. The whole matter was thoroughly discussed in all 
its attendant phases. That gentleman assured me that he would 
do all in his power to assist in the enterprise, which promise he 
has fulfilled. 

In canvassing the question I pointed out the advisability 
of adding other material which would be welcome to the reader, 
besides adding to the value of the book. 

It is a matter of pride to record that the financial success 
was assured before a single line had been indited. It was 
discovered that there was a great desire to possess the records 
as set forth in the advertisement that had been presented to the 
clansmen. When the Chief learned of the enterprise, he im- 
mediately wrote: "I am glad to hear you are good enough to 
seize your pen once more and to commence another Historical 
Campaign. No man is better fitted for it. We are all anxious 
to get copies." It might be well to state that I alone am re- 

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sponsible for the contents of this volume, and furthermore no 
one has inspected the same. 

The Topical Press, London, and the Glasgow Daily Record 
& Mail, placed at my disposal the free use of such of their copy- 
right photographs as I required. Colonel J. R. Howard Mac- 
Lean, also sent the collection of photoghaphs made by himself, 
for use to choose such as I desired. My obligations are due to 
all. 

December 4, 1912. 




(This crest taken from a silver spoon owned 
by Capt. Hector MacLean, of the 42nd Regi- 
ment, in American Revolution. Now owned by 
his great-granddaughter, Mrs. Elizabeth McLean 
Volty, of Buffalo, N. Y.) 



DIVISION OF SUBJECTS. 



RENAISSANCE OF THE CLAN. 
DUBHAIRD CAISTEAL. 
GATHERING OF THE CLAN. 
GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 
REGISTERED COATS OF ARMS. 
PERSONAL NARRATIVE. 
MACLEAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 

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PART I. 



RENAISSANCE OF THE CLAN. 

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RENAISSANCE OF CLAN GILLEAN. 



The peasantry of the Highlands of Scotland, during the 
reign of the clans, presents a story most fascinating. This 
people, from time immemorial, and continuing for two or three 
generations after the clan system had ended, was greatly 
given to the recital of stories of occurrences that had been 
handed down from generation to generation. Every neighbor- 
hood contained those gifted with retentive memories, and dur- 
ing the long nights of winter the people would assemble in 
some hut, and there listen with undivided interest to some tale 
of the past. The poems of Ossian, the weird tales of folk lore, 
and the achievements of heroes, became a national literature 
imbedded in the hearts of the people. Every clan had its his- 
torian who kept the chief informed of his ancestry and sang 
their praises to him. 

The night gatherings were not only productive of intel 
lectual pleasure, but also took the form of a thorough school- 
ing, and of such a compass as to force the men of the moun- 
tains to a higher mental plane than that of a similar people of 
other nations. 

The casual reader assumes that the Highlanders were a 
warrior class. The assumption is entirely wrong, as is noticed 
by those who have studied this people. In one sense the High- 
landers were freemen, and recognized no higher political power 
than that of their chief. Whilst there were clan feuds, and 
clan battles, these were not continuous, and the conflicts 
recorded are covered by years. They were bold and courageous, 
and the MacLeans rose to the distinction of being the best 
swordsmen in Scotland. Yet, this is a product of a free people. 
A freeman will brave more than one that is driven or coerced. 

The nature of the Gael was intense, and whenever duty 
called him, the same element governed his every movement. 

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Intense in his religion, intense in his love of home and country, 
he was equally intense in his loyalty to his chief, and in his 
hatred of those who had provoked revenge. 

It is well to affirm that the people was a product of the 
clan system, and under that aegis there was a growth or de- 
velopment that attained unto a higher civilization. Whatever 
ultimate hope or prospect may have been in view, was ended 
on Culloden's fatal day, which dealt the death blow to clan 
prospects, clan happiness, and that fealty existing between the 
chief and his clan. True, the clan feeling and literary schooling 
struggled, then waned, and its extinction culminated in eviction's 
frightful scourge. The pleasures of the evening's recitations 
ended, and the stories of Fingal were neglected. Fortunately 
for the cause of Highland literature, through the influence of 
Blair, Carlyle and Ferguson, James MacPherson, in 1760, 
published "Fragments of Ancient Poetry," which excited so 
much attention that a subscription was taken up to send the 
editor into the Highlands to collect all 'that he could of the 
precious relics, which resulted in publishing in 1762, Ossian's 
Fingal and Temora. I am aware that it has been authoritatively 
stated that the Temora appeared in 1763. I have a very fine 
copy of the first edition of Ossian, and Temora is recorded 
from page 172 to 192, and the whole number of pages is 270. 

MacPherson's Ossian was received with enthusiastic ap- 
plause, and within less than a year was translated into nearly 
every language of Europe. Over the poems there grew up a 
very long and fierce controversy, some contending, led by David 
Hume, Dr. Samuel Johnson and others that they were spurious, 
while their authenticity was proclaimed by Dr. Hugh Blair, Dr. 
Graham, Sir John Sinclair, Archibald Donald and others. In 
1870, a magnificent edition, in two large volumes, appeared, 
edited by Rev. Archibald Clerk. 

The Highland Society, very wisely appointed a commit- 
tee to investigate the matter by going to the very root. Its re- 
port, published in 1805, revealed that there was visible evidence 
of a race literature, and the actual evidence was presented. 

Without going into the merits of the opposing factions, it 
is only necessary to affirm that the controversy was productive 
of great good. MacPherson did call the attention of the world 
to the storehouse of the Gael, and the literature which has since 



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been revealed has kept the Highlander of Scotland constantly 
before the intellectual English speaking world. 

It is not here intended to ascribe all the unfastenings of the 
secret doors to the epic of Ossian. The mighty intellect of 
Sir Walter Scott has awakened many a mind to the manners 
and customs of those living north of the Grampian mountains. 

Out of the literature, the controversies, and the general 
study of the people has grown a wealth of actual history, in- 
cluding that of the separate clans. 

Of the Highand clans it does not belong here to speak, 
nor is it the intent to dwell on that of MacLean. The history 
of the clan MacLean has been given to the public by different 
persons and in various forms. It is not necessary to point out 
the wars of Scotland and of her sovereigns who brought disaster 
upon a devoted people. The chief became a fugitive and the 
estate escheated to the crown. For a period of over two hun- 
dred years the clan had no rallying point, and its ancient home 
and stronghold were even like unto a dream. 

During the long period of estrangement, the clan feeling 
was not dead, neither was it wrapped in slumber. There were 
forceful elements constantly at work, which, ever and anon, 
presented ripples upon the surface. After all, there is some- 
thing in a name that makes the wearer proud, for he knows 
what emotion it arouses. It is not a weakness to be proud of 
a name, especially where the name has descended through many 
generations. Did a MacLean rise to distinction in jurispru- 
dence, or in government, or literature, or scholastics, or divinity, 
or arms, then all the rest shared in the honor and took unto 
themselves a part of the glory. The very essence of Highland 
hereditary instincts still possessed his very soul. 

What has been noted would not of itself have kept alive 
the feeling that exists, and should exist, between the chief and 
his clan. And, yet it must be 'confessed, there was a pride in 
the bosom of the clansman that there was still a chief of the 
clan. 

In the cursory survey, thus set forth, the fact should not 
slightly be passed over, that those of the name MacLean were 
not inactive in the study, or the writing of Gaelic literature, for 
to the language of the Gael must be ascribed the good seed that 
hath borne ripened fruit. 



RENAISSANCE OF THE CLAN MACLEAN. 17 

We are too free to criticize the warriors of the sword and 
those of the pen. Whatever might have been the errors of the 
latter, in statement or in deduction, it should be remembered that 
the result is the surest and most decisive test. Many of these 
men paved the way to further investigation, and were devoid of 
the advantages that time and newly discovered sources have sup- 
plied. 

Names recognized in all the departments of life are re- 
corded on the escutcheon of MacLean. These names have been 
an important factor in preserving the character of the clan. We 
reap the reward of their services. 

To affirm that any one has been the most important factor in 
leading up to the renaissance of the clan would meet with dis- 
approval. Reference is not made here to the great culminating 
point reached on Saturday, August 24, 1912, but to that work 
which made the latter effective. But there are names and books 
which should be rehearsed. 

A few years ago much information was given the public con- 
cerning Lachlan Maclean, one of the earliest writers of the name, 
and his literary productions. A series of articles was consecu- 
tively published in a Highland journal. What was then learned 
should have been gathered into permanent form. The trend of 
his thought was towards the Highlands and his native Gaelic lit- 
erature. He was a remarkable man. He was the author of sev- 
eral books, and a regular contributor to journals published in the 
Gaelic language. At one time he acted as editor of "An Teach- 
daire ur Gaidhealach," 1835-6. In his "Adhamh Agus Eubh," he 
attempts to create enthusiasm in the following appeal : 

"This work is for you, generous and upright Gael you who 
know the illustrious progenitors from whom you are sprung 
the battles they fought, the victories they had achieved, and the 
praises they had won in the days gone by how the nations of 
the world disappeared before the thunders of their arms, and how, 
too, they yielded to the wisdom of their counsel how the rising 
sun beheld the excellence of their royal courts, and Echo rejoiced 
at the resonant tramp of their hosts this work is for you." 

Turning from the indirect we come to the direct influence in 
shaping and inspiring the clan feeling. The starting point in 
preserving the history of the clan cannot be determined. But 
the first published history appeared in 1838, the author assum- 



18 RENAISSANCE OF THE CLAN MACLEAN. 

ing the pseudonym of Seneachie. The book attempts to present 
the direct line of the chief, and to give those of the various 
septs. The book forms a good foundation in working out the 
genealogical tree. It is a fair start, a good beginning in raveling 
out the history of the clan. The foundation laid may be built 
upon with safety, amended, added to or developed by the seeker 
or the student of the clan. It has served a good purpose and 
constituted a stepping stone in the renaissance of the clan. 

In 1865, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Maxwell MacLean pub- 
lished his "Clan Tarlach O'Bui," which was the forerunner of 
separate records of the Septs. It is devoted almost wholly to 
the Mac Leans of Dochgarroch. Only a small edition was struck 
off, as it was intended wholly for private circulation. It appears 
to have produced a good and lasting influence over his branch 
of the clan. 

Only twenty-five copies of the "Brief Account of the Family 
of Mac Lean," was struck off in 1872. It is devoted to the main 
stem of the clan, with the various branches given. Owing to 
the paucity of the number put out, the influence in molding the 
renaissance in necessarily limited. 

The next to be recorded is the writer's "History of the 
Clan MacLean," which appeared in 1889. An edition of twelve 
hundred and fifty copies was struck off, but as three hundred 
were destroyed in the fire that burned out the publishers, the 
real issue was nine hundred. Almost all these copies were pur- 
chased on the market. As the sale of clan histories had been 
limited to five hundred and less, it is evident that the clan feel- 
ing among the Ma^cLeans was gradually taking shape; and 
three years later, the Clan MacLean Association was formed 
in the city of Glasgow, which constitutes the first decisive step 
in the rejuvenation of the Clan. From its beginning, down to 
the present, this organization has been a very vigorous body. 
One year after it was instituted, it published a pamphlet setting 
forth its constitution, rules, officers, membership, and papers of 
historical interest. 

The first annual gathering of the clan MacLean Associa- 
tion was held in Glasgow, on October 28, 1892, at which the 
present Chief, Colonel Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean, Bart., K. 
C. B., presided. The meeting was a very large one, and many 
distinguished members were present. It may be noted that 



RENAISSANCE OF THE CLAN MACLEAN. 19 

some of the officers at that time, still hold the same positions. 
On April 6, 1893, the membership consisted of one hundred 
and eighty-four gentlemen and sixty-six ladies. Besides the 
Chief, The MacLean of Ardgour, The MacLean of Guilean. 
The MacLean of Pennycross and the MacLean of Torloisk. 

The obje'ct of the Association was manifold. Primarily it 
was social, but took upon itself to promote clan feeling, clan 
literature, and to assist and encourage those in need. The annual 
and monthly meetings were reported in the public press, which 
became a powerful advertiser. 

Early in January, 1909, a second booklet appeared giving 
a list of the officers, membership, abstracts of meetings, notes 
on clan affairs, and books published under the sanction of the 
society. It shows that the membership was now classified into 
Life, numbering one hundred and seven gentlemen, and eighty- 
one ladies ; Honorary members two ; Extraordinary, numbering 
one ; Ordinary, eighty-three gentlemen, and twenty-six ladies ; 
and Apprentices, numbering ten. 

The Association formally recognizes the following Septs 
and makes them eligible to membership, viz. : Lean, Gillean, Gil- 
zean and Rankin. The rankins were pipers to the chief, and af- 
terwards to the MacLeans of Coll. 

It would appear that the family of Dewart should also be 
recognized, which is descended from Big Dewar of Balemartin, 
Tiree, the first man from Mull who ever settled in that isle. 
He fled from Mull owing to his having given information to the 
MacLean of Lochbuy, which was injurious to the chief. His 
name was John MacLean, but was 'called Dewar (Diurach). He 
and his seven sons were powerful men, and held the township 
of Balemartin, including Sorabi. Several of his descendants still 
live in Tiree, and are known as na Diuraich. Those living in 
the United States take the name of Dewart, and are well known 
for their respectability and high standing and are ardent clans- 
men. 

Under the auspices of the Association there have been pub- 
lished "The Clan Gillean," by Rev. A. Maclean Sinclair; "The 
Music of the Clan MacLean," by David Glen; "MacLean 
Bards," by Rev. A. Maclean Sinclair ; "Gaelic Poems," by John 
MacLean, and "The Rankins," by Henry Whyte. The fact that 
all these publications found a ready market, and the editions were 



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rapidly exhausted, proves the interest felt by the descendants of 
Gillean of the Battle Ax. 

The activity in clan matters was not confined to the parent 
association. A fairly strong branch was in existence in Green- 
ock, Scotland, as early as 1893. The general movement was felt 
throughout the world where MacLeans were found. It became 
a matter of common notoriety that there was a profound interest 
being manifested. 

On January 17, 1893, in the city of Chicago, quite a number 
of gentlemen, of the surname of MacLean, met in a private 
office, and there organized a society, the principal object being to 
have a general meeting of the MacLeans at the "World's Fair," 
and the chief and chieftains to be invited to meet their clansmen. 
The Association was fortunate in the choice of its officers, who 
carefully looked after every detail. All those present contributed 
five dollars apiece to a fund to cover preliminary expenses. A 
week's meeting was held commencing June 12, 1893, the chief 
and the Maclean of Pennycross being present. This great event 
will not here be rehearsed, as the details have been published in. 
book form. After the meeting was over Colonel Hugh H. Mac- 
Lean, M. P., of St. John, New Brunswick, proposed to the writer 
that if the latter would prepare the MS., the former would 
publish the same. One thousand copies were printed, and had a 
ready sale. 

For many years the president of this Association has been 
Colonel John Bayne Maclean of Toronto, the most prominent 
publisher in all Canada. He manages to keep in touch with 
every member. In all probability he has the largest library in 
the world devoted to Gen'l Allen MacLean, commander of the 
Royal Highland Emigrant Regiment. 

The feeling aroused on clanship must needs be productive 
of good. We find that in 1900, William Fraser of Elgin, Illi- 
nois, published quite a volume on the history of the Frasers and 
MacLeans, soon after followed by John J. MacLean, of Elmira, 
New York, with a story of his branch of the family. 

Mrs. Mary McLean Hardy, of Berkeley, California, in 1905, 
gave a very interesting account of the clan, including the pos- 
terity of Rev. Allan Maclean. 

During the year 1889, for a short time, the writer had the 
loan of a history of the MacLeans, written by a Presbyterian 



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RENAISSANCE OF THE CLAN MACLEAN. 23 

clergyman by the name of Sinclair, and published for him, in Co- 
lumbus, Ohio, but the title is forgotten. Diligent search failed to 
reveal another copy. 

The interest in the broad field of the Gael must not be over- 
looked in our devotion to the Clan MacLean. The various 
clans are but parts of one great nationality. To treat of a part, 
the whole must not be forgotten. The history of the one is 
incomplete without a recognition of the other. While clan so- 
cieties have been formed, yet other fields are occupied. One 
of the most noted of these institutions is the Highland Society 
of London, of which the present Chief of MacLean was the 
honored president for many years. The Gaelic Society of 
Inverness has done valiant services as may be known by more 
than a score of books it has published. The Gaelic Society of 
Glasgow has given three interesting volumes to those who would 
inquire. 

It would be beyond our province even to call attention to 
the innumerable publications on the Highlands of Scotland, all 
of which would exert a greater or less influence on the Mac- 
Lean renaissance. 

It should however be noted that along the Cape Fear river, 
in North Carolina are the descendants of the Highlanders who 
occupied that county previous to the American Revolution. No 
native of the Scottish Highlands is prouder of his name, than 
the people of the Scotch settlements of Southeastern North 
Carolina. On December 14, 1910, with the Secretary of State 
of that commonwealth, was filed articles of incorporation of 
The Scottish Society of America. The present President is 
Hon. Angus W. McLean, of Lumberton, a man of indomit- 
able will and tremendous energy. A more enthusiastic High- 
lander does not live. Although engaged in large and varied 
business affairs, he finds time to devote to the study of Scot- 
land and its people. 

We must not forget the newspaper, the magazine and the 
annuals. These publications are ever ready to present every 
phase of Scotland, the clans and their members, that might be 
of interest to the reader. With the Clan MacLean, the Scottish 
journals have always been very generous, and much space given. 
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24 RENAISSANCE OF THE CLAN MACLEAN. 

than the Celtic Monthly, issued in Glasgow. The proprietor is a 
lady whose maiden name was MacLean. 

During all the years of alienation of the estates and strong- 
hold of the Chief, the isle of Mull was not forgotten. Wist- 
fully the clansmen turned their eyes to the home of their fathers. 
Even families that had lost their traditions had them renewed. 

Who can tell the work and lasting influence of the Asso- 
ciation, and of the literature instilled into the clansmen through 
their influence? Once more the traditions and history of the 
MacLeans have become familiar. Even one might, in imagina- 
tion live in the past, and restore, in picture, the "War-song of 
Lachlan, high chief of MacLean: 

"Clan Gillian is to ocean gone, 
Clan Gillian, fierce in foray known; 
Rejoicing in the glory won 

In many a bloody broil : 
For wide is heard the thundering fray, 
The rout, the ruin, the dismay, 
When from the twilight glens away 

Clan Gillian claims the spoil. 

Woe to the hills that shall rebound 
Our banner'd bag-pipes maddening sound; 
Clan Gillian's onset echoing round, 

Shall shake their inmost cell, 
Woe to the bark whose crew shall gaze, 
Where Lachlan's silken streamer plays! 
The foes might face the lightning's blaze 

As surely and as well ! " 

Judging man purely from a sentimental point of view, it 
would be but natural that the MacLeans would desire to see 
the old home once more in possession of the family, even though 
distance might prevent them entering upon the domain. It is 
well known that Sir Charles Fitzroy MacLean, Twenty-fifth 
Chief, was very anxious to obtain possession of the castle and 
its demesne, and offered a very large sum for the same. All 
the members of his family shared the same feeling. His son, 
the present Chief, Colonel Sir Fitzroy Donald MacLean, 
Twenty-Sixth Chief, kept his eyes open for an opportunity to 
possess the same. When the way was opened he promptly 
walked in, and once more the Chief of MacLean was to enjoy 



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the home of his ancestors. When the news went forth that the 
old stronghold was in possession of the Chief, there was a feel- 
ing of pleasure in the hearts of the clansmen, and a belief per- 
meated all that there would now be a great gathering of the 
tlan summoned by order of the Chief. This hope was to be 
realized. The clansmen knew that once more there was to be 
a welcome to the land of their fathers, when rejoicing and good 
feeling should permeate all. 




MACLEAN OF CROSSPOL. 



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PART II. 



DUBHAIRD CAISTEAL. 

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DUBHAIRD CAISTEAL. 



The ancient castle of the MacLeans has been variously 
called Dozvard, Dowart, and recently shortened, but improperly, 
into Duart. Anciently it was generally written Doward. In 
1574, we find Maryoun neyclene, Prioress of Icolmkill, granting 
her "lands to Hector McClane of Dowarde." The castle derives 
its name from Dubh, meaning black, and Aird, a height, or prom- 
ontpry; and hence the word signifies Black Promontory. The 
word Caisteal is the Gaelic dress of the English Castle, which, in 
turn, comes from the Latin Castellum. The Gaelic words for 
castle are daingneach and dun, the former meaning a stronghold, 
castle, fortification, fastness, and the latter, a heap, a hill, a 
hillock, mount, a fortified hill or town, fortress, castle, a fast- 
ness, a tower. 

In order to preserve the etymology the word should be writ- 
ten Duard . When writing my History of the Clan Mac Lean, 
owing to the confusion in the spelling, I submitted the question 
to the chief. In his reply he stated he would make no decision, 
but left the whole question to me. I was therefore constrained 
to write the word Duard, as being the most euphonious and ap- 
propriate from the standpoint of etymology. Usage does not 
necessarily become authoritative. 

The castle is located on the point of a peninsula that forms 
the extreme north-eastern part of the isle of Mull, and, where 
the Sound of Mull is separated from Loch Linnhe. Originally 
the castle consisted of a single tower, composed of three stories, 
about fifty feet in height. The tower, or older part corresponds 
to the architecture of the thirteenth century. Its walls on two 
sides are fourteen feet thick, and the other sides ten, the interior 
being forty-four by twenty-two feet. The stairway, still entire, 
winds up through the wall which separates it from the center 
square or courtyard. In the wall, along the course of the stair, 
are crenelles opening into the outer court or square. The tiers, 

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or stories, or apartments were supported by beams resting upon 
corbels. The windows are deep recesses, forming- acute angles 
towards the entrance of the light, and on either side of the win- 
dow is a long flat stone, resting upon rubble work, raised to the 
height of the seat of an ordinary chair. The windows on the 
ground floor have the deep round arched recesses. The top of 
the wall had a battlement and crenelated parapet, and there are 
indications of corbelled bartizans at the angles. The doorway 
faced the east, at the northern wall, and was strengthened by a 
sliding bar. 

Dr. John J. Burnett, Architect in charge of the restoration 
of the Castle, and who drew the four plans of elevations, pur- 
posely for this book, gives the following notes : 

'The area of ground covered by the Castle is 11,450 sq. ft. 

The Castle Buildings consist of a Keep, measuring 43 feet long by 
21 feet 6 inches wide inside, the walls of which are 13 feet 6 inches thick 
on the East, and vary from 8 feet 6 inches to 10 feet 6 inches on the 
other sides ; and, secondly, a Courtyard, measuring 54 feet by 43 feet, 
entered from the South West, through a wall 5 feet thick, by about 22 
feet high, by a gateway 5 feet 6 inches wide, which has a slit for a 
port-cullis. Excavations revealed a flight of steps, 23 feet long, leading 
up to this gateway from the slope in front of the Castle. 

On the East side of this Courtyard there is an addition built, (prob- 
ably, in the middle of the 16th century) measuring 52 feet 6 inches long 
by 39 feet wide inside. On the North side there is another addition 
built in 1663 by Sir Allan MacLean, measuring 47 feet long by 15 feet 
6 inches wide inside. 

When the Castle is finished, the Keep will consist of 'four floors, 
and its roof will be 61 feet high from the Courtyard. The Great Hall 
or Drawing Room on the 1st Floor, measuring 43 feet long by 21 feet 6 
inches wide, will have a wood ceiling, 15 feet 6 inches high, formed with 
heavy joists resting on the old stone corbels. The roof of the East 
Addition which contains 3 storeys, will be 38 feet 6 inches high, and of 
the North Addition, also with 3 storeys, 36 feet 3 inches." 

During the chief ship of Great Hector, which began in 1527 
and ended about 1568, there were made many improvements on 
the demesne of the castle, besides that noble addition called the 
Great Tower, which constitutes the whole an excellent example 
of castellated architecture. On the north side of the tower a 
platform had been left on the rock, which was walled in by Hec- 
tor, at the same time he added the ample court-yard on the east. 
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seventy-nine feet long and the entire length of the northern and 
southern one hundred and twenty-six feet and three inches. The 
northern part of the new structure was separated from the court- 
yard, by a wall and used as a dwelling. The space on the rock 
inclosed by a wall was used for soldiers. The dungeon was on 
the first floor of the new apartment, and the magazine in the 
court-yard. The castle was entered by a doorway at the south, 
four and one-half feet in width, protected by an iron gate. Orig- 
inally it was defended by a postern gate, with portcullis, and de- 
fended by a barbican. The 1 - moat protecting the eastern wall 
may still be traced. The wajls of the later addition are neither 
so thick nor so high as those 6f the earlier tower. The walls vary 
from ten to fifteen feet thick and are about thirty feet high. A 
straight stone staircase cut out of the west end leads from the 
principal court-yard to the small open court opposite the en- 
trance to the keep, the passage of which' was defended by a door. 
On the north and west sides of the entire structure the building 
walls are close to the edge of the rock, there being just room 
enough at the north side to allow of a passage to the entrance 
doorway, which is on that side. Over the door leading from the 
court-yard to the living apartments on the north is the coat of 
arms, but well-nigh' effaced by the hand of time. 

The castle was one of the most extensive and powerful of 
the west of Scotland, and its position gives it a commanding 
appearance as one approaches it from the sea. The location has 
been most admirably chosen. Before it to the south is a plain, 
somewhat rolling, which terminates at the foot o f the mountains, 
and on the precipitous spot where the castle stands, rises to a 
height of about one hundred feet. From the rock upon which 
the fortress stands, one may command a view in all directions, 
which is magnificent in its beauty. To the west is the Sound 
of Mull, which can be seen up to Toberrnory, with Ben More 
to the southwest, and the hills of Morvern to the north-west, 
while to the north extends Loch Linnhe, with the fertile isle 
of Lismore in the centre. Looking eastward one is enchanted 
by the panoramic view of the mountains from Ben Cruachan to 
Ben Nevis. Thus the home of the ancient chief was not only 
a powerful fortress that frowned upon the sea, but a place of 
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the Mac Lean has long yearned to return, and that the tongue 
might sing: 

''Oh the island of Mull is an isle of delight, 
With the wave on the shore and the sun on the height, 
With the breeze on the hills, and the blast on the Bens 
And the old green woods, and the old grassy glens." 

When the MacLeans first took possession of the castle 
and who constructed the same, would be impossible to determine. 
In all probability the castle is older than the line of chiefs. Such 
evidence as still exists leads to the conclusion that Gilleans, 
the First chief, from whom the surname of MacLean is 
derived, and who flourished about the year 1250, held large 
possessions in Upper Mull, extending along the whole northern 
coast of the island. 

Gillean was succeeded as chief, and in possession, by his 
son Gille losa of MacGillean, as it has sometimes been 
written. He was a distinguished warrior, and follower of Alex- 
ander III, and was conspicuous in expelling Haco. He died in 
the year, 1300 and was succeeded by his son Malcolm, Third 
Chief of MacLean, who, at the head of his clan fought at the 
battle of Bannockburn, June 24, 1314. Malcolm died during the 
reign of king David Bruce, and was succeeded by his son 

John, who became Fourth Chief. He was called Ian Dubh, 
or Black John. He had very large possessions, includnig that 
of Lochbuy, but the Lords of the Isles continued to be feudal 
superiors. John died during the reign of Robert II, leaving his 
son Lachlan Lubanach as his successor. Under the Second 
Lord of the Isles, Lachlan took due precaution to have his lands 
confirmed by charter, which occurred in 1390. On July 12, 
1390, dated at Ardtornish, Donald, Second Lord of the Isles, 
granted to Lachlan MacLean the custody and constableship of 
the castle of Duard. This charter was confirmed at Glasgow, 
in 1495. I n a ^ probability Lachlan's reign, as successor to his 
father antedates 1365. He lived to a great age, but probably 
died before 1405, and was succeeded by 

Eachann Ruadh nan Cath, or Red Hector of the Battles, 
and sometimes called Hector Rufus, and also Hector Roy. Dated 
at Ardtornish, November, 1409, Donald of the Isles granted a 
Charter to Hector Makgillean lord of Doward. He was one of 



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Photo by Col. J. R. Howard Maclean. 
THE BANNER OF MACLEAN WAVES OVER THE CASTLE. 



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the two principal generals in the battle of Harlaw, July 24, 1411, 
where he fell. 

Lachlan Bronnach, or Swag-belly, succeeded his father and 
became Seventh Chief of MacLean. The date of his death 
is unknown, but he was living in 1463. He was succeeded by his 
son 

Lachlan Og, or Young Lachlan, who was called upon to 
pilot his clan through troublous times, but lived and died one 
of the most peaceful of his race. 'Succeeded by Hector, some- 
times called Eachuinn Odhar, or Hector the Swarthy, and again 
Eachuinn ni num-bristion, on account of his brave and war- 
like disposition, who died before 1500. 

From the death of Hector Odhar to the accession of Lachlan 
Catanach, Eleventh Chief of MacLean, there was an inter- 
mediate Lachlan who fell at the battle of Flodden, in 1513. 
Lachlan Catanach, or Lachlan the Shaggy, was cradled in 
troublous times. He proved himself to be a brave, fearless, 
active man, possessing a degree of cunning not usually bestowed 
upon man. , Around his name have grown up legends and 
stories, the most noted of which is the Scene on Lady's Rock, 
located within a short distance of the castle. The story has 
been cast into drama and song. Yet, in the dress it has been 
preserved, it will not bear analysis. It is probable that Lachlan 
and his lady were not congenial spirits; it is probable she tried 
to betray his lands into the hands of her brother, the earl of 
Argyle, and it is probable she was rescued by some boatmen 
of the Campbell clan. On the other hand, Lachlan would not 
have been wise to expose his wife on the rock, because it was in 
calling distance of the castle, and moreover, if he wanted to dis- 
pose of her there were other methods less open to discovery. 
The fact that there was a boat of the Campbell's close by 
though it may have been tardy in arriving on the spot 
proves, with other considerations, that she purposely marooned 
herself, with the knowledge and approval of her brother. But, 
greater still, the story is not a legend nor a tradition on Mull, 
for it was not) known prior to 1779, and it is even then narrated 
without any reference to authority, save it alleges "common 
report." In 1527, while in Edinburgh, and unprotected, and in 
bed, Lachlan was treacherously stabbed to death by Sir John 
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Hector Mor, Twelfth Chief, succeeded his father and 
reigned from 1527 to 1568. His additions to the castle have pre- 
viously been noted. What was the actual history of the castle 
from 1250, under Gillean down to 1527, (a period of two hun- 
dred and seventy years), when it passed under Hector, is known 
only incidentally. In all probability it underwent more or less 
changes, as well as repairs, though the walls were never dis- 
turbed. No indentations could have been made upon the walls, 
before the use of firearms in the Highlands. A wise, active 
father, in 1568, was succeeded by a spend-thrift son in the per- 
son of 

Hector Og, Thirteenth Chief of MacLean, whose improvi- 
dence was cut off by death, five years later, when 

Sir Lachlan Mor became chief. He was called "Big Lach- 
lan," both on account of his size and the greatness of his mind, 
[t is recorded that he was the most accomplished and warlike 
chief that ever held sway in the castle. This assumption might 
te owing to the nearness of his time, whilst those remote might 
grow dim as ages melt away. His military talents were of a 
high order; his chivalrous character everywhere commanded re- 
spect, and his devoted interest in behalf of his people endeared 
him to all. Historians have written of him in unstinted praise. 
His reign covers a very interesting period, though varied and 
much given to tumult. He fell in a clan battle with the MacDon- 
alds of Islay, on August 5, 1598. His death raised. 

Eachann Og, or Young Hector, to the chiefship, who at once 
adopted retaliating measures on account of the death of his fa- 
ther, which he most terribly avenged. He obtained the estate 
in its best condition. It was during the reign of this chief that 
the first attempt was made to dispossess the MacLeans of .the 
castle. Archibald Campbell, seventh earl of Argyle, was unscrup- 
ulous in his dealings and given to plotting. On September 20, 
1603, an order was given the earl to take possession of the castle, 
and Hector was to remove therefrom, within twenty-four hours 
after due notice had been given. However, the document never 
received the king's signature, and no attempt was made to use 
the authority procured. 

The king constantly turned his hungry eyes towards the 
Western Isles dreaming great wealth was there reposed. He 
levied awards which could not be produced. The privy council 



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granted a commission, and issued minute instructions as to terms 
to be demanded of the islanders. The commission was accompan- 
ied by a fleet of armed vessels, and on August 15, 1608, reached 
Duard castle, and summoned its surrender in the regular man- 
ner, and garrisoned it on the I7th. Through stratagem, aided by 
the bishop of the Isles, Ochiltree, the lord lieutenant, invited 
the Island Chiefs to come on board his vessel, and then seized 
them, and informed them they were prisoners by the king's or- 
der, weighed anchor, sailed direct for Ayr, and from there pro- 
ceeded with his captives to Edinburgh, when, by order of the 
privy council, they were thrown into the castles of Dumbarton, 
Blackness and Stirling. On August 23, 1609, the bishop took all 
the prisoners with him to lona, and there promulgated the "Stat- 
utes' of Icolmkill," which was confirmed by the king on June 
28th following. 

In 1618, in the fortieth year of his age Hector Og passed 
away, leaving his estates to his son 

Eachann Mor, or Big Hector, Sixteenth Chief of MacLean, 
who succeeded to an extensive and unencumbered domain, and 
at a period when the family had great influence. He died with- 
out issue, in 1628 and was succeeded by his brother 

Sir Lachlan, first baronet, who had to contend against the 
eighth earl of Argyle, the ablest of his family that has ever lived, 
and described by historians as possessing the characteristics of 
duplicity, cunning, cowardice, and avarice. With his clan Sir 
Lachlan, under Montrose, fought at Inverlochy February 2, 
1645, anc l a l so precipitated the battle of Kilsyth, before Montrose 
could complete his arrangements. 

King Charles was betrayed into the hands of the English 
by the earl of Loudon, the marquis of Argyle, and the earl of 
Dumfermline, for the sum of 400,000. Although the Islanders 
were now quiet an army of five thousand troops, under the 
notorious David Leslie, and Argyle, swept into the Isle of Mull, 
and overran it from one end to the other, committing the most 
disgraceful outrages that diabolical ingenuity could invent. These 
wanton cruelties were the more inhumane, because no resistance 
of the inhabitants had been offered, on this occasion, to the in- 
vaders. They had been advised, by Sir Lachlan, to remain at 
home, in pursuit of their domestic concerns, thus affording no 
excuse to the enemy for desolating the island. 



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The castle was besieged by this army, the leaders of which 
threatened to put every person to the sword, if they were 
obliged to take it by force. The son of the chief, who was at- 
tending school at Dumbarton, was seized by Argyle, who in 
presence of the father, threatened to take his life unless the 
castle was surrendered. Leslie especially demanded the eight 
Irish gentlemen in the castle. At first Sir Lachlan peremptorily 
refused to give up the gentlemen, and prepared to defend the 
castle to the last. The people were forced to abandon their 
homes, and took refuge in the recesses of the mountains. Finding 
that resistance was futile, Sir Lachlan, knowing the atrocities 
committed at Dunaverty, made the best terms possible. He 
agreed to place the castle at the disposal of Leslie, provided 
the detachments be recalled, that were sent out under Turner 
and Sir Donald Campbell, and that the lives of the inmates of 
the castle should be spared, and especially mentioned the "eight 
Irish gentlemen, his friends, who are enjoying the hospitality 
of the Lady of Duard." The conditions were accepted, and the 
castle surrendered. The Irish guests were immediately shot, 
save one, who escaped by a stratagem. 

Sir Lachlan died in his castle, on April 18, 1648, on account 
of a long imprisonment caused by the Marquis of Argyle, be- 
cause he would not sign a bond for a pretended debt claimed by 
the latter. 

Sir Eachann Ruadh, or Red Hector, succeeded his father. 
His lines were cast upon evil times, for the civil commotions 
continued during the period of his chiefship. With eight hun- 
dred MacLeans and seven hundred Buchanans, under his com- 
mand, Sir Hector, for four hours withstood the repeated shocks 
of Lambert's army, at Inverkeithing, fought July 20, 1657. His 
purpose was neither to yield nor fly. With life only ended the 
resistance of the fearless Sir Hector Roy. Of the eight hun- 
dred MacLeans only forty escaped alive, and even these, to 
the day of their deaths, exhibited in the mutilated state of 
their persons palpable proofs of their sufferings upon that 
dreadful day. 

Sir Allan succeeded his brother and became the Nineteenth 
Chief of MacLean, and in turn was succeeded by his son 

Sir John, during whose minority, Argyle, . through Lauder- 
dale, gained a government assistance of five hundred men, which 



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joined to eighteen hundred of his own followers, landed in Mull, 
in three different places, and began an invasion. The MacLeans 
had not recovered from the disaster at Inverkeithing, so the 
people contented themselves by remaining, for security, in the 
fastnesses of the mountains. Sir John, yet in his minority, was 
sent to the castle of Cairnburg, and afterwards to Kintail, and 
placed under the care of the earl of Seaforth. At last the earl 
of Argyle, under the pretence of a debt, aided and abetted by 
Lauderdale, high in authority, was able to take quiet possession 
of the inheritance of the chief of MacLean, and garrisoned both 
Duard and Aros castles. The soldiers spread themselves over the 
island, committed depredations, and offered personal insult and 
violence to unresisting inhabitants. The MacLeans never ob- 
tained a fair hearing until February, 1676, when Lord Mac- 
Donald, and other friends, accompanied the guardians to Lon- 
don and laid the whole matter before the king. Notwithstand- 
ing Argyle was given the isle of Tyree, in lieu of all his claims, 
yet John Maitland (duke of Lauderdale), the fast friend of 
Argyle, insisted that Mull and Duard castle should not be re- 
stored, but the time was now at hand when all the possessions 
of the chief should pass out of the family name. 

In 1688, seven of the leading politicians of Great Britain 
invited William of Orange to dispossess James II. of his king- 
dom and occupy the throne. James, being deserted by the army, 
and others, retired to France, but, the following year, with a 
small force, came to Ireland, and was defeated at the Boyne. 
The affairs of James were ably upheld by James Graham, Vis- 
count Dundee, who possessed the confidence of the Highland 
clans. He determined to resist the new government and restore 
the exiled monarch, and early in 1689 set out for the High- 
lands, and around his standard gathered the MacLeans, the 
Camerons of Lochiel, Stewarts of Appin, MacDonalds of 
Glengarry, and Glencoe, the clan Ranald, and the MacDonalds 
of Keppoch. 

In obedience to the summons of Dundee, Sir John Mac- 
Lean sent Hector MacLean, of Lochbuy, as his lieutenant- 
colonel, with three hundred men to join the army. On the march 
Lochbuy was attacked by five troops of horse. When the Mac- 
Leans saw the enemy upon them they threw off their loose gar- 
ments and after a severe conflict put the horse to flight, and 



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killed the commander, with a loss to them of only one ensign 
and a few private soldiers. At this battle, called Knockbreck, the 
first blood in Scotland was shed for James. 

Sir John continued his preparations to join Dundee at the 
head of his clan, during which time he received word that his 
friend MacNeill of Callechilly was surrounded in the island 
of Gigha by some English ships of war. He dispatched Sir 
Alexander MacLean of Otter to his assistance, who relieved 
him, with the loss of but one man. Having completed his 
preparations, Sir John marched to join Dundee, leaving Duard 
Castle well garrisoned, which was furiously assaulted during his 
absence, by Sir George Rooke, and the men-of-war under his 
command, which, without effect, withstood the cannonding for 
several days. 

Dundee's first and last grand struggle, on behalf of King^ 
James, was to take place in Athol in and around Blair castle. 
His sole reliance amounted to little more than three thousand 
Highlanders, five hundred of whom were MacLeans under Sir 
John. 

The continued possession of Blair castle was essential to 
Dundee, and as it was threatened by the enemy, Sir Alexander 
MacLean, with a light party, was sent to give it succor. Mackay r 
on his way to assault Blair castle, stopped at the pass of Kil- 
liecrankie. This news having been brought to Dundee, he at 
once dispatched Sir John, with a party of four hundred, to- 
reconnoitre; but being afterwards informed that the enemy was 
in full force, he found it necessary to strengthen Sir Alexander 
with all his troops. He made full inquiry respecting the nature 
of the ground, and from the hill of Shierglas took a distant view 
of the foe. Towards the close of the day, July 27, 1689, the 
two armies came together. The right of Dundee's army was 
commanded by Sir John, composed of his clan and those of sub- 
ordinate chieftains. The clans made the charge about eight 
o'clock, in the evening. For the sake of lightness they were 
stripped almost to the kilt, stooped low, and holding their 
targets before their heads, rushed swiftly upon the partially in- 
trenched enemy, and when near the foe, stopped a moment, 
fired, threw away their guns,, and then flew headlong upon the 
foe, using the claymore and Lochaber axes. The battle was 



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over in a few minutes. The Highland army gained a great vic- 
tory, but dearly won on account of the fall of Dundee. 

Colonel Cannon, next in rank, succeeded Dundee, in com- 
mand of the army, but was utterly unfit for the position. At 
Dunkeld on August 2ist he was defeated with the loss of three 
hundred men, and three days later the Highland army dispersed 
to their homes. Colonel Cannon, with his Irishmen, retired to 
Mull with Sir John. 

King James appointed Major General Buchan to the com- 
mand, who arrived in Scotland during April, 1690. 

About twelve hundred men rallied to his support, and of 
these two hundred were MacLeans commanded by Allan Mac- 
Lean, a near relative of Sir John, and John MacLean, a brother 
of Sir Alexander MacLean of Otter. On the morning of May 
i^ 1690, Buchan was surprised by the enemy at Cromdale, and 
easily defeated. The battle of the Boyne made William of 
Orange master of Great Britain and Ireland. 

During the month of October, 1690, the earl of Argyle 
visited Mull with a strong force of foot and sixty horse. Ac- 
companied by a few armed followers, Sir John took refuge in 
Cairnburg, leaving Duard castle in charge of Captain James 
MacLean. 

In obedience to a special order from King James, on March 
31, 1691, Sir John MacLean surrendered Duard castle arid 
Cairnburg to the government. 

During a period of four hundred and forty years, with 
slight exceptions, Duard castle remained in possession of the 
chiefs of MacLean. Its last owner was Sir John MacLean, 
Twentieth' Chief of his Clan and Fourth Baronet. The suc- 
ceeding Chiefs were destined to become exiles from the land of 
their fathers, although certain cadets still held their ancient pos- 
sessions. 

The Castle was now fated to become only a tradition, but 
little known, and less cared for, save in the hearts of the Mac- 
Leans. Since that fatal day, March 31, 1691, the castle has al- 
most past into oblivion, and during the last one hundred and 
fifty years, has been in ruins. We know but little what the 
morrow bringeth forth. 

From Sir John MacLean the ownership of the castle passed 
to the earl of Argyle, and that family sold it in 1801, to Mac- 



46 RENAISSANCE OF THE CLAN MACLEAN. 

Quarrie, who in turn parted with it to Campbell of Fossil, who 
later on sold it to A. C. Guthrie in 1865, and on September 11, 
1911, it was sold to the present chief of MacLean, by W. Murray 
Guthrie, the official announcement having been made by Mac- 
Illeathan, himself, before the annual meeting of the Clan Mac- 
Lean Association, held in Glasgow, on the evening of October 
25, 1911. But the public journals had taken it up before, and 
the news rapidly spread to every place where the English lan- 
guage was spoken. Letters of warm-hearted congratulations 
were sent to the Chief from all quarters, and the event awak- 
ened a responsive enthusiasm in the hearts of the clansmen. 

It was known to Mr. John MacLean, for sixteen years the 
chairman of the financial committee, of the Clan MacLean As- 
sociation, that the Chief desired that the castle should be re- 
stored to the family. So he kept his watchful eye on the estate 
and when he learned that the Castle was in the market, at once 
notified the Chief, and the latter appointed the former, together 
with Mr. Charles J. MacLean to be his business agents. The 
business was conducted with judgment and dispatch. Although 
the purchase embraced only thirty acres, yet with rare foresight 
Mr. John MacLean insisted that an option on four hundred 
adjoining acres should be had, to be good for two years. This 
option was closed on August 23, 1912, so that the demesne of 
Duard Castle embraces a large tract, and, in reality, makes the 
chief of MacLean a Highland land proprietor. 

In his announcement to the Association the Chief declared 
it to be his purpose to strengthen and restore the castle. For 
this purpose he employed Dr. J. J. Burnet to prepare plans along 
lines of a design to approximate as exactly as possible to that 
of the castle when in its great strength, and then proceed with 
the undertaking. During the late Autumn of 1911, Dr. Burnet 
began his excavations of the earth within the walls and for 
quite an area without, and trenched to a depth of eight feet. 
During this process many interesting finds were made, dis- 
covered the old kitchen window and the well in the castle, the 
latter being in the center of the keep floor, and entering the 
solid rock to a depth of sixteen feet, and also disclosed the 
doorway to the basement floor, with a stair leading to the great 
hall on the main floor of the keep. A feature of great interest 
to students of architecture is the careful wav in which the 



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sanitary and drainage arrangements had been planned. In the 
accumulation of centuries were found many coins, vases, glass 
and pottery, dice, an old chain purse, a curious apothecary's 
measure and mortar, candle snuffers, and cannon balls lying 
in the ground and others embedded in the walls. One of the 
trenches on the exterior discloses the foundation for a stone 
wall, towards the southwestern extremity, and just east of it 
the old passage way leading from the bay to the door of the 
castle was uncovered. It is a hand laid work of cobble stones, 
and withstood the wear of centuries. The cannon balls lying in 
the walls were taken out, and all stone injured by the different 
bombardments replaced, so that the outer wall presents its origi- 
nal appearance. 

Before closing this chapter, notice should be taken of the 
following : 

A letter from Niall Campbell, dated at Inverary, Jan. 7. 
1913, directed to the Chief of MacLean, shows that two days 
before he found an account rendered by an Inverary builder to 
the earl of Argyle for repairs of an expensive nature done to 
Duart in May, June, and July, 1681. Its interest lies in the 
names given to the rooms in the castle, which are Soir nan oive, 
The Golden Tower; "Tailgeour Tower;;" 'The Laid Hall;" 
"The North Cungie Round," "The Bartizans." The fact that 
extensive repairs were made proves the castle had been greatly 
damaged; whether from the wars of Montrose of 1645, or the 
expeditions 1678-80, is not known. 

The following is a copy of a letter found by Lady Mac- 
Lean in an ancient book, in Mellville Castle Library, Fifeshire. 



Sir John MacLean of Dowart to David Earl of Leven, Inti- 
mating His Own Surrender at Dowart Castle and 
Protesting His Loyalty. 

DOWART CASTLE, 26 March 1708. 
MY LORD, 

Upon the receipt of your lordship's orders, signified to me by 
Captain Were in his letter, I immediately in obedience to them repaired 
hither, and putt myself under his custodie. My Lord I shall never be 
wanting in any testimonie I ana capable to give of my deuty to the queen, 
yet I can not forbeare regre'ting my misfortune in being debarred the 



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opportunity of showeing actively my zeale for her Majesty's service. 
Whatever follies I have been guilty of I never was capable of a treach- 
erous or base action, and besides the deuty I owe the queen, I have all 
the ties of gratitude that can bind a man of honour. If her Majestic 
has any objections to trye the fidelity of her subjects, I pray God they 
may be as reddie to sacrifice there lives for her interest as I am, and that 
those who would unjustlie give sinistrous impressiones of me, as perhapes 
they are more capable to serve her, may be so reddie to spill there blood 
for her service as I would be. I have given instructions to all those of 
my family with whom I have interest to testifie there zeale, if occasion 
offers, for her Majestie's service, and I can assure your lordship you may 
depend on them in there mean capacitie, and for me, my lord, all her 
Majestie's commands shall be cheerfullie obey'd. I am, my lord, your 
lordship's most obedient and most faithful servant, 

MACLEANE. 




MAJOR GENERAL JOHN NORMAN MACLEAN. 
(17th and Last of Coll). 



PART III. 
GATHERING OF THE CLAN. 

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GATHERING OF THE CLAN. 



The Gathering of the Clan Mac Lean at Duart Castle, on 
August 24, 1912, was a notable event in Highland history, and 
one which in all probability, will never be repeated. For months 
before the Gathering, the public press of the British Isles took 
up the matter, and gave the subject generous notice, in so much 
so that the reading public became well versed in the history of 
the Ancient MacLeans. The chief of the clan became the most 
noted man in the United Kingdom, and his portrait was every- 
where. The Gathering was well and most admirably noticed by 
the press, and the illustrated journals appeared to vie with one 
another, in presenting pictures of the event. Above it all there 
loomed up the personality of the chief. It was and is a matter 
of pride and satisfaction that, as the writer was informed in Edin- 
bury, the present Macllleathan was the most popular with the 
people "generally, of all the Highland chiefs. And also Lady 
MacLean shared in this popularity and was specially distinguished 
for her benevolence. 

To a MacLean it is not necessary to speak of Colonel Sir 
Fitzroy Donald MacLean, Bart., K. C. B., and Chief of the Clan 
MacLean. And yet, it is perfectly proper to speak of him in 
this connection, and give an outline of his history. 

Sir Fitzroy is Twenty-sixth Chief of MacLean, and Tenth 
Baronet of Morvern, born May 18, 1835, and became Maclllea- 
than on the decease of his father, Sir Charles Fitzroy MacLean 
which occurred, December 27, 1883. Sir Fitzroy entered the 
Thirteenth Light Dragoons as cornet, and in 1852 was made a 
Lieutenant; 1854, Captain; 1856, Major; 1861, Lieutenant-Col- 
onel; 1871, commanding Hussars; Colonel commanding West 
Kent Yeomanry Cavalry in 1880. In 1854-5 ne served in Bul- 
garia and the Crimea, and was with his regiment at the landing at 
Eupartoria cavalry affair of Bulganak ; battle of the Alma, and 
seige of Sebastopol ; May 18, 1855, received the Crimean medal 



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GATHERING OF THE CLAN. 53 

for his gallant conduct in the Crimea ; also, the two clasps, and the 
Turkish war medal; in 1859, made aid-de-camp to field-marshal 
Lord Seaton; in 1860, the same to general Sir George Brown; 
in 1865, selected to report on the French cavalry manoeuvres, 
and was frequently in conversation with the French emperor; 
is a fine linguist and has traveled extensively in Norway, Den- 
mark, France, Italy, Turkey, United States and Canada; in 
person rather tall and spare, highly accomplished, a model in 
his family, and a perfect gentleman under all circumstances. 
On January 17, 1872, Sir Fitzroy was married to Constance 
Marianne, youngest daughter of George Holland Ackers, Esq., 
of Moreton Hall, Cheshire, and by her had Hector Fitzroy, a 
major in the army, born in 1873 ; Charles Lachlan, a lieutenant in 
the navy, born in 1874; Fitzroy Holland, born in 1876, died 
April 1881 ; John Marsham, born in 1879, killed in battle during 
the South-African war, while in charge of a battery, and Fino- 
vola Marianne Eleanor born in 1887 and married to Cordy Simp- 
son. 

Lady MacLean fills her position with dignity and is an 
honor to the name she bears. Fortunately she is interested in 
the history of the clan. She possesses a clear mind and ready 
action. An incident occurred during the Gathering that will 
illustrate her character. While sitting on a bench close to the 
castle, a crofter, who resided on the newly acquired territory, 
came up to her and inquired : 

"May I see Sir Fitzroy?" 

"Yes, but tell me what you desire, perhaps I can attend 
to the matter." 

"I am unable to make a living on my croft," said the man, 
"and I wish to ask Sir Fitzroy, if he would be kind enough 
to enlarge it." 

"I will attend to it," replied Lady MacLean. 

"Would it be any harm to write to him ?" inquired the man. 

"Oh, no," said Lady MacLean, "but I will see to it for you." 

At the annual meeting of the Clan MacLean Association, 
in October, 1911, Sir Fitzroy took occasion to state that Pro- 
fessor Magnus MacLean, M. A., D. Sc., Royal Technical Col- 
lege, Glasgow; Charles J. MacLean, 115 St. Vincent Street; 
Andrew Bruce MacLean, Craigpark Electric Cable Works, 
Springburn ; Peter MacLean, 2 Walmer Crescent, Ibrox, and 



54 GATHERING OF THE CLAN. 

John MacLean, 70 Mitchell Street; all of Glasgow, and all be- 
longing to the Association, had been appointed to make arrange- 
ments for a Gathering of the Clan. Mr. John MacLean was 
appointed chairman of the committee, and upon his shoulders 
the greater burden must fall. The committee was a fortunate 
one. Its chairman while Convener of the finance committee of 
the Association, had a very wide correspondence with the clans- 
men throughout the world, and was quite familiar with the his- 
tory of all the septs of the clan. 

In order that the financial burden should not rest upon the 
committee, in its preliminary expenditures, a sufficient number 
of gentlemen contributed enough to carry through the enter- 
prise, without indebtedness. 

The clansmen throughout the world were expecting \to 
receive a summons to the Gathering. First the newspapers of 
Great Britain, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, 
and other countries published there would be a Gathering, fol- 
lowed by an announcement of the probable date, 

The first circular notice issued by the committee, and posted 
to known clansmen everywhere was as follows : 

GLASGOW, 20th April, 1912. 

70 MITCHELL STREET, 
CLAN MACLEAN. 

Gathering at Duart Castle, Isle of Mull. 
Saturday, 24th August, 1912. 

DEAR CLANSMAN (or Clanswoman), 

The Chief of the Clan, Colonel Sir FITZROY DONALD MACLEAN, 
Bart., K. C. B., D. L., extends an invitation to his Clan to meet him at 
Duart Castle on Saturday, 24th August, 1912. 

Upon this occasion the Chief will unfurl his banner on the ancient 
Stronghold of the Macleans of Duart. 

Duart Castle, which has recently come into the Chief's possession, 
after being out of the family for over two hundred years, was built in the 
13th Century ; it was repaired and enlarged by Hector Mor, Lord of Duart 
from 1523 to 1568. Sir John Maclean, Bart., who died in 1716, was the 
last Chief who lived at Duart; he was compelled to surrender the Castle 
in 1691. Our present Chief has entered upon the work of restoration 
and repair of the Castle, but the accomplishment of this will take some 
considerable time. 

The undernoted Committee were appointed at a Meeting of the 
Executive of the Clan Maclean Association and other Clansmen who 
were in Glasgow for the Clan Gathering in October last, and are making 



GATHERING OF THE CLAN. 55 

arrangements as to Fares, &c., to Oban and Duart. If you intend taking 
part it is desirable that an early reply be sent me at above address, or to 
any other Member of Committee. Full information as to Fares, Hotels, 
&c., will be sent at a later date to all who have intimated their intention 
to be present. I am., 

Your Loyal Clansman, 

JOHN MACLEAN, 
Convener of Committee. 
MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE. 

Professor Magnus Maclean, M.A., D. Sc., Royal Technical College, 

Glasgow. 

Charles J. Maclean, 115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow. 
Andrew Bruce Maclean, Craigpark Electric Cable Works, Spring- 
burn, Glasgow. 

Peter MacLean, 2 Walmer Crescent, Ibrox, Glasgow. 
John Maclean, 70 Mitchell Street Glasgow (Convener). 

On receiving this notice, and a bundle of the same, I im- 
mediately wrote to every clansman in the United States and 
Canada I knew of, and urged their attendance, and also to get 
a notice of the meeting in the newspapers. Fortunately, at this 
time Mr. Robert J. MacLean, then of Spokane, Washington, was 
traveling in Western Canada, and along the line of his trip 
had the papers to insert long and favorable notices. 

The next circular letter was as follows : 

70 MITCHELL STREET, 
GLASGOW, 30th July, 1912. 

CLAN MACLEAN. 

Gathering at Duart Castle, Isle of Mull, 
Saturday, 24th August, 1912. 

DEAR CLANSMAN (or Clanswoman), 

The Committee have made arrangements for the Gathering at 
Duart Castle as follows : 

The Steamer "Cavalier" will sail on Saturday, 24th August, from 
Railway Pier, Oban, at 10 a. m. The Chief of the Clan, Colonel Sir 
Fitzroy Donald Maclean, Bart., K.C.B., will receive the Company at the 
Castle. The Chief and Lady Maclean will entertain the Company at 
Luncheon, which will be served at 12 :30. The Steamer "Lochiel" will 
call at Duart at 3 p. m. to allow those who intend leaving Oban on 
Saturday to do so by either of the two afternoon trains. 

Return Fare by Steamer, 3/-. (Tickets to be had at Messrs. Mac- 
Brayne's Steam Boat Office, Oban, or on board.) 

The most convenient train from Glasgow on Friday, 23rd August, 
is the 2.5 p.m. train from Buchanan Street Station. If a sufficient number 



56 GATHERING OF THE CLAN. 

indicate to the Convener before the 20th August their intention of trav 
elling by this train special carriages will be provided. 

Tourist Tickets, available to break the journey either way, can be 
had at most Railway Stations. (Third Class Tourist Fares, London to 
Oban, 63/-.) 

Week-end Tickets can also be had at -a cheaper rate to return either 
on Saturday or Monday for Scotland or Tuesday for England. (Week- 
end Fares Third Class, Glasgow to Oban, 8/8; Edinburgh to Oban, 
11/6.) 

Mr. H. A. MacLachlan, Commercial Hotel, Oban, and Mr. H. 
McCuaig, Royal Hotel, Oban, have kindly agreed to assist in procuring 
Hotel accommodation or Lodgings provided they receive due notice of 
requirements. 

I am. 

Your Loyal Clansman, 

JOHN MACLEAN, 
Convener of Committee. 

N. B. Trains leaving Glasgow (Central) 4.20 a.m., and Edinburg 
(Princes Street) 4.0 a.m. are timed to arrive in Oban at 9.10 a.m. 

Although the programme was mailed to all who had sig- 
nified their intention of being present, I did not see one until 
August 2 ist, after I had reached Glasgow. 

The first page was : 



CLAN MACLEAN GATHERING. 

Duart Castle, Isle of Mull, 
24th August, 1912. 

(COMMITTEE MARSHALLS). 

Captain MACLEAN of Ardgour, Lieut. A. C. H. MACLEAN, 

Argyll & Sutherland The Royal Scots. 

Highlanders, 

(COMMITTEE MARSHALLS). 

Professor Mangus Maclean, Royal Technical College, Glasgow. 
Mr. Charles J. MacLean, 115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow. 
Mr. A. B. Maclean, Craigpark Electric Cable Co 1 ., Ltd., Glasgow. 
Mr. Peter MacLean, 2 Walmer Crescent, Ibrox, Glasgow 
Mr. John MacLean, 70 Mitchell Street, Glasgow, Convener 



GATHERING OF THE CLAN. 



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The second page : 

PROGRAMME. 

Steamer leaves Oban at 10 a. m. 

Land from Steamer at Duart Point. 

The Company form up. 

11 a. m., March to Castle, headed by Pipers. 
Members of the Clan resident in Mull, etc., will assemble and join 

procession in front of Castle. 

Piobaireachd Mr. William Maclean 

Piper. 

The Chief's (Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean, Bart, K.C.B.) Welcome to 

Duart. 
(Composed by the Player,) 



March, 
Praise, 



RECEPTION BY THE CHIEF AND LADY MACLEAN. 
March into the Castle Yard. 

"The Macleans' Gathering," Pipers. 

Psalm cxxi. - Tune. French 



I to the hills will lift mine eyes, The Lord thee keeps, the Lord thy 



from whence doth come mine 

aid, 

My safety cometh from the Lord, 
Who heav'n and earth hath 

made. 



shade, 

on thy right hand doth stay: 
The moon by night thee shall not 

smite, 
nor yet the sun by day. 



Thy foot He'll not let slide, nor The Lord shall keep thy soul, He 
will shall 

He slumber that thee keeps ; preserve thee from all ill, 

Behold ! He that keeps Israel, Henceforth thy going out and in 

He slumbers not, nor sleeps. God keep for ever will. 



Prayer, 

The third page: 
Reading, 



Rev. William Mackintosh, M. A. 
Minister of the Parish. 

Psalm cxxvi., - Rev. L. MacLean Watt, B. D. 



When the Lord turned again the 
captivity of Zion, we were like 
those that dream. 

Then was our mouth filled with 
laughter, and our tongue with 
singing: then said they among 
the heathen, the Lord hath done 
great things for them. 

The Lord hath done great things 
for us; whereof we are glad. 



Turn again our captivity, O Lord, 
as the streams in the south. 

They that sow in tears shall reap 
in joy. 

He that goeth forth and weepeth, 
bearing precious seed, shall 
doubtless come again with re- 
joicing, bringing his sheaves 
with him. 



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Pipers march to top of Keep of Castle. 
THE BANNER UNFURLED BY THE CHIEF. 

Piobaireachd, Mr - William Maclean. 

Piper. 

The Chief's Salute and Clan March. 
(Spaidsearachd Chlann Ghilltathain} . 

Address, Professor Mangus Maclean, M.A., D.Sc. 

Vice-President of the Clan Association. 

Reply to the Chief. 

LUNCHEON, 12-30 

By invitation from the Chief and Lady Maclean. 

Blessing, The Right Revd. A. J. Maclean, D.D., 

Bishop of Moray and Ross. 

Company reform and march round the Castle, headed by Pipers. 

Form up in front of Castle. 

Chief's parting remarks. 

Selections by Pipers. 
Auld Lang Syne. God Save the King. 

March to Landing Stage at Duart Point. 

The Chief will bid farewell from the Keep by dipping the Banner as the 
Steamer leaves 3 p. m. 

THE MACLEAN GATHERING AT DUART, 1912. 
The fourth page: 

Though the sons of Duart wandered from the valleys of their sires, 
There's a halo round the mountain peak that never more expires ; 
For the memory of the morning of the heart is ever true, 
As the hills of Mull and Morven, gleaming o'er the waters blue. 

Chorus. So we gather, gather, gather, 
Like the sons of loyal men, 
We rally round the banner 
Of old Duart's house again. 

On the field of red Culloden we were midst the foremost there, 
When the slogan of the Islemen rent the sultry battle air, 
Well the Hanoverian horsemen knew the valour and the might 
Of the children of Clan Gillean in the grappling ranks of fight. 

Chorus. So we gather, gather, gather, etc. 



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And on lonely Killiecrankie, when the onset word was given, 

And the soul of Graham was wafted through the distant throbbing 

heaven, 

Oh, we tore adown the Garry's banks like torrents from our snows, 
And the claymore of Clan Gillean cleft the glory of her foes. 

Chorus. So we gather, gather, gather, etc. 

And when the blood on Sheriffmuir was pouring forth like rain, 
The heather-bell was deeper red for blood of the Maclean; 
Wherever men were gathered, in the starkest hour of strife, 
The sons of Duart freely flung away, for truth, their life. 

Chorus. So we gather, gather, gather, etc. 

Never pibroch sounded battle, but the foemen saw our plaid, 
Never heroes lay in carnage, but our brothers there were laid, 
Never foe returned to face us, never clansman fled the field, 
Never threat of foe or tyrant made the sons of Duart yield. 
Chorus. So we gather, gather, gather, etc. 

And though lonely Mull and Morven slumber far across the distant waves, 

And thel onely sea is sobbing by the clansmen's sleeping graves, 

We are ready, ever ready, to obey our country's call, 

To do battle like our fathers, like our fathers, too, to fall. 

Chorus. So we gather, gather, gather, 
Like the sons of loyal men, 
We rally round the banner 
Of old Duart's house again. 

LAUCHLAN MACLEAN WATT. 

On account of topographical, shipping and other reasons, 
the choice of a rendezvous would naturally fall upon Oban. It is 
noted for its romantic situation, and resort. 

Early in the week many of the clansmen had repaired to the 
place of meeting, and by Friday evening Oban was taxed to its 
utmost capacity, even the doors of private houses being thrown 
open. But the majority of the visitors were summer boarders 
having come from the Lowlands and South Britain. On Friday 
evening many men could be seen in full Highland garb, wearing 
the dress tartan of the MacLeans. The majority of this num- 
ber was of the leading clansmen. 

In the evening a concert was given by the local Highland 
Society, which lasted from 7:30 to n o'clock. The singing 
was interspersed with Highland dancing. Many of the songs 



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were rendered in Gaelic. Miss Jessie N. MacLachlan, the noted 
Highland singer, favored the audience with several songs. She 
was received by the vast audience with great enthusiasm. The 
MacLean of Pennycross presided, with dignity and tact. The 
concert was a fine prelude to the gathering on the morrow. 

Saturday, August 24, 1912, was an ideal day on the isle of 
Mull and the adjacent vicinity. The weather was clear and 
pleasant. Although there were clouds flitting through the 
heavens they gave no indications of rain. The people in Oban 
were about earlier than usual, and by eight o'clock many might 
have been seen wending their way to the landing. It had been 
arranged that the clansmen should asemble at the pier, and at 10 
o'clock the steamer should leave for Duard Castle. It was well 
known that strangers intended to take advantage of the occasion, 
arid also reported that a whole boat load would land on Mull. 
The committee were thoroughly awake, and determined that the 
hospitality of the Chief should not be abused. The clansmen 
were alive to the occasion, and every one was decorated with some 
insignia of the clan. The tartan used was principally the 
hunting and the leaders wore this in the kilt, although the dress 
tartan might be seen here and there. Some wore the crowberry 
in the button hole, others a tartan bow or tie. The leading 
ladies wore dresses made of the hunting tartan. On that day 
all were proud of the tartan. General cheerfulness and good- 
nature marked the clan during the stay, and not a single inci- 
dent occurred to mar the occasion. All appeared to realize the 
importance of the occasion, and were about to step back into 
antiquity and call to mind the deeds and triumph of their 
forefathers. It was to be a great home coming as well as 
the celebration of the reoccupation of that home. It was to 
be a proud day for every one present, and perhaps every one 
realized that history would be made on that day. The hope of 
centuries was to be realized, and out of tumult the dove of 
peace bid them welcome. 

It was a proud day for Macllleathan. The dream of his 
life was realized. He summoned his clansmen and they obeyed 
the call and congratulated him on that memorable occasion, and 
felt that they were at home and in their own possessions. 
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could not have taken place elsewhere than in the Highlands of 
Scotland. 

As the clansman stood on the pier, or on the esplanade, 
or at the edge of the sea, a sight of grandeur and beauty caught 
his eye. Before him was a panorama scarcely excelled. There 
was long pointed Kerrera, with the mountains of Mull looming 
up in the distance, the hills of Morvern farther to the right, 
the constant splash of the sea at his feet, and the high hills 
forming a stupendous bluff to the east. The bay of Oban itself 
presents a scene of grace and beauty. 

Lord and Lady Llangattock had placed their yacht, the 
Santa Maria, at the Chief's disposal, who invited about fifty to 
take passage with him to the castle. Promptly at 8 145 a. m. 
the yacht steamed out of the bay. As the yacht weighed anchor 
the piper struck up "Scotland the brave." Fortunately for those 
who missed their breakfast, Lord Llangattock had prepared an 
ample repast, on deck, and as the vessel steamed along the 
guests could take in the rapidly changing views. During the 
voyage a very interesting ceremony took place. Lady Llangat- 
tock, youngest sister of the Chief, in a very appropriate and 
well worded speech, presented him with a very handsome plate 
to place over the doorway of the Castle. Stepping up to him 
she said: 

My Brother, and Chief of My Clan : 

In my name, and also in that of Lord Llangattock, I beg you will 
accept this small token to commemorate the great event of your life, and 
that of the Clan MacLean, the taking possession of the old and historic 
family Castle of Duart. Also, we hope by accepting this gift from the 
deck of our Yacht, it may remind you of the happy day we passed 
together. I can assure you we feel it an honor, and a great pleasure 
to be the means of conveying the Chief and so many of the Clan to the 
Island of Mull, to witness the interesting ceremony and happy event. 
The Gaelic motto, on this Celtic Book means : 

"May health and happiness dwell in your home". 

This, I trust, you and your family will always find at dear old 
Duart Castle. 

He replied in very feeling terms and was deeply impressed 
with her motives and thoughtfulness. On arriving in the bay 
at the foot of Castle rock, the bagpipe sounded "The Blue 
Bonnets." The yacht's two open boats soon discharged the pas- 



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sengers, at the point of the passage or roadway that leads up to 
the Castle. The yacht remained at anchor during the rest of 
the clay, with its spars and ropes decorated for the occasion 
with flags and bunting. The streamer Cavalier promptly at ten 
o'clock loosened from the quay, and immediately pointed west- 
ward. Never before had steamer carried so many MacLeans, 
nor gone on such an errand. A large crowd of people had col- 
lected to see them off. On board all was animation, and so 
complete was the general fraternizing that a stranger would 
suppose that all were old acquaintances. Those who had come 
from a distance were anxious to catch the first glimpse of the 
Castle. Rounding the point of Kerrera the Castle conspicuously 
stands out in the distance, which is now to be a scene of life 
not accorded to it for a century and a half. As the steamer en- 
tered the bay, the Valda, the Chieftain of Ardgour's yacht, stood 
close by the Santa Maria. The native clansmen of Mull were 
at the wharf to welcome the people on the Cavalier. The es- 
planade of the castle, twenty-one hundred feet beyond the land- 
ing, seemed covered with people. Not only were those who came 
on the Santa Maria, standing above, but also others who had 
come in other vessels. Great open ferry boats soon placed the 
people on the landing. Those who had looked forward to the 
time that they should set foot on Mull, and be where heroes 
once dwelt, and who had listened to the voice of Ossean, now felt 
their pilgrimage was over, and rest should be had on the land 
they had thought over, imagined, and dreamed about. Here was 
now to be exhibited that fealty, that loyalty to home and chief 
which had persisted, although centuries might have elapsed, and 
the wanderers have drifted upon a distant and foreign strand. 

With intense eagerness, standing upon the yery edge of the 
cliff, those above carefully watched what was going on at the 
landing. The marshals, as if by magic, soon had all formed in 
procession and wending their way over the sinuous passage. At 
the head of the procession were the three marshals, viz., Mac- 
Lean of Ardgour, Lieutenant A. C. H. MacLean, of the Royal 
Scots and Captain C. W. MacLean, of the Cameron Highland- 
ers. Immediately behind them were the bagpipers, viz., William 
MacLean, Highland Society of London, gold medallist for pio- 
baireachds at Inverness and Oban. Lachlan MacLean, Pipe Ma- 
jor, J. MacDougall Gillies, and Pipe Major Farpuhar MacRae. 



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Next came Mrs. Hamilton Dundas, last surviving daughter of 
Hugh, Fifteenth MacLean of Coll, who was supported on her 
left by Mr. John MacLean, the chairman, and on her right by 
Mrs. MacLean. As the procession wended along the roadway 
and up the declivity, the pipers played the "Highlanders' March" 
and "The Alma." It was surely unlike any other procession or 
pageant. Its romantic surroundings different, and also perhaps 
the occasion, made it an entrancing sight ; one well worth going a 
long distance to behold. Those forming the procession saw on 
the height above the old stronghold towering against the sky, 
where it had withstod the siege of centuries and the cannon of 
implacable enemies, a mute emblem of the fortitude of those 
who had been its defense. 

The procession guided up the steep side of the cliff made 
its, way toward the south front of the castle, and on reaching 
the esplanade was joined by those who had preceded on the 
yacht. The last turn in the march brought the head of the pro- 
cession directly in front of the doorway. When the marshals 
reached the front of the extemporized wooden stairway, leading 
to the door, Lieutenant A. C. H. MacLean mounted aloft, and 
in a loud voice called out: "Clansmen and Clanswomen, is it 
your wish that your arrival at Duart Castle be announced to 
the Chief ?" A mighty cheer went up from the multitude which 
ended in a prolonged Yes. The MacLean of Ardgour then ap- 
proached the entrance, and raising his staff knocked upon the 
door three times. As he did so he called out the message "Fhir 
Dhubhairt tha claim. Illeathain a feitheamh a mach gu cur failte 
cirbh ann an luchairt ur Sionnsaireachd. (Chief of Duart! 
The Clan Maclean is waiting to give you welcome in the 
castle of your ancestors.) 

Immediately the Chief appeared in person, accompanied by 
Lady MacLean and their son, Lieutenant Charles L. MacLean. 
As he emerged, taking off his Highland bonnet, a magnificent 
welcome met him. Cheers heaped upon cheers swelled up around 
him. It was a thrilling moment, spontaneous, without artifice, 
reflecting the finest and best in human feeling. Sir Fitzroy wore 
the simple every-day dress of the Highlander; he looked every 
inch a Chief, and as he came forward ajid spoke the ancient 



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Highland welcome "Ceud mile failte," another torrent of cheers 
burst forth. 

At the foot of the stairway, the Clansmen and Clanswomen 
formed in single file and pressed up the steps, being separately 
presented to the Chief and Lady MacLean, by the MacLean of 
Pennycross, who gave name and place of residence. The roll call 
touched the. uttermost ends of the earth, and as those names 
from a foreign land were announced, a great cheer went up from 
the native born. It was distinctly noticed that those from Amer- 
ica received an even greater volume. There were ladies there 
who had come alone from distant parts, and who drank in every 
word and movement with beaming face. One clansman, aged 
eighty-three years, walked a distance of thirty-five miles in order 
to be present and enjoy the occasion. 

Having entered the great court of the Castle the pipers played, 
"The Highland Laddie" and an original piobaireachd, by William 
MacLean, composed for the occasion, entitled "The Chief's Wel- 
come to Duart," which was followed by a brief religious service, 
the leaders having advanced to a raised platform. The Rev. A. 
M. Maclean (of Dochgarroch) gave out the I2ist Psalm, "I to 
the hills will lift mine eyes," and led by Dr. D. C. Maclean, 
Mount Florida, Glasgow, the company sang the old familiar 
words to the tune of French. Had the grey and weather-beaten 
walls of the Castle ever echoed such music before? 

Then the Rev. William Mackintosh, minister of the parish 
of Torosay, in gown and bands, offered prayer: 

"O God, Thou art our Go 1, and we will praise Thee. Thou 
art our fathers' God, and we will magnify Thy name together. 

"O Thou great Shepherd of Israel, Who didst lead and bless 
the tribes and clans of Thy chosen people of old, we beseech of 
Thee to bless this house and clan in all its members and branches. 
Bless the head of this house in his person and in his family, 
and grant him to prosper in all the work and duty of his life 
under Thy grace and guidance. Grant Thy blessing to all who 
bear his name that they and all of us may act our part in life 
nobly and well, and at the last enjoy Thy gift of everlasting life 
through Jesus Christ our Lord 

"O God, Who givest liberally and upbraidest not, accept our 
humble and hearty thanks for all the good things we have 



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through Thy favor, and enable us at all times to give unto Thee 
the glory in all the fruit and increase of our labors under Thee. 

"We would thank Thee for all the brave and noble lives 
that have been lived in the past, for all the good and true in 
word and deed, and we pray that we, entering into their labors, 
may so treasure in our hearts their memory that we may not 
only admire but emulate their example." 

In sonorous tones the Rev. L. Maclean Watt, B. D., of Edin- 
burgh, the distinguished Bard of the clan, read the verses of 
Psalm 126: 

When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like 
them that dream. 

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with 
singing : then said they among the heathen, the Lord hath done great 
things for them. 

The Lord hath done great things for us ; whereof we are glad. 

Turn again our captivity, O Lord as the streams in the south. 

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 

He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall 
doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. 

The benediction was pronounced by the Right Rev. A. J. 
Maclean, D. D., Bishop of Moray and Ross. Accompanying the 
Chief at the service were Lady Maclean, Mrs. Hector F. Mac- 
lean, Mrs. Cordy Simpson (daughter), Lieutenant Charles L. 
Maclean, Lady Llangattock, Lady Hood, and others. 

When the service had ended, the pipers marched to the top 
of the castle's keep in readiness for the hoisting of the flag of 
the Chief. As the banner, with its representation of the Chiefs 
armorial bearings, was being shaken out, Sir Fitzroy said "All 
true Highlanders love glory, the ancient glory especially, and 
are glad to serve under the flag that is likely to lead them to 
glory. It is 221 years since the Maclean banner has been over 
this ancient castle, and I am now in the presence of you all 
about to unfurl that banner, and I know perfectly well that the 
honor of that flag and the honor of our clan will be ever safe in 
your hands." 

The Chief now unfolded the banner and unloosened the 
ropes, and then began to draw upward the flag, emblazoned with 
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fastened upon it, and rolling cheer after cheer continued until it 
reached the summit, where its folds were gently ruffled by the 
breeze. At that moment the sun burst away from a cloud, and 
poured its refulgent rays upon the scene. What a picture for 
a master hand ! No wonder every one was at high tension. At 
that auspicious moment. William MacLean played "The Chief's 
Salute," and followed it by "The Clan March," both being an- 
cient piobaireachds, composed by the Rankins, who at that time 
were the Clan Pipers. 

When that flag rapidly crept up the height to the summit of 
the staff, there was one pair of eyes riveted upon it, nor did it 
cease to gaze until the flag rested securely. No one, on that 
occasion, felt emotions more keenly than did Miss Isabel Mac- 
Lean of Chicago. She uttered no outcry, but through her mind 
flashed the lines : 



Lift proudly your summit, O lofty Ben More! 

Clap your hands, little Hills ! Dance, ye Waves, on the shore ! 

Once more it streams out, in the fair, smiling blue 

The banner that's dauntless and tameless as you ! 

Bid it welcome again, in its place up on high, 

To brave the four winds with its "Conquer or Die" ! 

Repeat it, Ben Nevis, to Cruachan-Ben ! 

The flag of Maclean floats o'er Duart again ! 

From the ends of the earth the leal clansmen have come; 
At the voice of their Chief they have hasted them home. 
Ah, softly they tread on the blood-hallowed sod 
Where battled their fathers for Freedom and God! 
The dim, mighty Past lives again in this day; . 
Each kindling heart yields to its Greatening sway ! 
And homing Clan-Gillean exults, unto pain, 
As the flag of Maclean soars o'er Duart again ! 

In the midst of his Clan, in the halls of his sires, 
The proud Chief of Duart lights old glory's fires ! 
But ever he turns his rapt gaze toward the blue, 
With the mist in his eye and the joy shining through, 
To see, at long last, the desire of his heart ! 
How kind Heaven has loved him ! To give, for his part 
In the fame of his Clan, thro' the ages' long ken 
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And the sunshine that glows over Mull on this day 

Shedding magical radiance o'er headland and bay, 

Is more than the sheen of the sun in the sky 

Tis the gladness of hosts that are hovering nigh, 

Tis the smile of our heroes of hundreds of years, 

Looking on, through the veil betwixt our world and theirs, 

And sharing the joy and the pride of Maclean 

That the flag of their clan floats o'er Duart again ! 

After the cheering had subsided, Mr. Neil Maclean stepped 
forward and recited his original poem in Gaelic: 

Suas le bratach mo ghaoil, 

Nach faic sibh i'crathadh 's a' ghaoith ; 

Bratach nan Leathanach calma 

Do nach bu dual a bhi cearbach na claon. 

Nach sinn thug an turns, a chuideachd ! 
Nuair chaidh sinn do Mhuile nan Craobh : 
Ar Ceann-Cinnidh g' ar cuireadh le furan 
E' choinneachadh an Dubhaird a' Chaoil. 

A sgaoileadh na brataich tha ainmeil, 
'S e 'chuidich le Albainn bhi saor 
A righ ! gu 'm bu bhoidheach a' chuideachd 
A choinnich air tulach an fhraoich. 

Bha Ian innte, Ron agus Caisteal, 
Lamh Dhearg, agus Bradan is Long, 
Is Cearnaborg aosda nan stacan, 
Nach geil do shlachdraich nan tonn. 

Without any unnecessary delay, Professor Magnus Mac- 
Lean rose, stepped to the edge of the platform, and in a simple, 
impressive manner said : 

Not only the Macleans here present, but all Macleans who have 
read in the press about this function will be glad and proud that the 
present Chief of the clan is to-day unfurling the Clan Maclean banner 
on the tower of the Castle which was for four centuries the stronghold 
of the successive chiefs. (Cheers.) This is no time to refer to the 
active part taken by the Maclean chiefs and their clansmen in the stirring 
and lawless times of the thirteenth to the end of the seventeenth century, 
nor to the events which led to the evacuation of this Castle by the 
Macleans about two and a quarter centuries ago. Neither is it fitting 
to make any references to the part the clan, played in the latter years of 
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collectively immediately after the "Forty-five"' accommodated themselves 
to the ways of industry and peace and the improved general well-being 
of the Highlands and Islands. In the very limited time the programme 
allows us, it is only fitting to express our heartiest congratulations to the 
present revered Chief in having acquired the Castle and grounds after 
being out of the possession of the clan chiefs for such a long period. 
(Cheers.) 

No better evidence of the changes that have taken place in the 
interval since the Campbells acquired it, could be produced than the 
cordial and hearty letter which the present Duke of Argyll sent to our 
Chief when he learned that the Castle and adjacent land were purchased 
by him. I believe Sir Fitzroy values this letter, and reciprocates the 
feelings expressed therein. There have been eminent chiefs but 
none who gained more renown in the service of his country than Sir 
Fitzroy Donald Maclean, who was born on the 18th May, 183-j, and who 
succeeded to the chiefship in 1883. On his twentieth birthday he had the 
honor of being presented with a medal by the late Queen Victoria, and 
when he was created a Knight Commander of the Bath the Royal attend- 
ants who were instructing him how to bend the knee and kiss the King's 
hand were astonished to see King Edward warmly shaking hands with 
him before placing the decoration on his breast. As early as 1865 the 
then Government selected him to report on the French Cavalry 
manoeuvres. The choice, although several superior officers expected the 
Commission, was justified, for young Maclean had already taken a chief 
part in the making of history in Bulgaria and the Crimea, at the cavalry 
affair at Buljanak, at the battle of Alma, and at the siege of Sebastopol. 
For special bravery at the latter he was awarded the much-coveted 
distinction of a medal with two clasps. His military and public career 
are well known to you. He was also a great athlete, and on more than 
one occasion he saved lives from drowning by daring acts of bravery. 
On one occasion, especially when the party was given up as lost, Sir 
Fitzroy, coming along, was told where the body disappeared. He jumped 
in at once, found the person at the bottom, and, carrying him ashore, 
proceeded to- rub according to rules. When he was at this operation for 
several minutes, he complained that some one, in the crowd that had 
now gathered, did not run for a doctor. A person came forward at 
once, remarking that he was a doctor, but he did not want to interfere 
as he thought Sir Fitzroy was a medical man. We are proud to have 
such a man as Chief of the Clan Maclean. We feel honored not only in 
his past achievements, but that on the very day he takes possession of 
the old seat of his ancestors he should allow us to associate ourselves 
with him in his rejoicings. (Cheers.) In congratulating him we should 
also remember Lady Maclean and their two sons and daughter. We 
should also remember, with sorrow and yet with pride, his brave young- 
son, John Marsham Maclean, the last member of the House of Duart 
who was killed in action fighting for his King and country at Baach- 
enlaghte, South Africa. He was in command of a gun, and had 'V2 men 
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the 'gun, and when his body was recovered no less than eight wounds 
were found on it. We are apt to magnify the incidents at Inverkeithing, 
which have perpetuated the cry, "Fear eile air son Eachainn," while here 
we have the youngest son of our present Chief illustrating as fully as 
any of his ancestors the mottoes of our clan, "Death or Life" and "Altera 
Merces." (Cheers.) May the Chief and his Lady have good health and 
long life is the cordial wish of every person assembled here to-day, so 
that they may enjoy residence in this Castle, which, through the able 
professional guidance and advice of Dr. Burnet is to be henceforth more 
comfortable than it has ever been. The site is splendid, the view is 
magnificent, and the associations must suitably appeal to the sentiments 
and feelings of the Chief and his family. Many great gatherings took 
place in this ancient castle, the scene of acts of hospitality and also 
treachery and cruelty in the past, but no gathering was so notable as 
this one. The landing was quiet and expeditious, the main language used 
was different from the language used at the last invasion, and most 
likely very much less expressive and violent, certainly less vigorous than 
the language used by 2000 Campbells when they effected a landing at the 
end of the seventeenth century to take possession of the castle. Probably 
if a syndicate existed then to dig in some cellar of this castle he would 
find more Spanish coin and bullion than the present syndicate is ever 
likely to find in the Bay of Tobermory. Sir Fitzroy and Lady Maclean, 
this large assembly of Macleans from different parts of the United 
Kingdom, from Canada, and other parts of the British Empire, as well 
as from the United States and the Continent of Europe, offer you every 
good wish on taking possession of Duart Castle." (Prolonged cheers.) 

The Chief who had been sitting toward the south of the 
Castle with his back close to the southern wall of the Court, arose 
to respond. It was noticed that he was visibly affected. The 
veteran Chief, his handsome form well set off by his picturesque 
Highland garb, was forced to give way owing to the renewed 
cheering. Silence having been obtained, in a clear, pleasant 
voice, loud enough to be distinctly heard by all, he said : 

"On behalf of Lady Maclean, my family, and myself, I thank you 
for your hearty reception, indicating fidelity to your Chief on the 
occasion of the old home of our ancestors being restored to the House of 
Duart. The value of the address to which we have listened is much 
enhanced by being presented by so talented and distinguished a member 
of my clan. 

On such an occasion as this it is perfectly marvellous to me how 
your feelings of clan sentiment could possibly have brought you, as it 
has done, to this old Castle in which, I assure you, I am excessively 
glad to see you all. You deserve the greatest credit for having come such 
long distances. My American friends say that 4000 miles is nothing. 
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little trip, they have made it often before. (Laughter.) And I need not 
say we are delighted to see them here again, and I hope that their visits 
will be often repeated. There is no doubt that my family all enjoy the 
very fact of being within the walls of this old Castle, but I can assure 
you their joy is greatly increased by seeing how our clansmen and 
clans people all over the world have welcomed us and have shown their 
delight in seeing the old place restored to the house of Duart. (Cheers.) 

My Clansmen, two hundred years have passed away since Maclean 
of Duart mustered his clan in this grand old Castle. We can imagine 
Sir John Maclean's agony of mind when he had to surrender this Castle 
and leave the mountains and lochs he so dearly loved, but the saddest 
moment must have been when he had to bid farewell to his faithful 
followers. In my military career I had to bid farewell to the regiment 
I joined at the age of eighteen, and left as commanding officer. It was 
a wrench, for the men served me faithfully, and I felt they were my true 
comrades and friends, ever ready to obey and follow me. However, I 
knew that my successor would look after them well, that they would 
be well fed and clothed, and that they would receive medical attendance 
in case of sickness. But Sir John knew not what would become of his 
faithful followers. Many went abroad, and it is noteworthy that many 
of them have been successful in the countries where they established 
their new homes, and that their successors never forgot Bonnie Scotland 
or the successive Duart Chiefs, as evidenced by the large number of their 
descendante present with us to-day. These were indeed sad times, when 
men had to leave their homes and friends. One incident is recorded of 
a widow and her little son hurrying to embark in a ship bound for 
Denmark. This little boy was the ancestor of Field Marshal Von Moltke. 

After Sir John's departure this Castle was occupied by British 
troops. He did not leave without a struggle, as the cannon-balls lately 
extracted from the keep are evidence. He was hunted down, and finally 
he was successful in escaping to France, where he died. Sir Hector 
succeeded him, and came from France to raise his clan and join Prince 
Charlie. He landed at Leith, and proceeded at once to Edinburgh in 
strict disguise. The story is a simple one. He called on his bootmaker, 
who promised not to divulge his arrival. He was, however, so elated 
with the crder for four pair of brogues that his wife discovered the 
cause, and the following day Sir Hector was arrested. He was im- 
prisoned in the castle, from which he was removed to the Tower of 
London. Here, unfortunately, he acquired consumption before he was 
released by "act of grace." Finding that all his estates and Duart Castle 
had been appropriated by his enemies, he joined Prince Charlie in Rome, 
where he died soon after. His grave is near the Pyramid of Caius 
Cestos, and I have visited it. You were good enough, Professor, 
to mention in kind terms the loss that we have sustained in our youngest 
son. You all know that he behaved as a Maclean ought to behave, and 
it may be consolation to his parents now, and to his family, to know 
that he fought bravely for his King and country. He died of wounds 
received, he won the laurel wreath, before he lay under the shadow of 



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the cypress placed over him. His memory, I am sure, will always be 
remembered by my clan. (Cheers.) 

But I must not dilate on these sad events. Rather let me turn to 
this joyous gathering and momentous occasion a day which in later 
years will mark a distinct epoch in the history of our clan. My father 
was very desirous of re-acquiring this Castle, and to do so has been my 
ambition from my youth upwards. (Cheers.) I am very proud that I 
have succeeded, and that so many of my clan have gathered round me. 
The Macleans were always brave men, ready to fight and die for their 
Chief, but I maintain that'.none ever assembled within these walls with 
higher motives, nobler principles, or finer feelings than the clansmen 
who are gathered around me to-day. The fiery cross went forth, I am 
thankful to say, "for peace, and not for war." Its summons has been 
obeyed, and we have this day with us Macleans not only from . the 
Highlands of Scotland, but also from all parts of the world, who, 
regardless of long sea voyages and expense, have come to give their 
support on this memorable occasion, and to witness the Maclean banner 
flying once more over the old Castle of Duart. We have clansmen from 
New Zealand, the United States, Canada, and from Germany. The 
latter are not strangers, having been in Scotland some years ago, when 
they were kind enough to visit their Chief. (Cheers.) I can only say 
that if we do not tread the same path of destiny I hope you will all 
bear in mind this day and tell of it to all your successors, and I hope 
many generations will look back to this epoch of such importance not 
only in the history of the clan, but in the history of Scotland, when 
Maclean was received by all his clansmen who showed that sentiment has 
not died out, and the Chief feels quite certain that the glory of a chief 
has not departed. (Cheers.) 

We are pleased to see so many of our representative Chieftains 
present, Ardgour, Pennycross, Drimnin, in the person of Kaid Sir Harry, 
and other members of noted Maclean families. I am sorry that the 
President of the Clan Maclean Association, Mr. Neil Maclean of Breda, 
who has devoted himself to the furtherance of the objects and aims of 
the Society, is not present with us. We are very glad to welcome the 
learned Professor J. P. Maclean, the author of an excellent history of 
the Clan Maclean. This gentleman took a prominent part in organizing 
the great reception given me in Chicago in 1893. Their unbounded 
hohpitality will never be effaced from my memory. 

I much regret that military duties have detained my eldest son in 
Egypt, where he is now stationed with the Scots Guards. Though 
absent, his heart will be with us this day. 

My clansmen, I hope you will bear in mind that we must this day 
bury the hatchet. I have the kindest letters from those who formerly 
were our enemies, and who, I may now say, are our greatest friends. 
With your kind permission, T will read a telegram I have just received 
from the Duke of Argyle. The Duke of Argyle says : "Rejoice with 
you at Duart." That is very short", but it is very expressive, and I am 



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sure you will wish me to return the thanks of the Clan to him for his 
expressions of goodwill towards us. (Cheers.) The only other letter I 
shall read to you is one from Mrs. Guthrie, of Torosay castle, dated 
August 19, 1912, as follows: 

My Dear Sir Fitzroy, As the day draws near for you to formally 
hoist your banner on the Castle of Duart, so long the property of your 
ancestors, I feel strongly that I ought to change the name of my house 
and estate to what I believe it was formerly called, i.e., Torosay. I wish 
to leave the name of Duart to you alone, who have certainly the senior 
right to it. I shall be glad if you will announce this desire on my part 
to your clansmen. My husband and I have loved the old buildings, and 
been proud to act as its guardians for the past fifteen years. Now it 
only remains for me to wish you long life and all happiness in its 
possession, and to express the sincere hope that as long as the tides meet 
and swirl round the Lady's Rock, Duart Castle will remain in the keeping 
of the Chief of the Macleans. 

Believe me 4 

Yours very sincerely, 
(Cheers.) OLIVE GUTHRIE." 

At this point, Mr. John MacLean, the Chairman, who was 
standing immediately in front of the Chief, pushed his way 
through the crowd toward the outer door, took Mrs. Guthrie 
by the hand, and led her to the platform, where she shook hands 
with the Chief. After this incident the Chief continued : 

"I wish I had adequate language to express my heartfelt thanks for 
the warm welcome you have given me and my family on our return to 
the ancient home of my ancestors. I hope on some future occasion to 
be able to give you a better reception, when more than the roof over 
the keep may be completed to shelter you against storm and tempest. 
Meantime I can only thank you for the kindness that has been, showered 
this day upon Lady Maclean and myself, and I shall also venture to add 
that you may all rest assured that it will be our endeavor to uphold 
the honor of the flag and the honor of the clan, as succinctly put in the 
Gaelic phrase: "Lean gu dluth ri cliu do shinsir." (Cheers.) 

B'e beatha Chloinn 'Illeathain o shean 'n Caisteal Dhuairt; 's e 'm 
beatha 'n diugh, agus 's e beatha 'n so o linn gu linn." (Cheers.) 

The exercises of the day having concluded, the Clansmen 
were free to go about at will. Everyone was particularly inter- 
ested in the castle, and every part underwent a critical scrutiny 
by some, and wondering admiration by others. There was great 
fraternizing by all. Out upon the green plateau all was anima- 
tion. They did not form in groups, but were constantly inter- 
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The Chief, Lady Maclean, Lady Llangattock, Lady Hood 
moved among the Clansmen, friendly and appreciative. The 
Misses Maclean of Ardgour, tall handsome, dressed in full 
hunting tartan, formed an interesting group. There was Kaid 
Sir Harry Maclean, noted for his Moorish experiences, accom- 
panied by his servant, wearing a resplendent native dress of 
brilliant scarlet. Among the other notable personages were Dr. 
Ewan MacLean, president of the British Medical Association, 
Donald MacLean, M. P., Deputy-Chairman of the House of 
Commons, W. F. MacLean, senior member of the Canadian 
Parliament, Dr. Peter Maclaine Pont, from The Hague, a 
descendant of the translator of Mosheim's Ecclesiastical His- 
tory, and many others who might be mentioned. 

Whilst engaged in. conversation with one another, the 
camera was doing its work. Including amateurs there were 
fourteen photographers. A cinematographic record was taken, 
which afterwards appeared on the London, Glasgow and other 
theatre stages. The Clansmen at the behest of one enterprising 
photographer, sat upon the declivity on the south side of Duard 
Rock, and were taken en masse. 

The uniform tension was not strained by hawkers plying 
their trade, nor solicitors after subscription, or begging for pub- 
lic enterprises. In all essentials it was a veritable home coming, 
a family gathering. 

At the proper hour, the bagpipers struck up "The MacLeans 
March," composed by William MacLean, which meant the hour 
of lunch was at hand. The bountiful repast was spread out in 
a tasteful manner under a large Marquee. Large as it was, the 
people could only gather by relays. The Chief and Lady Mac- 
lean had invited the Clansmen to partake of refreshments. The 
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LUNCHEON 

given by 

The Chief, 

Col. Sir Fitzroy D. Maclean, Bart, K.C.B. 

and 

Lady Maclean, 
to their Clansmen and Clanswomen 

on the occasion of 
Raising his Standard 

at 

Duart Castle, Island of Mull. 
24th August, 1912. 

The third page 

MENU. 

Salmon, 
Mayonnaise. Cucumber. Salad. 

Roast Sirloin of Beef. Round of Beef. 

Ham and Veal Pie. 

Roast Lamb, Mint Sauce. 

Ox Tongue. 

Ham. 

Potatoes. Salad. 



Cheese. 

The Chief, Lady Maclean and some of the distinguished 
Clansmen occupied the table at the extreme south end of the 
Marquee, which was located a little below the east crest of the 
plateau. The divine blessing was invoked by Rev. Dr. A. J. 
MacLean, bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness. Owing to the 
arrangements of many of the Clansmen, living in Glasgow, 
desiring to leave on an early train, during the first sitting, and 
when the meal was about half over, silence having been re- 
quested by the Chief, Dr. J. P. MacLean arose and proposed 
the following toast to the Chief : 



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"It hath been noted that today we are assembled together from 
different parts of the world. We have not come to represent the various 
nationalities, but simply as MacLeans. On this occasion we desire to 
assure the Chief of the love and honor we all entertain for him. In 
proposing his health, it is with the earnest hope and wish that he and his 
family may long live to occupy Duart Castle." 

After the prolonged cheering had subsided, the Chief arose 
and said in reply : 

"I desire to express my deep appreciation to my Clan for the 
attendance here today and their sentiments of good will. That many 
have come from so long distance is a practical demonstration of the fealty 
they have for their Chief and their Clan. It is nothing say they to travel 
four thousand miles to be present on an occasion like this. It is a 
special pleasure that the toast should be prepared by the historian of the 
Clan, and the author of a Life of Flora McDonald. Professor MacLeaii 
took upon himself the initiative of and organized the great MacLean 
gathering in Chicago in 1893, which I shall ever remember, and the 
delightful hours I spent there. 1 am delighted to see the Professor 
again, and all other clansmen from America, as well as from all other 
countries, as well as those at home." 

After the cheering Captain MacLean, who was seate:! about 
midway in the audience, rose and said : 

"I desire to express my appreciation of the services rendered the 
Clan by Professor MacLean. It is especially a signal favor to have met 
him. I find we belong to the same fraternity, and as members of the 
Order of Odd Fellows, we also meet on common grounds." 

The health of Lady MacLean was proposed by Captain Wil- 
liam MacLean, of Southampton, which was accorded with good 
will and all rising to their feet, and drinking to her health, which 
had also been accorded to the chief. 

It was found that relays at the table would be required to 
accommodate the multitude. The management of this depart- 
ment was entrusted to Mr. H. A. MacLachlan, of Oban, and was 
accomlished expeditiously and in good order. 

After the luncheon the clansmen again assembled on the 
plateau, in the castle and on the parapets enjoying the occasion 
as only clansmen know how. For the time being, even the mem- 
ory of native home appeared to be swallowed up in the scenes 
of the ancestral surroundings, and the history it called up. As 
the Chief was open to any one his time \vas well occupied ; nor 
did he seem to tire in the least degre?. Many carried away 
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Time past entirely too rapidly. The first steamer that came 
was the Fingal, and carried away the clansmen who desired to 
leave for the South. As they crossed to Oban, Mr. Allan Mac- 
Lean, a member of St. Columba Gaelic Choir, Glasgow, led in 
singing "An t-eilean Muileach." About two hours later the 
Lochiel arrived for the remaining part of the company. All 
these assembled in front of the door, or entrance to the Castle, 
in the form of a circle, and crossing arms and grasping one an- 
other by the hand, and raising them up and down, sang "Auld 
Lang Syne," led by Rev. Lachlan MacLean Watt, who after its 
completion, struck up in Gaelic "God save the King." Parting 
cheers for the Chief and Lady Maclean were raised. The pipers 
struck up "We Will Take the High Road," and led the way to 
the landing, when the ferry boats conveyed the people to the 
steamer, and during the embarkation, the pipers played "My 
Native Highland Home." The steamer and Ardgour's yacht, 
with the Ardgour family on board, passed out of the Bay at the 
same time. Passing the point of Duard Castle, the Chief stand- 
ing upon the summit of the tower, dipped his banner in farewell, 
which was responded to by the yacht blowing its whistle and 
dropping its colors, and the pipers played "Happy We've Been 
All thegither." On the arrival at Oban the pipers played "The 
Lads with the Kilt." 

A majority of those who had crossed over in the Santa 
Maria, returned in the Lochiel, but the American contingent 
still lingered with the Chief. In due time the Santa Maria 
steamed away. But we kept our eyes on the Castle and moun- 
tains of Mull, which grew dimmer to the eye, but seemed to 
magnify to the mind. From that great Gathering the clans- 
men returned, the memory loaded with sights and impressions 
which will never fade away so long as recollection shall last. 
The blood will still grow warmer, and the event will be depicted 
to children's children until life shall pass away. There can be 
no wonder that it was a commonly expressed desire that the 
records of the day should be preserved and kept in the light. 

THE CLAN MACLEAN STILL LIVES, AND ITS MEMORIES ARE 
EMBALMED IN RECORDS OF PUBLIC REPUTE AND IN THE HEARTS 
OF ITS MEMBERS. THE CHIEF OWNS THE ANCIENT STRONG- 
HOLD, AND IT IS AND WlLL BE KEPT OPEN AS A RALLYING 

POINT FOR THE CLAN. 



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How many gathered at the call of the Chief is not known. 
Five hundred and fifty-five have been accounted for. Mr. John 
MacLean, chairman, carefully kept a list of all the acceptances 
to the invitation of the Chief and Lady Maclean, which is here 
reproduced : 

Kaicl Sir Harry Maclean, K.C.M.G. ; Mrs. Hector F. Maclean, yr. 
of Duart and Morvaren; Lord and Lady Llangattock, The Hendre, 
Monmouth; Lady Hood of Avalon ; Lieut. Chas. L. Maclean, R.N., and 
the Hon. Mrs. Maclean, Folkstone ; Mr. and Mrs. Cordy Simpson, 
London, and Hope Court, Crowborough, Sussex ; the Bishop of Moray 
and Ross and Mrs. Maclean ; Sir John and Lady Shelley, the Maclean of 
Ardgour; Mrs., Miss, and Misses Margaret and Flora Maclean of 
Ardgour; Rev. Allan M. Maclean (Maclean of Dochgarroch) ; Mrs. and 
Masters Donald and Hugh Maclean, Greystoke, Penrith ; the Maclean 
of Pennycross and Master Alastir Maclean ; Mr. Charles J. and Misses 
Maclean of Plantation, Glasgow ; Prof. Magnus Maclean, M.A., D.Sc., 
Glasgow; Mrs. Magnus, Mr. Magnus, jun., Mr. Wm., Misses Jessie and 
Mary Maclean, Glasgow; Rev. Hector and Mrs. Maclean (Dochgarroch), 
Penrith; Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie, Kilmorie Lodge, Broadford, Skye; Mr. 
and Mrs. A. B. Maclean, Maxwell Park, Glasgow ; Mr. John Maclean, 
70 Mitchell Street, do. ; Mrs. John Maclean and Misses Essie and Roy 
Maclean, 37 W. Princes Street, Glasgow ; Mr. Peter Maclean, secretary 
of Clan Association ; Mrs. and Miss Garnet Botfield, Bishop's Court, 
Salop ; Col. J. R. Howard Maclean, Aston Hall ; Mrs. Macintyre, 12 
Clifford Street, Ibrox ; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Crosher, Dunoon ; Mrs. 
Hall, 31 Kingsborough Gardens, Glasgow; Rev. L. Maclean Watt and 
Master Hector Maclean Watt, Edinburgh ; Lieut.-Col. Colin and Mrs. 
Maclean, yr. of Breda; Mr. Lachlan Maclean of Breda; Major A. C. 
Maclean and Miss Maclean, Inverness ; Mr. Wm. Maclean, jun., of 
Plantation; Major A. H. Maclean, A. & S.H., Fort George; Lieut. A. J. 
Maclean, do. ; Lieut. A. C. H. Maclean, Royal Scots, Glencorse ; Capt. 
and Mrs. C. W. Maclean, Cameron Highlanders, Inverness; Mr. and Mrs. 
Norman H. Maclean, (Pennycross), of Dunfermline ; Mr. Hugh and 
Miss Maclean, Armadale, Dumbreck, Glasgow ; Mr. Donald Maclean, M. 
P. for Peebles and Selkirk; Mr. H. H. Maclean of Lazenby, Cumberland; 
Major, Mrs, and Ian Maclean MacAndrew, 3rd Seaforths, Fort George; 
Professor J. P. MacLean, Franklin, Ohio, America; Mr. W. W r . Maclean, 
Fosterville, Tenessee, do. ; Mr. W. C. and Mrs. Maclean, Menomonie, 
Wisconsin, do. ; Miss Ella M. Smyth, Tulsa, Oklahoma, do. ; Miss Ella 
Watson Edgemead, Northampton, Mass., do. ; Miss Isabel Maclean, 
Chicago, do. ; Mr. Donald Maclean, Wellington, New Zealand ; Mr. James 
Maclean, Holywood, Co. Down ; Mr. R. E. M'Lean, do. ; Dr. Ewen J. 
Maclean, Cardiff; Mr. W. F. Maclean, M.P., Toronto; Capt. Maclean, 
Mr. Hugh Maclean, and the Misses Maclean (3), Birkenhead; Mr. Arch. 
Maclean, Berlin ; Mr. Lachlan and, Mrs. Maclean, Rosehan, Germany ; 
Dr. and Mrs. P. Maclaine Pont, the Hague ; Mrs. and Miss Hamilton, 
Dundas ; Colonel and Mrs. Fitzroy B. Maclean, Bath ; Mr. Hector A. C. 



94 GATHERING OF THE CLAN. 

and Mrs. Maclean, Harlington, Middlesex; Dr. Kenneth Maclean, 
Holloway, London; Captain Maclean, Southampton; Miss F. M. Maclean, 
Upper Norwood, London; Nurse C. Maclean, Ulverston, Lanchashire; 
Mr. R. C. Maclean, Highgate, London; Mr. A. H. H. and Miss Maclean, 
Wimbledon, London; Mr. Wm. Maclean, 5 West Garden St., Glasgow; 
Mr. W. S. Maclean, 223 W. Princes St., do.; Mrs. Allan and Miss Ida 
Maclean, do. ; Mr. Joseph Maclean, do. ; Mr. John and Miss Helena 
Maclean, 68 St. Vincent Crescent, Glasgow; Mr. Ronald J. Maclean, 97 
Petershill Rd., do; Mr. Peter Maclean, 2 Smith St., Hillhead, do.; Mr. 
and Mrs. A. MacDonald, 79 Abbotsford PL, do.; Mr. A. Maclean, 975 
Argyle St., do. ; Mr. H. Maclaine, 1 Springhill Terrace, Shawlands, do. ; 
Mr. D. C. Maclean, 117 Stanmore Rd., Mount Florida, do.; Mr. and Mrs. 
Alex. Maclean, 34 St. Enoch Square, do. ; Mr. John Maclean, secretary of 
Clan Association, 173 Houston St., do. ; Mr. Peter and Miss J. C. Maclean, 
55 Kersland St., do.; Mr. and Mrs. Peter Maclean Paul, 15 Eskdale 
Street, Crosshill, Glasgow; Mr. D. M. Maclean, 159 North St., do.; Mr. 
Peter and Misses Maclean, 1222 Argyle St., do. ; Mr. N. M. M'Arthur, 23 
Webster Street, Bridgeton, do.; Mr. Neil Maclaine, 268 Paisley Rd., W., 
do.; Mr. A. Maclean, 391 Paisley Rd., W., do.; Mr. Neil Maclean, 369 
Paisley Rd., W., do.; Dr. A. B. Maclean, Redcroft, Maxwell Park, 
Glasgow; Mr. John Maclean, secy. An Comunn Gaidhealach, 108 Hope 
St., Glasgow; Mr. Hector Maclean, 1025 Argyll St., do.; Mr. Dugald 
MacCallum, 58 Mitchell St., Glasgow; Mrs. and Misses Gillan, Edin- 
burgh; Mr. Jas. Maclean, 39 Lochend Road, W., Edinburgh; Mr. John 
Maclean, 9 Ingleston St.,, do. ; Mr. Dug. Maclean, Waco, Texas, Christ- 
church, Oxford; Mr. W. H. Maclean, Birkenhead, and brothers and 
sisters; Mr. A. Fraser Maclean, 30 Salisbury Rd., Harringay, London; 
Mrs. Ferguson, 87 Victoria St., Westminster, London; Miss Cathie 
A. Maclean, 39 Upper Bedford PI., Russell Square, do.; Mr. and Mrs. 
Henry Maclean, Bournemouth; Mr. Allan and Mrs. Maclean, Alexandria, 
and children ; Messrs Alex, and John Maclean, 134 High Street, Annan ; 
Mr. J. Campbell Maclean, writer, Hamilton ; Mr. Malcolm and Mrs. 
Maclean, Helensburgh ; Rev. Alex. D. Maclean, The Manse, Ardgour; 
Mr. Thos. and Miss Maclean, Nether Lochaber Hotel, Ardgour ; Mr. John 
Maclean, 1 Clovullin, Ardgour; Mr. Archd. Maclean, 3 do.; Mr. Lach. 
Maclean, do.; Miss Sara Maclean, Morlea, Glen Urquhart; Mr. and Mrs. 
and Miss J. A. D. Maclean, Reading; Miss Margaret Maclean Black, 
Killearn; Rev. J. Maclean, The Manse, Morven ; Miss M. Maclean, 
Glenfield, Dumbarton ; Mrs. Maclean, Mair Meadow Rd., do. ; Pipe-Major 
MacDougall Gillies, Glasgow; Pipe-Major F. MacRae, do.; H. Maclean, 
86 Glasgow Rd., Wishaw ; George Maclean, Pleasance Avenue, Falkirk; 
Mrs. Maclean Caldwell, Park Rd. Farm, Kirn, and Mrs. Maclean Cald- 
well, do.; Mr. Don. Maclean, Templeview, Garnish, N. Uist ; Mr. Lach. 
Maclean, Kilmartin Hotel ; Mr. Arch. Maclean, Kintra, Bruichladdich, 
Isaly; Mr. D. Maclean, Strontian ; Mr. Gillian Maclean, Kinlochaline, 
Morven; Mrs. Maclean and Master Crawford Maclean, Ardconnel Villa, 
Oban; Dr. James and Mrs. Maclean, The Cairn, Pollokshields ; Mrs. 
Maclean, Ardenlee, Oban; Mr. Sam Maclean Maxwell and party, 25 No. 



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Albion St., Glasgow (3) ; Mr. Thos. Maclean, 210 Duke Street, do.; Mr. 
D. Maclean, lona, and party (3) ; Mr. Dug. Maclean, Easdale; Mr. Allan 
and Miss Maclean, Strontian Hotel; Mr. A. Maclean, 17 Apsley Street, 
Partick; Mr. Don. J. Maclean, 4 Trislaig, by Fort William; Mr. Jas. 
Maclean, Burnbank, Dervaig, Mull; Mr. Don. S. Maclean, 18 Oxford St., 
Glasgow; Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Poaps, Ottawa, Canada; Mr. A. Maclean, 
181 St. Andrews Rd., Pollokshields ; Dr. and Mrs. Carsewell, Glasgow; 
Mrs. Stephen Adam, do. ; Rev. Dr. Smith, Patrick ; Mr. R. Maclean of 
Gometra and Mrs. Maclean; Dr. Peter Maclean, Dervaig; Mr. Wm. and 
Mrs. Maclean, Mishnish Hotel, Tobermory ; Mr. C. R. and Mrs. Morison, 
Kengharair, Dervaig; Rev. Wm. and Mrs. Mackintosh, Manse of Torosay, 
Mull; Mr. Allan and Mrs. Maclean, Langamull, Tobermory; Mr. John 
Maclean, North of Scotland and Town and County Bank, Tobermory; 
Mr. Robt. Stewart Maclean, Glengorm, Tobermory; Mr. John and Mrs. 
Maclean, Argyll Terrace, do. ; Mr. A. and Mrs. Maclean, Lochinvar, 
Tobermory; Mr. Arch. Maclean, West Street, do. ; Mr. Charles and Mrs. 
Maclean and family, Drumfin Lodge, do. ; Mr. L. and Miss Maclean, 
Cromar's land, do. ; Mr. Rod. Maclean, 55 Main St., do. ; Mr. Hugh 
Maclean, West St., do. ; Mrs. J. MacColl, Texa Buildings, do. ; Mr. Angus 
Maclean, Salen, Aros; Mr. Chas. Maclean, do.; Mr. Lachlan Maclean, 
Aros Bridge, do. ; Mr. Alexander Maclean, do. ; Miss S. Maclean, P.O., 
do. ; Mr. Chas. and Mrs. Maclean, Achronich, Aros ; Mr. Arch, and Miss 
Maclean, Achronich, Ulva Ferry, do. ; Mr. Don. and Miss Jessie Maclean, 
Torlochlan, Gruline; Mr. and Mrs. Maclean, Laggan, Ulva, Aros; Mr. 
Hector Maclean, Penmore, Dervaig; Mr. Hugh Maclean, Kellar Mill, 
Aros ; Mr. Lach. and Mrs. Maclean, Fearnmore, Aros ; Mr. Mai. and 
Miss Maclean, Ballygown, Aros ; Mr. Hugh Maclean, Killiechronan, 
Aros ; Mr. Geo. Maclean, Ardchiavaig, Bunessan ; Mr. Don. and Miss 
Maclean, Rohill, Glenforsa, Aros ; Mr. Don. Maclean, Pennygown, do. ; 
Mr. Neil Maclean, Kilbeg, do. ; Mr. John Maclean, Burnside Cottage, 
Glen Aros, Salen ; Mr. Don. and Miss Mary Maclean, Rhoil, Glenforsa, 
Aros ; Mr. Geo. and Mrs. Maclean, Fanmore, Torloisk ; Mr. Nicol 
Maclean, Ardura Farm, Mull ; Mr. A. C. Maclean, Laggan Cottage, 
Laggin, Ulva; Mr. John and Miss Morag Maclean, Rhenoster Cottage, 
Dervaig ; Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Maclean, Lilybank, Dervaig ; Mr. Don. 
Maclean, The Lodge, Duart ; Mr. Neil Maclean, do. ; Miss Mary Maclean, 
Craignure, do. ; Mr. Andrew Maclean Crockatt, Lochdonhead, Auchen- 
ering, Mull; Mr. James Maclean, Burnbank, Dervaig; Mr. Angus 
Maclean, Meiklerigg, Paisley ; Dr. and Mrs. J. R. MacGilvray, Salen ; 
Messrs Alex., Jas., and John Maclean, Clovulin, Ardgour; Mrs. A. 
Mackay, do.; Mr. Chas.. and Miss M. Maclean, Freisleg; Mr. Arch, and 
Miss A. Maclean, Blaich ; Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Maclean, Kentallagh ; 
Messrs. Robert and Lachlan Maclean, do; Mrs. Norman Ritchie, St. 
Boswells ; Miss Mackenzie, Edinburgh. 

A party of loyal American ladies was so unfortunate as to 
miss the Gathering, owing to the steamship being two days late 
in its arrival in port. Nothing daunted they came on to Oban, 



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sought out the presence of the Chief, who graciously asked them 
to lunch, which was cordially accepted. Then they took passage 
to Duart Castle, and in all probability none enjoyed the sights 
and the old castle more than these most excellent clanswomen. 
They had seen a notice in the papers of the Gathering and im- 
mediately formed the determination of being present, and at 
once wrote to the Chief. They are Mrs. Christie MacLean 
Numan, and daughter, Miss Nellie Christine, of Canton, Ohio, 
and Mrs. Margaret MacLean Jones and niece, Miss Flora Mac- 
Lean Jones, of Larue, Ohio, descended from Neal MacLean, 
born in the Isle of skye, March 17, 1806, and Catherine Mac- 
Lean, born in the Isle of Tiree, March 18, 1820. They were 
married in Canada, March 6, 1838. 

The following sent letters of apology to the Chief: 
Major Hector F. Maclean, yr. of Duart, Scots Guards, Cairo; the 
Hon. R. D. Douglas Maclean, Marakhaho, Napier, New Zealand ; Mr. 
and Mrs. A. W. Maclean, Lumberton, North Carolina, U.S.A.; Mr. and 
Mrs. Allan Bruce Maclean, British Consulate, Dantzig; Mr. Robert 
Maclean of Plantation; Colonel J. Bayne Maclean, Toronto; Mr. P. W. 
Maclean, 130 Dunn Avenue, Parkdale, Toronto; Rev. George C. Maclean, 
Jervis Lodge, Swanmore, Bishops Waltham, Hants. ; Mr. Jas Maclean, 
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada ; Mr. Wm. Maclean, Collingwood, do. ; 
Misses Maclean, Drimnin, Tangier, Morocco; Mr. George E. Maclean, 
U.S.A., Whitehall Hotels, Bloomsbury, London ; Mr. H. N. Maclean, 
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada; Mr. A. H. Maclean, 4 George Yard, 
Lombard St. ; Mrs. Homan, Christiania, Norway ; Mr. Wm. Maclean, 
Lochbuie, Harrogate; Mr. Wm. Maclean, Homan, 22 Hamilton Drive, 
Hillhead, Glasgow ; General and Mrs. Davidson, Ashville, No. Carolina ; 
Mr. John Johnston, Isle of Coll ; Mr. Angus Maclean, 2 Victoria Street, 
Tobermory ; Sergt. -Major John Maclean, Fort William ; Mr. E. Fergus 
Macvlean, Jonghal, Co. Cork ; Don. Maclean, 201 Calder St., Govanhill ; 
Miss Colville Maclean, Western Infirmary, Glasgow ; Miss Edith Maclean, 
Whitelands, St. John's Road, Leicester ; Miss Maclean, Cherry Bank, 
Forfar ; Mr. R. A. Maclean, 82 Beaconsfield Villas, Brighton ; Mr. Hector 
Maclean, Glen Annan, Huro, Co., Ontario; Miss Marie Isabel Maclean, 
163 Lower Circular Rd., Calcutta ; Mr. Don. Maclean, Templeview, 
Carinish, North Uist; Mr. Neil Maclean of Breda and Mrs. and Misses 
Maclean; Mr. and Mrs. Foreter, Ambleside; Rev. N. Maclean, Park 
Church, Glasgow, and Mrs. Maclean ; Mr. G. A. Maclean Buckley of 
Shuna; Mr. Lincoln E. Savage, San Francisco; Mr. R. J. Maclean, 
Spokane, Washington ; Mr. Hector N. Maclean, Inverell, New South 
Wales ; Mr. Don. Maclean, London,- Ontario ; Mr. Robert Craik Maclean, 
Toronto; Mr. G. H. and Mrs. and Miss Maclean, London: Mrs. Fred. 
Head, 28 Wilton PL, London; Mr. R. G. Lawrie, 60 Renfield St., 



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Glasgow; Mr. John Maclean, Telegraph Dept., G.P.O., Glasgow; Mrs. 
and Miss Barr, 196 North St., do.; Mrs. Cay of Carsaig, Mull; Mr. 
Donald and Mrs. Maclean and sons, Partick, Glasgow ; Mr. Dug. Maclean, 
8 Bank St., Edinburgh; Rev. D. N. Maclean, U.F. Manse, Kirkoswald; 
Mrs. Ebenezer Maclean, Stirling ; Mr. Murdo Maclean, Stornoway ; Mr. 
Malcolm Maclean, do. ; Misses Maclean, Temperance Hotel, Dunkeld ; 
Mr. Archibald Maclean, Creagory Hotel, Benbecula; Mr. Neil Maclean, 
Nuton, Benbecula. 

Mr. Neil MacLean of Breda, a direct descendant of the 
MacLeans of Lehir and Ross The Race of the Iron Sword 
who is president of the Clan MacLean Association, fully ex- 
pected to be present. Learning at the last moment he should 
be denied that privilege, and too late to write, telegraphed 
the Chief as follows : 

"Regret beyond words that my wife and myself feel unable to be 
present at tomorrow's great gathering at Duart Castle, but my nephew 
and his eldest daughter, and my eldest son and his wife and another 
son, will be there. It will be a soul stirring day, and for ever toibe 
treasured in the annals of the clan, the celebration of the restoration 
to you of the very old and very famous seat of your forefathers, after 
a break of more than two hundred years. That it may for evermore 
remain in your family will be the earnest prayer of every true Maclean 
the wide world over Neil M'Lean." 

The delegations from the United States and Canada were 
not as large as was anticipated, but this cannot be ascribed as a 
fault. It is positively known that many had decided to go, and 
others had made definite arrangements. The distance is great, 
although the journey may be made in safety. It is drawing jon 
one's fealty to ask him to go a great distance and spend qiijite 
a sum of his earnings for a few hours of devotion to one's clan. 
And yet, of the American contingent, all expressed themselves 
as well repaid, even, though no other knowledge or consideration 
was gained. Mrs. Emma Whitman and her daughter, Miss 
Mildred, of Reno, Nebraska, Mr. Charles C. Hall 'and Mrs. Mary 
McLean Hardy, of Berkeley, California, had made arrangements 
to go, on the vessel, on which the American contingent FaiUd. 

Hon. Angus W. McLean and wife, of Lumberton, Notkh 
Carolina, fully expected to be present, although they made the 
tour of Scotland and the continent two years before. But the 
long and fatal sickness of his brother, and the added financial 
cares, withheld him. Mr. McLean is a living example of 
inherent fealty to his clan. His great-grandfather, John Mac- 



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Lean, left Mull for America, sailed on the Molly, and landed 
in Wilmington, North Carolina, during the month of October, 
1792. As already noted Mr. McLean is president of the Scot- 
tish Society of America; and at present is collecting material 
for a history of the Scotch Highlanders along the Cape Fear 
river. Enough original material has been secured to make a 
good sized volume. He has all the characteristics of his fore- 
fathers, generous to a fault, and hospitable to all. When he 
found it would be impossible to be present, he sent the follow- 
ing letter to the Chief : 

LUMDERTON, N. C, August 20, 1912. 

COLONEL SIR FITZROY DONALD MACLEAN, BART., K. C. B., DUART CASTLE, 
ISLE OF MULL, Sc TLAND. 

SIR: I desire to offer, en behalf of Mrs. McLean, and myself, the 
assurance of our sincere loyalty and good wishes, upon your taking 
possession of the Ancient Castle of your illustrious ancestors. We deeply 
regret that circumstances prevented us from carrying out our intention 
of being present in p.erson, to render to you that honor, loyalty, and 
devotion, which every true Clansman owes to his Chief. 

Wishing that you and Lady MacLean may live long to continue to 
honor the name of our glorious Clan, 

I have the honor to remain, Sir, 

Your obedient Clansman, 

A. W. MCLEAN. 

In all probability a more enthusiastic clansman does not live 
than Robert J MacLean. But the greatest proof of it is in the 
practical application. In Spokane, Washington, a MacLean, a 
native of the Highlands of Scotland, was stranded, discouraged, 
and desired to return to his native heath. Mr. MacLean, got up 
a subscription paper, headed it with $35, and raised enough to 
pay the entire expense of the journey. Besides this he handed 
the wayfarer $50 to assist him after his return. He is thoroughly 
posted on the clan, and, is collecting material for his proposed 
book on the Life and Correspondence of Genl. Allan MacLean. 
He had fully determined to attend the Gathering, but at the 
last moment found it impossible, but with other friends in Spo- 
kane, Washington, sent a cablegram of congratulations to the 
Chief. His home is in Wilmington, Delaware. 

Another practical Clansman is John F. McClain, Vice 
President of the Remington Typewriter Company. His motto 
he threw into the following stanza : 



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GATHERING OF THE CLAN. 103 

We ken not whence, 

We ken not whither, 
But whilst we're here, 

Let's help each ither." 

The publication of this book is largely due to him. In 
sending out the first circulars, I requested the names of probable 
subscribers. With five exceptions but little attention was paid 
to it, but of the names sent in over one-third became subscribers. 
I wrote Mr. McClain that the success of the enterprise hung 
in the balance. He took hold, of the matter himself ; had his 
managers, in fifty-seven of the leading cities of the United 
States and Canada, send in the names of all clansmen in the 
telephone directories, and at his own expense, had his stenog- 
raphers write to all the parties. He sent over fifteen hun- 
dred letters. Besides all this, personally I am under obligations 
to him for the present of a high grade of typewriter instru- 
ment. Owing to the fact that he was spending his vacation at 
Koskoka Lakes, he was not apprised of the Gathering, in time 
to attend. However, on August 23rd, he sent the following 
cablegram to the Chief : 

"God speed MacLean renaissance." 

Mr. McClain is an illustration of inherited fealty to the 
Chief and the Clan. His ancestor left Scotland owing to the 
disasters that overtook the Clans, immediately after the battle 
of Culloden, and went to county Monaghan, Ireland, where his 
grandfather, Samuel, was born. Samuel migrated in 1824 to 
Toronto, Canada, where his son Robert was born. 

Captain Burdge P. McLean of Huntington, New York, is 
not only an enthusiastic MacLean, but also absorbs general 
Highland sentiment. The Highland Guard of New York met 
his fancy, and he became Captain in the regiment. These regi- 
ments are not altogether ornamental, for they are summoned 
during domestic foment. Captain McLean intended being at 
the Gathering, but as he was general agent, in his line of busi- 
ness, for the Southern States, could not find the necessary time. 

That Mr. William W. McLean, of Fosterville, Tenn., should 
make the trip across the ocean, is no wonder, when it is con- 
sidered that he is a direct descendant of Sir Lachlan Mor Mac- 



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ALLAN DUARD MACLEAN. 

(Named especially for the ancestral castle. Born in Wilmington, 
Del., July 20, 1907, son of R. J. MacLean, former president Chamber of 
Commerce. Robert A. McLean, Charlotte, N. C, also has a son Duard). 



GATHERING OF THE CLAN. 105 

Lean, Fourteenth Chief of MacLean, by his son Charles. Al- 
though his great-grandfather Ephriam, with his brother Charles, 
came to America, in 1750, and both settled in western North 
Carolina, we find his heart still warms to the tartan. Tradition 
says that Sir Lachlan's son Charles married a daughter of Hector 
Eighth of Lochbuy. After Ephraim came to North Carolina 
he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Davidson, one of the 
signers of the Mechlenburg Declaration of Independence. 

There is an incident in his life that demonstiates that blood 
is thicker than water. He still lives in the home where he was 
born. During the American Civil War there was a battle and the 
dwelling was between the firing line, and the whole family cooped 
up in the house. Cannon balls passed through the building, until 
finally an Illinois regiment took possession and some of the troops 
began to carry off the meat from the smoke house. A lieutenant 
in immediate command called out: "Who lives here?" The an- 
swer came "McLean." The lieutenant said: "My name is Mc- 
Lean. Disturb nothing here," and immediately threw a guard 
around the property. 

At the Chicago Gathering in 1893, f r m the British Isles 
there came the Chief, MacLean of Pennycross, Mrs. MacLean, 
and Dr. James Maxwell Tobermory, Isle of Mull. The only 
persons present at both Gatherings are the Chief, Mr. and Mrs. 
W. C. McLean, Menomonie, Wisconsin, and the writer. Mr. 
W. C. McLean saw a notice announcing the meeting in one of 
the newspapers and set out to go, and as Mrs. McLean was not 
strong she believed that her health might be improved. To have 
seen her during the journey and at the Gathering one would have 
thought she was of the Clan by birth. Mr. McLean's family 
has long been in America. His great, great-grandfather, William 
left Scotland and settled in New Jersey, where he was killed by 
the Indians, when the family moved to Washington County, New 
York, where many of the descendants still reside. Mr. McLean 
moved to Menomonie in 1870 and married Miss Mary F. Kirley, 
of Puritan blood. In 1879 ne graduated in law, but has been 
mostly engaged in banking and the real estate business. 

An exceedingly bright lady with attractive face, is Mrs. 
Ella M. Smyth, of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She claims to be a thorough 
MacLean, yet confesses that quality comes through her maternal 
grandmother. However that may be, she was welcomed to the 



106 GATHERING OF THE CLAN. 

clan, who never questioned her right. She is of quick perception 
and decision. While she came to Scotland, purposely to attend 
the Gathering, yet took advantage of the trip, to go to Dresden 
to pursue some art studies. 

Living now in Chicago, but formerly in Boston and New 
York, is Miss Isabel MacLean. Her life has been largely de- 
voted to literature, and under a nom dc plume she has con- 
tributed both prose and poetry to some of the leading mag- 
azines. When Miss MacLean, heard of the projected gathering 
she made her arrangements to be present. Alone she traveled 
from Chicago to Oban, and thought nothing of it. Reaching 
Oban before the Gathering she visited among other places 
lona and Staff a, and after that event walked the length of 
Kerrera Island. Next day found her in the Trossachs, on her 
way to Edinburgh and London. She is the quickest of per- 
ception, most receptive, and one of the best informed ladies I 
have ever met, and with all, self-composed and independent 
in both action and thought. Her grandfather, Donald, who 
was a soldier and a superior officer in his regiment, came from 
Scotland and settled in Canada in 1824. 

Miss Ella Watson, of Northampton, Massachusetts, is an- 
other lady who made the trip alone, going direct to London, 
thence to Inverness, and from there to the Gathering. Miss 
Watson is very quiet and unassuming. W^hile saying but little 
nothing escaped her attention. 

According to a statement made in Oban, by Hon. William 
F. MacLean, M. P., from Toronto, Canada, that country 
contains as many MacLeans, as all Scotland. As the latter 
country is reported to support sixteen thousand of the name, 
then there is not far from that number in the British dominions 
in North America. No one would be better capable of know- 
ing than Mr. MacLean. He is a newspaperman and dean of 
the Canadian parliament. He projected the Toronto World, 
,and has made it one of the most successful papers in the do- 
minion. His people left the Highlands one hundred and fifty 
years ago and settled in Glasgow, where he was one of the first 
cotton-spinners, owning a factory. Three of the family fought 
at Culloden, and but one got away, and from that one Mr. Mac- 
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Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Poaps crossed the ocean to be present 
at the Gathering. Mrs. Poaps is a daughter of John MacLean, 
who was born on the Isle of Mull, and in 1835, then in his 
seventeenth year, with his father, left for Canada. Mr. and 
Mrs. Poaps live in Ottawa, where he is extensively engaged in 
business. 

Living in Vancouver is Mrs. Margaret A. MacLean, who 
is so full of the Clan sentiment that she named one of her sons 
Duart. The family found that none could meet with the Clan, 
but sent a cablegram of congratulations to the Chief. 

Colonel John Bayne MacLean, president of the Clan Mac- 
Lean Association of the United States and Canada, has long 
been an active clansman. He had made all his arrangements to 
attend the Gathering, even to the selection of the steamer, but 
at the last moment was disappointed. By cablegram he sent 
to the Chief: "My deep regret at my inability to be present. 
I send my congratulations." 

Colonel MacLean, from his extensive newspaper enterprise 
finds time to devote to clan matters, and has made a specialty 
of collecting memoranda pertaining to Genl. Allan MacLean. 

I have repeatedly tried to get in touch with Mr. Dugald 
McLean, of Waco, Texas, and too late found him in Oxford, 
Eng. 



108 GATHERING OF THE CLAN. 




McD. K. MCLEAN. 



PART IV. 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 

(109) 



GENERAL ALLAN MacLEAN OF TORLOISK. 



The story of Genl. Allan MacLean, and the services he 
rendered the British empire has no lot nor part in connection 
with the renaissance of the MacLeans. The sole object in in- 
troducing it here was simply to call attention to his achieve- 
ments. The efforts put forth by him have been appropriated 
by another. It is true that Colonel David Stewart, in his 
Sketches of the Highlanders (Vol. II, Page 184), caught the 
fact that it was MacLean who saved Quebec, and thus held 
Canada to the empire, for he states, that during the seige, Arnold 
was "foiled at every point, by the vigilant and intelligent de- 
fender, Colonel MacLean." 

A study of the papers left by Genl. MacLean show they ex- 
hibit a great undertaking in placing the same in readable form. 
In the papers preserved in the British Museum there are about 
two hundred and ninety items under his name, about four-fifths 
of which are in the Haldimand collection. All that occur in the 
Haldimand collection have both been calendared and copied by 
the Canadian government for the archives, in Ottawa. The 
calendars are in the "Reports on the Canadian Archives" for 
the years 1886, 1887, 1888. Letters and orders to him are just 
as numerous, and nearly all in the same collection. 

While engaged in this research, and after I had announced 
the intention to incorporate the letters with the Renaissance, I 
received a letter from Mr. Robert J. MacLean, Wilmington, 
Del., stating he was collecting material concerning Genl. Mac- 
Lean for publication. As he had made a special and elaborate 
study previous to my announcement, with the prospect of setting 
all before the public, it would be an act of manifest injustice 
to anticipate him. But, as I had made a promise I will call 
attention to the subject. 

I sincerely hope the MacLeans who read this, will en- 
courage Mr. Robert J., and subscribe for the book, without be- 
ing solicited. A little from every one will not be felt, but to the 

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112 GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 

sum total to him, it would be a gracious work of appreciation. 
I will head the list by taking ten copies. 

General Allan MacLean of Torloisk, was born on the island 
of Mull,, in 1725, and began his military career in the service of 
Holland, in the Scots brigade. With Lieutenant Francis Mac- 
Lean, he was taken prisoner at the siege of Bergen-ap-Zoom, 
in 1747, and carried before General Lowendahl, who thus ad- 
dressed them : "Gentlemen, consider yourselves on parole. If 
all had conducted themselves as your brave corps have done, I 
should not now be master of Bergen-op-Zoom." On January 
8, 1756, Allan became lieutenant in the 62nd regiment, and on 
July 8, 1758, was severely wounded at Ticonderoga. On Jan- 
uary 1 6, 1759, became captain of an independent company, and 
was at the surrender of Niagara, where he was dangerously 
wounded. Returning to Great Britain, he raised the H4th foot, 
or Royal Highland Volunteers, and became major commandant, 
October 18, 1761. The regiment having been reduced in 1763, 
he went on half-pay. On May 25, 1772 became lieutenant- 
colonel. Early in the year 1775, made proposals to raise the 
Highland emigrants, settled in New York and North Carolina, 
to enter into associations to support the authority of the king, 
and to assemble them in arms, if it became necessary. His ideas 
were accepted, and together with three of his officers was sent 
out to America for that purpose, in April, 1775, to carry out 
his designs. At the same time instructions were sent to the 
governors of said States relative to his plans. In the follow- 
ing June he was authorized by Genl. Gage to form a corps 
of two battalions from among the Highland emigrants. He 
made many journeys from Philadelphia to New York, thence to 
Boston, and then back to New York and from there to Canada, 
in disguise, and succeeded in raising the battalions "with one 
of which he was highly instrumental in preserving the province 
of Canada." When hostilities finally commenced he was in 
Canada with his battalion. It was not long until the war-cloud 
hung over Canada. General Carleton, the British Governor, 
had detached small forces in different parts of the country. In 
November, 1775, General Richard Montgomery entered Canada 
from the West and before his rapid movements, the British 
forces gave way as he descended the St. Lawrence. On the 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 113 

east Arnold had made his way through the woods of Maine 
and stood before the walls of Quebec. But General Carleton 
was nowhere midst the scenes of danger. Mac Lean, thoroughly 
experienced in all details of war saw that the strategic point 
was Quebec, and at all hazards it must be held. On November 
5th, with a party of his Emigrants he descended from Three 
Rivers, taking with him all the arms and provisions he could 
handle, and by ship entered the city. Here he found all con- 
fusion and the troops, and even officers, without discipline. 
Practically all of Canada had fallen into the hands of the Amer- 
icans save the beleaguered city. The fortifications had been greatly 
neglected, and were in a ruinous state. After General Mac- 
Lean's arrival the garrison consisted of three hundred and fifty 
of the newly raised Emigrants, fifty of the Fusileers, and about 
seven hundred militia and seamen. On Nov. iQth, Carleton, 
for personal safety crept within the walls, having fled down 
the river. But he was wise enough to leave the entire defense 
to MacLean, though occasionally softening MacLean's severity, 
for the latter instantly put in motion that rigid discipline so 
well known in armies. This caused an outcry, but he heeded it 
not. While bringing the troops, with the officers, into order 
he was exerting all his- powers in restoring the walls and enlarg- 
ing upon defensive means. On the morning of Dec. 3ist, both 
of the American commanders, leading separate points of attack, 
advanced with boldness and in good spirits. The power of Genl. 
MacLean was exerted everywhere, and handled the garrison 
with consummate skill. The gallant Montgomery led at the head 
of his troops, and while personally tearing away a barricade, 
fell, mortally wounded. Arnold continued the assault for a while, 
and finally withdrew to the Heights of Abraham, intending to 
blockade the town and intercept all supplies, and succeeded in 
reducing the garrison to great straits. He erected batteries, and 
made several attempts on the town, but in every point was foiled 
by the vigilance of General MacLean. As spring approached 
Arnold, despairing of success, raised the siege and evacuated 
the whole of Canada. During the prolonged siege Genl. MacLean 
suffered an injury to his leg, whereby he partially lost the use 
of it during the remainder of his life. On May n, 1776, he 
vvas appointed adjutant-general of the army, which he held tin- 



114 GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 

til June 6, 1777, when he was commissioned brigadier-general, 
and placed in command at Montreal. 

General MacLean left Quebec July 27, 1776, for England, 
in order to obtain rank and establishment for his regiment, 
which had been promised, but not fulfilled. He left England 
September 24, 1776. When Burgoyne's ill-fated expedition as- 
sembled in Canada, Genl. MacLean in 1777 was in command at 
Montreal, and as dangers rapidly thickened around Burgoyne, 
General MacLean was ordered, October 2Oth, with the 3ist and 
his battalion of the Royal Highland Emigrants, to Chimney 
Point, but the following month was ordered to Quebec. In 1778 
he again went to England in order to appeal to the king to give 
his regiment rank and establishment, in which he proved suc- 
cessful, which occurred December 25, 1778. During the latter 
part of the year 1779, his command extended from Montreal to 
Oswegatchie. In 1779 and 1780 he became involved in a con- 
troversy with a Captain John MacLean, which dragged along 
for some time. From a letter written to General MacLean, 
dated Quebec, September n, 1780, it would appear he never 
drew pay as a brigadier until that time. During the greater 
part of the year 1781, he was in Montreal, but on September 
1 7th, was granted leave of absence to go t6 England, in order to 
have the accounts of the 84th regiment arranged. On October 
14, 1782, he was in Montreal, and on the I7th, in a memorial 
sets forth his services, and requests that he may sell his com- 
mission in the 84th regiment. On the 3Oth he was at Oswego 
and at Niagara from November 6th to October 6, 1783, during 
which time his correspondence with Washington took place, and 
his letter was written in which he expressed his opinion of the 
monster Brant. Soon after the Peace of 1783, he retired from 
the service. On June 14, 1784, he was living in London. He 
appears to have loaned John MacLean of Lochbuy a considerable 
sum of money, and frequently urged its payment. He was mar- 
ried to Janet, daughter of Donal MacLean of Blrolas, and died in 
London, in March 1797. The following letters from among his 
more important papers are selected : 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 115 



Memorial of Genl. Allan MacLean, March n, 1776. 

To the Right Honorable Lord George Germaine, His Majesty's Principal 
Secretary of State for America. 

The Memorial of Lieut Col. Allan Maclean and the Other Officers of 

His Majesty's Regiment of Royal Highland Emigrants 

Now Serving in North America. 

MOST HUMBLY SHEWETH, 

That soon after the first Appearance of the present wicked and 
unnatural Rebellion in the Colonies, Lieut. Col. Maclean knowing that 
many Emigrants from the Highlands of Scotland were settled in the 
Provinces of New York and North Carolina, made Proposals for engag- 
ing them in Associations to support the Authority of this Kingdom and 
to assemble them in Arms if it shou'd become necessary. 

The good Effects proposed from such Associations appeared so 
evident, that the Proposals were accepted, (tho not so soon as it cou'd 
have been wish'd) and Col. Maclean with three of his Officers were 
sent out to America for that purpose in April 1775 ; Instructions were 
sent at the same time to the Governors of the aforesaid Provinces 
relative to Col. Maclean's Plan, and these Instructions were soon after 
communicated to General Gage the Commander in Chief, with orders to 
take the proper Steps to carry the same into Execution, if he shou'd 
find it necessary to augment his Force. 

General Gage not only found it necessary, but so materially and 
essentially so, that he had in part anticipated his Orders, by previously 
receiving Proposals and treating with some of the Officers of this Corps 
on the Subject of raising Men, and immediately on receiving the instruc- 
tions, he issued a Beating Order or Warrant authorizing Lieut. Col. 
Maclean to raise a Corps of 2 Battalions of 500 Men each, "to be paid 
as His Majesty's "Regiments of Foot, to receive Forty shillings Bounty, 
and "to be cloath'd arm'd and accoutred in like manner as ''the 42 d 
Regiment" see Copy of the Beating Order annex'd." 

In pursuance of the above Order, dated the 12th o f June, the 
Memorialists with an Alacrity and Zeal, that they flatter themselves will 
be acknowledged by their superior Officers, proceeded on the recruiting 
Service, and notwithstanding the rapid Progress of the Rebel Army, by 
which the Memorialists were disappointed in the particular Provinces 
where they expected the principal Resources, and notwithstanding the 
almost defenceless State of the Provinces of Nova Scotia and Canada, 
which diverted their Attention from the recruiting to other Services 
more immediately necessary, they have the Satisfaction to inform your 
Lordship, that they have in 6 months enlisted above 800 men, ascertained 
by a Return or State of the Regiment transmitted by Major Small to 
General Gage, a Copy whereof is also annex'd, and tho' from their dis- 



116 GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 

pers'd Situation, no regular Return can be made up of the whole at pres- 
ent, there is the greatest reason, to believe that there are more Men 
engaged than are necessary to compleat the Regiment to its intended 
Establishment. 

That from a Conviction thereof, and in Consideration of the 
Diligence of the Memorialists in levying the Corps, and of the Season- 
able and critical Service which a small part of them have already had 
the good Fortune to render their Country, the late and present 
Commanders in Chief in America, were pleased to grant Commissions 
to the Memorialists, and the whole Corps are now receiving Subsistence 
with the rest of the Army in America, but to their no small Astonish- 
ment, and unspeakable Mortification they have lately been given to under- 
stand, that those Commissions are not recognized at the War Office, 
that they are not mean't to convey Rank in the Army or Half Pay, and 
the usual Allowances given to all other Colonels for providing Clothing, 
Arms and Accoutrements, are not yet given for this Regiment, as 
promised in the Beating Order. 

The Memorialists with all possible humility, beg leave to represent 
to your Lordship, that they apprehend themselves entitled to expect a 
punctual Performance of the plighted Faith of Government in the Beating 
Order, where Pay (which includes Half Pay) and Clothing, &c a are 
promised them. And supposing no Terms promised, the Officers have 
many of them the Claim of long and faithfull Services on former 
Occasions, Some have serv'd the two former Wars, most of them the 
last; some claim no addition to their former Rank; none of them desire 
any precipitant Rank : Some of them are now on Full Pay in old 
Regiments ; the rest are mostly on Half Pay and all of them had less 
or more comfortable Settlements or Situations, which they quitt in order 
to restore Order and Tranquillity to the State, leaving their private 
Property and their Familys exposed to the Rapacity and persecution of 
the rebellious and disaffected, and relying solely on the Justice and 
Generosity of Administration for a proper Recompence ; Justice and 
Humanity forbid, that instead of such Recompence, after giving up the 
Full or Half Pay, which they respectively held before, the Memorialists 
should be reduc'd and dispers'd without any Pay at all ; It would much 
better become the Dignity of Government, and be more consistent with 
good Policy, to lean rather to the opposite extream, by rewarding and 
distinguishing those who on such critical Occasions, prove their loyalty 
and inviolable Attachment to the King and Constitution as an Encour- 
agement to their Brother Colonists to follow their Example. 

THE MEMORIALIST'S therefore most earnestly pray Your Lordship, 
to move His Majesty to confirm the Ranks given them by the 
Commanders in Chief in America, So as to entitle them to Half Pay 
accordingly, on a Reduction ; And in the mean time to provide for their 
Pay and other Expences by putting them on the Establishment of the 
Army. 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 117 



State of the Royal Regiment of Highland Emigrants, 
Jan. 4, 1776. 

N. B. Exclusive of the foregoing there were some Men (supposed 
to be at least Thirty in Number) recruited by Captain Malcolm Fraser 
with other Officers at the Island of St. Johns &c a . 

A Considerable Number also (not less than a hundred) were 
engaged by Captain Alex r MacDonald on the Mohawk River &c a . and 
ever since the beginning of last Summer have been ready to join when- 
ever it becomes practicable. 

Major Donald MacDonald, Capt. Allan MacDonald of Kingsburgh, 
Lieu*. McLeod of the 47, Lieut 8 . McNicoll and McLeod on Half Pay have 
been employed in recruiting men in North Carolina ever since June 
last The Intelligence from thence, written and verbal, gives room to 
conjecture a considerable number of Men are there also engaged and 
ready to join as soon as it becomes possible. 

Altho Numbers cannot exactly be ascertained yet it may reasonably 
be supposed the completing of two Battalions will be accomplished within 
a few Months. 



Authority for Raising the Regiment 

By His Excellency The Honourable Thomas Gage General, and 

Commander in Chief, of all His Majesty's Forces in 

North America &c &c &c - 

To Lieut. Colonel, Allen Maclean : 

You are hereby impower'd, with the Officers under your Command, 
by beat of Drum, or otherwise, to Inlist for his Majesty's Service in 
any of His Provinces in North America, Such Highlanders or other 
Loyal Subjects, as you may be able to procure to be formed into a Corps 
of 2 Battalions, to be paid as his Majesty's Regiments of Foot, and to 
receive Forty Shilings Bounty, they are to consist of 10 Company's each, 
which Company's are to be Compos'd of One Field Officer or Captain, 
Two Subalterns, Three Serjeants, Three Corporals, Two Drums, and 
Fifty Private Men, The whole Number of Officers to Consist of One 
Lieutenant, Colonel Commandant, Two Majors, One of the Two Majors 
to be Major Commandant, Seventeen Captains, Two Captain Lieutenants, 
BJ Lieutenants, VR Ensigs, Two Arjutants, Two Quarter Masters, Two 
Surgeons, Two Surgeons-Mates, and one Chaplain ; the whole Corps to 
be Cloath'd Armed and Accoutred in like Marnier with His Majesty's 
Royal Highland Regiment, and are to be called the Royal Highland 
Emigrants. You are to Rendevous on Lake Champlain, or bring them to 
this Place, as you shall find most practicable, but shou'd they be formed 



118 GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 

in Canada you will Act under the Command of General Carlton, until 
further Orders. 

Given under my Hand at Head Quarters, Boston 12th June 1117. 

(Signed) THOMAS GAGE. 

N. B. Although these Instructions mention Two Battalions to be 
raised, yet General Gage wou'd only give Commissions for One, Until 
further Orders 

Given under my Hand at Head Quarters, Boston 12th June 1775. 



ESTIMATE OF EXPENSES TO DEC. 24th, 1776. 

Estimate of Expence of the Regiment of Royal Highland Emigrants 

or Corps of 2 Battalions now raising in North America under 

the Command of Lieut. Colonel Allan Maclean. 

Levy Money for 60 Serjeants, 60 Corporals, 40 Drummers 
and 940 private (60 being Contingent) men, in all 
1100, at 2 each 2,200 

1 Lieut. Colonel Commandant Full Pay per diem. 17 

2 Majors at 15/- each 1 10 

17 Captains at 10/- 8 10 - 

2 Captain Lieutenants at 4/8 9 4 

20 Lieutenants at Ditto. . 4 13 4 

18 Ensigns at 3/8 3 6 - 

1 Chaplain 6 8 

2 Adjutants at 4/- 8 - 

2 Quartermasters at 4/8 9 4 

2 Surgeons at 4/- 8 

2- Surgeons Mates at 3/6 7 

60 Serjeants at 1/6 4 10 

60 Corporals at I/- 3 _ _ 

40 Drummers at I/- 2 

1,000 Private Men at 8 d 33 6 8 

120 Warrant Men at 8<*.. . 4 _ _ 



68 1 4 

196 days Pay from 12 June to 24 December 1775 both 

inclusive at 68 1 4 per diem 13,341 1 4 

366 days Ditto to 24 December 1776 at Ditto 24,912 8 



40,453 9 4 

ENDORSED Estimate of the Expence (of Lieut. Colonel Allan Mac- 
lean's) Corps of Emigrants to 24th December 1776. 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 



119 



Present State of the Regiment of Royal Highland Emigrants. 

HEADQUARTERS, BOSTON. 
4th anuary, 1776. 





Serjaants. 


Drummers. 


Rank and File. 


rt 

"c 


At Halifax as per Monthly Return 1 Decem- 
ber 1775 


10 


4 


134 


148 


Landed at Ditto 6 December, 1775, from New- 
foundland as p r lettter from Mess rs Mc- 
Donalds dated Halifax 7 Decem r 1775 






50 


50 


Embarked on Board the Brig Favorite the 
25th December and Sailed for Halifax 27 
December as per Authentick \ List and Em- 
barkation Return 


6 


8 


' 
82 


96 


Remaining in Boston as likewise specified in 
said List 




1 


35 


36 


On board Kingtown's Armed Sloop gone with 
two Officers to New York. ....... ' .... 


1 




1 





Capt. Campbell's Party sailed from Boston 
in October last on board the Rebecca and 
Francis Transport stranded soon thereaf- 
ter On the New Jersies Shore now Pris- 
oners with the Enemy at Philadelphia as 
per Authentick Account 


4 




99 


26 


Taken Prisoners at different times by the 
Rebels in George's Island and at the light 
House John Davis & George Smith 






2 


2 


Recruits further raised in Newfoundland by 
Captain Colin Campbell with whom he 
embarked and saild for Quebec as per M r . 
Connor's letter of 12 December last 






44 


44 


Strength of that part of the Corps actually 
with Colo. McClean in Canada as per Re- 
turn dated Quebec, 6th October and also 
p r his letters to Messrs- Kembell and Small 
dated Loull 28 October 1775 . 


9 1 


11 


416 


448 


A Party of Highlanders sent to Colonel Mc- 
lean at Quebec from Boston in Septem- 
ber last by the Hussaar Sloop of War 
Capt. McKenzie viz Donald Macintosh, 
William McNabb, Wm. and James 
Brown's 






4 


4 


Casualties Deserted from Halifax 3 
Deserted from Boston 1 
1 )ied at Boston 2 
Died at Boston | 1 










Deserted from New York. . I 2 






q 


Q 


I 













42 


24 


799 


865 








[N. T 


>.l 



120 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 



Contingent Accompt of the Recruiting Service for the Royal 
Regiment of Highland Emigrants, viz. 



I I- 

I i 
| s. | d. 



x22 | 
12 



June 29th, 1775. Paid Mr. McAdam of New York for 
a Horse, Saddle and Bridle lost in the | 
Woods coming to Canada as p. receipt 
3856 N. Y. C 

Aug. 10th, 1775. Paid Brown of Quebec for stationery..! 

Nov. llth, 1776. Postage of Letters upon Regimental! 

Business from June, 1775 to Nov r , 1776] 10 j 17 

Printing Attestations, Grants of Lands | 

&c. , 6000 Copies | x8 

Feby, 1777. Paid for taking deserters at difft times. jgr.25 

Paid Medecines for Recruits 5 | 5 

Paid several Contingencies as p partic- 
ular Acct x!67 ! 7 

Paid Petrie and McAdam for scab- 
bards to Broad swords and Bayonets. J gr. 40 | 
Paid William McKenzie for Cartouch j 

Boxes (pt. paid by Mr. Dunn) |gr 15 

Paid Freight of Heors Vessel a 37 p | 
Month from 18th Augt to 18th Nov r | 
in 1775 for bringing recruits from New- | 

foundland 111 Halifax. j 103 

(deduct Estmt of the Brigr draft on 

Mr. Dunn) 
To paid the Pilot of Heors Vessel...! 7 

20th, To paid Insurance on Do 20 | 

To paid Cheniques Vessel going to St. 
Johns and back for recruits 60 Hal. | 

(pd. by Mr. Dunn) I 56 

To paid insurance | x5 

To p d Vincent the Smith for Cheaps ) 
to Swords and Bayonets a Quebec | 
1775-76 |grlO 



Sterling 



10 



509 I 18 

I 



(Copy) 

Endorsed General Contingent Acct. of the Recruiting Service for the 
R. H. Emigrants from Brigr General MacLean No. 2. 

THOS. CARLETON 
FORBES MACLEAN 
THOM S DUNN 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 121 



Establishment of the ist Battalion of the Royal Highland 

Emigrants. 

1 Colonel in Chief - 14 

1 Lt. Col. Commandant and Captain - 17 

1 Major and Captain - 15 

8 Captains a 10/- 4 - 

11 Lieutenants a 4/8 2 11 4 

9 Ensigns a 3/8 1 13 - 

Chaplain - 6 8 

Adjutant 4 

Quartermaster 4 8 

Surgeon 4 

Mate - 3 6 

30 Serjeants a 1/6 2 5 

30 Corporals a I/- 1 10 

20 Drummers a I/- 1 

500 Private Men a 8d.. . 16 13 4 



616 33 1 6 

Allowance to Widows - 13 4 

Do to the Lt. Col s Commandant 10 ditto - 11 8 

Do to the Captains for the recruiting Fund.... 10 

Do to the Agent 5 



35 1 6 

Account of Moneys Issued to the First Battalion of the Royal 
Highland Emigrants in America. 

Paid Colonel McLean in Canada 22 July 1775 on 

Account 500 - 

Ditto 4 September. . . 600 - 

Ditto 20 November... 700- - 1,800 

Paid Ditto 10 January 1776. 600 

Ditto 25 Aprile 400 - 

Ditto 18 May 1400 - 

Ditto 3 June 1600 

Ditto 5 July 3200 - 

Capt 11 . Malcolm Fraser the Paymaster on 
Account of Subne from 25 August to 24 

Oct. 1776 1 137 13 - 

Ditto to 24 December... 1139 13 8 9477 fi 8 

Ditto to 23 Febr. 1776. . . 1150 17 4 

Ditto to 24 Aprile 1127 10 - 

Ditto to 24 June 1193 1 2 

Ditto to 24 August 1375 10 



122 GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 

Ditto to 24 October 1246 18 10 

..to 24 December... 1242 7 4 733515 6 



Paid Ditto .. on Account of Arrears 1756 14 6 

Paid Ditto .. on Account of Subsistence 2 d 

March 1778 1207 5 10 

Ditto 16 Ditto 1193 10 

Ditto 15 Ditto 121719 4 361815 2 



Paid Captain Malcolm Fraser for Contingencies 

pursuant to warrant, 19 October 1777... 57 13 2 
Ditto on Account of Arrears, Poundage 

&c pursuant to warrant 26 June 1778... 557 10 2 615 3 4 

Paid Colonel McLean on Account of arrears 

&c pursuant to warrant of 25 June 1778. 5000 

Paid Major Don d McDonald for Contingencyes 
in N. Carolina pursuant to Warrant 26 

March 1777 42 9 

Lieut. Hector MacLean of this Battalion p 

Do. 1st December 1777 40 

Captain Malcolm Fraser on Account of 
Subsistence from 25 June to 24 August 

1778 

Ditto to 24 October.. 

..to 24 December.. 



ist Battalion of the Royal Highland Emigrants. 

DR. 

To Poundage on 45,492 -13-6 at I/- 2,274 12 8 

To Hospital l/365th part of ditto 12412 9 

To Sundrys issued in America on Acct. of Levy 
Money, Subsistence, Arrears, Contin- 
gencys, Poundage paymaster and Sur- 
geons, Stoppages, &c., between 13th June 
1775 and 24th December 1778, as per par- 
ticulars on preceeding page 

To 1291 Days Allowance to Widows for the 

above period at 13/4 per diem 860 13 4 815 5 6 

Deduct Poundage 43 8 

Hospital 2 7 2 45 7 10 



To a part of the 5717 6 5 issued by General 
Howe for the first 20 Months off Reck- 
onings for both Battalions being the pro- 
portion for this Battalion for 378 days 
from 13 June 1775 to 24 June 76 1774 6 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 



123 



of 3426 11 3 issued by Sir Guy Carleton 
for 365 days do. from 25 June 1776 to 
24 June 1777 1713 5 7J 

of 3426 11 3 issued by General Haldimand 

for 365 days do. to 24 June 1778 1713 5 7* 

of 1718 9 to be issued by do. to 24 Decem- 
ber 1778 859 4 6059 17 7* 



To the proportion belonging to this Battalion 
of Mr. Deare's Bill of 2539 17 2 for 
Arms and Accoutrements of which 
1259 18 8 is charged to the 2d Battal- 
ion 1279 18 3 

To the proportion belonging to this Battalion 
of Mr. Harley's Bill of 1982-16-2 for 
Cloathing of which 1771-13- is charged 
to the 2d Battalion.. 221 3 



Ballance due for Clearings 49,034 18 10 



CR. 



By 1291 days full pay of this Battalion a 35-1-6 
per diem, according to the Establishment 
first Settled by Genl. Gage in America 
from 13 June 1775 to 24' December 1778. 

By 1291 Days difference of Pay between an En- 
sign and Lieut, for one Subaltern of the 
Light Infantry Company the Commis- 
sions being for one Lieut, more and for 
1 Ensign less that the Establishment of 
this Battalion but agreeable to that of 
other Regiments at I/- per diem 

By the Pay of two extra Lieutenants who acted 
in place of Lieut 8 . Watts and Daly pro- 
moted in Sir John Johnsons Corps but 
paid in this Battalion also by order of 
the Commander in Chief viz. 329 days 
for Lieut. St. Andre from 1 August 1775 
to 24 June 1776 at 4/8 per diem 

298 days for Lieut. W n . Wanchope from ditto to 
24 May 1776 at 4/8 per diem 



By Levy money of 30 Serjeants 30 Corporals 
20 Drummers and 500 Private in all 580 
men at 2-10- each . 



45,281 16 6 



64 11 



76 15 4 



69 10 8 146 6 



45,492 13 6 



1,450 



124 GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 

By Major McDonalds Contingent Bill included 
in the Charges Cr. for which a partic- 
ular Warrant was granted 26 March '77 42 9 - 

Captain Malcolm Fraser the Paymaster ditto, 
included in Do. per Warrant 19 October 
1777 57 13 2 

Ditto's Bill for more Contingencys in America 
for which no Warrant yet passed only 
part of the Moneys issued on Account 
of it, the particulars and Vouchers ready 
to be produced 50918 2 610 4 

N. B. The Contingencys since June 1778 not 

Known 

By Poundage for 470 Private (Exclusive of Con- 
tingent men) for 3 years and six months 

from 25 June 1775 to 24 Deer. 1778 @ 

12/2 each per annum 1,000 14 2 

By Paymaster & Surgeon's Stoppages for 30 

Serjeants @ 8/8 each 30 Corporals & 20 

Drummers @ 6/6 each & 500 Privates 

at 4/4 each per annum for the above 3 

years & six months 481 10 10 



49,034 18 10 



Copy. 

To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's 
Treasury. 

The Memorial of Lieut. Col. Allan Maclean 

MOST HUMBLY SHEWETH That the Royal Highland Emigrants 
not having been on the Establishment before the 24 December 1778 
cannot be cleared in the usual way, without a Particular Authority for 
the purpose. 

The Memorialist prays that such Authority or Warrant be directed 
to General Haldimand for clearing the 1st Battalion of this Regiment 
to the 24th Dec 1 " 1778 inclusive, giving them credit for their compleat 
pay agreeable to the Establishment as it now stands & allowing for the 
Levy Money separately besides the Contingencys, Poundage & Pay- 
master & Surgeons Stoppages. 

ALLAN MACLEAN, 

Lieut. Coll. Commandant. 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 125 



Memorial of Genl. Allan MacLean to Gov. Haldimand. 

To His Excellency Frederick Haldimand Esquire, General and Com- 
mander in Chief of His Majestys Forces in the Province of 
Quebec and Frontiers thereof, &c. } 8tc.j &c. 

The Memorial of Colonel Allan Maclean, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant 

of the 1st Battal" 84th R eg t 
SHEWETH 

That in the beginning of the year 1775 The Memorialist knowing 
that in North America there were a great many Emigrants from the 
Highlands of Scotland, He had the honour to hint to His Majestys 
Ministers that the Associations then beginning to be formed by the 
Rebels might receive a very Effectual check by engaging proper persons 
who had influence among the foresaid Emigrants to form Counter 
Associations, which with the assistance of the loyal part of the Natives 
and both being properly supported by His Majestys Governors and 
Commanders might if adopted in time have produced very salutary 
effects without having recourse to Arms. 

After some Deliberation the measure was adopted and the Memor- 
ialist was sent out with Instruction to the Commander in Chief of the 
Army in America and to the Governors of the different Provinces to 
Co-operate with him and such other Gentlemen as he should Engage, 
But hostilitys having commenced and Rebellion reared its horrid head, 
the Memorialist found it necessary to change his plan. 

The Memorialist after travelling many journeys from Phildelphia to 
New York, thence to Boston, back to New York and from thence to 
Canada in disguise and often without a Servant or Baggage, with great 
Expence, imminent danger and incredible fatigue, Had the good fortune 
to raise two Battalions with one of which he had the Honour to be 
highly Instrumental in preserving the province of Canada, and the 
other Battalion has in a great measure protected that of Nova Scotia. 
The Levy money for those Battalions was only forty Shillings when 
five Guineas were allowed at Home. 

When the Memorialist was sent to America, and as he understood 
by His Majesty's Official approbation Lord North promised, that in 
case of the Memorialists death in the course of the undertaking, his 
Widow should be provided for by a handsome pension, His Lordship 
the year after was so well satisfyed, with the Memorialist's zeal in His 
Majesty's Service that he gave assurance to the Memorialist and to M rs . 
Maclean That what was engaged to be given on the contingency of his 
death should be granted to her immediately. The Memorialist never- 
theless more attentive to His Majestys publick Service than to his own 
private concerns and preferring the more honourable prospects of 
military rewards to the pecuniary one proffered to Mrs. Maclean never 
once demanded or claimed it till lately that he submitted to Lord North 
the propriety of fullnlling his Lordships promise which his Lordship 
said wou'd most certainly be done and the Memorialist knows a Warrant 



126 GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 

was prepared for this purpose for His Majesty's Signature. But the 
Memorialist was afterwards informed that it had been thought inex- 
pedient to sign at at that time, and he most chearfully submitted to 
whatever His Majesty was graciously pleased to think expedient. 

The Memorialist begs leave to represent to your Excellency That 
in Year 1781 Sir Henry Clinton appointed Major Small Lieutenant 
Colonel Commandant to the 2nd Battalion 84th Regiment and added 
a Major with pay and Rank to the Establishment of that Battalion 
which was afterwards approved of by His Majesty and this is a much 
stronger instance of Indulgence than what is now Solicited by the 
Memorialist who humbly proposes That a Field Officer may be added to 
the 1st Battalion but without any additional Expence to Government. 

That Your Memorialists situation if reduced to half pay merits 
Your Excellencys consideration as he will have but eight shillings and 
Six pence per day to support his Rank and maintain nine of a family. 

After having Served thirty nine years and purchased three Com- 
missions. 

Your Excellencys Memorialist therefore most humbly prays, that he 
may be permitted to Resign His Commission of Lieutenant Colonel of 
the first Battalion of His Majesty's Eighty fourth Regiment of foot in 
favor of Major John Adolphus Harris of the said Battalion for the 
sum of Three Thousand five hundred pounds Sterling being the Regu- 
lated price. And That Your Memorialist may be appointed Colonel 
Commandant of said Battalion without a Company or Pay as was 
formerly done in the case of Sir William Erskine and many other 
Officers who Served their King and Country with Fidelity and Zeal 
as the Memorialist most humbly flatters himself he has done. 

Montreal the 17th October 1782. 
Endorsed : Memorial of Colonel ALLAN MACLEAN. 

MONTREAL, 19th October 1782. 

SIR Your Excellency may perhaps think me presumptuous, in troub- 
ling you with the Memorial that accompanies this Letter, and I should 
think myself so to, did I attempt to Solicit Your Excellency in a matter 
for which there was not many precedents, and in some Instances things 
much stronger. 

Permit me then to represent to Your Excellency, that after being 
almost Forty years a Soldier, and constantly on Service during three 
successive Wars, and having Purchased three Commissions, and now far 
advanced in Life; I shall soon have the Misfortune (7 hope) of being 
reduced on Eight Shillings and Six pence per day, with a Large family 
of nine perstons, seven of them helpless grown up women, wholly 
depending upon me, tho' I have no children of my own. And I do confess 
that in case of such reduction, (which must soon happen) or of death, 
the Situation of Mrs. Maclean gives me many unhappy- moments. 

The favour I take the Liberty of Soliciting, creates no additional 
Expence to Government, and has the advantage; of giving the Service 
an aditional field Officer, without any Expence, whereas the instance I 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 127 

have mentioned, by Sir Henry Clinton; in the Second Batalion 84 
Regiment, and which was afterwards approved of by His Majesty, tho' 
it added a Major on full pay to the Establishment; Sir Henry Clinton 
also, Last year, appointed Lieut. Colonel Gunning a Colonel by Brevet 
in the Army, a much younger Colonel than myself, Colonel Commandant 
to the 82nd Regiment with pay; of this His Majesty also afterward 
approved; a case exactly similar to what I solicit, with this difference 
that he receives pay of Colonel, which I relinquish, and shall Serve 
without any pay. The precedent I have mentioned in the Memorial of 
Sir William Eskine, and many others I could name, is fully sufficient to 
prove that what I have the honor to Solicite Your Excellency for, is neither 
new, nor incommon. I therefore hope and trust that even should Your 
Excellency decline granting my request, that I may not be thought to 
have made an improper or inusual request; and that at least my request 
may not be deemed unreasonable. Excuse my saying that it would be a 
great burden of my mind, to think that whatever came of me, there was 
always something to prevent a number of honest helpless women coming 
to distress Particularly Mrs. Maclean, and it would be no small addi- 
tional satisfaction, that I should owe this favour to a man, that I Love & 
respect as much as I do Your Excellency I have taken the Liberty 
to inclose for Your Excellencys perusale the Coppies of some Letters 
that will sufficiently prove that I have a much higher claim upon 
Government, than what I now request, tho' I have been disappointed 
owing to times and Circumstances. Let me most earnestly intreat, that 
Your Excellency may not imagine, that I would have the assurance to 
point out any particular person to you to purchase my Lieut* Colonelcy, 
from any other motive but meerly to mention some Major that would 
Pui chase, in case Your Excellency might approve of my proposal and 
as I am certain that Major De Peyster would not quite the Eight 
Regiment, I know Major Harris is the next oldest, that would Purchase 
or risk his money for half pay. I also take the Liberty to mention, that 
in case Your Excellency in your goodness should grant a favorable 
hearing to me, and that you might not have any other Officer in view 
for the Majority, that Captain Malcolm Eraser is ready to purchase. I 
request Your Excellency's pardon for giving you this trouble, especially 
at a time when I know that you have so many weighty matters on hand ; 
I therefore leave it Your Goodness to consider 1 of it, and as its a matter 
that is really of Utility to the Service, without any Expence whatever, 
and not injurious to the promotion of any one, besides that it creates 
the happiness of a Numerous honest Family, as far as Your Excellency 
may think it Expedient, but should it be my misfortune, that it may 
be thought inexpedient by Your Excellency, I shall chearfully submit to 
whatever you may think right. 

I have the honor to be with the most Perfect Respect and attachment 
Your Excellency's Most Humble and, Most 

Obedient Servant 

ALLAN MACLEAN. 
General HALDIMAND Endorsed Oct. 19, 1782. 



128 GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 



A Specimen of General MacLean's Many Troubles. 

MONTREAL, 21st Oct. 1779. 

SIR, 

Capt. Mathews has transmitted to me by your Excellency's 
Orders, a Memorial from Capt. John McDonald, of Major Butler's 
Rangers, & Lieut, in the Second Battalion 84th Regt. the Post not ar- 
riving till Sunday, and the Memorial consisting in a great Variety of 
Matter, with a great number of Accusations & Complaints rendered it 
impossible for me to Return your Excellency, an answer to that Me- 
morial in Course of Post. It is no small Mortification to me, to find 
that Memorials of this sort should be presented to you as they must 
tend to give you a very "unfavorable" opinion of my Conduct. I 
however have the consolation to know that I can fully justify myself to 
your Excellency, and shall make it appear groundless, but also vexatious 
and Malitious; at the same time am very sorry, that in order to justify 
myself, and State clear Answers to the Different Charges, exhibited 
against me, in this long Memorial I am reduced to the disagreeable 
necessity of troubling your Excellency, with a detail of my Conduct for 
above four years back, as the grievances complained of in the Memorial 
commenced on that EOra, It is a very easy matter to State, Accusations 
in the compass of a few Sentences, but it requires a long Detail to clear 
up truth, and confute the Erroneous circumstances, in which they Are 
Involved ; I must beg leave further to Observe that the presenting 
Memorials to the Commander in Chief against the commanding Officer's 
of Regiments, without laying these complaints before that commanding 
Officer, is, I believe quite new in every Service, in the World, & I 
should suppose practiced only at present by the Subalterns of the 84th. 
Regiment, I believe I might be Able to State a Sufficient Verdication 
of my conduct Against Capt. McDonald's Memorial, in a very sensible 
compass, but as I do not chuse to Avoid entering into the full merits 
of it, I shall take them in Order As they Are stated, in the Memorial 
And Answer each separately, It is however necessary, to inform your 
Excellency, that Sir Guy Carleton, did in April 1778, Appoint a Board 
of thirteen of the first & the most respectable Officers, in Canada to 
Sit at Montreal, finally to settle & determine the claims & different 
Ranks of every Officer, in the Regt. Agreeable to their different claims; 
and that the Memorialist Capt. John McDonald, was of the number of 
those whose Rank, was then determined by that Board, It is also neces- 
sary to mention, that he did then, as he does now, give in a private 
memorial to that Board, without any communication with me as com- 
manding Officer, tho' I was upon the Spot, that Memorial contains 
Semiliar charges, & accusations to the Present one, Setting forth the 
merits of his Services, tho' he never had been upon any at that time, 
and the very great injustices done him, in having a number of Junior 
Officers, put over his Head, that Board of Officers did finally adjust & 
settle the Rank of each Officer, in the Regiment respectively made their 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 129 

Report to the commander in chief, Sir, Guy Carleton, who confirmed 
the sentence of that Board, in every particular, I therefore confess, that 
I am at a loss to guess, on what pretext Capt. John McDonald can con- 
ceive, that the solemn decision of that Board, and the approbation of 
the commander in chief, can now be reversed or altered I therefore 
humbly Apprehend that his complaint respecting Rank or seniority in 
the Regiment, is not only frivolous but also litigious and Vexatious, 
the Memorialists sets out by asserting that Capt. Hay late of the 28th 
Regt. & himself, were the two first Subalterns, appointed in the Rcgt. 
This Assertion, / do absolutely declare to be false, your Excellency was 
at Boston, when I Arrived from England, in the beginning of June 
1775 with orders to General Gage, to Raise this Regiment, consisting 
of twenty companies, every matter & thing respecting the raising of the 
Regt. was finally determined by General Gage, before I left Boston & 
a list of the Officers of both Battalions was given in to General Gage, 
and lodged in the Secretary's Office ; excepting one Captain & a few 
Subalterns, that I was to nominate after my arrival in Canada In case 
I might find people, that were proper, & useful, for raising & Com- 
pleating the Regt. Beating Orders were made out for all the different 
Officers at that time except those that were to be appointed on my 
Arrival in Canada, I left Boston, in company with your Excellency, 
and came to New York, with Lieut. Donald, McLeod of the 47th Regi- 
ment to join Major McDonald, whom I had left at New York, the 
Major & Captain McLeod, I dispatched to Virginia, and Carolina, and 
gave them beating Orders for themselves, two Captains more & nine 
Subalterns, that were in Maryland, Virginia & Carolina, Your Excel- 
lency, I am sure will recollect, the friendly advice you was pleased to 
give me, by advising me in the Strongest terms to keep my mind to my- 
self, & not to mention the Business I was about to any person whatever 
because if I did I certainly would be taken up, & put in Goal. I staid 
but three days in New York, & set out for Canada, when I arrived at 
Oswego, I met with Col. Guy Johnson, with whom Captain John Mc- 
Donald the Memorialist then served in the Indian Department. When I 
came to Montreal I Offered one of the Ensigncy's to the Memorialist 
which had not been filled up when I left Boston, Mr. McDonald, hesi- 
tated to accept, of it, as he did not think 3/6 pr. Day, equal to a Dollar, 
which he had from Col. Johnson, and he took several days to consider 
of it, in the mean time at the recommendation of Capt. Robertson, I 
sent a beating Order as Ensign to Mr. Cairns being informed, that Capt. 
Cuthbert, his Brother in law, would be able to raise me a great number 
of Recruits & Mr. McDonald at length accepted of the Ensigncy, and 
I can with truth declare, until I had arrived at Oswego, on the first 
of July 1775, I never saw Mr. McDonald, nor did I know such a Man 
existed, is it possible therefore to Conceive that General Gage, should 
settle and arrange with me at Boston the Raising of a Regiment of two 
Battalions, and not know, the name of one Subaltern that were to com- 
pose that Regiment and yet however absurd such an Idea must appear, 
to reason & common senses, such must have been the case, had Mr. 
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130 GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 

McDonald, been the first or second, Subaltern appointed in the Regt. 
and yet he has the assurance boldly to assert, that next to Mr. Hay, 
he was the first appointed, and Mr. Hay himself tho' appointed before 
I left Boston, was not the first nor tenth Subaltern appointed in the 
Regt. He was recommended to me at Boston, by his uncle Col. Sherriff, 
Mr. McDonald, therefore was among the last Ensigns that were ap- 
pointed in the Regt. & at the same time with him (with perhaps the 
difference of a few days) were appointed Ensigns, McKinnon, Cairns, 
Dame, Fletcher & Smith, but their beating Orders, were all of one 
date, and excepting Ensign McKinnon who had been twenty years m 
the Service, and therefore was justly entitled to take Rank of all the 
others, the rest were all put in equal footing, and that they might have 
every justice done them that was in my power, I put them on the same 
footing with the Ensigns that were, Appointed before I left Boston, ex- 
cepting such as had been in the Service before, and I do further de- 
clare that no Junior Officer, ever was put over Mr. McDonald's head, 
but that he at this moment enjoys every rank, to which he had any claim 
to in the Regt. the Memorialist says that he had the honor of Com- 
manding the first detachment that marched, from the Regt. this I also 
deny, Captain Robertson, with about thirty Men, of the Regt. went to 
St. John's upon real & actual Service, it is very true, that Mr. McDonald, 
was sent to Terrebone, to, take Old Walker, & his Wife prisoners, & 
I wish Mr. McDonald, had not claimed so much merit from this Service, 
he was not sent in this Detachment, from any opinion conceived of his 
superior merits, in preference, to any other Subalterns, it was absolutely 
Hobson's choice, no other Subaltern, being then at Montreal no Man, 
would imagine that Mr. Walker, with his Wife & two Men, Servants, 
could be so rash as to make resistance, and I must suppose that Mr. 
McDonalds Vivacity, and Anxiety, to do well, subjected him to the 
misfortune of being wounded in the Arm, in a situation, where an Officer 
of experience would have, escaped unhurt, and I am confident, that anj 
other Subaltern in the Regt. would have executed that Service equally 
as well as Mr. McDonald; a little more Modesty in Mr. McDonalds 
Memorial would have prevented me from making this Remark, for he 
seems to hint that he was the only Subaltern, in the Regt, fit to be 
sent on that great and dangerous Enterprize, when the truth was, there 
was not another present to be sent, Mr. McDonald, claims preference 
because he was taken prisoner with General Prescott, a Board, of a 
ship in the River St. Lawrence, there were several very able & worthy 
Officers, taken Prisoners on that occasion as well as Mr. McDonald but 
I am clear that none of them ever pretended, to claim any merit from 
that circumstance, Mr. McDonald excepted the next claim made by Mr. 
McDonald the Memorialist is his right of being a Lieutenant in the first 
Battalion of the 84th Regt. to which he says he alone belongs, my 
Answer to this Assertion, I shall answer the last of all, As it is a 
separate and distinct charge, & shall proceed to the next, which is a 
very serious one indeed, Capt. McDonald, the Memorialist claims a Right 
to purchase a company, in the first Batt n . 84th Regt. in preference to 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 131 

what he calls a present candidate who had not joined the Regt. and 
who was not known as an Officer in it, for near two years, after the 
Memorialist had received his commission, and had been doing duty, in 
it, I must beg leave to observe that there is more than one Lieutenant 
in this Battalion Senior Officer, to Mr. McDonald, did he belong to this 
Battalion, which he does not, that are ready to purchase, so that he is 
mistaken in saying that, there is but one candidate, the candidate that 
Mr. McDonald objects to, and whom he very wrongly asserts not to 
have been an Officer in the Regt. for two years after the Establishment, 
as Lieut. Lachlin, McLean, but out of delicacy to me no doubt, he had 
not named him, he being my Nephew, I have already mentioned after 
my arrival at New York, in company with your Excellency, from Boston , 
I immediately dispatched Major McDonald, & Capt. Donald McLeod, 
to the Southern provinces I gave them Beating Orders, and Recruiting 
Instructions for two Captains & Nine Subalterns, that were then in 
Maryland, Virginia & North America the candidate mentioned by Mr. 
McDonnell, Lieut. Lachlin McLean, had been for some years a Merchant 
in Maryland, I had a letter from him before I left England, in 1775, 
Acquainting me with the disagreeable Situation he was in, & that he 
certainly would be obliged to join the people of the Country, or abandon 
his whole property, but if it came to the alternative he was determined 
to follow the last, as the most honorable, of the two, On my Arrival 
at Boston, knowing that what he had predicted must come to pass, he 
was therefore among the first Lieutenants nominated by me at Boston, 
and his Beating Orders was sent him as Lieut by Major McDonald, and 
Capt. McLeod, and which they Convoyed to him by a private Friend; 
some time after information was Lodged against him, to the Provincial 
Congress, of Maryland; and he was obliged to Sculk, that in the Winters 
1775 & 1776, he privately got a Board of a Ship Europe abandoning a 
very considerable Property, of which he never will recover a Shilling, 
he left Europe, in the Spring, 1776, and joined the Battalion at Halifax 
not finding a ready conveyance for Canada, he went to New York, to 
join Major Small, and served part of that campaign, with General 
Howe's Army, finding that I was then in England, he got leave from 
Major Small, in December 1776, who advanced him a sum of money, 
on Account of pay to go to England, being advised by the Major, that 
the surest and the readiest way to get to Canada, would be to go to 
London & come from thence with the Shipping to Quebec, in the Spring 
following, and every Body knows, that this was the speediest 'way in 
coming to Canada, On his Arrival in London, finding I was Sailed for 
America, he was advised by Mr. Atkinson, in one of whose Ships I 
sailed from Portsmouth, on the 24th Sep r 1776, that the surest way of 
finding me was to sail for New York, in a few days, a ship belonging 
to Mr. Atkinson, that he was certain that I had sailed so late in the 
season from England, that I should not be able to get to Canada, that 
season in which case the Capt. of the Ship, that I was on Board of, 
had orders to bear away for New York, Lieut McLean, Sailed from 
England in February, & arrived in New York, in April & came from 



132 GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 

thence along with me, into Canada, Lucky it was for Capt. McDon- 
nell, the Memorialist, that he was in Canada, where he was not sub- 
jected to any of these difficulties and expensive journies, in endeavouring 
to join his Regiment, in Canada, your Excellency, I am sure will pardon 
this very long Detail, which I thought necessary, that it might appear 
that I did not wish to palliate any part of the heavy charge, brought 
against me by Capt. McDonnell, for if it is really true that Lieut. Mc- 
Lean, was known as an Officer, in the Regt. for two years after Mr. 
McDonnell, had received his commission notwithstanding of which he 
is now one of the Oldest Lieuts, in the Regt. to the very great prejudice 
of almost every Officer in the Regt. that charge so Boldly asserted 
against me by Capt. McDonnell, is of so criminal a Nature that your 
Excellency, would act but justly by me to have me tryed by a Court 
Martial & Cashiered with Disgrace, I shall however to prove the falsity 
of this charge, beg leave to add to what I. have already said that Lieut 
Lachlin Macleans, Claim to be a Lieut in this Regt. has been already 
submitted to & fully Investigated by the Board of Officers, Appointed 
by Sir. Guy Carleton, in April 1778, when Lieut. McLean, was present, 
and doing duty with the Regt. and that the Rank he now holds in the 
Regt. was given him by sentence of the Board, & afterwards confirmed 
by the Commander in -Chief, his name having appeared to that Board 
upon the Returns of the Regiment from the beginning, and his name 
is also upon the Muster Rolls, of the first Muster of the Regt. taken 
by Capt. Foyin, in the year 1776, when I was in England, Your Excel- 
lency, I doubt not will recollect that there was a Memorial presented 
to you by Capt. Lieut Fletcher, setting forth his Right to be Quarter 
Master to the Regt. in preference to Lieut. Lachlin Maclean, You Sir, 
was pleased to order a Court of Enquiry Composed of three field Of- 
ficers whereupon a full Investigation of that matter it appeared to 
those Gentlemen that Capt. Lieut Fletcher's claim was without any 
foundation & that Lieut Maclean was originally from the beginning 
Quarter Master to the Regt. this is a very strong Corroborating Circum- 
stance to prove also that he has been a Lieut, in the Regt. from the be- 
ginning and I cannot help saying that Capt McDonnell, must be drove 
to very hard. Shifts indeed, when he is Obliged to have recourse to a 
charge of so Malignant a Nature, as the present one to prove his right 
to the purchase, of a company, it is indeed amazing to what lengths 
private interest induces some men, to go, I shall therefore make no 
further Observations on this extraordinary charge, but submit it to .your 
Excellencys'tffetter Judgment, The next claim made by McDonnell, with 
respect to his right to the preference of purchasing a company, is, his 
having been appointed a Capt. in Major Butlers Rangers and that there- 
fore it cannot be deemed a hardship, done to Lieut McLean, who is in 
fact a junior Officer, and who holds his present Rank from the injury 
done to your Memoralist, by the promotion having been Stop'd while he 
was confined by the Enemy under his wounds ; and who would otherwise 
have been Capt. Lieut, in the Regt. his commission being Dated four 
Months before Capt. Fletchers, Capt. McDonnell, does not seem to at- 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 133 

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tend much to what he asserts, to throw dirt with both hands, he thinks 
some of it may stick & blind the peoples eyes, and that in the scramble 
& confusion by some lucky hit he may chance to get something, that 
this is realy the case is clear, for he says that he has got his com- 
mission four Months of an older date than Capt. Fletcher, your Excel- 
lency, will please to Observe that Capt McDonnells commission as 
Ensign in the 84th Regiment, was only four months of an older date 
than Capt. Fletcher's commission as Lieut, in the same Regt. of the 
same date, and their beating Orders were also of the same date, so that 
Mr McDonnell had not, nor could not have any Right, Claim or pre- 
tence, whatever, to any Seniority over Mr. Fletcher, it is therefore a 
little extraordinary that Mr. McDonnell, should dare by a bare faced 
Eqvocation to assert to your Excellency, that his commission was dated 
four Months before Capt. Fletcher's he ought to have added his com- 
mission of Ensign, was only four months of an Older date, than Mr. 
Fletcher's commission as Lieut, but they were Ensigns, of the same date, 
Mr. McDonnell, being taken prisoner in General Prescott's famous 
Capitulation was sent prisoner to the colonies, Ensign Fletcher, served 
with General Carleton, at Quebec, during the winter and spring 1775, 
where he had many opportunitys of being personally & particularly 
well known to General Carleton, he was besides very strongly recom- 
mended, to the General, & A vacancy happened by the promotion of 
Lieut Roberts, to be a Lieut, in the Royal Artillery that Vacancy, was 
given to Mr. Fletcher, and had Mr. McDonnell been upon the spot, 
all the Right he could claim, was to Request to have a throw at the 
Dice, with Ensign Fletcher. The Regt. had then but eight Subalterns 
doing duty in it, and here was an absolute necessity to fill up the 
vacancy. The rest of the Officers, were dispersed over all America, on 
the recruiting Service, and so far was Mr. McDonnell, from having 
any claim or pretension to be Capt. Lieutenant tho' he says he had, then 
even Mr. Fletcher, though a much Senior Officer, than Mr. McDonnell, 
that there cannot be mentioned an instance of greater hardship, in 
the Army than giving the Capt. Lieutenancy, to Mr. Fletcher, over 
the head of a very meritorious Officer, who held a commission in the 
Army for Eighteen} Years, but such was the pleasure of the Commander 
in Chief, Mr. McDonnell, was there upon, the spot, doing duty as 
Lieut, in the Regt. why did not he there apply, to the Commander in 
Chief, complaining of the injustice done him, the reason is very plain, 
the Board of Officers, at Montreal, had only two Months, before settled 
the rank of all the Officers, and had done Mr. McDonnell, all the justice 
to which he had anv claim or, pretension, and therefore he durst not 
apply to the Commander in Chief, to whom all these circumstances 
were known, as his false claims would be immediately Detected, and 
here it will be necessary to observe, that Mr. McDonnell, lays great 
Stress, on his commission as Ensign, being Signed, by General Gage, 
before he went to England Signed commissions only for the Officers 
to ten companies, & in a letter from him to me dated at Boston Sept. 
1775, he writes that he would then have signed Commissions for the whole 



134 GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 

Regt. But he could not think of forming a Regt. of Officers without 
men, but that how soon we could raise Twenty five men pr. Company, 
that he should then Grant Commissions to the other Ten Companies, 
which Commissions should be of the same date of those already Granted. 
This letter was laid before the Board of Officers at Montreal & fully 
satisfied them that all the Subalterns of the Twenty companies except- 
ing such as had been in the Service before, were entitled to the same 
Rank, and that the only way by which the difference of seniority could 
be determined was that method which was followed by me, which was 
by Oblidging them to have a throw at the dice to determine their Seniority. 
Mr. McDonnell the Memorialist had the good fortune not to be reduced 
to this necessity, having been promoted to a Lieutenancy at New York, 
in preference to Several Ensigns in the Regt. that were of the same 
standing with himself, it must appear very extraordinary then that Mr. 
McDonnell should pretend to say, that it cannot be deemed a Hardship 
done to Lieut McLean, who is in fact a junior Officer, and holds his 
present Rank from the injury done the Memorialist, that he should be pro- 
moted to a company, before Lieut McLean, it is however very manifest 
that such a determination, would be doing Lieut. McLean, the greatest 
injury, after his Rank have been already finally determined, by a Board 
of Thirteen very respectable Officers, and his right to seniority over 
Mr. McDonnell, ascertained let me however suppose that Mr. McDonnell, 
might be able to get rid of Lieut. Lachlin McLean, whom he calls the 
present candidate for a purchase, how was he to get rid of Lieut Archi- 
bald McLean, who is also a Senior Officer to Mr. McDonnell, against 
him he has not made any objections & he also is ready to purchase, 
with respect to Mr. McDonnell, Claiming preference, on account of 
his being a Captain in Major Butlers Rangers, all I shall say to that 
is that there is not a Lieut in the Army, that would not be happy to 
be a Captain in that, or any other, Provincial Corps, with Liberty to 
hold their Rank & pay in the Regiment, they belong to, and would think 
themselves Sufficiently rewarded, by the considerable additional Emolu- 
ments, they should receive for such Service, and would have more 
modesty than to presume on that account to claim Rank, over their 
Senior Officers, in the established Corps they belong to, Mr. 'McDonnell 
also claims merit from his having brought more Recruits to the Regi- 
ment than any other Subaltern, this I positively deny, and do declare 
that T never knew that he had Recruited any men untill he arrived 
from New York, in June 1777, he then indeed claimed levy money for 
Three men that he had enlisted, at Montreal in the year 1775, Mr. Mc- 
Donnel was left at Montreal to assist Capt. McLeod in recruiting. Capt. 
McLeod Recruited a good many men, he had five or six Recruiting 
Serjeants, with him but I never understood that Mr. McDonnell brought 
any Recruits to the Regiment or Enlisted any but the three men above 
mentioned I shall now beg leave to mention to your Excellency my 
answer to Mr. McDonnell's claim of being a Lieut, in the first Battalion, 
84th Regt. when at New York, in the beginning of April 1777 there 
happened a Vacancy by the removal of Lieut Syme of the 84th Regt. 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 135 

to be a Lieut in the 5th Regt. I sent for Mr. McDonnell, then at 
New York, and asked him whether he would chuse to accept of that 
Lieutenancy, 1 and Remain with the Battalion at Halifax, upon his ar- 
rival at Halifax he applyed to Major Small, for leave of Absence to 
come to Canada, for two months, and Major Small, Obtained that leave 
for him from General Massy, After his arrival in Canada, he was very 
anxious to Remain with the Regiment, here, but could find none of 
the Lieutenants, that would exchange with him, until I got Lieut. 
Archibald McLean to agree to join General's Howe's army in Mr. Mc- 
Donnell's place, I then applyed to Sir Guy Carleton, to get his consent 
General Carleton's answer was, that so far as it depended on him the 
two Gentlemen should have his consent, at the same time told me, that 
his consent was by no means sufficient that the approbation & consent 
of Sir William Howe, was equally necessary, that Mr. McDonnell's Com- 
mission was from General Howe, and he was in the Battalion of the 
84th Regiment, under Sir William Howe's immediate command, and that 
the exchange, could not take place without his consent. The two Gen- 
'tlemen, however did not doubt that how soon as Lieut Archibald Mc- 
Lean, got to New York, and saw Major Small but he might be able 
to obtain General Howe's consent, he therefore set off with General 
Burgoyne's Army, from Canada, and Lieut McDonnell, remained in his 
place, Lieut. McLean, in the course of the campaign was wounded and 
carried prisoner to Boston, where he was put on Board of a Ship and 
put in Irons, for a considerable time and did not arrive at New York, 
till the beginning of winter. Sir William Howe was then at Philadelphia 
and Major Small, in England Lieut McLean, however applyed for the 
exchange, but was answered that the application must come from the 
commanding Officer of the Second Battalion in the Autumn following, 
having been then exchanged he had then Eighteen Months, pay due to 
him as Lieut in the Regt. he applied to Capt. McDonald pay master, & 
commanding Officer, of the Battalion, who told him that he could not 
acknowledge him as an Officer in that Battalion nor give him any pay, 
that he had settled with Lieut McDonnell, accounted, with him, for his 
pay as Lieut, in the Second Battalion, and had sent him his abstract to 
Canada, and that this was the case, I believe Capt. McDonnell, the 
Memorialist will not deny, Lieut Maclean, in Novr. 1778, left Halifax 
for England, the commission of both Battalions Signed by His Majesty, 
were issued before, Lieut McLeans arrival, Lieut McDonnell the 
Memorialist's commission expressly mentioned as Lieut in the Second 
Battalion Lieut. McLean, as Lieut, in the first Battalion and in April 
1778, he embarked at Portsmouth to join his Regt. in Canada and here 
it will be necessary to remark, that the commissions originally granted, 
to the Officers of this Regt. were, for the Regiment in General without 
any distinction of Batt ns nor was there any division of the Officers 
ever made, till Major Small & Brigadier McLean, met in New York im 



[1) Lieutenancy or Return with me to Canada, as an Ensign his 
answer was that he would accept of the Lieutenancy. 



136 GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 

January 1777 when the Officers were properly divided in the Battalions, 
he has since that time been confirmed a Lieut in the Second Battalion 
by His Majestys commission The exchange intended between him & 
Lieut. McLean never took place, he there fore is to all intents, and pur- 
poses, a Lieut in the Second Battalion, he never was nor can be a Lieut 
in the first, except he can negotiate a fresh exchange which cannot be 
done without the consent of your Excellency & that of Sir Henry 
Clinton. I must now entreat your Excellency's pardon for the Enormous 
length of my answer, to Capt John McDonnell's Memorial, I am con- 
vinced you will do me the justice to see that necessity alone forced 
me to give you so much trouble & that I may hope that I may have your 
Excellency's protection against such unmerited Oppression for the future. 
I Have the Honor to be Respectively, 
Your Excellency's 

Most Humble and most Obedient Servant 
ALLAN MACLEAN. 

His Excellency, 
General HALDIMAND. 

There is one very material circumstance which I had almost forgot 
to mention, the Board of Officers consisting of 13 that meet at Montreal 
in April 1778, found that Lieut John McDonnell, now Capt. John Mc- 
Donnell, must be youngest Lieut, in the Regiment, this Regt. This 
sentence by that Board of Officers was confined by the commander in 
chief, Lieut McDonnell represented against this decision to the com- 
mander in chief, thinking it hard that he should not get Rank from the 
date of his commission as Lieut, but his Request was refused by the 
commander in chief, but that he was at liberty to return, to the second 
Battalion to which he belonged. 

MONTREAL 13th January. 

DEAR SIR I was in hopes that this Post would have brought me 
some Answer from the Commander in Chief, regard Captain John 
Macdonells Memorial and my answers to it ; Truth may no doubt be 
Conveyed in harsh terms; but when a man is attacked and insulted in 
the manner I have been by Mr. Macdonell, and accussions brought against 
me by him, that if true would be sufficient to Break and disgrace the 
first Officer in the world; and that in a Memorial to the Commander, 
its by no means surpassing that I should be out of humour. I have been 
told this day that McDonell is resolved to push this to much greater 
Lengths; this is reported by a gentleman lately from Quebec and I have 
also been told this day that Mr. Mcdonell has been writing to the 
Regiment in order to ascertain the different charges set forth in his 
Random memoriall, this is certainly a kind of conduct that I cannot 
put up with any Longer, that Mr. Macdonell shall be truducing my 
character, not only to the Commander in Chief, but to others, and in 
place of assertaining the facts he meant to set forth in his memorial 
before he had the assurance to present it, he is now driving through 
ticke & thin to find some pretence for the many gross untruths contained 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 137 

in his memorial. In short my dear Sir, this is treatment that no flesh 
or blood can bear ; for my part I am by no means sorry for the Part 
Mr. Macdonell is now acting ; since he will reduce me to the necessity of 
Asking for a General Court Martial to Clear myself, how he can make 
good his accussions he knows best I can declare that I have been quite 
silent on this Business till all those Stories came to my knowledge this 
day and I am sure I have pointed out where the best intelligence was 
to be got respecting the assertions of Mr. Macdonell. I have with 
patience been waiting in hopes that the Commander in Chief would give 
some opinion upon the Memorial and answers and as there has been 
sufficient time now for that purpose, I shall wait with resignation, and 
hear all the absurdities laid to my charge by Mr. Macdonell till next 
Wednesday the 19th; in the meantime let me intreat that you will give 
his excellency a hint that I am anxiously waiting to have his sentiments, 
and if I am not honourd with them soon, to put a stop to the obloquy 
Prorogated against me, I must ask for a General Court Martial; Mr. 
Macdonell has had full time to collect Every information he could 
Possibly wish, tho I can assure him the Longer he searches the deeper 
lie will be in the mud. Once more let me intreat that you will try to get 
me an answer from His Excellency. 
And oblige Dear Sir Yours &c 

Allan Maclean 

N. B. I was this moment told that a Lieut. Smith of the 84 was at 
Montreal, and that he had a Letter from Captain Macdonell, upon this 
affair, I sent for Lt. Smith, and he told me he had such a Letter, and 
that he had sent Captain Macdonell Every information that he could 
desire or ask in that Business, pray Sir get a sight of Lieut. Smith's 
Letter; I am told all the 31st Regiment are full of the grivous Unjustice 
Done by me to Mr. Macdonell. 

Endorsed From A 1780. 

B. G. MACLEAN, 13th Janry Rec d 15. 

SlR _ 14th Sept. QUEBEC 1783. 

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th 
Ultimo upon the subject of your son. I have certainly many more en- 
gagements than the contingencies of this little army circumstanced as 
it has been during the war can provide for. My wish however being 
to serve you as far as it depends upon me I shall endeavor to gratify 
your request in favor of the young gentleman you forgot to mention 
his name. I am e tc., 

(Signed) 

FRED HALDIMAND 
Brigadier General MACLEAN 
Copy 1783 

To 

Brigadier General MACLEAN 

of the 14 September 



138 GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 

Washington to Genl. Allan MacLean. 

Head Quarters Newburg 
14th April 1783 

SIR I have the Honor to inform you that on the 3 rd of April I 
received from Sir Guy Carleton the enclosed Extract of a Letter from 
General Haldimand No. 1 On the 8th a proclamation from the King of 
Great Britain was sent me by Sir Guy No. 2 And on the 10th a Letter, 
of which No. 3 is a Copy, was received, requesting Passports for two 
Gentlemen bearing Dispatches from the British Commander in Chief to 
General Haldimand, announcing the ratification of the preliminary Articles 
of a general Peace, & a Cessasion of Hostilities A Passport was im- 
mediately granted and the Gentlemen are on their Way to Canada 

The Distance to General Haldimand being great, & his Situation 
so wide from your Post, that great Time must elapse before you can 
receive his Dispatches ; I have taken the Liberty to make this Communi- 
cation to you by the directest Route in my power in confident hope, 
that, altho you may not deem this Information Official, yet that your 
Benevolence will cause it to be regarded with such Attention, that, if it 
does not produce a total cessation of Hostilities within your Command 
yet, it may at least prevent any unnecessary & wanton Acts of Cruelty 
which may have been meditated by the Indians on the Frontiers; and 
which, in their Consequences may prove as disagreeable to them as dis- 
tressing to the Inhabitants of the United States. 
I have the Honor to be, Sir, 

Your most Obedt. Servant 

G. WASHINGTON. 
Brigr. Genl. MCLEAN. 



General Allan MacLean to Washington. 

Niagara 4th May 1783. 

SIR Yesterday I was honored with your Excellencys Letter of the 
14th April, with its several inclosures On the 21st Ult a copy of His 
Majestys Proclamation was sent me by Major Ross from Oswego, to 
which Post it had been sent by a Flag of Truce from Albany, together 
with a Letter from Captain Tonge and Mr. Robertson; signifying that 
they were on their way from New York to Canada, with Dispatches 
from Sir Guy Carleton to His Excellency General Haldimand And 
in order to prevent any acts of Hostility whatever ; I immediately and 
with all Possible dispatch sent a copy of it to Major Depeyster the 
Commanding Officer at Detroit, in order to prevent any disagreeable 
consequences that might arise to the Inhabitants of the United States, 
from the very improper conduct of General Clerk in the Indian Country. 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 139 

I must beg leave to mention to your Excellency that I was a good 
deal surprised to receive a Letter from Messrs Tonge and Robertson 
from Albany, Acquainting me, that Colonel Willet had made a complaint 
to them, that the settlement of Wioming had been lately cut off by the 
Indians ; Knowing, as I did, that there was no foundation for any such 
complaint, and that no attempt whatever had been made against that, or 
any other settlement on the Frontiers, since I had the Honor to Command 
the Upper Posts. 

I had the most positive Orders from His Excellency General 
Haldimand, to restrain the Light Troops and Indians, from any offensive 
War; and am happy to say, that I have succeeded to my wishes in 
obeying that order : at the same time, I must do the Indians the Justice 
to declare, that, notwithstanding the very great provocation they met 
with, they have implecitly followed the directions given them by me, 
through His Majestys Supperintendant, agreeable, to the orders I had 
received, and that they committed no act of histility, except Killing, and 
Scalping two men, within 40 miles of Fort Pitt, by three young Delaware 
Indians last February ; they had been out some months hunting ; and 
on their return, they were discountenanced by me, by not being suffered 
to appear with their scalps, and sent off without receiving any one thing 
from the Kings Stores, besides being reprimanded by their Chiefs Severly 
in Presence of the Superintendant, at my request; the greatest morti- 
fication an Indian could meet with. They excused themselves, by saying 
that they had been out & absent Hunting, so long that they had not 
heard of their being restrained from every act of Hostility, but they 
should do ?o no more. The extraordinary Expedition of Colonel Willet 
against Oswego last February Greatly alarmed the Indians; and to 
guard against the attempts of so very Enterprizing an Officer, I detached 
four small scouts of White men & Indians each consisting of six Men, 
to reconnoitre. One of which Scouts took two men Prisoners 40 miles 
on this side of Wioming; They were brought in here unhurt, have been 
well treated, and are gone to Canada, to be restored to their Friends 
Colonel Willets complaint therefore must have proceeded from this 
circumstance only, and of which he himself was the occasion. I have 
taken the liberty to mention these particulars, to prevent such false 
reports from gaining any credit, least it might occasion any disagreeable 
consequences to either Party. 

Benevolence and Humanity are Noble virtues, and constitute the 
character of every honest Man ; and no set of Men ought to possess, 
or exercise them in a greater extent, than Military Men;' and tho' I 
cannot deem the Information, I had the Honor to receive from Your 
Excellency, as Official, you may be assured, that I shall pay them that 
attention, that shall in every respect answer your wishes, and in doing 
this, I shall only comply with the orders I received from the Commander 
in Chief in Canada, previously te_ my having seen, the Kings Speach, 
or His Proclamation ; and to Convince you Sir, of the Pains & trouble 
that have been taken by General Haldimand, to prevent, not only every 
act of cruelty, but even of retaliation. I take the liberty of transmiting 



140 GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 

to you herewith, an extract from His Letter to me of the 7th last 
February; and at the same time to assure you that no act of wanton 
Cruelty have been meditated by the Indians, against the Frontiers this 
Winter They once indeed, had resolved to retaliate, they very unnec- 
essary ones, excercised against them by some of the Officers & Men 
of Congress and the Conduct and Forbearance of the Indians on that 
occasion, has been highly meritorious, and does them great honor. I 
also take the Liberty of transmitting to your Excellency, an Albany News 
Paper, publishing a Letter said to be written from Boston last March. 
The printing and Publishing such base and scandalous falsehoods, must 
be intended for the most wicked purposes, that of inflaming the Minds of 
the ignorant Multitude, and to induce them, to Commit acts of wanton 
cruelty against the Indians ; and I cannot help being of Opinion, that 
the permitting such Publications to be Printed (knowing them to be 
false, which must be the case) would be a disgrace to any Nation, 
or Country under the Sun, who have had any degree of Civilization 
amongst them. It is however a peculiar misfortune, which has ever 
attended all Civil wars, that a certain degree of acrimony and obstinacy 
prevails, which are unknown in Carrying on War between Foreign States. 
The Blessings of Peace being now restored, I trust in God, that all 
Animosities shall cease, and that mutual Harmony, and real Reconciliation 
shall take place, and Feud and Discord be buried in oblivion. 
I have the Honor to be 

Your Excellencys 

most obedient and most Humble Servant 

ALLAN MACLEAN 
General WASHINGTON. 



General MacLean to Capt. Matthews. 

Niagara 5th May 1783. 

SIR You will no doubt recollect, that, some time ago, you sent 
me an Albany News Paper, publishing the most Diabolicall falsehoods 
that ever entered into the heads, or hearts, of the most Villanous 
people under the sun, and desiring me at his Excellencys request to be 
careful in Keeping it from the Indians, and only to publish it in case 
the War should go on, The war being now ended, I thought that the 
very best use to which I could employ it, was to transmit it to General 
Washington, by the return of his own Express and I hope his Excellency 
will not disapprove of my having done so. 
I am with regard 

Sir, 
Your most obedient and most Humble Servant 

ALLAN MACLEAN. 
Capt. MATTHEWS. 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 141 

In the Extract of His Excellency General Haldimand's Letter of 
the 7th February which I sent to General Washington, I left out the 
word Rebells, and inserted the word Americans, and in place of saying, 
"that it is not in my Power to afford "them that assistance they so 
reasonably expect & require from Government, so situated &c I have 
inserted, that it is not in my Power at this season to afford them that 
assistance they so reasonably expect & require from Govern*, it however 
becomes our duty &c. 

I did not like to convey any idea to Mr. Washington, that the our 
'situation was such as put it out of the Power of our Commander in 
Chief, to sent them the assistance required, had not the season of the 
year Prevented it, Should his Excellency over look this small alteration, 
say nothing about it, should he find it out, you will try to make my 
appolegy for the reasons I have mentioned. 

Yours &c. 

ALLAN MACLEAN. 
From 1783 

B. Genl. MACLEAN 
5th May Reed. 21st. 

Niagara 
Captain Mathews. 



Genl. MacLean to Genl. Haldimand. 

Niagara the 9th May 1783. 

SIR I am honored with your Excellencys Letters of the 21st, 
24th and two of the 26 April, and shall pay Particular Attention to the 
Contents ; with respect to the Boundaries Alas ! they were perfectly well 
known on the 23rd April to Every Ranger in Colonel Buttler's Corps, a 
Serjeant & three men of that Corps, had been all winter within 18 miles 
of Washington's Army, the Serjant a very intelligent man, had daily 
access to see all the American Papers, and brought in several Papers 
Containing all the Articles; few of the Indians Know it, but there are 
some that do, however we shall Endeavor to follow your Excellency's 
directions, and if possible Keep them in Good Humour. Capt n Joseph 
Brant, tho a brave fellow, and who has been a faithfull active subject to 
the King, has been the most troublesome, because he is better instructed 
& much more intelligent than any other Indian, a few days ago, he 
proposed to me to go to Canada to see Sir John Johnson, I with pleasure 
accepted the proposall, and he sailed from Hence two days ago, he is 
a good fellow and I believe he is perfectly satisfied with my conduct 
of the Indians. In my Letter to Major Ross,, (Copy of which I had the 
honor to transmit to your Excellency) On account of the alarm from 
Sir Guy Carleton, I told him I did not believe the Intelligence, and in 



142 GFNEKAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 

two days after Serjant Walker came in from near Washington's Army, 
and assured me there was no truth in it, that to his certain Knowledge 
they were dismissing their troops and that General Carletons Spies 
imposed upon him, this false alarm however has very near produced some 
very Serious attacks upon the fronteers. 

When I received your Excellencys Letter about forwarding the 
Merchandize, I immediately put a totall stop to forwarding Kings Stores 
or Provisions and discontinued all Public Works, and sent an Express 
to Fort Erie for that Purpose I shall pay particular attention to 
Investigate Colonel Guy Johnsons account, with respect to the Wine, 
tea, Sugar & Soap, &c. for Indians. I believ Captain Brant will be able 
to give some information about it, he is gone to Canada. I am astonished 
that we have not as yet had any vessell from Detroit. The merchandize 
shall be forwarded with all possible dispatch. The Seneca that broug 
your last dispatches, is not yet come in, the Wind being Contrary, but 
he got the Letters and Passengers on Shore in a boat last night. 

I have the honor to be most respectfully 
Your Excellencys 

Most obedient and Most Humble Servant 

ALLAN MACLEAN 
General HALDIMAND. 



Genl. Allan MacLean to Captain Matthews. 

Niagara, 13th May, 1783. 

SIR Upon serious consideration, I am of opinion it would be good 
Policy to keep Captain Brant in Canada for some time, in the mean time 
to get him to write a Letter to his friends David & Aron that they are 
not to be forgot, for Joseph knows too much and too Little, tho a good 
fellow in the main, he is a perfect Indian, and after all the News & 
intelligence he would Pick up in Canada some true, & some false, his 
returning here, might be attended with bad consequences, and I might 
be able to prevent any conference with the Western Indians till he is 
return, if he could be got to write till, he had concerted matters with his 
Excellency in the mean time, Sir John ought to come up, and might sett 
out while Brant was at Quebec, these are my ideas, for Joseph told me 
England had sold the Indians to Congress, and these people will by & by 
perhaps to do some thing very outrageous, in order to retaliate our 
conduct to them, & ingratiate themselves with Congress, But I wish I may 
be mistaken in my ideas, indeed I hope, I am, if we could keep the 
Mohawks in humour I think the others might follow their Example. 

I am Sir, 

Your most obedient Serv*., 

ALLAN MACLEAN. 
Captain MATTHEWS 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 143 

General Allan MacLean to General Haldimand. 

Niagara, 31 July, 1783. 

SIR Sir John Johnson leaves this to day to return to Canada, and I 
flatter myself that he will report to Your excellency, that I have punct- 
ually Executed your Orders, by giving him every assistance in my Power, 
indeed he got every thing he asked from me, besides my own constant 
attendance, and he goes off I believe perfectly well pleased. I am happy 
to inform Your Excellency that my prediction with respect to the good 
behaviour of the Indians is now Virrifyed; they certainly have behaved 
incomparably well, no complaints, no reproaches of any kind, tho they 
had a Large Field, the Large supply Your Excellency has ordered them, 
and which they have now got; and a Prospect of a future supply, has 
put them in the best humor Possible, and they have said that they look 
upon Your Excellency as their best friend, and I am of opinion they 
will be quiet and Peaceable, and do as you would wish them to do, and 
that there will be no difficulty to manage them. 

[I have the honor to inclose herewith for your Excellencys Perusal 
the Copy of a Letter I received lately from Major Depeyster, by which 
your Excellency will see that the Virginians on the frontiers, will bring 
on an Indian war if they can; I have Consulted with Brig r . General 
Sir John Johnson & Colonel Buttler, and they are of Opinion ; as well 
as myself, that it will be very Proper, to give the earliest Intelligence 
Possible of the true state of this affair to the Commanding Officer of the 
United States in the Northern district, to prevent the Bad Consequences 
that may arise from the Misrepresentations of the Kentuck People to 
Congress, Sir John is so well persuaded that the Kentuckers will not 
hesitate to misrepresent this matter, in order to bring on an Indian war, 
that he has wrote a few Lines to General Schuyler, stating the matters 
as they really are, and as I lately had a very Polite Letter from 
Colonel Willet, It gave me an Opportunity of writing him a few Lines, 
and Sending him an Extract from Major Depeysters Letter to me, in 
order to prevent any attack being made on the Indian Country at so 
improper a time, And I shall be happy if my Conduct meets with your 
Excellencys approbation Copy of my Letter to Colonel Willet I have the 
honor to transmit for your information.] 

I also have the honor to transmit to your Excellency a Letter 
I received two days ago from Captain Robertson, representing his 
distress for want of Rum, his own Letter will shew his situation Better 
than any thing I can say, Only that we have none here to send him, and 
that we are with respect to rum in a similar situation. 

Some of the Principal Indian Chiefs of the Six Nations, have 
made a Proposal to Sir John Johnson that a few of them are to go to 
Sandusky to have a meeting with the Western Nations, and to form a 
General Confederacy of Union & friendship amongst themselves, the 
Six Nations to be at the head of the Confederacy, Consisting of 35 



144 



GENERAL ALLAN MACLEAN. 



Nations, and the Chiefs there are to get their younger Brithern to avoid 
every act of Hostility whatever, without their Consent and aprobation, 
Sir John will give your Excellency the Particulars. 
I have the honor to be respectfully 

Your Excellency s most Humble and most Obedient Servant 

ALLAN MACLEAN. 
General HALDIMAND. 




RAID SIR HARRY MACLEAN. 



PART V. 



REGISTERED COATS OF ARMS. 

(145) 



10 



MACLEAN ARMS. 



RECORDED IN LYON REGISTER, H. -M. REGISTER HOUSE EDIN 

BURGH. 




Do WART. 
COLONEL SIR FITZROY DONALD MACLEAN, BART. K. C. B. 

Chief of the clan. 

Ensigns Armorial viz : Qarterly first Argent a rock Gules ; 
Second Argent, a dexter hand Fesswise couped Gules, holding a 
cross crosslet fitche in pale Azure; Third or, a lymphad oars in 
Saltire Sails furled Sable flagged Gules ; fourth Argent ; a salmon 
naiant proper in chief two eagles heads erased respectant Gules. 
Above the shield is placed a helmet befitting his degree with a 
Mantling Gules doubled Argent and on a wreath of his liveries 
is set for Crest a tower embattled Argent and in an Escrol over 
the same this Motto, "Virtue Mine Honour" and on a compart- 
ment below the shield are placed for Supporters on the dexter a 
seal proper and on the Sinister on Ostrich with a horse shoe in 
its beak proper. 



148 



MACLEAN ARMS. 




COLL. 



Ensigns Armorial viz : Quarterly first Or, a hill rising from 
the base Vert, Second Argent, a dexter hand and arm issuant 
from the Sinister in fess Gules ; and holding a cross, crosslet 
fitched in pale Azure; Third Argent a galley her oars erect in 
Saltyr, Sails furled Sable and flags displayed Gules; Fourth per 
fess Or and azure in chief two hawks heads couped and affrontic 
Gules in base a Salmon naiant proper, Crest a battle ax erect in 
pale crossed by a branch of Laurel and Cypress in Saltyr all 
proper, Motto "Altera Merces" and on a compartment below 
the shield (whereon are the words Virtus durissima ferit) are 
placed for Supporters on the Dexter side a greyhound proper 
collared and leashed Guiles, and on the Sinister an Ostrich proper 
in its beak a horse shoe azure. 



MACLEAN ARMS. 



149 




ARDGOUR. 
CAPT. A. J. H. MACLEAN. 

Ensigns Armorial viz.: Quarterly first Argent, a lion ram- 
pant Gules, armed and langued Azure ; Second Azure a Castle 
triple towered Argent masoned Sable windows portcullis and flags 
Gules, third Or a dexter hand couped fesswise Gules holding a 
cross crosslet, fitchie Azure ; fourth Or, a galley sails furled oars 
in Saltire Sable, flagged Gules in a sea in base Vert a salmon 
Argent : Above the shield is placed a helmet befitting his degree 
with a Mantling Gules doubled Argent and on a wreath of his 
liveries is set for Crest, a branch of laurel and of Cypress in 
Saltire surmounted of a battle axe in pale all proper, and in an 
Escrol over the same this Motto, "Altera Merces." 



150 



MACLEAN ARMS. 




DOCHGARROCH. 
REV. ALLAN MACKINTOSH MACLEAN. 

Ensigns Armorial viz: Parted per Fess Or and Azure in 
dexter chief a dexter hand appaumee Gules and in Sinister chief 
a galley sails furled oars in Saltire Sable and in base a Castle 
triple towered Argent masoned of the fourth, windows and port- 
cullis of the third : Above the Shield is placed a helmet befitting 
his degree with a Mantling Azure doubled Or, and on a wreath 
of his liveries is set for Crest a battle axe erect in pale between 
a branch of laurel and 'another of Cypress all proper and in ah 
Escrol over the same this Motto, "Vinceri Vel Mori" and in 
Escrol below the shield this Motto "Virtue Mine Honour" ("The 
Dochgarroch Arms as given here shows his arms impaling those 
of his wifes 3 pheons Or (Nichols of Yokelton Salop) these are 
not in arms as registered.) 



MACLEAN ARMS. 



151 




DRIMNIN. 
RAID SIR HARRY MACLEAN, K. C. M. G. 

Ensigns Armorial viz : Quarterly first Argent a rock Gules, 
second Argent a dexter hand fesswise couped Gules holding a 
cross crosslet fitchie in pale Azure; third Or a lyphad oars in 
Saltire sails furled Sable flagged Gules ; fourth Argent a salmon 
naiant proper, in chief two eagles heads erased respectant Gules, 
all within a bordure engrailed Gules. Above the shield is placed 
a helmet befitting his degree with a Mantling Gules doubled 
Argent and on a wreath of his liveries is set for Crest a branch 
of laurel and another of cypress in Satire surrounded of a battle 
axe erect in pale all proper and in an Escrol over the same this 
Motto, "Altera Merces." 



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MACLEAN ARMS. 




PLANTATION 
ROBERT MACLEAN. 

Ensigns Armorial viz: Quarterly first Argent on a rock 
proper a tower Sable, masoned of the first windows and port- 
culles Gules: Second Argent a dexter hand fesswise couped at 
the wrist grasping a cross crosslet fitchie in pale Gules; third 
Or, a galley oars in Saltire, Sails furled Sable, flagged Gules; 
fourth Vert a salmon naiant proper and in a base a sea undy 
Argent and Azure; Above the shield is placed a helmet befitting 
his degree with a Mantling Gules doubled Argent and on a wreath 
of his liveries is set for Crest a branch of laurel and another 
of Crowberry heath in Saltire, surmounted of a battle axe erect 
in pale all proper and in an Escrol over the same this Motto, 
"Fortiter et Strenue." 



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153 




LEHIR & Ross. 

MAJOR ALEXR. COLIN MCLEAN. 

Ensigns Armorial viz : Quarterly first Argent a rock Gules ; 
second Argent a dexter hand fesswise couped Gules holding a 
cross crosslet fitchie Azure; third Or a lymphad oars in Saltire 
sails furled Sable, flagged Gules; fourth Agent a salmon naiant 
proper in chief two eagles heads erased respectant Gules; over 
all a cross azure dividing the quarters ; Above the shield is placed 
a helmet befitting his degree with a Mantling Gules doubled 
Argent and on a wreath of his liveries is set for Crest a battle 
axe erect in pale between a branch of laurel and another of 
Cypress al proper and in an Escrol over the same this Motto, 
"Virtue Mine Honour." 



154 



MACLEAN ARMS. 




LEHIR & Ross. 

NEIL MCLEAN. 

(Breda.) 

Ensigns Armorial viz : Quarterly First Argent a rock Gules ; 
second Argent dexter hand fesswise couped Gules holding a cross, 
crosslet fitchie Azure; third Or a lymphad oars in Saltire Sails 
furled Sable flagged Gules; fourth Argent a salmon naiant 
proper in chief two eagles heads erased respectant Gules ; over 
all a cross Azure dividing the Quarters, a crescent Argent for 
difference: Above the shield is placed a helmet befitting his 
degree with a Mantling Gules doubled Argent and on a wreath 
of his liveries is set for Crest a battle axe erect in pale between 
a branch of laurel and another of cypress all proper and in an 
Escrol over the same this Motto, "Virtue Mine Honour." 



MACLEAN ARMS. 



155 




DRTMN ACROSS (COLL.) 

CAPTAIN FRANCIS MACLEAN. 

(Germany.) 

Ensigns Armorial viz : Quarterly first Or : a hill rising from 
the base Vert ; second Argent a dexter arm issuing from the sin- 
ister in fess Gules holding a cross crosslet fitchie in pale Azure ; 
third Argent a galley, her oars erect in Saltire and sails furled 
Sable flagged Gules; fourth per fess Or and Azure, in chief 
two hawks heads erased respectant Gules, and in base a Salmon 
naiant proper; all within a bordure engrailed and quarterly Gules 
and Vert: Above the shield is placed a helmet befitting his der 
gree with a Mantling doubled Or and on a wreath of his liveries 
is set for a crest, a battle axe erect in pale crossed by a branch 
of laurel and another of cypress in Saltire all proper and in an 
Escrol over the same the Motto, "Altera Merces." 



156 



MACLEAN ARMS. 




TlREE. 
ANDREW BRUCE MACLEAN. 

Ensigns Armorial viz: Quarterly first Argent a lion ram- 
pant Gules armed and langued Azure, second Azure a castle 
tripled towered Argent, masoned Sable, third Argent a galley, 
sails furled, oars in saltire Sable, flagged Gules; fourth, Vert a 
Salmon . -naiant Argient, all within \a bordure inverted Gule^ 
charged with three Crescents Or: Above the shield is placed a 
helmet befitting his degree with a Mantling Gules doubled Argent 
and on a wreath of his liveries is placed for Crest a battle axe 
erect in pale between a branch of laurel and another of Cypress 
in Saltire all proper and in an Escrol over the same this Motto, 
"Altera Merces." 



PART VI. 



PERSONAL NARRATIVE, AND THE 
AMERICAN CONTINGENT.* 



This chapter is intended solely for American readers. If others 
should read it, then it is hoped that words of either commendation or 
condemnation shall not be offered. 




MY BEST GIRL* 



PERSONAL NARRATIVE AND THE AMERICAN 
CONTINGENT. 



All attempts to interest the Clansmen to attend the gather- 
ing had ceased. There was a desire that all should go together, 
and the time to commence the long journey was at hand. The 
point of rendezvous was Montreal, and the time selected for 
meeting, was August 9, 1912. I had chosen that route and in* 
vited the others to go with me. The principal reason for so 
choosing, was because I had never seen the lower St. Lawrence, 
and as the opportunity had come, it should not slip. I invited 
Mr. William W. McLean, of Fosterville, Tenn., to take the same 
state room with me. He arrived at my residence on August 
3rd. On the 4th we went to the bank, secured our tickets and 
travelers' cheques, and were ready for the journey. Early on 
Tuesday 5th we started for Dayton, Ohio, where we viewed the 
city and some of its principal buildings. At 10:30 a. m., we were 
on the fast train bound for Cleveland, intending to take two 
nights and a day off. At the depot we were met by my Best 
Girl, and her mother who took us to their residence, where 
we were well entertained. We discovered, in order to carry out 
our plans, an early start in the morning would be required. 
My Best Girl and her mother took us to the street car, when affec- 
tionately entwining her little arms around my neck and kissing 
me good bye, she said, "Oh, Grandpa, must you go away?" 
"Oh, no," I replied. "It is not necessary, but I have so deter- 
mined." That afternoon we visited Niagara Falls. Fortunately 
the water in the river was low, and I had ocular demonstra- 
tion that the cataract was a series of falls, one line running 
from shore to shore. We had the promise of having our tickets 
good for ten days, intending to stop over at Toronto, but on 
arriving there discovered they .expired on the 8th. So we 
steamed along and arrived at Montreal on the forenoon of the 
8th. From Dayton to Buffalo the country was one vast plain 

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160 PERSONAL NARRATIVE, 

under a high state of cultivation, with villages, averaging five 
miles apart. Oats appeared to be the principal crop, and was 
succumbing to the sickle. As we passed up the Miami Valley 
we noticed the rich fields of Indian corn, grown to mammoth 
size, but as we crossed the state the corn presented a less favor- 
able appearance. The towns and villages were prosperous. 
Springfield and Columbus are cities given largely to manu- 
factories. Coursing along the shore of Lake Erie, we were invited 
not only to gaze upon the placid water, but also the vast vine- 
yards that hugged the shore. 

Through the night we were speeding towards the eastern 
extremity of the province of Ontario ; and that part seen by day- 
light was not beautiful to behold. The land was poor and the 
improvements were but moderate. On reaching the western 
extreme of Quebec, there was a radical difference. The land 
was richer, improvements exhibited a greater development, and 
general thrift was everywhere. It was like leaving one foreign 
country for another. Perhaps my surprise was the greater, 
because I had anticipated the reverse. 

A short time was given to us to see Montreal, the Canadian 
metropolis, a solid built city, many of the principal build- 
ings being of stone. About three-fourths of the people are of 
French origin, many of whom do not speak English, but all 
were polite, and those who could, readily gave such informa- 
tion as was required. The Yankee commercial traveller was 
numerous, and also very free in his opinions, but mostly dis- 
cussing American politics when not displaying his wares. 

Montreal has an interesting history, and to a certain extent 
is connected with the American Revolution, but the great at- 
traction of the city is Notre Dame, said to be the finest church 
in the Western Hemisphere. We visited it several times. Wor- 
ship there seems to be continuous. I approached some of the 
worshippers who were on their knees, and asked questions, 
and received polite answers. We visited all the places of in- 
terest we knew of, and paid much attention to the locks in the 
St. Lawrence. 

On the evening of the Qth . our party was formed, now, 
with the addition of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. McLean, of Menomo- 
nie, Wisconsin, and Mrs. Ella M. Smyth, of Tulsa, Oklahoma. 
For a season, at least, our fortunes were cast in the same mould. 



PERSONAL NARRATIVE. 161 

At 3 o'clock on the morning of the loth, our ship slipped 
from her moorings, and soon we were steaming down the St. 
Lawrence, headed for Glasgow. The vessel was a large one, 
rode easily, and was well handled by the crew. I had intended 
to stand on the bow, and view the St. Lawrence as we passed 
along, but did not, only by spurts and spells. There was a 
strong wind from the east, accompanied by rain which was diffi- 
cult to face. Fortunately the weather was more pleasant when 
we reached Quebec. When we fastened to the wharf, I first 
realized the magnitude of the ship. We towered high above the 
wharf and its accompanying building, and the length appeared 
to increase. But looking aloft and beholding the cannon, upon 
the parapet pointing over us, and the almost precipitous rock 
towering high above, our ship again grew to less ponderous pro- 
portions. The spot where the greatly lamented Montgomery 
fell, is marked by a slab. We saw where Wolfe climbed the 
heights, and also some of the larger buildings. While Quebec 
abounds in more history and is of greater renown than any other 
place north of the St. Lawrence yet she has not kept pace in 
importance as time passed along. 

The scene along the St. Lawrence is variegated. The river 
narrows, and widens, in one place broadens into Lake St Peter. 
We pass islands forming by accretion and others wasting by 
erosion. The banks are low, then high, then undulating and 
towards the mouth rise into great bluffs. As we reach the 
gulf, we begin to hug the southern shore. While the weather 
had been more or less foggy, it now began to be more clear 
and settled. We passed south of Anticosti, and nearing the 
eastern extremity, our captain directed the course for the strait 
of Belle Isle. 

During all this time the cabin passengers, ninety in num- 
ber (the steerage forty-seven) were rapidly becoming acquainted, 
and a general good feeling was established which prevailed 
during the rest of the voyage. The employes were attentive 
to their duties, a fine spirit pervaded the ship, and mere 
formalities were discarded. The passengers amused themselves 
in various ways. There was the inevitable concert for the bene- 
fit of some orphan asylum somewhere in Scotland. For the 
same institution there was a collection on Sunday, and also an 
entertainment was arranged on one of the promenades for the 
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same purpose, the taxes being levied at seventy-five cents each 
for the men and free to the ladies. There were the ap- 
propriate decorations, music, dancing, games, lunch, etc., some 
men reading, others writing letters, others promenading, others 
playing cards, others conversing. My state-room companion 
was the one great checker player, who vanquished all that had 
the temerity to tackle him. 

When we left Anticosti and steamed north-east we were 
rapidly approaching danger, and for four days and nights we 
struggled in the dense fog amidst land icebergs, flowing in from 
the sea. We knew, we were in danger, but not of its imminence. 
For four days and nights the faithful captain did not leave his 
post nor change his clothes. A man was continuously in the 
prow, the watch in the crow's nest was doubled and three of- 
ficers stationed on the bridge. At times the fog was so dense 
that one could see but little of the ship. Fortunately, for sight 
seeing, when close to Labrador the fog lifted and there, between 
us and the coast were seven icebergs moving in single file. The 
first was rather small, followed by one hollowed out in the center, 
and exhibiting all the tints of blue and green. This was fol- 
lowed by one having the shape of a horn, and near it was one 
which at first presented the appearance of a cathedral, but as it 
disappeared looked like a spectral war vessel. It in turn was 
followed by one presenting a bluff, tapering toward the water. 
Before the fog fell thirty icebergs were descried. When the fog 
was at its densest, the watchman saw an iceberg almost on 
the prow of the vessel. He gave a piercing cry, the captain im- 
mediately reversed the engines at full speed, and the monster 
passed along close to the side of the vessel, but could be only 
dimly seen. 

There were three steamers in the same plight at the same 
time ploughing eastward. One was struck squarely on the prow 
and badly damaged, and gave the signal of distress by wire- 
less. Our vessel responded, but we were helpless, and simply 
drifting. The other tore along and escaped without damage. 
Our captain was cautious, prudent and painstaking. After we 
had crossed the banks of Newfoundland, the American contin- 
gent signed a letter of thanks to the captain and his officers, 
for their faithfulness in the hoar of danger, and their care in 
piloting the ship through in safety. The American contin- 



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gent will always have a warm spot in their hearts for Captain 
Thomas Moar. The captain was wonderfully pleased; sent for 
me to come to his cabin, and I then had a long conversation with 
him, and learned many valuable things about navigation, that I 
had not dreamed of. 

The days rolled by, and we were prisoners in a ship out 
upon the ocean. But time did not drag heavily on our hands, 
for we managed to keep busy. The steward devised games 
which interested some. While some were anxious to be at home, 
owing to certain duties that demanded attention, yet all, save 
two, exercised a very great degree of patience. 

It was not long until the MacLean contingent was singled 
out, and the purpose of their journey known. And it is some- 
what singular that the majority became interested. As the ma- 
jority of the passengers were Scotch, and returning to their 
homes, the clan system and clan ideas were well known, but a 
clan assembly on the call of the Chief, and that for the rees- 
tablishing of the Ancient Castle was out of the ordinary. 

Having escaped the clutches of the fog and ice, we steered 
out into a clear sky, and had beautiful weather.. What little 
sea-sickness there was, happened in the gulf. 

At last Torrey island, off the coast of Ireland, was sighted, 
and soon the Scottish isles and the north coast of Ireland ap- 
peared in sight, and vessel after vessel was seen moving in 
various directions. All this was fascinating, from our long 
isolation upon the ocean ; nor did we leave the deck until 
darkness dropped upon us when near Greenock. There were 
but two field glasses among the passengers and these were now 
in constant requisition. The view, steaming up the Clyde, was 
grand, charming, fascinating. Some twenty-three years before 
I had seen it, but it was now the same as new. Ailsa Craig, 
Dumbarton, and other places still preserved their charm. The 
green meadows, the undulating hills, the precipitous crag; all 
had their story and their enchantment. When darkness set 
in, the lights along the shore, in the villages and cities, attracted 
attention. At 8 p. m., opposite Greenock we dropped anchor, 
for the tide was out ; but daylight saw us moving again up the 
Clyde. Breakfast was served earlier, that we might not miss 
that repast. At eight o'clock we tied up to the wharf in Glas- 
gow, arriving four days late. We left the ship and wharf as 



164 PERSONAL NARRATIVE. 

soon as possible, and by hack went directly to the business office 
of Mr. John MacLean, Chairman of the committee on ar- 
rangements for the Clan Gathering. In short we made his 
office our headquarters. He escorted us to our hotel, and we 
were soon busy in the city. Only one place looked natural to 
me, George's square, and that appeared a little out of kelter. 
True, St. Mungo's Cathedral was just the same. 

By this time it was evident the American contingent was 
receptive and bound to be pleased. Nothing appeared to ruffle, 
even the least member. There was no word of criticism or 
censure spoken. All declared, time and again, that they were 
well-repaid, even should the journey now end. 

On account of our estates, both Mr. W. W. McLean and my- 
self had determined to leave Scotland for home at the very 
earliest opportunity. We had no mission whatever, only to at- 
tend the gathering. Before arriving we had the intimation that 
a return passage would be difficult to obtain. After securing 
hotel quarters we started at once to engage return tickets. The 
very earliest date we could secure, after visiting all the offices, 
was second cabin on board the Caledonia, of the Anchor line, 
and that on September 7th. However, if we had known trie, 
trap we were walking into, we should have tarried in bonnie Scot- 
land, a week longer at which time we were assured of ample 
room. 

The next day found us very busy sight seeing, visiting places 
of interest, entering the shops and making such purchases as we 
desired, but returning to headquarters very frequently, and there 
meeting clansmen who had come from a distance. There was 
no formality, for we were acquainted though we had never seen 
one another before, and very doubtful, if most of us had even 
heard of the other. Still we were old acquaintances and born 
to a common cause. It was here we first met Hon. William F. 
Maclean, of Toronto, although his name was familiar to us. 
We immediately adopted him into the American contingent. That 
part he could take, seeing it related to only a few MacLeans, 
and their nationality had nothing to do with the same. Still he 
has no need to fear. The United States do not want Canada. 
The people have no desire to molest Canada in one shape or an- 
other. True, the politicians desire occasionally to entertain them- 
selves by poking Canada. It is only harmless amusement. This 



PERSONAL NARRATIVE. 165 

matter appears to be thoroughly understood by the English peo- 
ple. When Canadians desire to come to the States to make 
their home there, they are always received on equal footing. As 
to the late defeated reciprocity that stirred the people of Canada, 
let them be assured, that if it had been left to the American 
people, as it was to the Canadian, it never would have been heard 
of after. The "Middle West" would have been practically unan- 
imous against it. True, some of our politicians thought it was 
a wise stroke toward the prolongation of their political for- 
tunes. 

Whatever may be our political differences, we found Mr. 
MacLean to be a very valuable addition. He also had difficulty 
in finding return passage, and arranged to go to Liverpool, in 
hopes there to find a way home. We took dinner with him at 
his hotel on our second day. 

On the afternoon of the 22nd, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Mc- 
Lean and Mrs. Smyth, decided to go to Ayr, and there study 
Robert Burns. Mr. W. W., W. F., and myself hied ourselves 
to Oban. Our train skirted a long distance not far from but 
parallel to the foot of the Grampian Hills, affording a most 
excellent view. We were greatly surprised at the abundance of 
the crops. Scotland has always been reputed to be poor agri- 
culturally speaking ; but this must be considered as a whole. I 
have never seen a country more prolific for oats, hay, wheat, 
than that through which we passed, and that after centuries of 
cultivation. It can only be accounted for on the ground of wise 
application of fertilizers, and of the best extracts from marl. 
Everywhere the residences presented a clean appearance, although 
the houses were so differently constructed from our own, as to 
elicit attention. Most of them appeared to be solid and con- 
structed of granite, but probably conglomerate predominated. 
We could judge only from the car window. Mr. W. W. Mc- 
Lean was particularly struck by the chimney terminating in sev- 
veral vent pipes. I sought for a reason why for this peculiar 
construction, but failed to get a scientific or rational answer. It 
was like the cart at Fallkirk. I noticed the carts were con- 
structed of about three times as much wood as used in America, 
and very bunglesome. If properly constructed less weight would 
be on the horse, besides less leather and a far smaller nad on 
the back. I asked, "What is the object of using so much timber 



166 PERSONAL NARRATIVE. 

in constructing the carts?" The reply came, "They know what 
they are doing!" That answer was sufficient. I suddenly 
dropped the matter. Custom and habit are among the severest 
of tyrants. The American contingent found no fault nor con- 
demned, but never hesitated to make inquiries. They were 
travelers of research and not reformers or missionaries, and 
very reserved in their views. 

Our stop at the old city of Stirling with its resplendent 
memories of Bannockburn, the deeds of Wallace, of Bruce, of 
Douglas, as well as the records of other great events was short 
and we soon passed into the Grampians. Every twist of the 
train brought new scenes before us. We were in the land 
of the deer, the clachan, the clan, the kilt, the claymore, the 
plaided warrior, the land of the mountain and the flood. 
The rapidly changing scenery of mountains, dell and loch was a 
fine introduction to the land of the plaided warriors of MacLean. 
We knew that the land we were passing through, had con- 
tained triple the number of inhabitants that now occupies the 
glens and we wonder how those now present are sustained. 
We knew the border clans were greatly given to the creach, and 
a countless number of cattle were driven through the passes 
from the lowlands, yet that would not sufficiently sustain the 
people of bygone times. The rapidly changing scenery gives but 
little time for reflection, for viewing the same is the prevalent 
occupation. 

Our hotel had been previously engaged for us by the faith- 
ful chairman, Mr. John MacLean. Having eaten our supper we 
started out on the hunt for the Chief of MacLean. I saw but 
little difference in his appearance since I met him in Chicago in 
1893. He is just as straight, and his carriage the same now as 
then. The weight of years does not seem to sit heavily upon 
him. We conversed with him until 10 p. m., and even then he 
was reluctant to part with us, following us even into the yard. 

The morning of the 23rd we were up bright and early, 
viewing the scenery around us. The best view we obtained was 
from the "pulpit" that towers high above the city. Oban had 
greatly changed during the past twenty-three years. All that 
seemed natural was that implanted by the hand of the Great 
Father of us all. Oban is a beautiful place. Here, the only 
time in my life, I saw the town-crier, with bell going about the 



PERSONAL NARRATIVE. 167 

street making his announcements, but I noticed no one paying 
attention to what he was calling out, save our own party. 

Early we decided to visit the ruins of Dunolly Castle, one 
of the oldest in the Highlands. It is perched upon a rock per- 
pendicular on three sides, and probably one hundred feet in 
height. A court yard is on the rock's extremity. The castle is 
in a fearful state of ruins, and nothing is being done to preserve 
it. An admittance of six cents was demanded. It is in charge of 
a custodian. Mr. W. F. MacLean politely asked for some infor- 
mation. The rudeness exhibited was so great and so uncalled for, 
that Mr. MacLean said nothing and walked away. Having 
viewed what little was to be seen, we descended to the solid 
roadway beneath and for five miles we walked along the shore 
of Loch Linnhe, until the road terminated in a golf course. 
While on our right were the great rocks towering a hundred or 
more feet above, presenting a perpendicular face with great 
boulders protruding from their sides, on the left we beheld the 
loch and the undulating hills beyond. Several times I stopped 
to examine the rock, hoping I might obtain a fossil, but 
not a single trace was offered. From the golf course, we 
crossed over the hills until we came to the solid roadway lead- 
ing from the ancient royal castle, Dunstaffnage to Oban, and 
directed our course to the city. In the afternoon we walked to 
Dunstaffnage, and found a part of it in a fine state of preser- 
vation. 

There I left my two companions and returned, as I had 
promised to meet the division, that went to Ayr, at the station. 

I undertook to purchase some goods, and then I fully 
realized I was in a "watering place." I kept my money. 

That evening the streets were crowded, many having on 
the MacLean kilt. I walked into the corridor of a hotel to 
speak to one thus dressed, when a tall handsome young lady 
stepped up to me and called me by name. I had never seen 
her before. I asked her name, and to my great delight found 
it to be Mrs. Ritchie, daughter of my friend, the late Mac- 
Lean of Pennycross. Having an extra ticket she kindly in- 
vited me to accompany her party to the Highland concert, I 
complied and was greatly recompensed. 

At the hour of midnight I was aroused from my slumber 
to receive the invitation of the Chief to be of the party to cross 



168 PERSONAL NARRATIVE. 

over to the Castle in the yacht Santa Maria, which would leave 
promptly at 8:45 a. m. 

The events of this day have already been recorded, al- 
though I might add here how I came to deliver the toast to the 
chief. Luncheon was about half over with the first relay. I 
was sitting at the same table with the chief. MacLean of Penny- 
cross came to me and said: "It is expected you will offer the 
toast to the Chief; but be brief, for there are many who must 
soon leave." A minute later MacLean of Ardgour came with 
the same message ; and within less than five minutes came again, 
and cautioned me to be brief. 

On the evening of the 23rd, a clergyman informed me that a 
young lady, a member of his former parish, was anxious to be 
at the gathering, but had been told that she could not be present. 
On inquiry I was informed that her grandmother was a Mac- 
Lean. I told him to have the lady at the steamer, in the 
morning and I would see to it that she was passed. The evening 
before all the MacLeans had been given a sprig of the crow- 
berry, and by that sign were to be admitted. As I was to go 
on the yacht, I could not be at the steamer. I sought out the 
chairman, and assured him of the genuineness of the lady's 
clanship. That evening, returning from the yacht, I was over- 
taken by the lady, who called, me by name. I asked : 

"How do you know me?" 

"I knew you were a MacLean by your walk," she replied. 

"Kindly inform me your name?" I asked. 

"Miss - - of - " was the answer. "I want to thank you 
for having me passed over to the Gathering." 

"That was not necessary," I said, "for your grandmother 
was a MacLean." 

"Oh, no," said she; "my grandmother had a brother who 
married a MacLean." 

The early morning of the 25th prognosticated a beautiful 
day, and we were not slow to seize upon it. As Gylen castle on 
the isle of Kerrera was once owned by Gillian, the founder of 
the clan, and named for him, we determined to visit it, thinking 
that going and coming we would not traverse over five miles. 
We pressed Rev. L. MacLean Watt and his son, Hector, for 
guides. By accident we formed into two sections, our guides, 



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Miss Isabel MacLean, Mr. W. F. MacLean and myself formed 
the first, and crossed the ferry thinking the others, Mr. W. C 
and W. W. MacLean and Mrs. Smyth would soon overtake us. 

It was exceedingly fortunate for us that Mr. Watt was of the 
party. No one could tire or become impatient in his company. 
Exuberant in spirits, full of life, full of stories, he was the ge- 
nius of the party. Speaking the Gaelic, his native language, was 
an additional advantage. Fortunately for us he had never 
been on the island before, and it soon became apparent we were 
lost. I will not question his ability as a sky-pilot, but as a land 
pilot he is somewhat shaky. He struck the long since abandoned 
highway, over which the wagons passed from lower Mull to Oban. 
He sent out his son for relief, but the boy was unsuccessful. He 
decided to press on. After walking several miles we met two 
lady tourists, who informed us we were on the wrong road, but 
could go on to the end of the island, where was a branch of the 
road to the left which, after many crooks and turns would bring 
us in sight of the castle. Noon overtook us while we were still 
on the roadway, but about that hour we arrived at a crofter's 
hut. Our guide spoke to a dog in Gaelic, and both understood 
each other. In the same language he spoke to the crofter who 
was seated on a rock, and then going into the house addressed 
the lady in her native vernacular. A repast was soon spread out 
before us, and the woman retired, leaving an intelligent-faced 
Scotch collie in the room. Everything was clean and the hut com- 
fortable. The victuals were just what we wanted, and we had all 
we desired. In Gaelic the crofter directed Mr. Watt the route 
to take. What the bill was for the meal, I do not know, as it 
was settled by Mr. W. F. MacLean. It was not long until we 
came to another croft, and found two men and a woman sitting 
on the bank. They were addressed in Gaelic, and it certainly 
was the best of introductions. What was said I do not know. 
But they knew that three of us were from America, and we 
were informed that they had two sons in California, and wished 
also to be with them. On the sward with them was a half 
grown pig. I stepped up to it and hypnotized it, and then it fell 
over. Never was there a more pleased expression on the face of 
any beast. The quick eye of Mr. Watt caught the expression, 
and instantly arranging his kodak gave it a snap. As we de- 
scended from the plain, on which the house stood, we came to an 



170 PERSONAL NARRATIVE. 

immense layer of rock, protruding from a second level. It looked 
like an incomplete wall, regularly formed and seemed as though 
designed by hands. It was one of those curious formations so 
common in the Western Isles. Here another snapshot was ob- 
tained. Soon we were at the foot of the rock upon which Gylen 
castle stands. I have never seen any account of this castle, nor 
have I seen it pictured. Here we rest for awhile. Our walk had 
been a long one, but most enjoyable. We had a magnificent view 
of the mountains of Mull, and for miles old Duard Castle was 
visible to the eye. Our lady was a most admirable walker. She 
walked erect, with arms thrown out and shoulders back and 
passed over the ground with apparent ease. During the whole 
journey she showed no indications of being tired. She climbed 
mountains, leaped over rocks, and jumped over streams, just as 
though she was to the manor born. 

Soon after arriving at the castle, the other section showed 
up. They had taken a wrong road, also were lost, and even 
forced to descend a steep declivity, and showed visible signs of 
being tired. 

During our trip so far, Mr. Watt had taken fifteen snap 
shots, and was proud of his achievement. He now arranged 
his instrument to take a view of the castle, when to his surprise 
and discomfiture discovered it had been set to a time exposure. 
He certainly was very much disturbed over the discovery. But 
we were like Job's comforters to him. However his good nature 
did not desert him. Crossing the ocean a young lady sat with 
the American contingent at the dining table. She always had a 
pleasant expression on her face. I asked her one day, "Have 
you a temper?" "Oh," replied she, "I carry one with me all the 
time." That may be true for she was of the clan Alpine. It 
may also be true of Mr. Watt, for he is. of the clan Gillean. 

Gylen Castle is on a perpendicular rock, near the inner bow 
of a small bay at the southern extremity of the isle. The rock 
is narrow and the castle high. It is not the old castle once owned 
by the founder of the MacLean clan, for that long since was 
demolished. The present castle was built during the sixteenth 
century. It is so constructed that if entered by an enemy he 
would be forced through the passage-way to the court beyond. 
The court is protected by the castle, and a low wall was built 
around the declivity to prevent one from falling. In front of 



PERSONAL NARRATIVE. 171 

the castle is a plateau, much higher than the floor of the first 
room of the castle. This plateau was protected by a low stone 
wall. 

Near the foot of the rock upon which the castle stands are 
the sad memorials of an oppressed race. Close together in a 
regular row, may be seen the mounds made by the debris of 
fallen chimneys, though covered by accumulations of earth. These 
mark the fire places of once happy homes. The outlines of the 
gardens may be traced and north east of the castle are the furrows 
made by the husbandmen. Rudely, violently, the once inhabit- 
ents, without cause or provocation save that sheep were more 
valuable than men, were forced upon the world, penniless and 
friendless, driven away, without any sense of humanity felt by 
the oppressors. Oh ! those frightful tales of woe recorded by 
Highland authors whose hearts bled for those who suffered \ 
No one was even allowed to give them shelter. 

The contingent, again united, proceeded toward Oban, im- 
proving on the route taken by the second division. Evidently 
Mrs. Smyth was tired, and bent on seeking the hotel, in so 
much so, that when we reached a tenant's house, and called for 
refreshments, the second section plodded on, leaving us behind. 
We stopped for refreshments, which were soon set before us. 
Everything here was on a larger scale than at the previous place. 
The provisions were well cooked, and we were all satisfied. I 
asked the lady her bill, and she replied : "Two shillings." This 
I handed her, with such smaller coin as I had with me. On in- 
quiry, I found from the yield of twenty cattle and forty sheep, 
this tenant was compelled to pay the landlord $250 per year 
rental. I asked him, "How do you manage to save that amount ?" 
He replied, "It is very difficult." Our roadway now skirted along 
the seashore, and we picked up many beautiful shells, some of 
which we secured from the water. On arriving at the ferry the 
whole party became united, as the ferryman had refused to cross 
until all were together. Soon we were in the city of Oban. 

During the evening the American contingent had an in- 
formal meeting. All had decided, on the morrow to go to 
lona, and Fingal's cave, except Miss Isabel MacLean who had 
already been there and myself. Miss MacLean determined to 
take in the Trossachs, and I would proceed to Edinburgh, and 
there spend the week, where we would again meet. I should 



172 PERSONAL NARRATIVE, 

have spent more time about Oban, but I did not care to meet the 
hotel expenses. 

Early on the morning of the 26th, I boarded the first train 
out of Oban for Edinburgh. On the train entering Edinburgh 
from Glasgow, I occupied the same compartments with the of- 
ficial agent of the Labor Union, and a lady from England, who 
was a Speaker of the Suffragettes. The two were acquainted 
and had clashed on former occasions, and now clashed 
again. Here the man appeared to be an adept at dodging, 
while she was cool, sincere, and invariably had the better of 
the controversy. The trend was on the position of the labor 
party relative to the suffrage question, that, while professing 
to be in favor of the extension of the elective franchise, yet 
openly abandoned the cause. 

The agent volunteered to take me to a good hotel, where 
the prices were moderate. I found he was correct, and as the 
members of the contingent arrived, I piloted them to the same 
place. 

So far as I could determine, Edinburgh had seen but little 
change since my previous visit. Nearly everything had a familiar 
appearance, save here and there, a larger and better building 
had taken the place of others. A peculiar exception is in Edin- 
burg Castle. The interior of the castle had gone entirely out 
of my memory. I was unable to recall a single thing, save 
Mons Meg. So it was with the greatest interest I examined 
everything open to the public. The interior is exceedingly 
rough, and sharp and pointed rocks, which one might suppose 
would have been chiseled away centuries ago, still remain un- 
sightly objects in such a place. The old dungeon where the 
Chief of Mac Lean had been confined, for a short period, had 
some degree of interest. While in the castle I conversed with 
and was surprised by the soldiers of the old 42nd, or Black 
Watch. The 42nd is the oldest and most famous of the High- 
land regiments. It has been noted for the fine appearance of its 
men, and is indomitable courage. Nowhere have I ever seen 
such inferior looking soldiers. Several of them assured me 
there was not a private soldier in the regiment, even of High- 
land birth. And yet they appear on duty in the Highland dress. 
I could r realize why the Highland brigade cut such a sorry 



PERSONAL NARRATIVE, 173 

figure in the South African War. No one was to blame, save in 
the classification of the regiments. 

By Thursday morning the party had all met save Mr. W. W. 
MacLean, who was still lingering amid the ruins of lona. There 
he remained enchanted over the mementoes of the past. He took 
up his abode with the parish minister, and as both are of the 
same faith, two congenial souls had met. 

There were some places I had not yet visited, and Miss Mac- 
Lean and I decided to visit them in the shortest possible time. 
The first place visited was the National Art Gallery. My com- 
panion is a connoisseur in paintings. She could tell a Raphael 
or Titian on sight, and with great rapidity would point out the 
master strokes. Of paintings I know but little. I can tell when 
one pleases me, and give the reasons for the same, but that is all. 
'To. my mind, I saw works of art just as fine as those of the great 
masters, but I did not make my opinions known. It would 
have been folly, for I know I am not a competent judge. I no- 
ticed Miss MacLean did not draw comparisons, but admired that 
which demanded admiration. 

As neither had ever seen Roslin chapel and the castle hard by, 
we took a hack and after crossing over a beautiful drive, we were 
soon at the chapel. I had believed it was in ruins. The ancient 
roof, still covers it, although everything indicates great age. The 
images were removed during the Reformation. The columns, oft 
pictured and described is one of the wonders of Edinburgh's 
suburbs. Aside from its history, the castle is hardly an object of 
interest, unless its romantic situation be considered. 

We visited the "Heart of Midlothian," Knox's grave and 
house, Grey Friars' church yard and chapel, took in the shops, and 
purchased books, mementoes, and such other articles of vertu 
as desired. 

The following day Calton Hill was visited, the public gar- 
dens, Scott's monument, etc. Holyrood palace was not visited, 
because all was seen that could be on a previous occasion. 

So far as historical interest is concerned but few cities sur- 
pass, or even equal Edinburgh. Many of the places are of in- 
terest, solely on account of that which is connected therewith. 
Once it was noted as a great literary center, and had its giants in 
literature, philosophy, and the natural sciences. But this, largely, 
belongs to the past. As a publishing center it maintains all its 



17 PERSONAL NARRATIVE. 

former renown one firm alone turns out over one hundred and 
twenty-five thousand cloth-bound volumes per week. In all prob- 
ability Edinburgh has more book stores than any city of its size in 
the world. 

On the morning of Saturday, August 3ist, the American con- 
tingent finally separated, and will never assemble again. As 
traveling companions its members were ideal. Were I to make 
another tour, and had the power of choosing my companions, the 
same parties would be included in the list. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. 
MacLean started for England, on their way to the Continent; 
Mrs. Smyth took a zig-zag course, with Dresden in view; Miss 
MacLean went to London, and thence to Chicago, taking Canada 
on her way. I left for Glasgow intending to spend a week there, 
where I was to meet Mr. W. W. McLean. 

Fortunately for me, a few hours after my arrival in Glas- 
gow, I met a Scotch lassie who had been a traveler with us 
across the Atlantic. Alone, she had traveled from Vancouver 
to her home in Scotland. She had been visiting her sister and 
was waiting for the train to bear her home. She very kindly 
put of! the hour of her return and without delay became my 
guide and through her knowledge I saw some districts that 
would have escaped me. Though she gave me but two days, not 
a moment was spared. She was exceedingly practical in all her 
ways and ideas, with but little to say and that to the point. The 
next day being Sunday I must necessarily go to church, the 
Cathedral being chosen. The choir is used for religious pur- 
poses, conducted by the state church. The choir was packed, 
and as it is 97 feet long, a very large assembly was present. 
The services did not inspire me any. Much rather would I 
have been in some country church. Everything was formal. 
The preliminary services were long. The whole was conducted 
by a manager or foreman, who, at the proper time, turned him- 
self into a bulletin board and announced various meetings, etc., 
for the ensuing week. Then followed the sermon by Prof. Reid, 
of the University. It may have been a sermon. It may not. 
To my mind the only good points were the text and the brevity. 
It was without construction, but simply "growed" like Topsy. 
His enunciation was distinct but metallic. Although within 15 
feet of him, I could not see the speaker, as six feet of a solid 
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PERSONAL NARRATIVE. 175 

The one who offered prayer petitioned for their "sacred 
majesties," calling each by name, closely followed by asking the 
blessing on "the president of the United States," but neither 
spoke his name nor called him "sacred." I do not doubt but he is 
just as "sacred" as the other two, and I do not believe he is any 
more "sacred' than any other human being. But why make 
such an invidious distinction? I do not doubt but all three 
greatly need praying for. But why leave out all other rulers, or 
those in authority and power? But such is habit and living and 
talking by rote. 

The inevitable bag was passed around by four gentlemen, 
for such offerings as may be given. I noticed the lassie gave 
liberally. 

Immediately after the services we started for the botanical 
gardens through streets and over viaducts until I did not know 
where I was. At last a large park loomed up, and in one cor- 
ner was a great building of glass in which were the tropical 
plants. In four different vessels, I saw so many stalks of Indian 
corn, short, thin and sorrowful looking enough to make one 
weep. The building appeared to be the resort for the children 
of the poor. It was a distressing sight. Here we see children 
carrying others almost as large as themselves; others walking 
on their ankles, and any number bow-legged; so much so that 
their legs reminded one of a hoop. I saw more bow-legged 
men in Glasgow than I had seen in all my life before. As the 
shades drew over us we separated to meet on the morrow. 

No person appears to get busy in Glasgow before 8 o'clock, 
and the majority about nine. News boys are never busy. I 
was forced to hunt them up. I have heard no crying of papers 
in all Scotland. The boys stick to certain corners and then 
await for customers. 

At 9 o'clock, with the lassie, I was again on foot, inspect- 
ing streets and public buildings. One of the largest and finest 
in the kingdom is the municipal building on George's Square. 
Near the center of the square is an immense column dedicated 
to Sir Walter Scott. There are others to Burns, etc., etc. But 
Scott and Burns do not need such memorials. They wrote their 
own names on the pillars of fame, and will there endure long 
after the monuments of stone shall have been forgotten. 



176 PERSONAL NARRATIVE. 

We entered the fish market. It does not seem possible that 
so much fish is consumed in any city. The price ranges from 4 
to 12 cents a pound. 

Would I go to the theatre? Well, yes. Not that I care 
to, but I will go. I never fancied the theatre. The acting al- 
ways appears to me to be acting, and nothing real about it. The 
play was "The Sign of the Cross", representing the persecu- 
tion of the Christians under Nero. The part of Nero was 
feeble. That of Mercedes and Marcus far above the usual. 
Some of the scenes were very fine, and the last was the best. 
After the theatre, I took my final leave of the lassie, as she 
must needs go home in the early morning. 

On Tuesday evening, through the courtesy of Mr. John 
MacLean, and his most amiable daughter, I visited the Mitchell 
library, one of the largest in Scotland. One of the librarians 
took us through the various departments, showing us the vast 
number of books and the different methods of classification. 

That night and the following day and night, I was the guest 
of Mr. MacLean and family. Everything in their power was 
done to make the visit pleasant. Though an active man of 
business, I found him one of the best informed men I .have 
ever met clear, incisive, comprehensive and decisive. Mrs. 
MacLean very kindly presented me with a solid silver antique 
Mary Queen of Scots brooch, the design representing two hearts 
and crown. It is called Queen Mary brooch. 

The last two days and nights of my stay in Scotland I was 
the guest of Andrew Bruce MacLean, prominent in the Clan 
MacLean Association, and one of the foremost manufacturers in 
the city. The first day we had dinner in a marble palace, of sev- 
eral stories and many rooms, all of which appeared to be well 
filled by men. From this palace we went directly to his foundry, 
where we visited every part. I saw many processes in the manu- 
facture and covering of wire entirely new to me. From there to 
his hospitable home. Mr. and Mrs. Mac Lean have an enjoyable 
home and are liberal entertainers. He has one of the largest 
collections of Scottish coin in the world. He also, has a very se- 
lect library of books, most of them being of the best editions. 

Saturday morning I must bid adieu to my Glasgow friends. 
My face must be turned westward. I had bid a last farewell to 
the land of my fathers. I must bid a final and everlasting fare- 



PERSONAL NARRATIVE. 177 

well to Scotland. Up to this time it was the most enjoyable trip 
of my life. Everything had transpired very pleasantly. I hacl 
formed new impressions of the Scotch people. The American 
contingent was unanimous in expressions of the kindest feel- 
ings. We had all been treated well. No one had tried to provoke 
us to an argument, or to force his views upon us. From the time 
I left Ohio until my return I only saw five persons I had ever 
seen before. Good bye Scotland. A long and last farewell ! 

I now come to one of the most disagreeable experiences of 
my life. When I think of it, there seems to be a night-mare 
about it. The passage from Montreal to Glasgow was one of 
pleasure, save a slight attack of seasickness while crossing the 
Gulf of St. Lawrence. The passage from Glasgow to New York 
was the reverse. Although I was seasick during the greater 
-part of the voyage, yet that could be endured better than the 
treatment accorded. The Caledonia, of the Anchor line, is a 
very unsteady boat. We met with no storms and no wind, and 
yet the vessel heaved heavily from the time we left the coast of 
Ireland until we reached American waters, where the sea was 
calm. , 

For more than twenty years I had heard the Anchor line 
evilly spoken of. I was destined to experience the truth of the 
report. On my arrival home I published an account, and after 
deliberating the matter over very carefully, concluded that the 
facts should be made known to the general government. So, on 
November 10, 1912, I made formal complaint to the Secretary of 
the Treasury of the United States, and enclosed my published 
communication which set forth the following specifications: 

The passengers in the second cabin numbered four hundred 
and twenty, the majority being women and children, who were 
driven on deck as so many cattle, without the least consideration 
shown to anyone, looking out for and carrying their own bag- 
gage, and being forced to hunt their staterooms ; being ordered 
about on deck; on entering ship, a part of the ticket taken, but 
after being out at sea, all were ordered on deck, and forced to 
pass in single file before a steward, who took up the rest of the 
ticket; on the promenade deck seats were only prepared for 
eighteen, the rest being forced to pay a rental of $1.00 per chair, 
which was not worth that in the open market ; from 9 p. m. 
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178 PERSONAL NARRATIVE. 

until 10 a. m. the promenade deck was cut off and used for no 
purpose whatever, thus causing the rented chairs to be of no 
value whatever, or, say, for thirteen hours every day, the pas- 
sengers were forced to remain indoors, or else huddled together 
in the stern end of the deck; as three-fourths were seasick, the 
condition of the stern end was unfit for human beings ; the ship's 
doctor was brutal in his deportment to sick ladies, and to two of 
those used profane language an instance specified: a lady with 
a very young babe, and sea-sick during the entire voyage, save 
one day, and confined to her berth, received no attention what- 
ever from the ship's crew; there were only four lady stewards, 
one of them became exhausted from overwork; sleeping apart- 
ments were not provided for all the stewards, some being forced 
to sleep in the cabins, and using the robes of passengers for cov- 
erings; no provision was made for those sea-sick, and only that 
used in the menu, each meal, was allowed those indisposed; the 
chief steward was unkind in his deportment ; on arriving in New 
York harbor all were driven out on deck and huddled together, 
no one even being allowed a drink of water; when the customs 
officer came on board, all Americans were ordered to form in 
line, and show their landing tickets, and then they were run into 
the fore part of the ship, and packed like sardines into a small, 
stuffy, poorly ventilated apartment and kept prisoners for over 
two hours, placed in charge of a brutal, overbearing officer, and 
during all this time were without water or anything to eat. It 
was after twelve o'clock (noon) when the Americans were re- 
leased from their imprisonment, and then rushed down a steep 
stairway to the wharf. 

Under date of November 2Qth the Commissioner of Naviga 
tion wrote me stating that Congress had never enacted laws gov- 
erning the treatment of cabin passengers. "It is generally con- 
sidered that cabin passengers will be able to select the vessels 
on which they shall make their voyage and that they will not 
patronize vessels where proper treatment is not accorded," but 
would send all the papers to the Collector of Customs of New 
York with directions to bring the matter to the attention of the 
company. 

Enclosed was Deparment Circular No. 185, giving the laws 
concerning the treatment of steerage passengers. A perusal of 
these laws evidently proves that some steamship companies have 



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treated this class of passengers in the most inhuman manner, 
even the officers are in reality criminals. As these steerage pas- 
sengers are mostly foreigners, the fact rests before us that Con- 
gress makes laws to protect those subject to a foreign potentate, 
but, neglects the Americans, even imprisoned in New York 
harbor. 

On December 3rd the collector of the port of New York 
directed to the Anchor Line Company the following: 

"I have been instructed by the Commissioner of Navigation 
to submit for your consideration and any action that may be 
deemed necessary, a complaint from Mr. J. P. MacLean, who 
was a passenger on the S. S. Caledonia, which sailed from Glas- 
gow, Scotland, on September 7th last, and arrived in New York 
on, the 1 6th of that month. While the Department is of the 
opinion that the facts do not disclose a violation of the laws of 
the United States there may have been such conditions as might 
warrant an investigation on your part as to the conduct of certain 
officers and stewards whose duty it was to assign passengers to 
staterooms and who may have been responsible for proper dis- 
cipline and courteous treatment of cabin passengers. The com- 
plaint emanates from a gentleman whose credibility and respect- 
ability are above reproach." 

The steamship company made its report on the I3th and 
exonerates itself on the grounds that I did not make complaint 
to the officers on board the vessel, nor to the company on my 
arrival in New York. Like master, like servant. 

I have thus given this free advertisement, simply to warn 
my fellow clansmen against the attitude of the company. Since 
the above was written I have been informed that the Anchor 
line is still in bad repute among ocean travelers. 

Three hours after landing in New York, Mr. W. W. Mc- 
Lean and myself boarded a fast train and were soon speeding 
across New Jersey, and at noon next day separated in Dayton, 
Ohio, the former for his home in Tennessee, and two hours later 
I was resting in the home of my boyhood. 

The long journey was over. Other duties immediately 
took up my attention. 




HYPNOTIZED. 



PART VII. 



MACLEAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

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NATURAL WALL. 
Near Gylen Castle. 



MACLEAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



An attempt only is made here to compile a bibliography. 
Some one ought to prepare a volume on this subject, with an 
outline biography to accompany the author's publications. In 
this would be a great entering wedge in the renaissance of the 
Clan. 

For several years I have been picking up MacLean publica- 
tions. In the list that follows I have first placed those in my 
own library, giving catch titles, only. This followed by works I 
do not possess, but desire the same. Any works not here in- 
cluded I desire to be notified of the same. The titles include 
books written by most of the clan surname, or about the Mac- 
Leans and those whose mothers were of the clan. 

Books in Author's Library. 

Baillie (Joanna). Family Legend. Edinburgh, 1810. 8 pa. 

96 pp. 

Clan MacLean Association. Glasgow, 1893. 8 pa. 64 pp. 
Do. 1908. 32 pp. 

Clarke (Adam). Butterworth's Concordance to the Holy Scrip- 
tures. Boston, 1828. 8 lea. 516 pp. 
Clarke (Rev. J. J. B.). Life of Adam Clarke, LL. D., F. A. S. 

3 vols, in one. New York, 1833. 8 lea. 646 pp. 
Fraser (William). History of Scotland, with that of the Frasers 

and MacLeans. Elgin, 1891. 8 pa. 
Glen (David). Music of the Clan MacLean. Edinburgh, 1900. 

4 cl. 51 pp. 
Greene (Sarah Pratt McLean). Cape Cod Folks. Boston, 1881. 

12 cl. 337 pp. 

. Last Chance Junction. Boston, 1889. 12 cl. 258 pp. 

. Leon Pontifex. Boston, 1890. 12 cl. 232 TU\ 

. Towhead. Boston, 1883. 12 cl. 303. 

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184 MACLEAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

. Vesty of the Basins. New York, 1889. 12 cl. 271. 

Hardy (Mrs. Alary McLean). Ancestry of Allan MacLean. 

Berkeley, 1905. 8 pa. 80 pp. 

Locke (W. H.). Memorial to Rev. John McLean. Ravenna, 

1887. 8 cl. 28. 
MacGilleadhain (Danuach). Laoidhean agus Dain. Glasgow, 

1868. 12 pa. 112. 
Maclain (Rev. Dr. Archibald). Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History. 

London, 1790. 6 vols. 8 lea. 
MacLean Ffamily of MacLean. Edinburgh, 1872. 4 ^ lea. 

1 08 pp. 

. History of Clan Tearlach o' Bui. Aberden, 1865, 12 cl. 

190 pp. 

MacLean (Rev. Allan, minister of Calton). Monks and Monas- 
teries. Glasgow, 1854. 12 cl. 212. 
MacLean (Arthur John, bishop of Ross, Moray, and Caithness) 

Grammar of the dialects of Vernacular Syria. Cambridge, 

1895. 8 cl. 364 pp. 
The Catholicos of the East and his people. London, 

1892. 12 cl. 360 pp. 
Maclane (Arthur John, M. A.). Sermons on Faith and other 

subjects. London, 1855. 8 cl. 308. 

. Sermons on the Christian Life. London, 1855. 8 cl. 

329 pp. 

. Sermons on various subjects. London, 1858. 8 cl. 

321 pp. 

Unity of God's Moral Law. London, 1847. 8 cl. 180. 



Maclean (Mrs. Clara Dargon). Light O' Love. New York, 
1891. 12 J lea. 259 pp. 

Maclean (Rev. Donald, minister Edinburgh). Duthil. Inver- 
ness, 1910. 8 cl. 84 pp. 

Maclean (Finlay). John Maclean's Reminiscences of a Clack- 
nacuddin. Inverness, 1886. 12 cl. no pp. 
. John Maclean's sketches of Highland Families. Ding- 
wall, 1848. 12 cl. 128 pp. 
. Do. New addition. Inverness, 1895. 4 -J lea. 187 pp. 

Maclean (Hector). Altonian Hero Ballads. Glasgow, 1892. 
12 cl. 184 pp. 

Maclean (J. Flora). Systematic Giving. Toronto, i\ 
cl - 135 PP. 



MACLEAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. 185 

Maclean (John). Memoirs of John Maclean, M. D. Princeton, 

1876. 12 cl. 65 pp. 
Maclean (Rev. Jonn, M. A. K- D.). Canadian Sagave Folk 

Toronto, 1896. 8 cl. 641 pp. 
. Indians of Canada, 3rd ea. London, 1892. 12 c 1 

350 pp. 

. James Evans. Toronto, 1890. 12, cl. 208 pp. 
. Warden of the Plains. Toronto, 1896. 12 cl. 301 pp. 



Maclean (Sir John, F. G. A.). History of St. Malyn re Michael- 
ston. Exeter, 1875. 4 cl. 120 pp. 
. Life of Sir Peter Carew. London, 1857. & c ^- 

3*7 PP- 

MacLean (J. P.). Antiquity of Man. 9th ed. Cincinnati, 1887. 
12 cl. 159 pp. 

. Archaeological collection of the Western Reserve His- 
torical Society. Cleveland, 1901. 8 pa. 83 pp. 

. Bibliography of Shaker Literature. Columbus, 1905. 

8 pa. 71 pp. 

. Clan MacLean Association of North America. (St. 

John, N, B.), 1893. 12 cl. 91 pp. 

Early Documents relating to English History. (Bos- 



ton) 1890. Reprint. 8 paper, 10 pp. 

. Evidences of the Chiefship of the Clan-Ghilleain. 

Glasgow, 1895. 8 p. 26 pp. 

. Fingal's Cave. Cincinnati, 1890. 8 cl. 49 pp. 

. Flora MacDonald in America. Lumberton, N. C., 

1909. 8 cl. 87 pp. 

. Gaelic Elements in the Hebrew Language. (Boston.) 

Reprint. 8 pa. 8 pp. 

. History of the Clan MacLean. Cincinnati, 1889. 

8 y 2 lea. 480 pp. 

. Jewish Nature Worship. Cincinnati, 1882. 16 pa. 



22. 

. Journal of Michael Walters. Cleveland, 1899. 8 pa. 

14 pp. 

. Life of Richard McNemar. Franklin, Ohio, 1905. 

8 pa. 67 pp. 

. Mastodon, Mammoth and Man. Cincinnati, 1880. 

12 cl. 84 pp. 



186 MACLEAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

Norse Discovery of America. Chicago, 1892. 8 cl. 

55 PP. 
. On the Kelto-Saxon. (Boston.) Reprint. 1887. 

8 pa. 16 pp. 

. St. John's Gospel, Cincinnati, 1895. 12 cl. 250 pp. 

. Scotch Highlanders in America. Cleveland, 1900. 

8 cl. 459 PP- 

. Study of American Archaeology. In three parts. 

(Boston) 8 pa. 
. The Great Serpent Mound. 8 4 pp. 

. The Kentucky Revival. Columbus, 1903. 8 pa. 45 

pp. 
. The word "Hell" in various languages. (Boston.) 



1887. Reprint. 
MacLean (Kate Seymour). Coming of the Princess. Toronto, 

1881, 12 cl. 175 pp. 
MacLean (Lachlan). Adhamh agus Eubh. Edinburgh, 1837. 

16 | lea. 107 pp. 

. Historical Account of lona. 4th ed. Oban, 1841. 16 

cl. 135 pp. 

. History of the Celtic Language. London, 1840. 12 



cl. 288 pp. 

. Native Steamboat Companion. 2nd ed. Edi 



1845. l6 cl. 218 pp. 
MacLean (Maggie). A Romance of Skye. Edinburgh, 12 

cl. 319 pp. 
MacLean (Magnus, M. A., D. Sc.) Literature of the Celts. 

London, 1906. 8 cl. 400 pp. 

. Lierature of the Highlands. London, 1904. 8 cl 

236. 
MacLean (Norman). Dwellers in the Mist. London, 1902, 12 

cl. 264 pp. 

. Hills of Home. London, 1906, 12 cl. 245 pp. 
MacLean (Dr. W. C). Diseases of Tropical Climates. London, 

1886. 12 cl. 340 pp. 

McClain (John F.). Motherhood. New York, 1912 24 
McClain (W. Thomas). Life of Rev. Matthew McClain. In- 
dianapolis, 1876. 12 cl. 232 pp. 
McLane (Hiram H.). Capture of the Alamo. San Antonio, 

1886. 12 cl. 103 pp. 



MACLEAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. 187 

. Irene Viesca. San Antonio, 1886. 12 cl. 548 pp. 

McLane (William W., Ph. D., D. D.). Evolution in Religion. 

Boston, 1892. 12 cl. 266 pp. 

. The Cross in the Light of Today. Philadelphia, 1883. 

12 cl. 249 pp. 
McLain (Mary W.). Wedding Garments. New York 1875, 12 

cl. 265 pp. 
McLain (John S.). Alaska and the Klondike. New York, 1905, 

12 cl. 330 pp. 
McLain (Robert Baird). Contribution to Neotropical Herpe- 

tology. Wheeling, W. Va>., 1899, 8 pa. 5 pp. 

. Critical Notes on a Collection of Reptiles. Wheeling, 

W. Va., 1899. 8 13 pp. 
. Notes on a Collection of Reptiles. Wheeling, W. Va., 



1899, & pa. 5 pp. 

McLean (Rev. Alexander). East Palestine. Tri-Centenary of 

the Scottish Reformation. Guelph, 1861, 8 pa. 104 pp. 

McLean (Alison). Paul Heriot's Pictures. London, 1895. 12 

cl. 308 pp. 

. Quiet Stones from an Old Woman's Garden, 3rd ed. 

London, 1894. 12 cl. 260 pp. 

McLean (Rev. Archibald). Baptist Minister, Edinburgh. Com- 
mission of Christ to His Apostles, Cincinnati, 1848. 12 

cl. 190 pp. 

. Miscellaneous Works.. 6 vols. Elgin, 184718 12 cl. 
McLean (Rev. Daniel, minister Lanark). The Gospel in the 

Psalms. Edinburgh, 1875. 12 cl. 326 pp. 
McLean (Henry Albert). Some Points on the Law of Wills 

in Washington, 2nd ed. Seattle. 16 pa. 7 pp. 

. The Commonwealth. Seattle, 1907. 16 pa. 8 pp. 
McLean (J. Albert). Knights of Pythias, Oblong, n pp. 
McLean (John), Twenty-five Years' Service in the Hudson Bay 

Territory. 2 vols. London, 1849. 12 cl. 
McLean (John J.). The McLean Family. Elmira. 12 pa. 
McLean (Norman). Ecclesiastical History of Emblems in 

Syriac. Cambridge, 1898. 8 cl. 418 pp. 
McLean (William). Minister of Penningham. Under the 

Shadow. Edinburgh, 1881. 12 cl. 364 pp. 
McLean. Echoes from Japan. London, 1889. 12 cl. 



188 MACLEAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

Pattison (Thomas). Gaelic Bards. 2nd ed. Glasgow, 1890. 

12 cl. 278 pp. 

. Twelve Gaelic Songs. Glasgow. 4 cl. 29 pp. 

Seneachie. Account of the Clan Maclean. London, 1838. 8 

cl. 358 pp. 
Sinclair (Rev. A. Maclean). Clan Gillean. Charlottetown, 1899 

8 cl. 529 pp. 

. Clarsach na-Coille. Glasgow, 1881, 12 cl. 345 pp. 
. lain-Mac-Gillean's Dain Spioradail. Edinburgh, 1880. 

1 6 cl. 204 pp. 
. Letters on the Anglo Israel Folly, by A. Malachi, 1880. 

8 pa. 
-. Maclean Bards, 2 vols. Charlottetown, 1898-1900. 



16 16. 
. Peoples and Languages. Charlottetown, 1894. 16 cl. 

255 PP- 
Story of Mary Mac Lane, by herself. Chicago, 1902. 12 cl. 

322 pp. 
Whyte (Henry). The Rankins. Glasgow, 1907. 12 pa. 15 

pp. 
Wister (Owen) Lin McLean. New York, 1902. 12 cl. 278 pp. 



A List Known To, But Not Owned. 

Clarke (Adam). Baxter's Christian Directory, 1804; Biblio- 
graphical Dictionary, 6 vols.; Clavis Biblica, 1820; Com- 
mentary, 1810-26, same, 1851 ; Fleury's Manners of the Is- 
raelities, 1805; Foedera, 2 vols, 1818; Harmer's Observa- 
tions, 1816; Illness and Death of Richard Porson; Memories 
of the Wesley Family; Reflexions, 1804; Shuckford's Con- 
nexeon, 1803; The Eucharist, 1808; Use and Abuse of 
Tobacco, 1797. 

Etheridge's Life of Adam Clarke; Everett's Adam Clarke Por- 
trayed; Rev. Samuel Dunn's Life of Adam Clarke. 

Fraser, Alexander, LL. D. : Elementary Lessons in Gaelic Gram- 
mar, 1893; Ca nain agus Clin ar Sinnsear, 1896; History of 
Ontario 4, 1907; History of the Forty-eighth Highlanders of 
Toronto 4, 1900; History of Toronto, 4 1898; Machraich- 
ean Mara Chandado, 1906; Nation Building: The Mission 



MACLEAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. 189 

of the Scot in Canada, 1898; Official Guide Book to Toronto, 
1900; Ontario Archives, 1903-04-05-06-08-09-10-11; Scottish 
Canadian Sketches, 1902; The Clan Fraser in Canada, 
1895 ; The Gael in Canada, 1899; The Lost Laird of McNab, 
1899; Monographs on: Scott; Burns; History of Art in 
Scotland; The Hcme District 1792-1820; The Western Dis- 
trict, 1763-1800; Historical Sources Quebec; Mediaeval 
Europe Hildebrand ; The Celtic Church Xinian, or Co- 
lumbia ; Piolemy's Map of Great Britain. 

McClain (Emlin). Address on History of Law, 1904; Annota- 
tions for the Code of Iowa, 1897, with supplements of 1902 
and 1907; Cases on Constitutional Law, 2nd ed. 1909, 1297 
pp.; Cases of the Law of Carriers, 2nd ed. 1896, 744 pp.; 
Criminal Law, 3 vols. 1897, 1500 pp.; New Iowa Digest, 4 
vols. 1908, 4839 pp. 

Maclaine (Archibald). Discourses delivered at the Hague, 1779, 
8 ; Letters to Soame Jengus, London, 1777, 12 ; Sermons, 
1793, 4; Sermons, 1797; 6 Sermons, 1797, 4. 

Mac Lean (Alexander). Penuel ; or, Face to Face with God. 

Mac Lean (Alexander). The More Priests, the More Crime. 
Toronto, 1854. 

MacLean (Arthur John). Juvenal and Persons, London, 12; 
Works of Horace, 1857; Selections from Herrick, 1848; 
Prayers for Schools and Families, 1849 8. 

Maclean (Arthur John, bishop of Moray, Ross and Caith- 
ness). Ancient church orders. Cambridge, 1910. 8 181 
pp.; Dictionary of Vernacular Syriac, Oxford, 1901. 4 
334 pp. ; East Syrian Daily Officer. London, 1894. 8 
334 pp. ; East Syrian Epiphany Rites. Oxford, 1905. 8 
536 pp.; East Syrian Literary (in Syriac). London, 1890. 
4 39 2 PP- ; East Syrian Litany (in Syriac). London, 1889. 
8 18 pp.; Grammar of classical and vernacular Syriac (in 
Syriac). London, 1890 8 178 pp.; Recent Discoveries Il- 
lustrating Early Christian Life and Worship, 1904. 8 136 
pp. ; Testament of our Lord on Early Church Order. Edin- 
burgh, 1901. 283 pp. 

MacLean (A. T.). Oran, and other Poems. London, 1857.. 
12. 

Mac Lean (C). Evils of Quarantine Laws. 



190 MACLEAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

Maclean (Charles). Dunkeld : its straths and Glens. Dunk eld, 
1879. 8. 

Maclean (Charles, M. D.). Medical and Political Works, Cal- 
cutta, 1797-1817. 

Maclean (C. H.). Reports of Cases in House of Lords, 1839- 
40. London, 1840. 8. 

Maclean (Lieut. E. E.). Translation of Jomini's Summary of 
the Art of War. New York, 1854. 18. 

MacLean (George X.). Rise and Fall of Anarchy; The Curtain 
Lifted. 

MacLean (G. M., M. D.). Elements of Somatology. New York, 
1860. 

Mac Lean (Hector, M. D.). Mortality among the Troops of St. 
Domingo, London, 1797. 8. 

McLean ( James, minister of Urquhart). Practical Discourses. 
1838. 8. 

MacLean James, concerning: A Genuine Account of the 
Life and Activities of; Allen's Account of the Behavior of, 
1750; Complete History of 1750; M-c L-n's Cabinet Broken 
Open, 1750. 

MacLean (J. Flora). Anecdotes of Pet Animals; The Patmos 
Exile. 

Mac Lean (Rev. Dr. John). Lone Land Lights, 1882; The 
Methodist Annual, 1885. 

Maclean (John, D. D., LL. D.). History of the College of New 
Jersey, 2 vols. Philadelphia, 1877, 8. 

MacLean (Sir John). Letters from George, Lord Carew, to Sir 
Thomas Roe. London, 1860, 4 ; Letters from Sir Robert 
Cecil, to Sir George Carew. London, 1864, 4 ; History of 
the Deanery of Trigg Mines, London, 1868-79, 3 vols. 4 ; 
Life of Sir Thomas Seymour. London, 1869 4 ; The 
Berkeley Manuscripts. Gloucester, 1883-84. 2 vols. ; Memo- 
ries of the Family of Poyntz, Exeter, 1886, 8; Visitation of 
the County of Gloucester. London, 1885, 8. 

Maclean (John). Reports of cases in the Circuit Court of the 
United States, for the Seventh District. 2 vols. Cincinnati, 
1840-43; Eulogy on James Monroe', 1831; Occasional Ad- 
dresses. 



MACLEAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. 191 

Maclean (John S.). The Machine Company's Suits and Collec- 
tions. Canton, O., 1888, 12. 

Maclean (J. H.). Remarks on Fair Prices and Produce 
Rents. Edinburgh, 1825, 8. 

Maclean (J. L.) The British Railway System. London, 1884, 8. 

Maclean (Kate). The Oak and the Pearl. London, 1880, 12. 

Maclean (Lachlan). Sketches of St. Kilda, 1838; On Etiquette. 

Maclean (L., M. D.). Nature, Causes and Cure of Hydrothorax. 
1809, 8 ; Digitalis as a Remedy for Pulmonary Consump- 
tion. 1799. 

Maclean (Mrs. Letitia E. Landon). Fate of Adelerate, 1821 ; The 
Improvisature, 1824; The Troubadour, 1825; The Golden 
Violet, 1827; The Venetian Bracelet, 1829; Romance and 
Reality, 1831; Francisca Carrara, 1834; Castruccio Castra- 
cani, 1837; The Vow of the Peacock, 1875 ; Traits and Trials 
of Early Life, 1826; Ettrel Churchill, 1837; The Zenova, 
1839; Lady Gronard, 1842; Collected Editions, Philadelphia, 
1850; London, 1873. Blanchard's Life and Remains of. 1841. 

Maclean (Magnus, Ph. D., D. Sc.). Electricity and Its Practical 
Applications, 1912; Modern Electric Practice. 6 vols. 2nd ed. 
1911. 

Maclean (Neil). Complaint to the House of Commons, 8. 

Maclean (Neil N.) Life at a Northern University. Glasgow, 1874. 
8. 

MacLean (R.). Illustrations of Teething. 

Maclean (Rev. Donald). Literature of the Scottish Gael. 8 
cl. 1913. 

McLean (Alison). A Holiday in the Austrian Tyrol. 

McLain (Mary W.). Bearing our Burdens, Boston, 16 ; 
Broken Idols, Boston, 16 ; Daisy Ward's Work, Boston, 
16; Jeannie Darley, Boston, 16 ; Lifting the Veil, New 
York, 1873, 12; Keeping Open House, New York, 1873, 

12. 

Sinclair (Rev. A. Maclean). The Sinclairs of Roslin, etc. 

Watt (Rev. L. Maclean, B. D.). Alloa and Tulledbodg, cl. 
1903; Attic and Elizabethan Tragedy, cl. 1908; By Still 
Waters, Edinburgh, 1904 cl. ; Carlyle, Edinburgh, 1912, cl. ; 
Edrazie, 1745, 1907 cl. ; God's Altar Stairs, Aberdeen, 1899, 



192 MACLEAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

cl. ; History of Britain, Edinburgh, 1911, cl. ; In Doves' Gar- 
den. 1901, cl. ; In Poets' Corner. 1910 cl. ; Literature and 
Life. Edinburgh, 1912, cl. ; Metrical Psalms. 1906, cl. ; 
Moran of Kildally. 1909, cl. ; Oscar, Edinburgh, 1911, cl. ; 
Scottish Life and Poetry. 1912, .cl.; Smith's summer in 
Skye. 1907, cl. ; Stowe's Drecl. 1907, cl. ; The Communion 
Table. 1903, cl. ; The Gates of Prayer. 1912, cl. ; The 
Grey Mother and Songs of Empire. 1903, cl. ; The House 
of Sands, 1912, cl. ; The Minister's Manual. 1912, cl. ; The 
Tryst. 1907, cl. 




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LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 

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LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 



It is a matter of comity that those who made this publication pos- 
sible should be recognized. After all it is the advanced subscriber who 
exhibits his special interest. The great list of names that follows proves 
the interest taken by the clansmen in the welfare of the Clan. Thanks 
are now extended to them. 



America, Canada. 

Cameron, Duncan, West Edmonton, Alberta. 

Cameron, Mrs. John M., Shoal Lake, Mont. 

Macdonnell, A. Maclean, K. C, 65 Yonge St., Toronto. 

MacKay, A. H., LL. D., Education Office, Halifax, N. S. 

MacLean, James O., 725 Farmers Bank Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

MacLean, D. J., 1012 7th Ave., N., Seattle, Wash. 

McLean, T. G., Carpuiteria, Calif. 

McLean, P. H., R. D. 22, Denver, Ind. 

Macphail, Alex. W., Bookseller, 10 St. Giles, Edinburgh, (5 copies). 

MacLean, A., M. D., Sarnia, Ont. 

MacLean, Alexander, Beachburg, Ont. 

MacLean, Alexander Mackenzie, Pembroke, Ont. (2 copies). 

MacLean, Allan L., 479 McDermot Ave., Winnipeg, Man. 

Maclean, A. M., Beachburg, Ont. 

Maclean, Archibald, 518 Wilmer Road, Saskatoon. 

MacLean, A. S., Agent Division Lands, Grande Prairie, Albt. 

Maclean, Colonel John Bayne, 143 University Ave., Toronto. (5 copies). 

MacLean, C. W., 525 St. Paul St., Montreal. (3 copies). 

MacLean, D. E., Inverness, B. C., N. S. 

MacLean, D. M., 2409 Out. St., Mt. Pleasant, Vancouver. 

MacLean, Donald J., Massey Station, Ont. 

MacLean, D. R. C, Barrister, 301 McArthur Building, Winnipeg. 

MacLean, Gillian C., 72 Sparks St., Ottawa, (3 copies). 

MacLean, Godwin Valentine, M. A., Box 328, Grimsby, Ont. 

MacLean, H., Glen Annan, Ont. 

Maclean, Henry Gray, Box 563, Amherst, N. S. 

MacLean, H. N., 81 Belvidere, Sherbrooke, Que., (2 copies). 

MacLean, Hon. A. K., M. P., 18 Kent St., Halifax, N. S. 

MacLean, Hugh, M. D., Lang, Sask., (2 copies). 

MacLean, Hugh C, 220 King Street, West, Toronto, (3 copies). 

Maclean, J. M., Union Bank, Ogema, Sask. 

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196 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 

MacLean, John, Grain Exchange Building, Winnipeg. 

MacLean, John C, Beachburg, Ont. 

MacLean, John D., Beachburg, Ont. 

MacLean, John G., Sr., Beachburg, Ont. 

MacLean, J. W., Whycocomagh, N. S. 

MacLean, Miss Mary, Massey Station, Ont., (2 copies). 

MacLean, M. Mach., 767 McMillan Ave., Winnipeg. 

Maclean, Mrs. Elizabeth T., 23 Rowland Ave., Toronto. 

MacLean, Mrs. Kate Seymour, 437 St. Clemens Ave., Toronto. 

MacLean, Mrs. Margaret A., 883 Broughton St., Vancouver. 

Maclean, Rev. A., M. A., D. D., Eureka, N. S. 

MacLean, Rev. Alexander, Redvers, Sask. 

Maclean, Rev. J. B., Huntingdon, Que. 

MacLean, Rev. L. H., M. A., Picton, N. S. 

Maclean, Wallace, 62 St. Mary St., Toronto. 

Maclean, Hon. W. R, M. P., The Toronto World, Toronto, (4 copies). 

McLaine, F. W., Mayor, Greenwood, B. C. 

McLean, A. A., M. P., House of Commons, Charlottetown, P. E. I. 

McLean, A. J., Steelton, Ont. 

McLean, Alexander Neil, Lumber Merchant, Windsor. 

McLean, Angus, 24 The Linton Apts., Montreal, (6 copies). 

McLean, Archibald, 637 William Ave., Winnipeg. 

McLean, Colonel Hugh H., M. P.. Barrister, St. John, N. B. 

McLean, Donald, 155 Carling St., London, Ont. 

McLean, Donald, Sr., Beachburg, Ont. 

McLean, E. M., 77 Dundas St., London, Ont. 

McLean, F. W., 211 Madison Ave., Toronto. 

McLean, Geo., 84 St. Cross St., Winnipeg. 

McLean, Hugh, Benduart, Cor. Matthews & Cypress Sts., Vancouver. 

(2 copies). 

McLean, James A., Bridgewater, N. S. 
McLean, J. H., 274 Fifth Ave., East, Vancouver. 
McLean, J. W., 315 Somerset St., Ottawa. 
McLean, Rev. A. S., Clear Creek, Ont. 
McLean, Rev. J. A., Mahone Bay, N. S. 
McLean, Rev. J. C., Summerside, P. E. I. 
McLean, R. F., 263 Boyd Ave., Winnipeg, (4 copies). 
McLean, R. Gordon, D. D. S., 57 Highland Ave., North Rosedale, Toronto, 

(2 copies). 

McLean, Robert. Craik, Bell Bert Apts., George St., Toronto. 
McLean, William, Collingwood, Ont. 

McLean, W. J., Retired Officer Hudson Bay Co., 276 Furby St., Winnipeg. 
McMurchy, Robt. D., Barrister, Regina, Sask., (2 copies). 
Poaps, J. V., 760 Connor St., Ottawa. 
Robertson, John, care Messrs. McCraney, MacKenzie, Hutchinson & Rose, 

Saskatoon, Sask. 
Simpson, Dulcia MacLean, 594 O'Connor St., Ottawa, Ont. 



LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 197 

Street, Mrs. Alonzo, Toronto. 

Stutt, Mrs. L. J., 200 Beverley St., Toronto, (2 copies). 

The Public Library, Toronto, Ontario. 

America, United States. 

Baker, Joseph McLean, Hillsboro, 111. 

Barr, C. H., Bookseller, Lancaster, Pa. 

Bedford, Mrs. Hugh L., Bailey, Tenn. 

Buckingham, Mrs. John A., Watertown, Conn. (2 copies). 

Bundy, R. E., Menomonie, Wis. 

Dearth, Earl, R. D. No. 3, Franklin, Ohio. 

Dewart, Franklin, H., 238 College Hill St., Burlington, Vt., (4 copies). 

Dewart, F. W., Attorney, 804 Old Nat'l. Bank Bldg., Spokane, Wash. 

Dewart, James, 601 West 138th St., New York City, (2 copies). 

Dewart, Rev. William H., Christ Church, Hyde Park, Boston, Mass. 

Dewart, Robert, 41 Alliance Ave., Rochester, N. Y. 

Dewart, W. T., The Frank Munsey Co., 175 Fifth Ave., New York City, 

(2 copies). 

Donalson, L. B., 184 Clifford St., Detroit, Mich. 
Donnell, Arthur M., Edgewater, Colo. 

Geyer, Mrs. Cornelia McLean, 410 E. 2nd St., Hastings, Neb. 
Glasgow, R., Claremore, Okla. 
Greene, Hector McLean, Wilmington, N. C. 

Hall, Charles C, 2425 Hillside Ave., Berkeley, Calif., (4 copies). 
Hall, Francis, 411 Garfield Ave., Syracuse, N. Y. 
Hall, Mrs. Robert A., 315 W. Church St., Elmira, N. Y., (4 copies). 
Hardy, Mrs. Mary McLean, 2442 Hilgard Ave., Berkeley, Calif. 
Hawkins, Mrs. J. A., 38 N. Fountain St., Cape Girardeau, Mo. 
Jacol, Donald McLean, Kinder, La., (2 copies). 
Jarmon, Mrs. Fannie McLean, Wartrace, Tenn. 
Jones, Miss Flora MacLean, La Rue, O., (2 copies). 
Jones, Mrs. Margaret MacLean, La Rue, O., (5 copies). 
Kress, Mrs. Idabelle S., 60 East 179th St., New York City. 
Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. 
MacLean, A. D., 543 Forest Ave., Wood fords, Me. 
MacLean, Andrew, 512 Oriental Block, Seattle, Wash. 
MacLean, A. R., State School for Boys, South Portland, Me. 
MacLean Arthur, W., 506 Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass. 
MacLean, B. G., 691 18th St., Detroit, Mich., (2 copies). 
MacLean, Charles F., 2122 Fifth Ave., New York City, (2 copies). 
MacLean, Charles J., R. D. 26, Kent's Hill, Me. 
MacLean, D., P. O. Box 147, Durango, Colo., (2 copies). 
MacLean, D., M. D., 948 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. 
MacLean, Daniel, 29 West 128th St., New York City. 
MacLean, Donald, 3936 Congress St., Chicago, 111. 
MacLean, Edgar L., 1005 Covington St., Youngstown, O. 
MacLean, Eugene H., Editorial Staff, Daily Press, Cleveland, O. 



198 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 

MacLean, Frank, 2100 Elm St., Butte, Mont., (2 copies). 

MacLean, H., Foot of Meldum Ave., Detroit, Mich. 

MacLean, James S., 1046 West 1st St., Oil City, Pa. 

MacLean, John Allen, 80 Collingwood Ave., Detroit, Mich. 

MacLean, John R., Auburndale, Mass. 

MacLean, John R., 1500 Eye St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 

MacLean, Juan C., Prest. McLean School, 624 South Michigan Ave., 

Chicago, 111., (2 copies). 

MacLean, Lauchlin, 15 Stevens St., Spokane, Wash., (2 copies). 
MacLean, Malcolm, St. Morrison, Colo. 

MacLean, Marvin, 938 So. Arnsworth Ave., Tacoma, Wash., (2 copies). 
MacLean, M. H., 5436 East End Ave., Chicago, 111. 
MacLean, Milber M., Care Dodge Mfg. Co., Mishawaka, Ind. 
MacLean, Miss Annie M., 4846 Rosewood Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. 
MacLean, Miss Isabel, 1133 Ainslie St., Chicago, 111. (3 copies). 
MacLean, Miss Lyell, 1528 Lakewood Ave., Cleveland, O. 
MacLean, Mrs. Caroline, 1528 Lakewood Ave., Cleveland, O. 
MacLean, N. E., 1009 Shreve Bldg., San Francisco, Calif. 
MacLean, Robert Agnew, 318 74th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
MacLean, Robert J., Manager Chamber of Commerce, Wilmington, Del., 

(10 copies). 

MacLean, Roy, 185 Sheridan Ave., Detroit, Mich. 
Maclean, The Misses, 73 Alexander St., Princeton, N. J. 
MacLean, Thos. B., care Balfour, Guthrie & Co., P. O. Box 1907, Seattle, 

Wash. 

MacLean, W. J., 1 Chatham Apartments, Duluth, Minn. 
MacLean, Wm. H., Attorney, 619 Ger. Ins. Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. 
MacLean, Wm. J., 812 Penn Square Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. 
McCaliferty, Mrs. W. M., Cartersville, Ga. 
McClain, A. E., Greenfield, O. 
McClain, Amos, 250 Ellis Ave., Wichita, Kans. 
McClain, Alfred, 3364 Archer Ave., Chicago, 111. 
McClain, E. L., Greenfield, Ohio. 
McClain, E. L., Jr., Hood River, Ore. 

McClain, Charles W., care White Hall Hotel, 107 & Euclid, Cleveland, O. 
McClain, C. S., M. D., Route 8, Box 9, Springfield, Mo. 
McClain, Frederick, 305 South Fairmount St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
McClain, Hon. Emlin, Judge Supreme Court, Iowa City, Iowa. 
McClain, Hoyt N., 258 Ridge Ave., Winnetka, 111. 
McClain, John F., Vice Prest. Remington Typewriter Co., 327 Broadway, 

New York City, (16 copies). 
McClain, L. G., Morgantown, W. Va. 

McClain, Rev. Josiah, 148 Elaine Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah. 
McClain, Robert A., 646 Bryson St., Youngstown, O. 
McClain, W. H., 422 Oakwood Ave., Pittsburgh Pa 
McClain, W. G., Bellaire, O. 

McClane, Frank Elmer, M. D., Oscala, Marion Co., Fla., (5 copies). 
McClane, Miss May, 601 West High St., Mt. Vernon, O., (3 copies). 



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McClane, Miss Mary C, 1811 Ranstead St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

McClean, H. J, 1403 Elm Ave., Longbeach, Calif. 

McClean, Miss Clara, 204 Hancock Ave. E., Detroit, Mich. 

McClean, Rev. Peter H., St. Mary's Rectory, Milford, Conn. 

McCord, Mrs. Emily Donnell, 1414 S. Carson Ave., Tulsa, Okla. 

McLain, A. O., 4515 Ellis Ave., Chicago, 111. 

McLain, David, 800 Goldsmith Bldg., Milwaukee, Wis. 

McLain, John C., Rices Landing, Pa. 

McLain, John F., Olympic Club, San Francisco, Calif. 

McLain, John S., 487 Ashland Ave., St. Paul, Minn. 

McLain, Robert B., Druggist, Cor. Market & 12th Sts., Wheeling, W. Va., 

(4 copies). 

McLane, Cyrus D., 3025 10th Ave., Rock Island, 111. 
McLane, Daniel, 3529 Third Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minn. 
McLane, Frederic A., Holyoke, Mass., (2 copies). 
McLane, Geo. M., 1210 Gilbert Ave., Latonia Station, Covington, Ky. 
McLane, G. R., 26 Broadway, New York City. 
McLane, Mrs. John, Milford, N. H. 
McLean, A. C., 459 East State Ave., Sharon, Pa. 
McLean, A. H., 205^ E. Washington St., Springfield, 111. 
McLean, A. K., Supt. Portland Cordage Co., 1515 10th Ave. W., Seattle, 

Wash. 

McLean, Alexander, 2040 13th Ave., W. Seattle, Wash. 
McLean, Alexander, 111 King, Springfield, Mass. 
McLean, Alexander E., 846 S. George St., York, Pa. 
McLean, Allen Donald, P. Asst. Surgeon, U. S. Navy, 42 The Toronto, 

Washington, D. C. 

McLean, Andrew, 111 Passaic Ave., Passaic, N. J., (2 copies). 
McLean, Angus, 19 Martin Place, Detroit, Mich., (2 copies). 
McLean, Arthur A., Jr., 17 Battery Place, New York City, (2 copies). 
McLean, Arthur E., The Hillhurst, Norfolk, Conn. 
McLean, Captain Burdge P., Huntington, L. I., N. Y., (6 copies). 
McLean, C. B., Lincoln National Bank, Pittsburgh, Pa., (10 copies). 
McLean, C. G., Gallatin, Tenn. 
McLean, C. S., Danbury, Conn. 
McLean, Darius, 156 Myrtle St., Detroit, Mich. 
McLean, David, Danbury, Conn. 

McLean, Donald, Attorney, 27 Williams St., New York City, (2 copies). 
McLean, Durant, Prest, Durant McLean Typewriter Co., 1428 Pacific St., 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 

McLean, Frank, People's National Bank, Hillsboro, 111. 
McLean, G. C., Raymond, 111. 

McLean, George D., 116 E. Section St., Mt. Vernon, Wash. 
McLean, George Hammond, Metropolitan Club, Fifth Ave. & 60th St., 

New York City, (3 copies). 
McLean, George J., Wellsville, O. 

McLean, George M., 1098 S. Fourth E., Salt Lake City, Utah. 
McLean, Guy Marshall, 40 Arcade Bldg., Pullman, 111. 



200 L IST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 

McLean, H. B., 42 Douglas Road, Glen Ridge, N. J. 

McLean, Henry A., 664 Empire Bldg., Seattle, Wash. 

McLean, Henry C, Red Bank, N. J. 

McLean, H. H., Mgr. Hotel Del Prado, Chicago, 111. 

McLean, Hon. Angus Wilton, Attorney, Lumberton, N. C., (10 copies). 

McLean, Hon. Charles Forest, 3143 Calumet Ave., Chicago, 111. 

McLean, Hon. George P., U. S. Senator, Simsbury, Conn., (2 copies). 

McLean, H. N. A., M. D., 805 Kercheval Ave., Detroit, Mich. 

McLean, Hugh, 445 Grandry St., North Tonawanda, N. Y. 

McLean, Hugh, 572 Auburn Ave., Buffalo, N. Y., (2 copies). 

McLean, Hugh D., 912 Harvard St., Monongahela, Pa. 

McLean, Ivory Donald, 46 Bay State Ave., Somerset, Mass. 

McLean, James E., 24 Princeton St., Springfield, Mass. 

McLean, James N., 107 W. Quartz St., Butte, Mont., (2 copies). 

McLean, James P., Menomonie, Wis. 

McLean, J. B., 442 West Kansas Ave., Pittsburg, Kans. 

McLean, J. B., West Alexandria, O. 

McLean, J. C, 33 Union Square, Somersville, Mass., (2 copies). 

McLean, J. D., Red Springs, N. C. 

McLean, John, 933 12th Ave., N., Seattle, Wash. 

McLean, John, 623 E. lllth St., Chicago, 111. 

McLean, John C, 1109 St. Clair St., Port Huron, Mich. 

McLean, John H., 302 16th Ave., East, Duluth, Minn. 

McLean, John T., Elgin, 111., (2 copies). 

McLean, J. W., 412 Y. M. C. A., Duluth, Minn. 

McLean, Malcolm, M. D., 29 East 126th St., New York City. 

McLean, Martin, 406 Custom House, Portland, Ore. 

McLean, Miss Addie L., 337 Augusta Ave., De Kalb, 111. 

McLean, Miss Bessie C, 1223 Vermont Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. 

McLean, Miss Ellen, Hotel Gotham, 5th Ave. & 55th St., New York City. 

McLean, Miss Elvira, 547 S. Geyer Road, Kirkwood, Mo. 

McLean, Miss Fannie W., 1829 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, Calif. 

McLean, Miss Matilda, 265 Hicks St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

McLean, Mrs. Alexander, 583 N. Boyleston, Los Angeles, Calif., (2 

copies). 

McLean, Mrs. J. M., Lewisburg, Tenn. 
McLean, Mrs. Ward, 205 Macon St., Brooklyn, N.. Y. 
McLean, Myron H., U. S. Customs, Seattle, Wash. 
McLean, North, 58 Central Ave., Thompkinsville, N. Y. 
McLean, Rev. Charles C, A. M., D. D., 1311 Vernon St., Harrisburg, Pa. 
McLean, Rev. John Knox, D. D., 2727 Channing Way, Berkeley, Calif. 
McLean, Robert, 98 Deer Hill Ave., Danbury, Conn. 
McLean. Robert, 801 North Graham St., Charlotte, N. C. 
McLean, Robert A., M. D., Ill Ellis St., San Francisco, Calif., (2 

copies). 

McLean, S. A., Mountainville, N. Y., (2 copies). 
McLean, S. F., 583 N. Boylston St., Los Angeles, Calif. 
McLean, T. D., 400 Colman Bldg., Seattle, Wash. 



LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 201 

McLean, T. J., Fosterville, Term. 

McLean, Walter, 3111 Center Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

McLean, Walter B.. care The R. Moore Co., Memphis, Tenn. 

McLean, Walter L., 1425 59th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

McLean, W. G., Waterville, N. Y. 

McLean, William, Druggist, Albion, Neb. 

McLean, William, 277 South 4th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

McLean, William, M. D, 391 West End Ave., New York City. 

McLean, Wiliam C, 2705 Hamilton St., Omaha, Neb. 

McLean, William C. and Mrs. McLean, Menomonie, Wis., (6 copies). 

McLean, William S., Attorney, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., (3 copies). 

McLean, William W., Fosterville, Tenn., (5 copies). 

McLean, W. L., Proprietor Evening Bulletin, 207 Bulletin Bldg., Phil- 
adelphia, Pa., (5 copies). 

McLeod, Rev. William A., Ennis, Tex. 

McNeill, J. P., Attorney, Florence, S. C. 

McWhorter, L. V., North Yakima, Wash. 

Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minn. 

Morrison, Noah Farnham, Bookseller, Elizabeth, N. J., (5 copies). 

Numan, Miss Nellie C., 404 N. Walnut St., Canton, O., (2 copies). 

Numan, Mrs. Christie MacLean, 404 N. Walnut St., Canton, O., (5 copies). 

Public Library, Syracuse, N. Y. 

Rankin, Miss E. C., 2107 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, Calif. 

Smith, Mrs, Mary Reid, 1181 Centre St., Newton Centre, Mass. 

Smyth, Mrs. Ella M., 1414 S. Carson St., Tulsa, Okla., (2 copies). 

Souza, Mrs. Elizabeth MacLean, Huron Road Hospital, Cleveland, O. 

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 

The New York Historical Society, 170 Central Park, New York City. 

The Western Reserve Historical Society, 107th & Euclid, Cleveland, O. 

Volty, Mrs. Elizabeth McLean, 500 Richmond Ave., Buffalo, N. Y., (4 
copies). 

Watson, Miss Ella, 78 Pomeroy Terrace, Northampton, Mass., (2 copies). 

Wheeler, Mrs. George N., 1476 Columbine, Denver, Colo. 

Whitehead, Mrs. Elizabeth, 231 Tillson Place, Hillsboro, 111. 

Whitman, Miss Mildred E., P. O. Box 112, Yerington, Nev. 

Wilkinson, Mrs. Henry W., 168 Bowen St., Providence, R. I., (3 copies). 

Wishart, Kenneth MacLean, 3650 Shaw Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 

Xenia Art Engraving Co., Xenia, O. 

Europe, England. 

Botfield, Mrs. Garnet, The Hut, Bishop's Castle, Shropshire. 
Campbell, The Hon. Niall D., 28 Charges St., Mayfair, London, W. 
Eaton, E., Meadowside, Roxboro Park, Harrow, Middlesex. 
Forster, Mrs. (Dochgarroch), Lake Bank, Hawkshead, Ambleside. 
Hamilton-Dundas, Mrs., (Maclean of Coll,) Duddington, Torquay, (4 

copies). 
Head, Mrs. Frederick, Little Afric, Great Messender, Bucks. 



202 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 

Hood, Lady, of Avalon, 192 Queen Gate Place, London, (2 copies). 

Jones,' Miss A. Gregory, 10 Rupert Lane, Liverpool, (2 copies). 

Lenders, Mrs. Francis H., 1 Sunnyside, The Ridgeway, Wimbledon Com- 
mon, London. 

Llangattock, Lady, The Hendre, Monmouth, (2 copies). 

Maclean of Doward, Colonel Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean, Bart., K. C. B. 
D. L., Chief of Clan Gillean, 15 Hyde Park Terrace, London, (12 
copies). 

Maclean, of Crosspol (Hector A. C. Maclean,) Colla Beag, Harlington, 
Middlesex. 

Maclean of Dochgarroch, (Rev. Allan M. Maclean,) The Rectory, Gray- 
stoke, Cumberland, (4 copies). 

Maclean, A. Fraser, 30 Salesbury Road, Warrengray, London, N. 

MacLean, A. H., 4 George Yard, Lombard St., London, E. C. 

MacLean, Archibald, Jr., 14 Totnes Road, Charlton Cum Hardy. 

Maclean, Captain W. H., Duart, Eaton Road, Burkenhead. 

MacLean, Captain William, 26 Bellemvor Road, Southampton. 

Maclean, Colonel Fitzroy B., (Drimnin), Lyncombe, Bath, (2 copies). 

Maclean, Colonel J. R. Howard, Aston Hall, Shipnal, Salop (2 copies). 

Maclean, Donald, M. P., 42 Seymour Street, London, W., (2 copies). 

Maclean, Ewen, Jr., M. D., 12 Park Place, Cardiff, (4 copies). 

Maclean, Henry of Lazonby Hall, Tettenhall, Branksome Park, Bourne- 
mouth. 

Maclean, Ivan, M. D., 28 Hill St., Knightsbridge, London, S. W. 

Maclean, J. N., M. B., 232 Balkam, High Road, Upper Tooting, London, 
S. W. 

Maclean, Kaid Sir Harry, K. C. M. G., (Drimnin), Abercorn, Richmond, 
Surrey & Drimnin, Tangier, Morroco, (5 copies). 

Maclean, Lieut. Charles L., (Duart), West Cliffe House, Folkstone. 

Maclean, Major General Henry J. (Ardgour), 24 Hayne Road, Beeken- 
ham, Kent. 

Maclean, Major Hector F., Yr. of Duart, Scots Guards, 9 Gerald Road, 
Chester Square, London, S. W., (8 copies). 

Maclean, Miss Adeline, Sundial Plain, Worplendon, Surrey. 

MacLean, Miss Edith M., Whitelands St. John's Road, Leceister. 

Maclean, Miss Frances Margaret, 7 Onslow Place, London, S. W. 

Maclean, Miss Margaret, 26 Earl Street, Liverpool. 

Maclean, Montague, Caradac Court, Ross on Wye. 

Maclean, Mrs. Hector F., Yr. of Duart, 9 Gerald Road, Chester Square, 
London, S. W., (2 copies). 

MacLean, N. C, 36 Overend Road, Highgate, London. 

Maclean, Rev. Canon Douglas, Codford, St. Peter's Rectory, Wiltshire. 

MacLean, Rev. G., Jervis Lodge, Swanmore Bishops, Waltham Hants. 

Maclean, Rev. Hector, Dochgarroch, The Rectory, Watermillock, Penrith, 
Cumberland, (2 copies). 

MacLean, Robert A., 46 Cromwell Road, Hove, Sussex. 

MacLean, T. L., 261 Queen's Road, Peckham, London. 

MacLean, William, Lochbuie, Harrogate. 



LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 203 

MacLean, William, 82 Beaconsfield Villas, Brighton. 
McLean, Joseph Thomas, 32 South Everard St., King's Lynn, Norfolk. 
McLean, McD. K., (of Waco, Texas), Christ Church, Oxford, (3 copies). 
McLean, Robert A., J. P., F. R. G. S., 1 Queen Victoria Street, London, 

E. C. 

Nevill, The Hon. Mrs. Berling Manor, Maidstone, (6 copies). 
Seumas, Chief of Clann Fhearghuis, George Hotel, Southport Lanes. 
Simpson, Mrs. Cordy, of Duart, Hope Court, Crowborough, Surrey. 
Shelley, The Hon. Lady, Avington Park, Alresford, Hants. 

Europe, Scotland. 

Baillie, Mrs., 12 Clifford St., Ibrox, Glasgow. 

Benzies, James, 44 Kerr St., Pollockshields, Glasgow. 

Black, Miss Margaret Maclean, Killearn House, Killearn, Sterlingshire, 

(3 copies). 

Brown, D. Campbell, Bank of Scotland, Oban, Argyleshire, (2 copies). 
Buckley, G. A. Maclean, Esq., of Shuna, Argyleshire, (4 copies). 
Burnet, John J., LL. D., A. R. A., 70 University Avenue, Glasgow, (2 

copies). 

Campbell, J. MacMaster, Sheriff Substitute, Campbelton, Argyleshire. 
Campbell, Lord Archibald, Ruadh na Craig, Inverary, Argyleshire. 
Cay, Mrs. C. B., Carsaig, Isle of Mull, (4 copies). 
Cluny Macpherson, Cluny Castle, Kingussie, Invernesshire, Argyleshire. 
Crosher, Edward, Uisken Villa, Dunoon, Argyleshire. 
Dow, John A., 70 Great Clyde St., Glasgow. 
Duncan, Rev. David, F. S. A. Scot., Anderslea, Gerard Ave., Parkhead, 

Glasgow. 

Ellice, Captain Edward, of Invergarry, Invernesshire. 
Gardyne, Lieut.-Col. Greenhill, Finavon, Forfar. 
Gillan, Rev. James, 4 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh. 
Gilzean, Alfred, Whitehall, Newlands Road, Glasgow. 
Glen, David, 8 Greenside Place, Edinburgh. 
Guthrie, Mrs. Murray, Torosay Castle, Isle of Mull. 
Innes, Alexander Lee, Melufield, Inverness. 
Jarratt, John C., 226 Great Western Road., Glasgow. 
Livingston, Donald, 90 East Clyde St., Helensburgh and Tiree. 
MacArthur, Neil Maclean, 23 Webster St., Bridgeton St., Glasgow. 
MacDonald, Kenneth, Secretary Free Library Committee, Town House, 

Inverness. 

MacDougall, Major, of Lunga, Ardfern, Argyleshire. 
Macfarlane, Robert Maclean, Councillor, Mayfield, Dumbarton. 
MacKay, William. Solicitor, Inverness. 

Mackenzie, Nigel Banks, British Linen Banks, Fort William. 
Maclachlan, Dugal, B. L, Writer, 30 Renfield St., Glasgow. 
Maclachlan, H. A., Commercial Hotel, Oban, Argyleshire. 
Maclachlan, H. A., Queensberry Hotel, Dumfries. 
Maclachlan of Maclachlan, Strachur, Argyleshire. 



204 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 

Maclaine, Hector, 1 Springhill Terrace, Crossingloof, Glasgow. 

MacLaine, Neil, 268 Paisley Road, West, Glasgow. 

Maclean of Ardgour (Captain A. J. H.), Ardgour, Argyleshire, (4 
copies). 

Maclean of Pennycross (Captain Charles A. H.), 7 West George St., 
Glasgow. 

MacLean, Alexander, 34 St. Enochs Square, Glasgow. 

MacLean, Alexander, Laggan, Ulva, Aros, Isle of Mull. 

MacLean, Alexander, 134 High Street, Annan. 

MacLean, Allan, 17 Apsley St., Partick, Glasgow. 

MacLean, Allan, 21 Arthur St., Alexandria, Dumbartonshire. 

MacLean, Allan, Langton House, Duns, Berwickshire. 

MacLean, Allan, The Hotel, Strontian, Argyleshire. 

Maclean, Allan Bruce, 90 East Clyde St., Helensburgh and Tiree. 

MacLean, Andrew Bruce, 100 Springkell Avenue, Maxwell Park, Glas- 
gow, (7 copies). 

MacLean, Andrew Bruce, Jr., M. B., C. H. B., 100 Springkell Avenue, 
Maxwell Park, Glasgow, (2 copies). 

MacLean, Andrew Bruce, Tertius, 14 Beaton Road, Maxwell Park, Glas- 
gow. 

MacLean, Angus, M. A., B. Sc., Technical School, Paisley. 

MacLean, Archibald, 100 North Frederick St., Glasgow. 

Maclean, Archibald, Creagorry, Benbecula, Invernesshire. 

MacLean, Archibald, 3 Clovanlin, Ardgour, Argyleshire. 

MacLean, Archibald, Achronich, Ulva Ferry, Aros, Isle of Mull. 

MacLean, C. A., Writer, Wigtown. 

Maclean, Captain Chas. W., Cameron Highlanders, Inverness. 

MacLean, Charles, Drumfin, Tobermory, Mull. 

MacLean, Charles, Achronich, Aros, Isle of Mull. 

MacLean, Charles J., 115 St. Vincent St., Glasgow. 

MacLean, Donald, 14 Beaton Road, Maxwell Park, Glasgow, (2 copies). 

MacLean, Donald, 27 Paterson St., S. S. Glasgow. 

MacLean, Donald, Pentriggend House; Slamannan. 

MacLean, Donald, Templeview, Carenish, North West, Invernesshire. 

Maclean, Donald, F. R. A. S., Curator Coats Observatory, Paisley. 

MacLean, Dugald, U. F. C. Mission House, Lochmaddy, Northwest, 
Invernesshire. 

MacLean, Dugald, Merchant, Easdale, Argyleshire. 

MacLean, Duncan C., 117 Stanmore Road, Mt. Florida, Glasgow. 

MacLean, Duncan M., 159 North Street, Glasgow. 

MacLean, Duncan Stewart, Braehead, Tighnabrenach, Kyles of Bute. 

MacLean, Gavin, 4 Crayton Road, Glasgow, (2 copies). 

Maclean, G. D., 2 Royal Street, Gourock. 

MacLean, George, Pleasance Avenue, Falkirk. 

MacLean, George, Ardchiavaig, Bunessan, Isle of Mull. 

MacLean, Gillian, Kinlochaline, Morven, Argyleshire. 

MacLean, Hugh, 122 Union Street, Glasgow, (2 copies). 

MacLean, Hugh, 504 Argyle Street, Glasgow. 



LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 205 

MacLean, Hugh, Kellan Hill, Arcs, Mull. 

MacLean, Hugh, 86 Glasgow Road, Wishaw. 

MacLean, Hugh, Dungourney, Greenock. 

Maclean, James, M. D., 22 Glencairn Drive, Pollockshields, Glasgow. 

MacLean, James, 39 Lochend Road, West Edinburgh. 

MacLean, James, Wine Merchant, Beauly, Invernesshire. 

MacLean, James A., Linden Lodge, Strawberry Bank, Dundee. 

Maclean, J. Campbell, Westwood, Wellhall Road, Hamilton, (2 copies). 

MacLean, John, 70 Mitchell St., Glasgow. 

MacLean, John, 7 Cartside Street, Langside, Glasgow, (3 copies). 

MacLean, John, 40 Walton Street, Shawlands, Glasgow. 

MacLean, John, 9 Ingleston Street, Edinburgh. 

Maclean, John, 609 Gt. Western Road, Glasgow. 

MacLean, John, Kenmore Bank, Jedburgh. 

MacLean, John, Argyll Terrace, Tobermory, Isle of Mull. 

MacLean, John Anderson, 14 Beaton Road, Maxwell Park, Glasgow. 

Maclean, John K., of Kilmuluaig, Tiree, Joint Secretary Clan Associa- 
tion. 

Maclean, John M., 1 Kilmorie Terrace, Pollockshields, Glasgow. 

MacLean, John S., 4 Brymner Street, Greenock. 

MacLean, Kenneth, 9 Fielden Drive, Partick, Glasgow. 

MacLean, Lachlan, Fanmore, Arcs, Isle of Mull. 

MacLean, Lachlan, Tighnamara, Kilmelford, Oban. 

MacLean, Lieut. A. C. H., The Royal Scots, Glencorse, Edinburgh. 

Maclean, Lieut. A. K., Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Fort George. 

Maclean, Malcolm, 90 East Clyde St., Helensburgh and Tiree. 

Maclean, Malcolm Gunn, 90 East Clyde St., Helensburgh and Tiree. 

MacLean, Major A. H., Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Fort George. 

Maclean, Major H. D. Neil, K. O. S. Borderers, Berwick on Tweed. 

MacLean, Miss, Cherry Bank, Forfar. 

Maclean, Miss, of Ardgour, Ardgour, (4 copies). 

MacLean, Miss Catherine, 12 Grove Street, Glasgow. 

MacLean, Miss C. Esther, 37 West Princes Street, Glasgow. 

MacLean, Miss D. Roy, 37 West Princes Street, Glasgow. 

MacLean, Miss Helena Glen, 68 St. Vincent Crescent, Glasgow. 

MacLean, Miss J., Neathmount, Beauly, Invernesshire, (2 copies). 

Maclean, Miss Jessie, Torlochan, Aros, Isle of Mull. 

MacLean, Miss Sarah, Morlea, Glen Urquhart, Invernesshire. 

MacLean, Mrs. Alick, Ardenlee, Oban. 

MacLean, Mrs. A. H., 3 Kirklee Gardens, Glasgow. 

MacLean, Mrs. Joseph, 16 Woodside Crescent, Glasgow, (2 copies). 

MacLean, Mrs. Winnie, Eversley, Annan. 

MacLean, Neil, 28 Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow, (2 copies). 

MacLean, Neil, 39 Royal Street, Gourock. 

MacLean, Neil S., 223 West Princes Street, Glasgow, (2 copies). 

Maclean, Professor Magnus, M. A., D. Sc., Royal Technical College, 
Glasgow, (4 copies). 

MacLean, Peter, 1222 Argyle Street, Glasgow. 



206 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 

Maclean, Peter, 55 Kersland St., Hillhead, Glasgow. 

MacLean, Peter, Walmer Crescent, Ibrox, Glasgow. 

MacLean, Peter, M. D., Glenview, Dervaig, Isle of Mull. 

MacLean, R. A., Monkton, Miln, Monkton, Aryshire. 

Maclean, Rev. D. M., U. F. Manse, Kirkoswald, Ayrshire. 

Maclean, Rev. Norman, 1 Woodlands Terrace, Glasgow. 

MacLean, Robert, Esq., of Plantation, Advocate, 19 Queen's St., Edin- 
burgh. 

MacLean, Roderick, Gometra, Isle of Mull. 

MacLean, Ronald J., 123 Petershill Road, Glasgow. 

Maclean, The Right Rev. Arthur John, Bishop of Moray, Ross & Caith- 
ness, Inverness. 

MacLean, Thomas, Balfour, Stirlingshire. 

MacLean, Thomas, Nether Lochaber Hotel, Onich, Argyleshire. 

MacLean, William, 115 St. Vincent St., Glasgow. 

Maclean, William, 5 West Garden Street, Glasgow. 

MacLean, William, Glenmoray, Lenzie. 

MacLean, William, Mishmish Hotel, Tobermory, Isle of Mull. 

Maxwell, Samuel Maclean, 25 North Albion St., Glasgow. 

McGregor, Miss Agnes B., 4 Hamilton Place, Kilmarnock. 

Mclntosh, Duncan, Dunmore, Pulpit Hill, Oban. 

McLean, Allan, Cuan Ferry, Balvicar, by Oban. 

McLean, Charles, 6 Frislaig, Ft. William. 

McLean, Donald, 4 Frislaig, Ft. William. 

McLean, Major Alexander Colin, Laggan Lodge, Scamport, Inverness, 
(2 copies). 

McLean, Malcolm, Ballygown Farm, Aros, Isle of Mull. 

McLean, Neil, Esq., of Breda, Alford, Aberdeenshire (4 copies). 

Morison, C. R., Kinghearar, Dervaig, Isle of Mull (2 copies). 

Morrison, Hew, LL. D., Public Library, Edinburgh. 

Murray, T. M., 9 Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh. 

Paul, Peter Maclean, 15 Eskdale St., Crosshill, Glasgow. 

Ritchie, Mrs. Norman, (Pennycross), The Holms, St. Boswells, (6 
copies). 

Sellar, G. Craig, of Ardtornish, Morvern, Argyleshire. 

Stewart, Rev. D. C., U. F. Manse, Inverary, Argyleshire. 

Sutherland, Miss Helen Bruce, U. F. Manse, Bruan, Caithness. 

The Mitchell Library, Glasgow, (2 copies). 

Thin, James, Bookseller, 55 South Bridge, Edinburgh, (5 copies). 

Watt, Rev. Lachlan Maclean, 7 Royal Circus, Edinburgh. 

White, James H., 683 Pollockshaws Road, Glasgow, (2 copies). 

White, J. H. & Sons, Bachelors Court, St. Andrews. 



Miscellaneous. 

Maclnnes, J. D., Wando Barnbra Caulfield, Victoria, Australia. 
MacLaine, Lachlan, Rathline, Annandale Avenue, Belfast, Ireland. 
MacLean, Allan, Institute International D' Agriculture, Rome, Italy. 



LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 207 

MacLean, Archibald, 15 Aschaffenberger St., Berlin, W., Germany, (2 
copies). 

MacLean, Captain Francis, Roonstr, 1 Kolberg, Germany, (3 copies). 

MacLean, Fergus, William St., Yonghall, Cork, Ireland, (2 copies). 

MacLean, Frederick Pierce Armour, The Estate School, Straffan, Co. 
Kildare. 

Maclean, Hector N., Killean, Inverell, N. S. W., Australia, (6 copies). 

MacLean, Henry Sorley, care South British Insurance Co., Dunedin, 
New Zealand. 

MacLean, Hon. R. D. Douglas, Mararkakaho, Napier, New Zealand. 

MacLean, James R., Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. 

Mac Lean, Lachlan, Greenhill, Kenilworth, Capetown, South Africa. 

MacLean, Miss Marie Isabel, 163 Lower Circular Road, Calcutta, India. 

MacLean, Mrs. F., Rosehau, Sobbowitz, West Prussia, Germany. 

McLean, James, R. M., Plas Mordyn, Holywood, County Down, Ireland, 
(4 copies). 

McLean, R. E., Mertoun Hall, Holywood, County Down, Ireland. 

Pont, Dr. Peter MacLaine, Copes 72, The Hague, Holland. 

Robertson, Captain, 2nd York & Lancaster Regt., New Barracks, Lime- 
rick. 

The Secretary Hawkes Bay Highland Society, Napier, New Zealand. 

Received too late for classification. 

Crichton, C. H. McLean, Ardshealach House, Aros, Mull, Scotland. 

Fleming, Miss Harriet T., Ardshiel, Helensburgh, Scotland. 

Maclean, Allan Bruce, His Brittanick Majesty's Consul, The Consulate, 

Dantzig, Ger. (2 copies.) 

MacLean, Fred M., 5845 Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, Calif. 
MacLean, Hecter J., M. D., 529 Main St., Medford Mass. 
MacLean, Hugh, Killiechronan, Aros, Mull, Scotland. 
MacLean, Miss Margaret, Killiechronan, Aros, Mull, Scotland. 
McClain, Mrs. Rhoda, R. D. No. 1, Danville, Ind. 
McClain, William C, 6961, Stony Island, Chicago, 111. 
McClain, James A., 1134 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kans. 
Saurherring, Miss A., British Consulate, Dantzig, Ger. 
Stoddart, F. Blair, British Consulate, Dantzig, Ger. 
McLean, J. P., Tulsa, Okla. 

McLean, Alexander, 2040 13th Ave., West Seattle, Wash. 
McClain, William A., 933 Greenwood Terrace, Chicago, 111. 
McLean, J. W., Winthrop Ave., Chicago, 111. 
Dewart, Miss Cassie, 38 Gates Ave., Montclalir, N. J. 
Harr, Judge W. H., 2 N. 10th St., Hamilton, O. 
MacLean, Allan, Stamford, Conn. ', 

MacLean, Donald R., M. D., 87 Smith St., Stamford, Conn. 
MacLean, G. R., 1858 Kenilworth Ave., Chicago, 111. 
MacLean, J. D., M. D., Mead, Wash. 



208 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 

Mac Lean, Malcolm, Western Springs, 111. 

Maclean, Mrs. Nelson R., 5018 Sheridan R'd., Chicago, 111. (2 copies). 

MacLean, Wm. R., 2112 S. 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

McClain, Geo. A., 472 W. 35th Place, Los Angeles, Cal. (3 copies). 

McLain, H. A., 422 N. Hayne Ave., Chicago, 111. 

McLain, H. E., Pond & High Sts., Natick, Mass. 

McLean, B. W., 5315 N. 12th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

McLean, Fred W., 390 8th Ave., S., Fargo, N. Dak. (2 copies). 

McLean, James Murdock, Box 64, Globe, Ariz. 

McLean, Mrs. Neil, 49 N. John St., Bellville, Ont. 

McLean, Murdock H., 1246 West 64th St., Chicago, 111. 

McLean, O. B., P. O. Box 5, Norfolk, Va. 

Williams, Cora H., M. D., 822 Wood St., Williamsburg Sta., Pittsburg, Pa. 

McLean, Wm. J., 318 Neilson St., Utica, N. Y. 

McLean, George D., 506 State Nat'l Bank Bldg., Oklahoma City. 

McLean, Robt, 344 S. Tyron St., Woodstock, 111. 

McLean, Donald, 1414 Seer St., South Bend, Ind. 

McLean, F. E., R. D. No. 4, Veedersburg, Ind. 

MacLean, James O., 725 Farmers' Bank Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa. 

McLean, F. G., Carpinteria, Calif. 

McLean, P. H., R. D. 22, Denver, Ind. 

MacLean, D. J., 1012 7th Ave. N., Seattle, Wash. 

Macphail, Alex. W., Bookseller, 10 St. Giles, Edinburgh. 

McClean, C. R., 511 Bellevue Ave., Syracuse, N. Y. 

MacLean, Donald, 49 Leuby Ave., Toronto, Ont. 

McLain, C. L., Massillon, O. 




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