An American Family History

Alexander McLean was born in 1731 in Paisley, Scotland. He was a silk weaver.

He married Ann Lang.

Their children probably included:

Helen McLean (1766)
Robert McLean (1768)
Alexander McLean (1771)
Archibald McLean (1773, married Ann Coates)
John Alexander McLean (1775, married Synthia Shipman),
Henry McLean (1778, married Anna McNish),
Anne McLean (1782, married James Breckenridge).

The family emigrated to America in 1774. At first they lived in New York where they robbed and forced to wander from place to place.

After the Revolution, they moved to Canada.

In 1784 Alexander and Robert McLean appeared on the provisioning list for disbanded troops as refugees. They were mustered in Elizabethtown (now Brockville), Leeds County, Ontario.

1797 census of Elizabethtown:

Alexander, Anne, Archibald, Jane, John, Anne, Robert, Rebekah, J. (male), and infant (male).
Anne, Re'b, Archibald, Eliza, Christean, and W. (male)

In 1816 Alexander, Jr. and Sr., Henry, Anna, Nancy and Rebecca McLean signed the document of rules for the governing of the First Presbyterian Church of Brockville.

Robert McLean

In Robert Archibald signed a document promising to provide a stipend for William Smart to start the first Sabbath School in Canada.

Archibald McLean was born 1773 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

His parents were Alexander McLean and Ann Lang.

He married Ann Coates.

Their children probably included

Sarah McLean (1803, married John Clow),
Archibald McLean, Jr. (1810, married Betsey Pennock), and
John McLean (1820).

1797 Census of Elizabethtown:
Anne, Re'b (female), Archibald, Eliza, Christean, W? (male).

Archibald appeared in the 1805 assessment of Yonge.

The 1810 census of Yonge indicates that there was a bound girl in the house.

In 1812 Archibald signed a document promising to provide a stipend for William Smart to start the first Sabbath School in Canada.

Archibald died in 1866 in Ontario, Canada.

Alexander McLean was born in 1771 in Paisley, Scotland.

He married Jean Gardiner.

Alexander McLean (1797)
John McLean (1803)

He appeared in the 1805 assessment of Yonge Township.

John McLean was born in 1775 in New York.

He married Synthia Shipman.

1812 Sept. 3rd-John McLean and Synthyche Chipman (the latter), license, of Elizabethtown, witnesses James Breakenridge, Robert McLean

Alexander McLean (1814),
William McLean (1816, married Jane McNish),
James McLean (1818),
Catherine McLean (1820),
Emaline McLean (1822, married James Parr),
Samuel Shipman McLean (1824),
Philena McLean (1827),
Ann Amelia Breckenridge McLean,
Synthia Cecelia McLean (1829),
John McLean (1831),
Sarah Ann McLean (1834),
and George McLean (1836).

During the War of 1812, John McLean was in the Leeds County Militia.