History of the Clan MacLean from its first settlement at Duard Castle, in the Isle of Mull, to the present period

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his successor. His second wife was a daughter of Archibald MacLean of Ard-
tur, by whom he had John. This John married Mary, daughter of Allan,
laird of Ardgour, and by her had John, who, in the year 1760, went from
North America to Jamaica to inherit an estate called Duard Castle left to him
by an uncle, from which he realized a small independence, returned home, and
married Sibella, second daughter of Sir Allan, chief of MacLean, by whom he
had one son, Allan, a captain in the 60th regiment, and died in the West
Indies. His daughter, Mary Anna, married Doctor MacKenzie Grieve.
Charles had a brother, Allan of Killean in Mull, married to Margaret,
daughter of Lachlan Og of Ardgour's family, by whom he had two sons, one
of whom, Lachlan, lived in Dublin, married, and left issue. He was in good
circumstances, and captain of a ship. On his return from Copenhagen, by
stress of weather, he was blown upon the south-west coast of Ireland, and,
after getting on shore by the long boat with most of the crew, was murdered
by the barbarous inhabitants for the sake of plunder.
VI. Allan, Sixth MacLean of Inverscadell.
Married Marjory, daughter of Allan MacLean of the family of Torloisk,
and by her had issue. He sold the reversion of the lands of Inverscadell to
the Camerons, by which this branch of the family became extinct. The lands
were purchased from the Camerons by Alexander, thirteenth laird of Ard-
gour, and once more added to that estate.
CHAPTER XVII.
THE Macleans of blaich.
This family, representing the house of Ardgour, belongs to two periods.
The first MacLeans of Blaich were descended from Hector, third son of Ewen,
second laird of Ardgour. Hector was succeeded by his grandson. Hector, or
Eoghan Uaibhreach, second son of Donald, third laird of Treshnish. The
later MacLeans of Blaich are descended from Lachlan, second son of John
■Crubach, eighth laird of Ardgour. William, grandson to Lachlan of Blaich,
was born in the isle of Mull, and was left an orphan at a verjf early age. In
youth he applied himself to the study of music, in which he attained to such
proficiency that the duke of York (afterward James II. of England), while
lord commissioner in Scotland, invited him to court and appointed him mas-