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. The House of Drimnin. 307
daughter of John MacLean of Kingston, but left no issue; John never mar-
ried ; and Christopher married and left two sons who died young. Allan, the
younger, fourth son of Charles of Kilunaig, was a surgeon, and died in the
twenty-fourth year of his age. John, the fifth son, was a merchant in Jamaica,
married to Maria, daughter of Fortunatus Duaris, and had issue, Charles,
Thomas, Mary Ann, and another daughter. The sons died unmarried ; Mary
Ann married, first, her cousin James, and then Doctor Ale.xander Grant.
Alexander, sixth son, more anon. Lachlan, seventh son, was a lieutenant in
the Forty-second Royal Highlanders, and was killed at the Havana. Archi-
bald, the eighth son, was a partner with his brother, John, in Jamaica, where
he died unmarried.
Lachlan MacLean of Grulin and his brother Charles were both worthy
men. They were liberally educated and respected, and beloved by all their
neighbors. Lachlan died in the eighty-first year of his age, and Charles in
his sixty-ninth, a true Christian philosopher.
Allan MacLean of Grulin's third son, John of Pennygoun, married Isa-
bella, daughter of Colin Campbell, of the family of Dunstaffnage, by whom he
had two sons and three daughters. Donald, the oldest son, was married to
Ann, natural daughter of Lachlan MacLean of Lochbuie, and had issue, Lach-
lan, John, Hector, Donald, Alexander, and three daughters, Anna, Margaret,
and Mary, the last married to David Fraser. Lachlan, bred a surgeon, mar-
ried in tlie island of Jersey, went with his family to America, and settled near
Nashville, Tennessee, where he made a purchase of lands. He left issue,
John, Joshua, Gabriel, Charles Durell, Susan, Mary Ann, and Isabelhi. John
became a merchant; .Joshua, a physician; Charles, editor and printer of the
Nashville Gazette; and Susan married William Banks Anthony, a gentleman
of wealth. John, the second son of Donald, entered the navy, and died in the
East Indies. Hector, third son, was killed at the seige of Seringapatam,
having been the second who mounted the breach. Donald, the fourth son,
was a physician. Alexander, the youngest son, married Christiana, daughter
of John MacLean of LangmuU ; went with his family to America and settled
at Ride river, on the lands purchased by the earl of Selkirk, where he was
killed.
John ilacLean of Pennygoun's other son, Allan, went to America, and
was killed by the falling in of the roof of a storehouse in Casco Bay. John's
daughters were Una, married Allan MacLean, brother of Kingerloch ; Jannet
married Duncan MacArthur ; and Catherine married Donald MacDonald.
Donald of Aros, fourth son of Charles of Ardnacross, married Catherine,

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