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

The Family of John MacLean. 399
obtain any information whatever. I gained some information from the aunt,
Sarah Gill. William left issue, William Mosby, born 1838, died 1874; Lizzie,
born 1840 ; Mary Webster, born 1842 ; Louis Randolph, born 1846, and John
Speed, born 1848. John Speed is a successful physician living in Washington
City ; and Louis is a consulting engineer and contractor at Ozark, Alabama.
None ever married.
Sarah was born April 26, 1809 : married Rev. J. H. Gill, April 20, 1840,
and had issue, Heber.
Richard, born 1803, died 1833.
Jane, born 1816; married Hamilton in 1835; died in 1840, leaving
one daughter.
VIII. Mary was married to Robinson, near Unioiitown, Pa. She
was living in 1817, and had two sons. No farther information concerning
her.
IX. The remaining son, James, I judge was born about 1770; married
Deborah, sister of Elizabeth, and daughter of John Runyon ; owned land near
Urbana, Ohio, where he died, leaving issue, five daughters : Mary, born about
1808, married to Zebulon Cantwell, settled in Illinois where both died ; Mar-
garet, born about 1810, married Smith JMinturn, moved to Illinois ; Sarah,
married first Robert Andrew, and secondly to Gilliland, one issue ;
Elizabeth, married John Earson, no issue; and Deborah, married Robert Ear-
son, died near Urbana, Ohio, and left issue.
Both John and James MacLean were married when they arrived in this
country. Robert was single, went south, and married a wealthy lady. John
settled on the forks of Goose creek in Virginia, and James, a shoemaker, in a
village hard by. In their old age the two brothers loved to talk about the
pleasant tin^^es they had in Scotland. Of the descendants of John (probably
three hundred all told), I have been able to collect the following facts :
All have been industrious and hard working, and most of them economical ;
none given to the use of intoxicants, save three, but not habitual drunkards.
In politics, all were whigs, and afterward republicans ; in religion, all were
presbyterians, save a branch of the family of William (James) who espoused
universalism ; the tendency was toward ultra-calvanism ; in the more recent
descendants liberal views in theology arc mostly maintained. The older stock
were well made, compactly built men, slightly above medium, brown hair and
light gray eyes. All the descendants, save the house of W^illiam, invariably
spell their name " McLain." As already noted, John signs his will Mclean,