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and had issue; 1 (2) Eleanor, married Richard Croxall, but died s.p. ; (3) Andrew,
of whom afterwards; (4) Archibald, died s.p.; (5) George, died unmarried; (6)
Elizabeth, married James Gittings, and had issue; (7) James, died unmarried;
(8) Katherine, probably died young; and (9) William (born 1748, died 1824),
who was married twice, and had fourteen children — the Hon. James Madison
Buchanan (born 1802, died 1876), U.S. Minister to Denmark, 1858-1861, 2 and
Charles A. Buchanan 3 being sons of the second marriage.
II. Andrew Buchanan, second son of Doctor George Buchanan, General
of the Maryland Troops, 1777, and Presiding Justice of Baltimore, was born
22nd October 1734, and died 12th March 1786, having had by his wife,
Susan Lawson (born 12th January 1743, died 26th August 1798), ten children:
(1) Dorothy, married Benjamin Lowndes; (2) George, of whom afterwards; (3)
Alexander Pitt, whose descendants are in Tennessee; (4) Andrew, father of
Brevet-Major-General Robert Christie Buchanan; 4 (5) Elizabeth, married David
C. Stewart; (6) Lloyd Archibald, whose issue is extinct in the male line; (7)
Susannah, married Thomas Johnston ; and three others who died young or
unmarried.
III. Dr. George Buchanan, eldest son of General Andrew Buchanan
(born 19th September 1763), was a member of the City Council of Baltimore,
and a member of the Philosophical Society, removed to Philadelphia in 1806,
was physician to the Lazaretto, and died 9th July 1808. He had married,
nth June 1789, Laetitia M'Kean (born 6th January 1769; died 9th February
1845), daughter of Thomas M'Kean, Governor of Pennsylvania, 5 by whom he
had three sons: (1) George of Auchintorlie, Pa., born 1796, died 1879, issue
predeceased him ; (2) M'Kean, of whom afterwards; and (3) Franklin, Admiral,
Confederate Navy, died nth May 1874.
1 Nicholas Rogers and Eleanor Buchanan had an only surviving son, Lloyd Nicholas Rogers,
who sold Druid Hill to the city of Baltimore in 1S61. He married Eliza, daughter of Thomas
Law, and had a son, Edmund Law Rogers, now representative of Doctor George Buchanan in
the female line.
" The Hon. James M. Buchanan married and had (1) William Jefferson; (2) James Madison,
Junior; (3) John R. ; (4) Edmund Key; (5) Harney; and four other children who died young.
3 Charles A. Buchanan had one son, James Hollis Buchanan.
4 Robert C. Buchanan, known in the service as "Old Buck," entered the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point in 1826, graduated as second lieutenant into the 4th U.S. Infantry in
1830, served in the Mexican War of 1S45-1846, and in the Civil War, 1861-1865. . He
retired from the service in 1870, and died 29th November 1878. He was married, but left no
issue.
5 Governor Thomas M'Kean was Member of the Assembly of Delaware, and Speaker;
Member of the Stamp Act Congress, 1765 ; Delegate to the Continental Congress, 1775-1783 ;
President of Congress, 1783; a Colonel in the Army; Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, then
Governor. He signed the Declaration of Independence.