" came from Perthshire, Scotland, during the latter part of the last century and settled in the Mohawk Valley at Johnstown. He had three sons, Duncan, Hugh, and Daniel; and as the two eldest came to manhood they chafed within the narrow limits of their first home and longed for the freedom of the wider range. The fame of the Valley of the Genesee had reached them, and in 1812 the family moved into their forest home and settled at York, on the western slope of this (to them) most beautiful of all the fertile valleys of this or any other country. The first journey from Johnstown to York took 11 days Ten years later the trip was made by carriage over the new state road in five days."
-"A John McMillan settled in the Mohawk valley in New York and has many descendants still living in that region; Daniel H. McMillan, a prominent citizen of Buffalo, being his grandson. " --"McMillan Genealogy and history" by W.F.Mcmillan, 1908
-Sailed from Grenoch in "Fanny" 1798..bought land in Johnston, Montgomery County, NY. Moved to Genesee Valley, NY where he owned 640 acres.
-McMillan family gravestone is 8 feet highat the Scotch Covenanter's Cemetery
-"Our Country and it's people: a descriptive work on erie county, ny", 1899 entry for Daniel H. Mcmillan says he is a lineal descent of Alexander Mcmillan, whose monumental cross still stands in the family burial ground at Kilmory, scotland. He was called "john the upright" arbiter of the hollanders in the Mowhawk Valley. "There is a richly sculptured cross in the church yard at Kilmory Knapdale, twelve feet high, on one side of which is a Highland chief hunting a deer and an inscription in Latin in old Saxon letters "Here is the cross of Alexander McMillan." The McMillans obtained most of their possessions in Knapdale by marriage with the heiress of the chief of the McNeils in the sixteenth century.
-Ralph McNaughton West and American Compendium of Genealogy give his wife's name as Margaret McDiarmaid. Other sources, such as a biography (and others) of his grandson-in-law James Boyd gives Margaret McGregor as her name. There is a record in Killin, Perthshire of the christenings of two children of John McMillan and Margt McDiarmid, Ewen (Hugh) in 1792, and Helen in 1798. Her death date comes from her tombstone marked, "mother".


Sources:
-Birth Source: Probably not the son of Duncan and Agnes (Henry) McMillan of Campbeltown as another wife is given for him elsewhere, and it is the wrong location. Family genealogist Ralph McNaughton (around the year 1910) listed his father's name as Duncan McMillan b.c.1740 of Broadalbin, Perthshire, Scotland.
-Marriage Source:
-Death Source: American Compendium of Genealogy
-Gravestone in Mumford Rural Cemetery in Mumford, NY has incription "ae 76 yrs. Native Perthshire, Scotland" according to findagrave.com


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