Also his wife Elizabeth Ratchford McLean∼Alexander McLean(MacLean) was reportedly born on the Isle of Mull in the Western Highlands, Scotland. He emigrated to Philadelphia from Ireland between the years 1725 and 1730. Some time after his arrival in Pennsylvania he married Elizabeth Ratchford, whose father emigrated from England. Three of his daughters, Jane, Margaret and Agnes, were born in Pennsylvania.
He then joined the great tide of emigration to the more enticing fields and genial climate of the southern colonies, and settled in the Dobbin neighborhood, eight miles from Salisbury, Rowan county, N. C. Here he remained for a few years, during which time his eldest son John, and William, the immediate subject of this sketch, were born.
He then moved to a tract of land he purchased near the junction of the South Fork with the main Catawba river, in Tryon, (now Gaston county,) where three more sons were born, Alexander, George and Thomas. This place he made his permanent abode during the remainder of his life, surrounded with the greater portion of his rising family. He attained a good old age, his wife surviving him a few years; both were consistent members of the Presbyterian church, and are buried at the old Smith graveyard, near the place of his last settlement.
Soon after the Revolutionary war, Alexander McLean, Jr., moved to Missouri, and George McLean to Tennessee. Thomas McLean, the youngest son, retained the old homestead, where, at an advanced age, he ended his earthly existence.
excerpt from
Sketches Of Western North Carolina
by C. L. Hunter,
The Raleigh News Steam Job Print. 1877.
He then joined the great tide of emigration to the more enticing fields and genial climate of the southern colonies, and settled in the Dobbin neighborhood, eight miles from Salisbury, Rowan county, N. C. Here he remained for a few years, during which time his eldest son John, and William, the immediate subject of this sketch, were born.
He then moved to a tract of land he purchased near the junction of the South Fork with the main Catawba river, in Tryon, (now Gaston county,) where three more sons were born, Alexander, George and Thomas. This place he made his permanent abode during the remainder of his life, surrounded with the greater portion of his rising family. He attained a good old age, his wife surviving him a few years; both were consistent members of the Presbyterian church, and are buried at the old Smith graveyard, near the place of his last settlement.
Soon after the Revolutionary war, Alexander McLean, Jr., moved to Missouri, and George McLean to Tennessee. Thomas McLean, the youngest son, retained the old homestead, where, at an advanced age, he ended his earthly existence.
excerpt from
Sketches Of Western North Carolina
by C. L. Hunter,
The Raleigh News Steam Job Print. 1877.
Also his wife Elizabeth Ratchford McLean∼Alexander McLean(MacLean) was reportedly born on the Isle of Mull in the Western Highlands, Scotland. He emigrated to Philadelphia from Ireland between the years 1725 and 1730. Some time after his arrival in Pennsylvania he married Elizabeth Ratchford, whose father emigrated from England. Three of his daughters, Jane, Margaret and Agnes, were born in Pennsylvania.
He then joined the great tide of emigration to the more enticing fields and genial climate of the southern colonies, and settled in the Dobbin neighborhood, eight miles from Salisbury, Rowan county, N. C. Here he remained for a few years, during which time his eldest son John, and William, the immediate subject of this sketch, were born.
He then moved to a tract of land he purchased near the junction of the South Fork with the main Catawba river, in Tryon, (now Gaston county,) where three more sons were born, Alexander, George and Thomas. This place he made his permanent abode during the remainder of his life, surrounded with the greater portion of his rising family. He attained a good old age, his wife surviving him a few years; both were consistent members of the Presbyterian church, and are buried at the old Smith graveyard, near the place of his last settlement.
Soon after the Revolutionary war, Alexander McLean, Jr., moved to Missouri, and George McLean to Tennessee. Thomas McLean, the youngest son, retained the old homestead, where, at an advanced age, he ended his earthly existence.
excerpt from
Sketches Of Western North Carolina
by C. L. Hunter,
The Raleigh News Steam Job Print. 1877.
He then joined the great tide of emigration to the more enticing fields and genial climate of the southern colonies, and settled in the Dobbin neighborhood, eight miles from Salisbury, Rowan county, N. C. Here he remained for a few years, during which time his eldest son John, and William, the immediate subject of this sketch, were born.
He then moved to a tract of land he purchased near the junction of the South Fork with the main Catawba river, in Tryon, (now Gaston county,) where three more sons were born, Alexander, George and Thomas. This place he made his permanent abode during the remainder of his life, surrounded with the greater portion of his rising family. He attained a good old age, his wife surviving him a few years; both were consistent members of the Presbyterian church, and are buried at the old Smith graveyard, near the place of his last settlement.
Soon after the Revolutionary war, Alexander McLean, Jr., moved to Missouri, and George McLean to Tennessee. Thomas McLean, the youngest son, retained the old homestead, where, at an advanced age, he ended his earthly existence.
excerpt from
Sketches Of Western North Carolina
by C. L. Hunter,
The Raleigh News Steam Job Print. 1877.
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