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| Uncle (5G) Colonel Alexander McClean |
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| This very distinguished uncle fought in the American Revolution and, in company with his brothers, took a major part in determining the boundaries of Pennsylvania and neighboring states, including the famous Mason-Dixon Line. He was subsequently an original settler of what would become Fayette County, Pennsylvania and an important citizen of its county seat, through the rest of his long life. |
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It’s now 2020, and I’ve devoted some years
to pursuing the vast descendancy of Uncle Alexander’s parents, our fifth great-grandparents William MacLean (1702-1785) and Elizabeth Rule (1707-1784), immigrant third maternal grandparents of Elizabeth Jane Fisher Seely, my mother’s father’s mother.* They came from Ireland and Scotland, respectively, and settled in the 1730s at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, later famous for more distressing reasons.
Our cousin James Hadden published in 1913 A History of Uniontown, The County Seat of Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He devoted eleven pages (778-788) to an extensive sketch of Uncle Alexander’s life. The whole book is at your disposal on the Web, linked above. The eleven pages are here for you to read. |
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