Macdonald was elected a member of the New York Historical Society, January 2, 1844.

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ernor. Dr. Archibald Macdonald was educated to the medi-cal profession, and in the earlier part of his career held a commission as Surgeon in the British Army.1 He afterwards became a citizen of the United States, married his wife in Dutchess County, New York, and settled in White Plains, Westchester County, where he resided as a practitioner of medicine until the time of his death in 1813. He had five sons, of whom John MacLean Macdonald was the eldest. He was born December 27th 1790--graduated at Columbia College in 1810--studied law in the office of Mr. Peter J. Munro of New York City, then one of the most distinguished of the profes-sion. He continued with him during the whole of his clerk-ship, and was admitted to the bar as an Attorney of the Supreme Court in 1813. In 1821, he became a Counsellor in the Court of Chancery, and in May, 1823, was appointed one of the Masters in Chan-cery. Reappointed in April 1826, and in April 1830, he con-tinued to hold the office until September 1832, when he re-signed it and accepted that of Justice of the Police Court, as the successor of Josiah Hedden, who was killed by being thrown from his carriage in the previous month 16th August, 1832. He continued to hold this office until October 1, 1834, when he resigned (it is stated) in consequence of ill health. In the autumn of 1835, at the age of 45, Judge Macdonald was prostrated by a severe paralytic attack from the effects of which he never recovered. But he failed not, nor faltered in spirit. His work, after such a stroke of disease as would have discouraged and de-stroyed most men, has been such as would do honor to one who should accomplish it with all the advantages of health and physical ability.