Archibald Macdonald had six (6) sons. John, the eldest, born Dec. 27, 1790; Alexander, born 1791 and died at Batavia, in the Island of Java, Aug. 15, 1823; Allan born Nov. 21, 1794, and died Jan. 8, 1862; Archibald born March 10, 1799, died Sept. 8, 1823; Donald born March 10, 1799, died Nov. 25, 1851; James born July 18, 1803, and died May 5, 1849. The latter was the only one of the sons who married and left issue. On the tombstone of the mother are simply the words--"Flora Macdonald--died April 2, 1835 in the 70th year of her age." So far as is known this Macdonald family had no connection with that of Flora Macdonald, the celebrated Jacobite heroine who saved "Bonnie Prince Charlie" after the disaster at Culloden in 1746. And yet to a man of the sensitive type of John Macdonald his mother's name must have constantly reminded him of the romances of the High- lands of Scotland and influenced him in preserving the tales of the Hills of Westchester and the Highlands of the Hudson. It was in 1814 that Sir Walter Scott's Waverley was pub-lished and Fergus MacIvor in that novel depicts another Macdonald of Glengarry, the last genuine specimen of a Highland chieftain. As the stories of Lauzun, Armand, Tarleton, Delancey, Odell, Oakley, Dyckman, Corsa, and others are read it is helpful to recall the antecedents of the author and the environment in which he developed.

1 See also Scharf's History of Westchester County, Philadelphia, 1886. Vol. 1, pp. 573 and 574 for a less circumstantial biography by Dr. Fisher. 2 Scharf, Vol. 1, p. 728. JOHN MACLEAN MACDONALD 87