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—Neil Buie McNeill who in 1594 witnessed a Bond of Manrent between Kintyre McNeills and Sir James McDonald of Kintyre and who in 1609 was in possession of Machrihanish and other lands

———Hector's father is Lachlan Macneill Buie (4 sons, 2 daughters)

————Dugald, the second named Scotch Gentleman, who prior to 1739 raised as much as he could on the security of Losset presumably to finance the venture

Daniel (or Donald) McNeill (the third mentioned) is designed in contemporary letters as "of Taynish". He was the second son of the marriage between Neil McNeil of Taynish and Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of Mr Alexander Campbell, Advocate, Commissar of the Isles. Like Duncan Campbell and Neil McNeill he was a direct descendant of Patrick Dow, grandson of the third laird of Auchinbreck, and was related to Hector of Losset

(Hector) had four sons and two daughters and by his second marriage with Margaret McAllister of Tore he had four sons and four daughters. Three of his sons settled in the North of Ireland. The remaining five became lairds respectively of Tirfergus, Losset, Ugadale (through marriage) Kilchrist and Machrihanish in Kintyre. Hector of Losset, Lachlan's fifth son, who died before September 1730, was survived by his second wife Florence Campbell who was a sister of Duncan Campbell of Kilduskland, Ardrishaig, the first of the pioneers to be named in the North Carolina Assembly resolution. Florence must have been a considerable person herself, as she had already buried Lachlan McLachlan of McLachlan and McDonald of Largie, her two previous husbands and chiefs of two of the oldest families in Argyll

 Hector's letters show him to have been a steady, sober, hard working master mariner of a type that was to become very familiar in the succeeding century. He married in 1732 Elizabeth, daughter of a Boston merchant, Cuthbert Campbell, who later moved to Rhode Island,and who was probably identical with the citizen described in 1714 as having lately possessed a house in New Street, Campbeltown. Hector was constantly meeting Scots relatives and acquaintances on his travels, particularly in the West Indies and he even found a cousin who was surgeon in a Swedish ship he came across in Cadiz. In 1731 he wrote that "it is reported that Archie Caradele is living in New York and is in a very good way"

(1)Neil Oig (great grandson of Angus Ilach MacDonald of Dunnyveg?)

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——— (3) “Old Lachlan” LACHLAN MCNEILL BUIDHE Four of Lachlan’s Sons crossed the North Channel to Ireland. The descendants of his second son Neil Buie made a particular impact, not only in Irish affairs, but on the wider world stage. Neil Buie married Rose, daughter of Captain Stewart of Garve, a family descended from Archibald Stewart of Ballintoy, of the Bute Stewarts, factor to the Earl of Antrim, who was much involved in the attempt of the Seventh Earl of Argyll to settle Kintyre on his younger son Lord Kintyre

————(4) John succeed him in Tirfergus 

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——————(6) Neil [successive McNeiles have been High Sheriffs of Antrim] Neil Buie’s oldest son Lachlan married Jenny McNaughton of the Irish family which provided a chief for the Scottish Clan McNaughton

———————(7) From Neil the eldest son of this marriage came Ronald John McNeill, Lord Cushendun (1861 -1934). Having distinguished himself in the House of Commons by throwing a blue book at the head of Winston Churchill he eventually become Financial Secretary to the Treasury under his old adversary and a member of the Privy Council. He was credited by some with “the greatest speech ever delivered to the League of Nations”, when in 1928 he roundly denounced a Russian proposal for complete and immediate abolition of all armed forces. (Plus ca change plus c’est la meme chose). He was acting Foreign Secretary during the latter part of 1928 and as such signed the Kellogg pact on behalf of the United Kingdom           

———————(7) Neil Buie’s fourth son Daniel founded the McNeiles of Ballycastle, which family produced Lt. General Daniel McNeile, a distinguished soldier in the service of the Honourable East India Company and Mary Harriet McNeile of Parkmount, Co. Antrim who became the wife of Earl Cairns (1819 - 1895) Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, at one time a rival of Disraeli for leadership of the Conservative Party. Other descendants were John McNeile one of the founders of the Northern Bank, Herman Cyril McNeile (1888 -1937) better known as “Sapper”, the creator of Bulldog Drumond, and Hugh McNeile (1795 - 1879) Dean of Ripon, a very well known Churchman in his day

——————— (7) John became proprietor of Faughart in County Louth

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—————————(9) Sir Benjamin McNeil

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—————(5)  Ronald MacAllister m. Anne McDonald of Kingsburgh. The progenitor of the McAlisters of Glenbar, Kintyre. When he was at the  Kingsburgh House, Flora McDonald brought the Prince disguised as Betty Burke to lodge there as the place of her future husband (?) Ronald was the progenitor of the McAlisters of Glenbarr, Kintyre. And Colonel Alexander McAllister’s brother Hector who had returned to Arran from Carolina was on the list of those Jacobite sympathisers most wanted by the Government. The family for two hundred years has continued to serve the state and the community. The recitation of the battles in which they have fought and in many cases died, in the West Indies, America, Canada, South Africa, India and Europe reads like a handbook on British history. Successive McNeiles have been High Sheriffs of Antrim while the present Hector Macneal of Losset in serving as a Deputy Lieutenant of Argyll carries on a continuous family tradition founded by Baron Neal Of Ugadale, his direct ancestor

——————(6) Dugald (of Losset) Neil’s cousin was one of the leaders of the 1739 emigration to North Carolina

——————(6) Dugald’s sister m. Coll McAllister of Balinakill (another leader of the emigration) their son

———————(7) Alexander McAllister reputed in North Carolina during the Revolution

——————(6) John of Losset served with Dugald in the Horse Guards, then later, Controller of Customs at Fort William, rejoining the army at fonteroy with the Black Watch (the 43^rd regiment)

———————(7) Hector “The Harp” McNeill (1746-1818)

————(4)(youngest) loses son Lachlan in Jamaica  d.1798   Captain Hector Macneal, a merchant shipmaster, who for at least twenty five years sailed and traded between Boston, the West Indies, the African Coast and Bristol. The correspondence between the brothers sheds some light on the origins of the Carolina Settlement

————(4) (?)Mary Anne McPherson owned the Mount Pleasant, Philadelphia

(Then?) Mary married a kinsman Donald McNeill of Crear who exchanged these old Knapdale lands with the Earl of Argyll for the island of Colonsay

—————(5) colm founded the Colonsay family from which descended Ina, Duchess of Argyll

—————(5) Neil - progenitor of the McNeills of Ardnacross from which family comes Jane McNeill present  Duchess of Buccleuch

————(4) Elizabeth married John Campbell of Kildalloig together have a daughter  

—————(5) Annabella

——————(6) Captain Rob Captain Robert Stewart is a friend of General George Washington

——————(6) Peter Stewart becomes Chief Justice of Prince Edward Island

———(4) Torquil who married Barbara, the last of the MacKays of Ugadale who held land under a Charter of King Robert the Bruce, traditionally held that the land piece was given to the ancestor by the King fugitive. Lachlan of Tirfergus' fourth son Torquil acquired Ugadale by marriage with the heiress Barbara McKay, whose family according to some authorities preceded Somerled in Kintyre and who held their lands under a charter of Robert Bruce. On Torquil's death he was succeeded by his son Neil who stabilised the spelling of the family name in his branch as McNeal, later extended to MacNeal

—————(5)(Baron) Neil McNeil is the grandson of Old Lachlan’s second daughter Isabel.   (possibly changing the spelling in course to McNeal.) Acquired Losset land from cousin Dugald and a romance with Margaret Crawford (sister of Viscount Garnock.)  In garrison at inveraray while cousin Machrihanish commanded a company of the Argyll Militia in the disaster of Falkirk. Neil was taken prisoner along with Torquil mcVicar who died of injuries when escaping Doune Castle Neil, known as "the Baron" took over the Bonds on Losset granted by his cousin Dugald and eventually acquired that estate where he norly resided, so founding the family of MacNeal of Ugadale and Losset

——————(6) ?/ Neil McNeill of Ardelay in Gigha is the fifth named. His wife was Grizel Campbell, a cousin of Kilduskiand and of Hector's widow,while his daughter Florence married  Alexander, Coll's youngest son and Dugald Lossett's nephew. He sold Ardelay in 1738 to John McLachlan in Daill in Islay

——————(6) Torquil McVicar, the son of Baron Neil’s sister Elizabeth and Revd. John McVicar of Kildalton, Islay was a member of Council and Commander of the Militia in Tobago during the French wars

——————(6) Among the prisoners taken there was Neil, a brother of Torquil McVicar, who died of injuries suffered when escaping from Doune Castle

————(4) Isabell m. David jr. Sim(p)son of Kilchoman and of Killean and Southend who was exiled to New Jersey where he died in 1695  "steadfast in the faith"

—————(5) Duglad McNeal (father in law of Coll McAllister) two of the 1739 leaders while his grandson Rev. Neil Simpson of Gigha married Mary daughter of colm McNeill in Skeroblin - a family well represented among early settlers, (and who were differentiated in North Carolina by the title of the Scribblin McNeills). Coll McAllister, was fiar of Ballinakill. He was closely related to the McAllisters of Loup. His father, Ronald in Dunskeig, who acquired Ballinakill in 1717 is  buried in Clachan, his name being added to a mediaeval stone presumably erected to an ancestor. (7) Coll, too, sold his lands to finance the venture

Among the eight persons reported by the Surveyor of Customs in Campbeltown as having been concerned in the rebellion of 1745/6 was James Bain Fullarton, described as Merchant, Glencloy, Arran and who was Hector's father-in-law and Hector McAllister, also Merchant of Glencloy who was presumably the same Hector .Coll's younger son Alexander was an outstanding citizen. He was a founder elder of Bluff Church in which the first  minister was the Campteltonian James Campbell He was Colonel of the Cumberland County Militia in the Revolution, a member of important State Committees and a member of the North Carolina Senate. His correspondence (written from his estate of Barmore named after the home of the McAlisters of Tarbert) with his chief Angus McAllister of Loup, his brother Hector and others in Scotland show him to have been a perfervid American patriot.

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—————(5) Margaret married Archibald Campbell of Askomil having 2 sons

——————(6) one, Rt. Hon. Henry Colvill Montgomery Campbell, Bishop of London. 

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