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3. Angus ("Donn")
M'millan [041]1 was
born about 1734 in Loch Quoich, INV., SCT.2
He lived in Lot 23, Con. 6 Lochiel Twp., Glengarry Co., ON, CAN before 1809.
He died in 1838 in Lochiel Twp, Glengarry Co., ON, CAH.
NOTES BY ALLAN MacMILLAN, TORONTO: Angus Donn McMillan was one of the 5 Corriebuigh
McMillans who emigrated from Loch Quoich, Scotland in 1773 to New York Province
in America. There were 5 Corriebuigh McMillan brothers in this emigrating party,
Dougald, Alexander, Angus, Hugh and Peter (or Patrick). They are believed to
have settled on the Kortright Patent in Tryon County (now Delaware County) located
between the Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers. Dougald died in New York in 1779.
The other McMillan families, remaining loyal to the British Crown, were interned
as "tories" at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in 1776.
They were repatriated to Britain in 1783 and are believed to have gone to the
area around Stewartstown, in Tyrone County, Ireland (Northern). In 1792, the
surviving Corriebuigh brothers and families re-emigrated across the Atlantic,
this time to Glengarry County in Upper Canada adjoining the Quebec (Lower Canada)
border.
John McMillan, the 78th Fraser Highlander veteran, who married Catherine
McMillan, a daughter of Angus Donn, is believed to have been part of the original
Corriebuigh emigration to America in 1773. He and Catherine and their 4 children
are certainly listed in the passenger list on the ship transporting them to Canada
in 1792. In fact, John McMillan and family are listed at the head of the list
of the remaining 4 Corriebuigh brothers.
According to recent information obtained from Harold MacMillan of Hawkesbury,
Ont., there originally may have been 8 Corriebuigh brothers, and of these, 3
brothers are likely to have emigrated to Canada at later dates than the 1773
emigration (to New York Province). One of these other Corriebuigh brothers was
a certain Duncan McMillan. Harold MacMillan also asserts that Angus Donn McMillan
took up land at Lot 31, Con. 8, Lochiel and that it was Alexander "Cooper"
McMillan whose original lot was 23.6 L. He later bought the farm property at
25.5 L. which became the ancestral homestead of his branch of the Corriebuigh
McMillans. Angus ("Donn") M'millan [041] had the following children:
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