Rev. D. B. Blair, "Urquhart men in Nova Scotia," printed in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness 53 (1982-84)

The manuscript Rev. Dr Duncan Black Blair, minister at Blue Mountain, Pictou County, wrote for William Mackay about 1890. “William MacMillan, the brother of Ann, wife of Donald Campbell, married Penuel MacDougall, the sister of John MacDougall the elder at Blue Mountain. He emigrated to Nova Scotia from Glenurquhart in 1818, and took up his residence at the South River of Antigonish … After his death, his widow with the youngest son Alpine removed to Illinois in the United States” (pp. 448-449). The elder John McDougall “was the youngest son of John McDougall and Euphemia Bethune, who lived at a place called Ailean mór in Glenurquhart”; his sisters included “Penuel who married William MacMillan and came to Antigonish” (p. 446). Their father “was a blacksmith and it seems had some connection with the army or Volunteers; for he lived in Edinburgh with the Regiment to which he belonged and there he died”; the youngest son was born after his death, on 15 Mar 1805 (pp. 446-447). Dobson’s Directory of Scottish Settlers cites this source. (research/mcmillan/McMillan_Humphrey_Bell_Connections.md)