Coll MCALESTER

• BIRTH: 1688, ,,,Scotland
• DEATH: 1740, ,,North Carolina

1. Hector MCALLISTER
2. Alexander MCALLISTER
3. Mary MCALLISTER
4. Grisella "Grissie" MCALLISTER
5. Isabella MCALLISTER
6. Ann MCALLISTER

                     _Ronald MCALISTER _
 _Ronald MCALESTER _|
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|--Coll MCALESTER 
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|_Mary MCNEILL _____|
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Notes

Coll was one of a group of merchant venturers who bought a boat in 1739, filled it with farmers, tradesmen and poor "aristocrats" and sailed directly from Kintyre to Wilmington, NC. They moved up the Cape Fear River in barges, to the location of present-day Bluff Church. As they moved up the river, various families were landed on either side. (Robert M. McAllister, Historian, The Clam McAlister of America).

According to the journal article cited above, the ship was the "Thistle" of Saltcoats, Ayrshire, and it sailed from Campbelltown and Gigha on 6 June, 1739. There were five Scottish gentlemen (the other four Campbells and McNeills, mostly relations by marriage) and some 90 poor families, totaling 350 souls in all. In 1740, these gentlemen were given large land grants and exemption from taxes together with a money grant to help establish themselves in their new country. This was the first large emigration of Scots settlers to America reorded, and all came from the mainland of Kintyre and the adjacent islands of Islay, Gigha and Jura.

John Alexander MCLEAN

1. Julius MCLEAN
2. Rufus MCLEAN
3. Sallie MCLEAN
4. Lonnie MCLEAN

                 _Duncan MCLEAN ___
 _Coll MCLEAN __|
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|--John Alexander MCLEAN 
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|_Annie ATKINS _|
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(__) SMITH

1. Sallie NEVITT

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Larkin COSTIN

1. Etta Ann COSTIN
2. Fred COSTIN
3. Eva May COSTIN

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