My Maternal 5th. Scottish Great Grandmother, Catherine MacLean (Linderman)

 

                                                                Rothesay, Argyll, Scotland

Rothesay, Argyll, Scotland

My 5th. great maternal Scottish grandmother, Catherine MacLean (Linderman).
Born: 1724 in Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland.

Christened: 2 April 1724 in Jura, Argyll, Scotland

Daughter of Hugh MacLean (aka McLean) and Margaret Campbell of Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland.

Hugh (Hew) (McLean) MacLean was born in April 1699 in Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland.

Margaret Campbell (MacLean) was born in about 1701 in Scotland.

Children: (13) Elizabeth "Bette" (Bentzel), Cornelius, Cornelia (twin of Cornelius), Peter, Johannes "John", Jacob, Henrik, David, Sarah "Sallie" (Young), Ezekiel (my maternal 4th. great grandfather) , Catherine (Morton), Jason, and Mary "Polly" (Osmun) Linderman.

Died: 9 Nov. 1792 in Montgomery, Orange, New York, United States

Buried: 10 Nov. 1792 in GERMANTOWN CEMETERY, Montgomery, Orange, New York, United States.

GERMANTOWN CEMETERY, Montgomery, Orange, New York, USA

(site of the Hebron Lutheran Church and Burial Ground (Harrison Meeting). Log church built by Palatine Germans. Destroyed prior to American Revolution. Among those buried here are members of the Bookstaver, Miller, Mould, Risely, Shafer, Smith, and Youngblood families. "These were the people who conquered a virgin wilderness and gave their lives to establish our great nation and the town of Montgomery." Most stones are unmarked)

Hugh and Margaret (Campbell) MacLean had one child that I know of: Catherine MacLean (Linderman). 

They emigrated from Scotland in about 1740 to Pennsylvania.

Wife of Johann Jacob Linderman. Married in 1743 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Johann and Catherine had twelve (12) children: Justus, Elisabeth, Cornelius, Cornelia, Jacob, Peter, Henrik "Henry", Sarah, Ezekiel, Peggy, Jenny, and Catharine Linderman.

All born in Montgomery, Orange County, New York, United States. 

Emigrated from Rothesay, Argyll and Bute, Scotland before 1743 to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America.

She and my maternal 5th. great grandfther, Johann Jacob Linderman, helped to build these United States.

He served in the American Revolutionary War from 1775-1783 in Pennslyvania, British Colonial America.

Catherine as his wife, deserves mention also, because she suffered along with her husband, and birthed thirteen children for him. They survived in a harse wilderness.

                            Lancaster County, Farmland, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America