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 710 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 2nd Battalion of Glengnrry Militia, in tlio war of 1812-1-1. He m. Janet, daughter of Alexander MACDOM!LL,*of Aherchalder, cap- tain 1st Battalion King's Eoyal Regiment of New York, and sister of Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonell, one of tlie most distin- guished loyalist oHieers of the Kevolutionnry war, and subsequently Lieutenant-Colonel 2nd Battalion E.C.V. Eegiment of Foot, and speaker of the first House of Assembly of Upper Canada, and d. 1819, haTing by her had issue, I. Hugh. d. unm. at the Scots Cottage, Valladolid, Spain. II. Angus, was murdered in the conflicts between Lord Selkirk's Company and tiie North-West Company, of which lalter he was a partner; he d. unm. III. Duncan, of whom presently. IV. John, M.P. for Glengarry, and Attorney-General of U]i|ier Canada, b. 19th April, 1785, seiTcd as colonel of Militia and military secretary and A.D.C. to Major-General Sir Isaac i?te Isles, quotes from the well known Scottish authority, Mrs. Grant of Loggan, who wrote, " A few such lingering instances of the old superior Higliland dress continued to be seen as late as the end of the last century, one of its latest examples being afforded by Macdonell of Greenfield ' Ccann Tighe' of a cadet house of the Glengarry family, who in the latter part of the last century was celebrated for his handsome person, his courtly address, his exploits as a deer stalker, and general character as a model of the Highland gentleman living in his time. He is described by several of the old peojile by whom he was remembered, as dressed invariably in Highland garb, a short round ' cola goirid.' a bonnet plumed with a tuft of ostrich feather, the belted plaid worn over the trews. The House of Greenfield stood in a beautiful, romantic situation near the head of Lochgarry, on a green knoll, since occupied by the hunting lodge, built by the late Glengarry for deer stalking, of Sliabh-garbh." New York, settled on the River St. Lawrence, in Charlottenburg, and built there Glengarry House, which was burnt in 1813. He had issue, I. John, captain in Butler's Rangers, first member, with his brother, of the Legislative Assembly for Glengarry, 1792 ; Speaker of the first House of Assembly of Upper Canada ;" was lieutenant-colonel commanding 2nd Battalion Royal Canadian Volunteer Regiment of Foot (which was disbanded at the Peace of Amiens in 1802) ; lie m. the daughter of Yates, of Schenectady, New York, and left issue, Alexander, major Lancaster Regiment of Glengarry Higlilanders, served in the 1837 rebellion, and had issue, two daughters, of whom one survives. Colonel Matthews, for many years militnry secretary to Sir Frederick Haldimand and Sir Guy Carleton (Lord Dorchester) during the Revolutionary war of the United States, i776-83, in a letter addressed lotheUnder Secretary for War bore the following testimony to the services of Colonel John Macdonell during that eventful time. " When the rebellion broke out they were the first l o lly to arms on the part of the Government, in which they and their "adherents— not less than 200 men — took a most active and decided lead, leaving thtir families and property at the mercy of the rebels. I was at that time quartered at Niagara and an eye-witness of the gallant and successful exertions of the Macdonells and their dependents, by which in a great measure the L^pper Country of Canada was preserved. Captain Macdonell's father and uncle, at that time advanced in years, had companies in that corps, and in which his elder brother, afterwards an active and distinguished partizan, carried arms. The sons of both families, five or six in number, the moment they could bear arms, followed the bright example of their father, and soon became active and useful ofTiccrs in that, and another corps of Rangers whose strength and services greatly contributed to unite the Indians of the five nations in the interest of Government, and thereby decidedly to save the Upper Country of Canada and our Indian trade." II. Hugh Macdonell, a lieutenant of the King's Royal Regiment, of New York, was elected with his brother, first member of the Legislative Assembly for Glengarry ; was a Captain Royal Canadian Volunteer Regiment, and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Glengarry Militia R-egiment in 1803 ; was first Adjutant-General of Militia in Upper Canada, 1811 to 1820. He was afterwards Consul-General at Algiers. He m. first, the daughter of — HrGiiES, and secondly, the daughter of Admiral Ulrich, Danish Consul-General at Algiers, and by her, who m. secondly, the DrKE DE Talleyrand- rEKiGOED, and d. 1870, he had, with eight daughters, two sous, 1. Alexander (Sir), K.C.B., general in the army, colonel commanding 2nd Biittalion Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade, b. 1820, enteied the army 23rd June, 1837, and became general, 1st April, 1882. Sir Alexander served with the Rifle Brigade in the Kaflir war of 1846-7 (medal), throughout the Eastern campaign of 1854, as A.D.C. to Sir George Brown, was present at Balaklava, Alma, and Inkerman ; commanded the 2nd Battalion of his regiment from May, 1855, to the fall of Sel astopol, including the defence of the Quarries, and the assaults on the Redan (medal, with three clasps, brevets of major aud lieutenant - colonel,
 * Alexander Macdonell, of Aherchalder, a captain in the King's Royal Regiment of