Hi Sandy, Maybe a clue here. Hope this helps. REF: The Clan MacNeil...pub.1923...by The Caledonian Pub. Co. Page 141 While the great majority of the Clansmen emigrating to America went direct to the northern or southern settlements, there were, of course, many whose families had first gone from Scotland to Ireland and then on to the Colonies. Of these was the family of Hermon Atkins MacNeil, whose ancestors, Abraham and Jane MacNeil, left Argyllshire and settled for a short time in Bellemooney, County Antrim, leaving for Derryfield, now Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1750, accompanied by their four year old son, William. In 1765, William, and his mother and two sisters, removed to New Boston, New Hampshire, where he married Rachael, daughter of Peter Patterson of Lon- donderry, with issue: James, Jane, Grissel, Abraham, Rachael, Peter, John, Betsey, Sally, and Janette. Peter married Mary Stiles, of Amherst, and had eleven children: Mary Jane, H. Elizabeth, William, C. Granville, John Clinton, Rachael Patterson, Abby Stiles, Peter Patterson, Hariet, Newell, and Lydia Shaw. Regards, Ken McNeill Washington, NH sandra hawkins wrote: > Trying to place my ancestor Grandmother, Mary F. McNeil into the right > family. Born in New Boston, 1787 and believed to be a grandchild of > William the school teacher. Anyone know where she belongs? > > Sandy