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In 1770, Gilbert McMillan and wife Christian (Taylor) McMillan left Scotland and arrived in North Carolina and settled in Robeson County, NC. They had 1 son (Archibald) and 7 daughters. The most well-documented daughter is Effie McMillan who married John Gilchrist.
The only son, Archibald, married Catherine McArthur and disappears from sight. He has one well-documented son, John ”Florida John” McMillan, who in 1827 married his first cousin(once removed) Mary Gilchrist McPhaul in Robeson County, NC. They relocated to Gadsden County, Florida before 1830, along with several of Mary McPhaul’s brothers and cousins. A John McMillan received his first land grant in Gadsden County in 1827. On the 1830 census, John McMillan has a number of unknown adults in his household, including an elderly man and woman.
In addition to Florida John, Archibald McMillan also had a son named Duncan. On 10/20/1835, Duncan McMillan receives a land grant in Gadsden County adjacent to Randal Johnson.
On May 26, 1835, Elizabeth McMillan, also of Gadsden County, leaves her estate to “my nephew, John McMillan, son of my brother." Elizabeth doesn’t name her brother, but she only had one (Archibald), so probably considered it unnecessary.
In 1833, Randal Johnson and wife Jane of Gadsden County give land they own in Robeson County, NC “for love and affection” to Margaret McMillan, residing in Gadsden County. She apparently returned to Robeson and married Archibald Smith, to whom she deeds the land.
In October, 1846, Catherine McMillan dies at age 80 and is buried in Gadsden County in the old McMillan cemetery. She has been mistakenly identified as John’s wife, rather than his mother, on some internet sites.
On the 1850 Gadsden County census, a widow Margaret McMillan and her children live adjacent to Randal and Jane Johnson.
It is my belief that Archibald McMillan, his wife Catherine, and several of his children and sisters accompanied Florida John McMillan to Gadsden County, and that Randall Johnson’s wife, Jane is also a McMillan. Florida John McMillan died in 1866, but he left many descendents. I’m hoping one of you has a clue that will help me determine how my ancestors, Randal and Jane Johnson, are related to the McMillans.
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