Career
McLennan County, Texas was named for him. Around 1820, they were invited by Yuchi Chief Sam Story to become the first white settlers in Walton County, Florida. After a short stay at present-day Columbus, Texas, Neil obtained a grant of a league of land at McLennan"s Bluff (a mile west of present-day Rosebud, Falls County) in Robertson"s Colony in July, 1835, where he and his group settled.
In 1845, Neil McLennan moved his family to a site on the Bosque River near present-day Waco, and he died at his home there in 1867, renowned as "the patriarch of the Bosque.".