Background
McLean"s father, Donald McLean, was born in Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland. Daniel McLean married Lucretia Hodgkinson, daughter of Bethana Hodgkinson and Catherine Zimmermam.
McLean"s father, Donald McLean, was born in Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland. Daniel McLean married Lucretia Hodgkinson, daughter of Bethana Hodgkinson and Catherine Zimmermam.
Daniel and Lucretia McLean were the parents of several children, including Wilmer McLean whose house in Appomattox, Virginia the Civil-War Peace Treaty was signed under. They bought some property in the south side of Old Town. In 1804, Daniel was a vestry at General
George Washington"s Christ Church, where Daniel owned the cemetery lot on the church"s yard.
lieutenant was not long and Daniel McLean became a well established businessman in Alexandria while owning one of the two sugar refineries in Alexandria, located on 111 - 123 North Alfred Street. He later bought the Old Sugar House, where he and his family resided until 1847 when the house was finally auctioned.
The refineries no longer exist. Some died at young age before marrying while others married into other early families of the area.
Samuel McLean (1797–1881) was the Consul for Trinidad de Cuba, marrying to the Johnston family first and later to the Smoot family.
Eliza McLean (1800–1884), the oldest daughter of the couple, married into the Alexander Family to whom the name of the city (Alexandria) was coined. Lucretia McLean (1802–1881) Married into the Kerr Family, a traditional family among old-Scottish family clans. Catherine McLean (1807–1859) married to the Hooe Family of the first mayor of the incorporated Alexandria---1779 (ie Robert Townsend Hooe"s family).
Hannah Agnes McLean (1810–1886) married to the Cleary Family
Anthony McLean (1812–1893) worked for the Treasury Department having married to the Mackason family
Wilmer McLean (1814–1882), of "The McLean Home" in Virginia"s National Park at Appomattox, Virginia. Wilmer was a United States Federal Marshal during the United States Federal Census for Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1850.