County, Ohio, and visit Massie Creek Cemetery, where the first log Covenanter Church was built in 1812, and where the Rev. Hugh McMillan with his flock around him, now lies buried. Many another McMillan monument will be there, and many another name greatly revered, because they were so closely associated with the family, and because they, too, formed a part of a great religious tradition. Today this people—your people and mine—are no longer living under former conditions. Not many are now living in Greene County, Ohio. They are to be found the world over—but wherever they are living, and whatever their task in life may be, in their hearts they are still a “Covenanting people,” for to this end they were born, and to this end were they dedicated by their “Covenanter” forebears. III. THE MacMILLAN homestead 1828—1953 This more intimate and informal narrative, is not written for the public, and will be of limited interest to other closely related members of the family, who did not actually participate in the happenings which are recorded. It will be of special interest to those still living, who have memories centered around the old home on Columbus Pike, in Green County, Ohio, and their descendants, who at some future time may become curious to know what manner of people their forebears were. ******* David McMillan, founder of the MacMillan Homestead, was the fifth child of Hugh and Jane Harvey McMillan, who came to Chester, S. C. from County Antrim, Ireland in 1786. David was born in 1789, probably the first of Hugh McMillan’s children to be born in America. April 2, 1812, he married Nancy Wright, daughter of David and Mary Wright of Chester, S. C. The Wrights were Scotch Covenanters who preceded the McMillans in coming to America, and who had representatives of the family to fight in the War for Independence. David’s failure to acquire a formal education which Gavin, an older brother and Hugh, a younger brother, received, was 18
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