Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Macneil (and variant spellings) descendants of Nial Noigiallach, who ruled from Barra as High King of Ireland ca. 379-427 A.D. It is one of the oldest clans in Scotland. Clan MacNeil has ties to the island of Barra, tracing its lineage back to the O'Neils of Ulster who came to Barra from Ireland ca. 1000. There were also branches of MacNeils on the Inner Hebridean islands of...

Salmon Johnson was born 26 April 1767. He married Mary Tozer (1773- 1846), daughter of Elishama Tozer, at Whitehall, New York. They had ten children. In 1824, the Johnsons, with four unmarried children and three married daughters, with their husbands and children, moved from Factoryville, Tioga County, New York, to Quaker Bottom, Lawrence County, Ohio. In 1826 they moved across the state and settled at Amherst, Ohio, known at that time as Black River...

Francis Akeley, a immigrant ancestor, was living at Boston, Massachusetts, by 1750, when he married Tabitha Bull there. They had nine children, 1751-1769. He was one of the citizens of Boston who disguised themselves as Indians and threw tea in Boston Harbor in 1773. He died of wounds received in the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775 at about age 45. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois, Washington, Maine,...