Hello!

I am aware of the various spellings of MacMillan - the ones I use here are those used by my family or commonly in what references we have seen. For instance, most of the earliest records from my family seem to be McMullen, but from the mid 1800's, it is consistently McMillen in my family's records. My grandmother's maiden name was McMillen, and her father, and his father are pretty well documented.

While I have seen reference to McMillen and McMullen being more often connected with Ireland, and Mac'Mhaoillan as the origin for the surname, clanmacmillan.org has my line within it's index, with William "the Colonist" McMullen, 1730(?)-1794. He seems to have been from Kintyre. To make matters worse, my grandmother was fond of referring to us as Scots-Irish, though that likely was family connections to Scotland (hers) and supposed Irish heritage on my grandfather's side. I know this is not the correct definition of Scots-Irish, but there are plenty of Americans who use it this way - my grandmother may have been one.

If there are other McMillens (or other spellings...) connected with the pioneer families of TN and MO, and care to connect and share stories, please do!