Posted: 7:23 PM - Aug 11, 1999
i must commend you on your site and say a big hello to all my fellow clans people. does anyone know where i can get a copy of "The Book of Mackay"?
I don't know myself where to get a copy of this book but I would be interested in it as well.
I've heard it mentioned among the Mackays who went to Nova Scotia. Seems many of the different families can trace to that book.
I don't know if our Robert can be connected or not. We don't know much about his early life. It's believed that he was born on this continent. I'm guessing New Jersey since his children were born there.
I also suggested a possible Nova Scotia connection but this would have to be an earlier connection than the Hector passengers. Robert was born around 1680 and it's believed that his father or grandfather may have been the immigrant.
Old genealogies used to say Robert came from Belfast, Ireland but they have all of the dates wrong and the Quaker records (of which Robert was a member) disagree with that statement. He was here before the dates mentioned in these genealogies and also he was here before the Jacobite troubles so our family obviously didn't participate in them.