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Stephen Michael MacLean's personal thoughts are that Jane and Margaret died of smallpox on their journey from Pennsylvania with their father and mother to Rowan County, North Carolina, settling in the Dobbin Neighborhood about eight miles from Salisbury.

Stephen Michael MacLean's personal thoughts are that Jane and Margaret died of smallpox on their journey from Pennsylvania with their father and mother to Rowan County, North Carolina, settling in the Dobbin Neighborhood about eight miles from Salisbury.

Dobbin Neighborhood

"Shortly after their arrival here (Dobbin Neighborhood), their son John was born, and about a year later William was born."

"On the 19th of June, 1792, Dr. William was married to Mary Davidson, the third daughter of John Davidson. They were married in the Davidson home by the Reverend James McRee. Her father was Major John Davidson, who was one of the signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Let us remember here the many marriages between the MacLean and Davidson families."

"It is also interesting to note that his (William's) will asks that he be buried by his father and mother. They were buried in Smith's Graveyard below Belmont, North Carolina, but he was buried at Bethel Churchyard in York County, Sourth Carolina.
"He also requested that a stone be put at his father's grave, but it was generations later that a stone was erected to Alexander MacLean, Pioneer, born 1709, died 1796, and also his wife Elizabeth."