M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-02-05
From tho PennsYlynnian.
lIr. BuChanan's Ancestors


An Irish paper, the Londonderry
Standard, gives the following account
Of the ancestry of the President elect.
We know nothing of its correctness,
but as it possesses some interest, we
publish it here:
" James Buchanan is now President
of the United States, and a brief no.
tice of his historical lineage may not
be uninteresting to some of our read
es. The Clan Buchanan, though To-
Gated In the Highlands of Scotland,
since the tenth century, derives its
name from the 0'Kanes Of County
Derry, according to the Oldest archives
and traditions, as published in the year
1928, by William Buchanan, of Auch-
mar, under the title Of An Historical
and Genealogical Essay upon the Fam
lily and Surname of Buchanan This
volume was reprinted in Edinburgh in
ITS, and it contains the accredited
history of the sect, as drawn up by one
of its chiefs from documentary and
other sources.
"The story is briefly this /: Asian
Buldhe O'Kane was one OF the Irish
youths who, in the habit ofladies, had
attended the celebrated banquet given
by Turgestus, the Danish general, to
his officers, and who, with concealed
daggers under their dresses, dispatch
cd their british enemies when the lat
ter imagined they had in prospect on
ly scenes of drunken RIGHTEOUSNESS.
When the Danes recovered from the
surprise into which they had been
thrown by the slaughter Of their lead
ere, they inflicted terrible revenge up
OF the native Irish, and Asian O'Kane
with small band ofattendants, pass
ed over to the north of Argyleshire,
near the Lennox, where he settled,
and soon after distinguished himself
in the service ofthe Scottish Monarch
in two battles against the Danes of
England. Extensive lands were con-
sequently assigned to Asian and his
followers, who, during two centuries
afterwards, were called Mac Asian
in modern photography M'Caus-
land, this having been the original de-
signation of the clan Buchanan. The
name Buchanan appears in the tirst
instance to have been territorial
'BuaM CRuanain'-.- -Ohanun'S Con
guest, and 1t was not till the thir-
teenth century that it was assumed as
surname, portion of the clan, how
ever, still maintaining their ancient
family name Of Mac Asian. In an
cient charters the name of Buchanan
frequently appears as { O'Quabuanan,
c III Qhuanain, } with the regular Irish
prefix, meaning descendants Of Guam.
an, or Conan and between them and
the Duhgiven O'Kanes, friendly re-
cognition Of kindred, according to our
author, was constantly maintained.
The powerful clan in question was di-
vided eventually into the leading fam
lilies of Auchmar, Arnpryor, Drunk
i'll, Lenny Carbeth, Anchneven, &c;
and from these two principal stems
branched of, in the course Of time, a
considerable number of sub-denomina-
tions, as the 'M'Causlands,' M'Mil-
lans, M'Waties, M'Robbs, M'Coli-
mans, M'Aldins, q section of the
M'Kinleys, { sons of Finlay, &c,
&c. The ancestors of the principal
families of M'Causland in the north of
Ireland are stated by our author to
have been Andrew and John Mac
Auselan, SONS Of the Baron Mac Aus
elan, who went out Of the parish Of
Luss to kingdom in the latter part Of
the reign of James W. Alexander,
a son Of Andrew Mac Auselan, held
commission in the army during the
civil wars in the reign Of Charles l.,
and he acquired, partly by debenture
and partly by purchase, the estate or
Resi- and Ardstraw, in the county Of
Tyrone @ II
Amongst the ancestors of Mr.. Bu-
chanan'sin Ulster, our author men
tions Robert, son of the laird of
Blairheanchan, a cadet of the Drumi-
kill family, "who went to Ireland and
resided in Gleumaqueen, in the coun-
ty of Derby," as a cadet of the Drum
bred family, named George, who is
said to have resided in the neighbor-
hood of Raphoe. This gentleman we
are informed, purchased q pretty
good interestin that Kingdom" and
had two sons, Of whom "tbe eldest
succeeded to his interest; the young
est was clergyman" From Finly,
son of Patrick Buchanan, called
'C0uiTpi,' or the champion, in con-
sequence of his daring character are
descended Alexander Buchanan, fa-
ther to james Buchanan, nowof Gre
mannan, who, his sons, resides in Ire
land the author adding In a subse.
quent passage, of Patrick, the fourth
son Of Patrick, the Courrui, is descen-
ded Fihly Buchanan, in LagganT of
Tyrconnell, in Ireland, who has some
bretdren, and other relations Of that