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Subject: Re: [MACK] Mack - Ireland bef 1800
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 18:27:50 EST


My 7th ggfather was John Mack b. March 6, 1653 in Inverness Scotland and I
understand that the Macks were a very powerful family once controlling land
in central and northern Scotland. As a result of the war with England most of
the clan was slaughtered and the ones that survived were pressed into the
English army or exiled to Ireland and America. My John Mack married Sarah
Bagley on March 2, 1661/1662 in Boston, MA. They first settled in Salisbury,
MA then moved on to Concord, MA and finally Lyme, CT. They had 12 children,
five of which were boys, so the Mack name continued to flourish in CT and
eventually spreading to Canada (some were Loyalists) and to other parts of
New England and points west.

I don't have any info on the Mack/Campbell relationship other than a personal
one. My mother was a Campbell born in Northport, NS in 1912. She imigrated to
MA in her late teens and married my father in 1940. The Campbell name is very
common in Nova Scotia and PEI.

Lawrence Mack

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