On the 19th of June, 1792, Dr. McLean married Mary, daughter of Major John Davidson, one of the signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.  In 1814 he was elected to the Senate from Lincoln county.  In 1815 he delivered an address at King’s Mountain, commemorative of the battle at that place, and caused to be erected, at his own expense, a plain headstone of dark slate rock, with appropriate inscriptions on both sides.  The inscription on the east side reads thus:  “Sacred to the memory of Major William Chronicle, Capt.  John Mattocks, William Robb and John Boyd, who were killed here on the 7th of October, 1780, fighting in defence of America.”  The inscription on the west side reads thus:  “Colonel Ferguson, an officer belonging to his Brittanic Majesty, was here defeated and killed.”

Dr. McLean, after a life of protracted usefulness, died with peaceful resignation on the 25th of October, 1828, in the seventy-second year of his age.  His wife survived him many years, being nearly ninety-seven years old at the time of her death.  They were both long, worthy and consistant members of the Presbyterian church, dignified their lives with their professions, and are buried in Bethel Graveyard, York county, S.C.

MAJOR WILLIAM CHRONICLE.

Major William Cronicle, the soldier and martyr to the cause of liberty at King’s Mountain, was born in the south eastern part of Lincoln county (now Gaston) about 1755.  His mother was first married to a Mr. McKee in Pennsylvania, who afterwards removed to North Carolina and settled in Mecklenburg county.  By this marriage she had one son, James McKee, a soldier of the revolution, and ancestor of the several families of that name in the neighborhood of Armstrong’s Ford, on the South Fork of the Catawba.  After McKee’s death, his widow married Mr. Chronicle, by whom she had an only son, William, who afterward performed a magnanimous part in defence of his country’s rights.  The site of the old family mansion is still pointed out by the oldest inhabitants with feelings of lingering veneration.  “There,” they will tell you, “is the spot where old Mr. Chronicle lived and his brave son, William, was brought up.”  The universal testimony of all who knew Major Chronicle represented him as the constant, never-tiring advocate of liberty, and as exerting a powerful influence in spreading the principles of freedom throughout the whole lower portion of old Lincoln county.  His jovial turn of mind and winning manners, by gaining the good will of all, greatly assisted in making successful his appeals to their patriotism, and promoting the cause of liberty in which he had so zealously embarked.