100 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
will be resurrected from their long sleep in some dusty pigeon hole 
in old London. 
Glengarry— This county then included the present county of 
Glengarry, and also the land north to the Ottawa in the county of 
Prescott. The first riding included the township of Charlottenburg 
(formerly called No. 1), and the second riding comprehended the rest 
of the county. The latter therefore would include the few settlers 
in Lancaster and those residing in the rear of the county as far as 
the Ottawa River. The two members selected were the brothers, 
John Macdonell and Hugh Macdonell. 
The Macdonells of Aberchalder came out to America at the 
solicitation of Sir William Johnson and received grants of lands in 
the Mohawk Valley. Alexander Macdonell, the father, had been 
an aide-de-camp to Prince Charles Stuart in 1745. Sir John Johnson 
raised in New-York the celebrated body of Loyalist soldiers known 
as the King’s Royal Regiment of New York (Johnson’s Royal Greens), 
Alexander Macdonell became captain of the first battalion of this 
regiment. His brother also was an officer in the regiment. Their 
sons followed in their fathers’ footsteps and enlisted in the same 
regiment, in the Royal Highland Emigrant Regiment, and in Butler’s 
Rangers. 
John Macdonell, after serving as lieutenant in the 84th, or Royal 
Highland Emigrant Regiment, was, for five years and ten months 
captain in Butler’s Rangers. When the Royal Canadian Volunteer 
Regiment of Foot was organized in Canada in 1796, John Macdonell 
was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 2nd battalion. This was 
the first corps raised in Upper Canada. The first battalion was 
raised in Lower Canada under Lieutenant-Colonel de Longueuil and 
Major Louis de Salaberry. 
The younger brother, Hugh Macdonell, was lieutenant in the 
1st Battalion of the King’s Royal Regiment of New York, and served 
in that corps for seven years. When the R. C. Volunteers were 
organized, Hugh Macdonell commanded a company under his brother, 
Col. John. He was shortly after appointed captain in the 2nd Bat- 
talion, and in 1803, was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Glengarry Militia 
Regiment, of which John was Colonel. Mr. J. A. Macdonell states 
that “he was appointed by Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe to be First 
Adjutant-General of Militia in Upper Canada, and was the founder 
of our militia system.” The two brothers settled in Glengarry along 
with the other Scottish soldiers, and were selected as the representa- 
tives of that county. Mr. J. A. Macdonell, in his book on Glengarry, 
states that Hugh was member for the First Riding. His name 
