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Scottish

I have found the name spelled McClish and McCleish.

!WAR:  (Which one?) Andrew was a Brittish soldier serving in the 42nd Highland Regiment. SOURCE:  "6,000 New York Ancestors: A Compendium of Mabie Research" by R.Robert Mutrie. pub by Second Ave Printing Ltd., 86 Second Avel, Simcoe, Ontario, N3Y  2P3, CN.

Married in New Brunswick, CN before 1797, according to R. Mutrie in Mabie Book.

After the war, (which one?) he obtained a land grant in New Brunswick and settled there.  In 1807, they followed the Montross family to the Long Point Settlement and were granted 400 acres, Lot 8 and 9, Conc, IV, Charlotteville Twp., Norfolk County.
A FAMILY OF PIONEER MOTHERS--MCCLEISH FAMILY.
They had 1 son and 11 daughters.  A favorite saying among their neighbors was, " They had 11 daughters and each had 1 brother, so how many sons did they have?"

He was a Farmer, Baptist,  a U.E. Loyalist, and a British Soldier.
Andrew McCleish died some time before the rebellion, aged about seventy. I'm sure they are buried near Charlotteville, Norfolk co. Ont, CN.  (find source).

The names of his eleven daughters were Fanny, Mary, Amy, Martha, Margaret, Eleanor, Jane, Phoebe, Ann Maria, Christiana and Leah, and the name of the only son was Andrew.

I also found them listed in "Broderbund's World Family Tree Vol. 1 with estimated dates.  I will find the submitter and give her my info.  June 1996.

Find (in my mess)  "PIONEER SKETCHES OF LONG POINT SETTLEMENT" by E.A. Owen.
ALSO on http://the-burgers.rootsweb.com/sketches/sketch060.html  (same story)