1. Archibald "Maclachlin"¹ McPhail was born in Argyll, Scotland abt 1762. 

Researching: born July 28. 1763 ( recorded as Archibald McFaill ) to Alexander McFaill and Margaret McTavish. Archibald died aft 1841 in Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland.

He married Lillias Mackenzie in Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland, April 9, 1792. Lillias was born in Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland December 07, 1764. Lillias was the daughter of Donald McKenzie and Margaret McIntyre. Lillias died December 1817 in Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland, at 53 years of age. She was christened in Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland, December 07, 1764. 

These children of Alexander McPhail and Margaret McTavish were also recorded in the Kilmartin Parish Registry:              Anne McPhail born July 22, 1747; Neill McPhail born Oct. 26, 1753; Margaret McPhail born Oct. 11, 1755

Archibald "Maclachlin" McPhail and Lillias Mackenzie had the following children:

2 i. Archibald² McPhail was born in Ardgrhian, Kilmartin, Arg. Sct. before September 18, 1793.

+ 3 ii. Dugald McPhail was born 1796.

4 iii. Isabella McPhail was born in Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland abt 1808. Isabella died August 28, 1876 in Nassagaweya Twp., ONT., CAN., at 68 years of age. She married John Gillies in Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland, abt 1828. John was born in Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland abt 1807. John died June 06, 1863 in Nassagaweya Twp., ONT., CAN., at 55 years of age. (See John Gillies for the continuation of this line.) The fact that the Parish Register was not kept in Kilmartin during the years that Archibald McPhail's and Lilias McKenzie's family were being born and baptized means that the relationship between Isabella McPhail and Archibald "McLaughlin" McPhail will probably remain unproven. We do know that there were quite a few children in his family, and that it was the only family of McPhails in Kilmartin Parish at that time. We also know, from her gravestone, that Isabella was brn in Kilmartin. However, a strong family tradition in both the McPhail (Jamaican and Canadian branches) and the Gillies family says that there was a very close relationship between their two families. Whenever the Jamaican family visited their McPhail relatives in Canada they also visited the Gillies at Teeswater, and the family of John Gillies (I843-1905) recall that "his uncle John McPhail wanted him to go to Jamaica, but his wife would not go, because they would have to send the children away to school.

+ 5 iv. John McPhail was born March 13, 1813.

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