Neil McLennan

Neil McLennan (September 2, 1777, 1778, or 1787 – 1867) was an early Scottish-American settler of Texas. McLennan County, Texas, was named after him.

McLennan was born on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. In 1801, he and many friends and family immigrated to Richmond County, North Carolina, moving further south to Florida. The McLennans were Gaelic speakers and Presbyterians. three-masted schooner from Pensacola, Florida, to the mouth of the Brazos River, where they arrived in March 1835. Laughlin McLennan, Laughlin's wife, and mother, were killed in an Indian raid the following winter, and John was likewise killed in 1838, after which the McLennan group moved to the Robertson Colony's headquarters of Nashville-on-the-Brazos in present-day Milam County.

In 1845, Neil McLennan moved his family to a site on the Bosque River near present-day Waco, and he died at his home there in 1867, renowned as "the patriarch of the Bosque".