Notes: Malcolm Fowler stated in his book Valley of the Scots that "Bluff Hector" settled the Bluff in 1742, thus he would have to have been of legal age (16) with added maturity for the management of such an acquisition. I believe "Bluff Hector" was born close to 1715, which would then put his father "Black Neill" McNeill's accepted birth year of 1699 in question. The will of "Bluff Hector" McNeill names only two sons, Neill and John. Neill died in April 1773, and in 1796 John, in a deed dated that year, was Hector's "only son and heir". Other sources name Jane, Margaret, Betsy, and Draughon as children of "Bluff Hector" and Mary McNeill. There are no Cumberland County deeds for a Draughon McNeill; a letter from Alexander McAlester in Cumberland County dated January 1774 states that after the death of Neill in April 1773 there were left to his mother only John about 16 years of age and all daughters.