Alexander Breckenridge, a Scot, came to America about 1728, settling in Pennsylvania and later in Virginia.  One of his sons, Robert, was an energetic Captain of Rangers during the Indian wars, and died before the close of the Revolutionary War.  By his second wife, also of Scottish descent, he had several sons who achieved fame and success.  One of these sons, John Breckenridge (1760-1808), became Attorney-General of Kentucky in 1795; served in the state legislature 1797-1800; drafted the famous Kentucky resolutions in 1798; was United States Senator from Kentucky (1801-05) and Attorney-General in Jefferson’s Cabinet from 1805 till his death.  Among the sons of John Breckenridge were Robert Jefferson Breckenridge (1800-71), clergyman and author, and Joseph Cabell Breckenridge.  John Cabell Breckenridge, son of Joseph C. Breckenridge, was Vice-President of the United States (1857-61), candidate of the Southern Democrats for President in 1860, General in the Confederate Armies (1862-64), Confederate Secretary of War till 1865.  Joseph Cabell Breckenridge (b. 1840), son of Robert J. Breckenridge, also served with distinction in the Civil War, and took an active part in the Santiago campaign during the Spanish-American War.  Henry Breckenridge (b. 1886), son of Joseph C. Breckenridge, was Assistant Secretary of War, and served with the American Expeditionary Forces in the Argonne.  William Campbell Preston Breckenridge (1837-1904), son of Robert J. Breckenridge, was Member of the Forty-ninth Congress.

The descendants of James McClellan, kin of the McClellans of Galloway, Scotland, who was appointed Constable at the town meeting held in Worcester in March, 1724, have written their name large in the medical and military annals of this country.  Some of his descendants are noticed under Physicians.  The most famous of the family was General George Brinton MacClellan (1826-85), Major-General in the United States Army during the Civil War, unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic Party for President in 1864, and Governor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881.  The General’s son, George B. McClellan (b. 1865), was Mayor of New York (1903 and 1905) and is now a Professor in Princeton.  James Bulloch, born in Scotland c. 1701, emigrated to Charleston, South Carolina, c. 1728.  In the following year he married Jean Stobo, daughter of the Rev. Archibald Stobo, and was the first ancestor of the late President Roosevelt’s mother.  His son, Archibald Bulloch (d. 1777), was Colonial Governor of Georgia and Commander of the State’s forces in 1776-77, and signed the first Constitution of Georgia as President.  He would have been one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence had not official duties called him, home.  A descendant of his, James Dunwoody Bulloch, uncle of the late President Roosevelt, was Lieutenant in the Confederate Navy and Confederate States Naval Agent abroad.  Irvine S. Bulloch, another uncle of Roosevelt’s, was Sailing Master of the Alabama when in battle with the U.S.S.  Kearsarge.  Another of this family was William B. Bulloch (1776-1852), lawyer and State Senator of Georgia.  The Chambers family of Trenton, New Jersey, are descended from two brothers, John and Robert Chambers, who came over in the ship Henry and Francis in 1685.