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5. DANIEL3 MACNIVEN (DUNCAN2, MALCOLM1) was born 6/12/1766 in Bowmore, and died 1/5/1867 in Monticello, NY.
Malcolm MacNiven's son Duncan married Florn, daughter of Captain Colin Campbell and his wife Mary McCarty, and moved from Cargostan to Bowmore, where their son Daniel MacNiven was born 12 June 1766. Daniel decided to go to American, and landed in New York 16 April 1791, and visited his uncle Daniel Niven Sr. in Newburgh and then returned to New York where he was in the merchant tailoring business until 1799 when he returned to Newburgh and continued in the same line until 1810. He again returned to New York and then to Wurtsboro where he bought a property and kept an inn.
He was married by Rev. John McMann, D.D. in the City of New York, 24 April 1798, to Ann Van Riper, daughter of John Van Riper and Catherine (Catharine) Post. Ann died at the age of 87. Daniel Niven died 5 January 1867, aged 100 years 6 months and 23 days. At the time of his death he was perhaps the oldest Free Mason in America, having joined the fraternity in Scotland in 1788. (From the Manuscript of the Rev. Duncan C. Niven, in Nevin Genealogica and the similar material in Betty Niven's notebook.)
After his death this was found among his papers:
"That the bearer hereof Donald macNiven lawful son of Duncan MacNiven and Florence Campbell in Bowmore, Island of Islay was born and hitherto mostly lived in this our Parish, always behaving himself civilly, honestly and inoffensively, free of public scandal or ground of church censure. Note, whereas he now intends leaving the country there is no reason why he may not be received into any Christian Society where Providence may order his lot.
Attested at Bomore, 14 February 1791
By John Murdock, Min.
Aleser MacEonne, Elder.
Donald Adair, Elder.
Also:
The above Donald MacNiven was naturalized in the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Orange on the first Tuesday of September, One thousand eight hundred and two.
Per Curiam
Hopkins, Clerk.
(Note the spelling of Duncan's wife's name. In Betty's book and in family history, she is called Flora, and Betty's mother was named for her. Also note that in Scotland Daniel was called "Donald". According to the Nevin Genealogica, the two are exactly equivalent.)
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Children of DANIEL MACNIVEN and ANN VAN RIPER are:
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 i. DANIEL GOSSMAN5 NIVEN, b. 3/14/1799, New York City; d. 12/20/1852, Newburgh, NY.
- 10.ii. CATHARINE POST NIVEN, b. 9/3/1801, Newburgh, NY; d. 5/18/1895.
- 11.iii. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL NIVEN, b. 12/8/1803, Newburgh, NY; d. 2/21/1882.
- 12.iv. THORNTON MACNESS NIVEN, b. 2/3/1806, Newburgh, NY; d. 1/17/1895.
- 13.v. JAMES NIVEN, b. 9/30/1808, Newburgh, NY; d. 9/24/1850.
- 14.vi. MARY SCOTT NIVEN, b. 4/7/1811, New York City; d. 3/4/1897.
- 15.vii. THOMAS HELM NIVEN, b. 1/1/1814, Wurtsboro, NY; d. 1/12/1905.
- 16.viii. ALEXANDER HAMILTON NIVEN, b. 1/31/1817, Monticello, New York.
 ix. HARRIET NIVEN, b. 3/28/1819, Monticello, New York; d. 7/19/1896; m. WALTER H. STEVENS (11/7/1848 - 2/18/1885), a widower with one daughter, who would have been 12 at the time of the marriage. Betty followed her line also.
- 17.x. HELEN ISABELLA NIVEN, b. 5/8/1821, Monticello, New York; d. 5/8/1895, Newville, PA.
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6. CATHARINE3 MACNIVEN (DUNCAN2, MALCOLM1) She came to this country from Bowmore, Islay, early in the 19th century. She went to her brother's, in Wurtsboro, where she married a farmer, Solomon Gunsaulus. She died one week after he did, leaving a daughter, Elizabeth.
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Child of CATHARINE MACNIVEN and SOLOMON GUNSAULUS is:
- i. ELIZABETH4 GUNSAULUS. Elizabeth taught school until too old and feeble, when she went to live with her cousin, the Hon. Thornton Niven. When he died, she went to the Old Ladies Home, in Hackensack, where she died at 89.
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7. ISABEL3 MACNIVEN (DUNCAN2, MALCOLM1) She married a McMillan in Bowmore. About 1844, after her husband's death, she came from Bowmore, with her family, and went to Newburgh.
Her family consisted of her son Malcolm's widow, and three children, their father having been lost at sea.
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Child of ISABEL MACNIVEN MCMILLAN is:
- 18.i. MALCOLM4 MCMILLAN.
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8. GEORGE WASHINGTON3 NIVEN (DANIEL2 MACNIVEN, MALCOLM1) was born 11/19/1792 in Newburgh, NY, and died 8/27/1836. He married CHARLOTTE JOHNSTON 1813. She was born 1792, and died 1852.
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Children of GEORGE NIVEN and CHARLOTTE JOHNSTON are:
- 19.i. ROBERT JOHNSTON4 NIVEN, d. 11/24/1885, Southampton, Hampshire, England.
- 20.ii. ELIZA JANE NIVEN, b. ABT 1826, New York.
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