Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko John M'Millan, te kaiwhakaara o te Hahi Presbyterian Reformed, te tama a John M'Millan, i ahu mai i tetahi peka o te whanau i noho roa ki Arndarroch. I whanau a Hoani i te tau 1669 i Barncauchlaw, he pāmu pukepuke i te rohe o Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire. E kiia ana kua hinga tona papa i
Bothwell Bridge, me tona whaea, e kore e mohiotia tona ingoa, i marena ano. Ko M'Millan pea i whakatipuhia i Earlston, i Dalry, i reira ia i haere ki te kura parakihi, ka tutaki ki te nuinga o te hunga i mate mo o raatau whakapono whakapono. I ako ia i te Whare Wānanga o Edinburgh, a ka puta ia hei M.A. 28 Pipiri 1697. I etahi wa ko ia te tohunga ki a John Murray, te rangatira o Broughton [Cally, parakihi o Girthon].