Colonel John MacDonell of Scothouse (1728-1810) was a Spanish officer and a Highland gentleman who emigrated to the Province of New York in 1773.
He was born 1728 into the Clan MacDonell of Glengarry, the son of John of Crowlin.
He obtained a commission in one of the Irish regiments in the service of Spain.
In 1773, he emigrated with others in his clan to Caughnawaga in the Mohawk Valley of the Province of New York at the invitation of Sir William Johnson.
After the war he settled in Upper Canada near St. Andrew's where he died on April 15, 1810.