1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Sweden_county.html |title=Counties of Sweden |accessdate=2007-08-26 |quote=20 Dec 1693-1708 David Makeléer (b. 16.. - d. 1708) |publisher= }}
2. ^¹ {{cite book |author=John Patterson MacLean |coauthors= |title=A History of the Clan MacLean from Its First Settlement at Duard Castle, in the Isle of Mull, to the Present Period: Including a Genealogical Account of Some of the Principal Families Together with Their Heraldry, Legends, Superstitions, etc. |year=1889|publisher=R. Clarke & Company |quote= ... the sixth, David, a general in the army and governor of west Gothland, married to the countess of Arenberg. ... General David left five sons and two daughters, of whom John Aldolphus Count MacLean was general in the army and colonel of the king's life guards.| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tQs2AAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Laird%20of%20Brolas%22&pg=PA312&output=text |isbn= }}
3. ^{{cite book|authorlink=Ernst Fischer, Thomas Alfred Fischer and John Kirkpatrick |title=The Scots in Sweden |year=1907 |publisher= |quote=A later scion of this race, David, a Colonel, was made a Swedish "Friherre" (baronet) and took the name of Maclean. | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5YULAAAAYAAJ&output=text |isbn= }}
4. ^{{cite book |author=John Patterson MacLean |coauthors= |title=A History of the Clan MacLean from Its First Settlement at Duard Castle, in the Isle of Mull, to the Present Period: Including a Genealogical Account of Some of the Principal Families Together with Their Heraldry, Legends, Superstitions, Etc. |year=1889|publisher=R. Clarke & Co. |quote=His second wife was Isabella, daughter of Sir Archibald Acheson of Gosford, by whom he had Donald, first MacLean of Brolass, John Dubh, predecessor of the counts MacLean of Sweden, and a daughter, Isabella, who died unmarried. | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tQs2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA224&dq=%22Laird+of+Brolas%22&ei=b4ikSaD5JJHIM5uWrb8B#PPA138,M1 |isbn= }}
5. ^{{cite book |author=James Noël MacKenzie MacLean |coauthors= |title=The Macleans of Sweden |year=1971 |publisher=The Ampersand |quote= | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U9CIAQAACAAJ&dq |isbn=0-900161-00-0 }}
6. ^{{cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Sveriges kyrkor, konsthistoriskt inventarium |year=1944 |publisher= |quote=Ätten Makeléer (Maclean) hade invandrat från Skottland på 1620-talet, ... Rutger Maclean (Makeléer), f 1688, d 1748, friherre, överste. ... Eleonora Elisabet von Ascheberg ... | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Co_WAAAAMAAJ&q=Makel%C3%A9er&dq=Makel%C3%A9er&ei=urf0SrKTI46-yQS81IyABg&client=firefox-a |isbn= }}
7. ^¹ {{cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Scotland's Historic Heraldry |year= |publisher=Boydell Press |quote=A particularly interesting Scoto-Swedish family (Chart 20.4), whose members remained in touch with their Highland cousins, is that of MacLean or Macklier.... | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QFkI3G31HTMC&pg=RA1-PA521&dq=%22Johan+Macklier%22&ei=nAunSYr4K4WQNq7MoYQO |isbn=1-84383-261-5 }}
8. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.electricscotland.com/history/sweden/18.htm |title=Rutger Maclean |accessdate=2009-02-28 |quote=His father was one of Charles XII’s officers, and the first of his ancestors in Sweden was Iain or Hanns Macleer, the Gothenburg merchant who actively helped Montrose during the latter’s visit to Gothenburg in 1650. Johan Macleer had been raised to the Swedish nobility in 1649, and in the following year was created an English baronet by Charles I as a reward for his services in helping Montrose. His Swedish wife had a sister who was married to Jakob Makeleer, a silk mercer in Stockholm. The two brothers-in-law were obviously related and possibly brothers. They seem to have been the first of their family to settle in Sweden. ... |publisher=Electric Scotland }}