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From: "macbd1" <>
Subject: William MacDanell-MacDonell-McDaniel-McDonald-M'Donall
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 11:02:59 -0600


Can anyone point me toward another researcher of the following family, or to a source of further info? I find no pertinent messages in the mailing-list archives. Thanks for your help.

William MacDanell (signed M'Donall) in his Kent Co. DE will of 16 Oct 1732 names his wife, Mary, dau's Mary and Eliz'th, sons Bryon, Joseph, Jeremia, and eldest William, brother John and witnesses John Birmingham, John Weles and Anna Weles. A Barbara J. Moore of Texas submitted this info to Dorothy Tuttle for her book "Smidt/Smith/Smyth Family of New Castle Co., Delaware." The subject William's son, Joseph, may have been born in the New Castle, DE area in 1721.

I find my Joseph McD-- (many McDonald spelling variants) in the South Branch frontier settlement area of Old-Frederick Co. VA (the present Hampshire-Hardy Co.'s WV area) in the 1750's. Joseph's son, Valentine, was born 11 Jan 1760 at the South Branch of the Potomac River settlement area per his Rev War pension record. They moved to Old-Baltimore Co. MD ca1763 (a large county in those days) and thence to the 'new' frontier of southwestern PA about 1773-1777 (the present Fayette Co. PA area) where Valentine first served in the Rev War at age 17.

New Castle, DE (then part of PA) was a common port of entry for the Scots-Irish in the early 1700's. Immigrants often settled or stopped for awhile (or were indentured) in nearby areas of DE, NJ, MD and eastern PA, then moved westward into PA and down the southerly bending valleys into the frontiers of MD and VA.

Neil McDonald (a new subscriber)

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