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Facts and Events
Edward McDonald was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Notes
- From "Biography of Joseph McDonald Sanders":
- Joseph McDonald Sanders, a bright young lawyer of Mercer County, West Virginia, who served eight years as Judge of the 9th Judicial Circuit of West Virginia, and who was recently elevated to the bench of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, is a great-great-grandson of Joseph McDonald, and great-grandson of Edward McDonald and Keziah Stephens McDonald.
- During the American Revolution one David Hughes, formerly of North Carolina, and a Tory, while scouting through the wilderness country toward the Ohio River, discovered that beautiful body of valuable land on the Clear Fork of Guyandotte, in the now County of Wyoming. He informed the above mentioned Edward McDonald of his discovery, with whom he agreed for one blanket and a rifle gun to show him this land, which he did, and in 1780 McDonald entered and surveyed the same; and in 1802, together with his son-in-law, Captain James Shannon, removed to the Guyandotte Valley and took possession of his valuable property; his son-in-law, Captain Shannon, settling a few miles away on the Big Fork of the Guyandotte. When Captain Shannon took possession of his land he found still standing on the bottoms the Indian wigwams.
- Edward McDonald had several sons and daughters. The sons, Joseph, William and Stephen, settled on the lands given them by their father out of the homestead. One daughter married Captain James Shannon; one Captain Thomas Peery; one Augustus Pack; one William Chapman. Joseph McDonald married Nancy Chapman, daughter of Isaac Chapman and his wife, Elian Johnston Chapman, and their children were Sallie, who married John Sanders; Juliett, who married John Tiffany; Elizabeth, who married John Anderson, and Nancy, who married Lewis McDonald. W. W. McDonald, of Logan, married Miss Scaggs; Lewis, the son of Joseph, married, first Miss McDonald, second Miss Keffer. John C., Floyd and Colonel Isaac E. were never married; the two former died in the army during the Civil War.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pedigree Resource File DVD 127. ((Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2006)).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Find A Grave.
Edward McDonald
Birth: 1761
Death: 1835
Dates are approximate. Edward McDonald was born circa 1761 probably in Botetourt County, Virginia, the son of Joseph McDonald and Elizabeth Ogle. He served in the American Army in the Revolution. In 1780 he surveyed the land that became Wyoming County, West Virginia. He married Kesiah Stephens 9 Sep 1786 in Montgomery County, Virginia. In 1802 he moved his family to the Clear Fork area of Wyoming County.
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