Please go to my home page listed below and check out some of my info on my McDonald and Scots ancestors. I have done extensive research on them and have even more to put on the site if I ever slow down volunteering on the net...<g> Thank you for all of the info you sent!! Diana Kinzer Heath ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ USGenWeb County Coordinator for: Roanoke Co., Roanoke City & Salem City, VA at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~varoanok/index.html Wood Co., WV at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvwood/indexa.htm Mason Co., WV at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvmason/ Rootsweb Mail List Owner/Admin for: VAROANOK-L@Rootsweb.com WVWOOD-L@Rootsweb.com KINZER-L@Rootsweb.com GRALEY-L@Rootsweb.com MILLER-L@Rootsweb.com SCHMIDT-L@Rootsweb.com BERNHARD-L@Rootsweb.com KARP-L@Rootsweb.com GenConnect Surname Boards Admin. for: KINZER, CORNS & MILLER. MY HOME PAGE: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/a/Diana-K-Heath/ ***Proud Rootsweb Sponsor*** -----Original Message----- From: macbd1 <macbd1@arthur.k12.il.us> To: VAAUGUST-L@rootsweb.com <VAAUGUST-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 7:25 AM Subject: Re: [VAAUGUST-L] McDonald land... >I learned the following in regard to possibly finding location of Joseph McDonald's land in the 1750's. Possibly 'Near the gap in Tinker Mountain' will help someone tell us approximately where the McDonald land and house is/was located? > >Bryan McDonald came to Virginia from Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle >County, Delaware, >about the year 1745. He was 59 years old when he moved to Buffalo >Creek. Those who died early in the settlement were buried in the >McDonald or Glebe graveyard at the corner of Edward McDonald's land. The >old Bryan McDonald place is at a head spring of Buffalo or Tinker Creek. >The land is near the gap in Tinker Mountain. The old house was about >four or five miles above the Robinson Mill. In 1938, the original house >was still standing. (Joseph was son of Bryan McDonald.) > >Gene McDaniels said: >>I'm looking for the location of the Bryan McDonald/McDonnell >>houses in Augusta County, VA built about 1750. >>Thanks for your trouble. >>Gene McDaniels >> >> > > > >==== VAAUGUST Mailing List ==== >**************************************************************** > Visit the Augusta County VAGenWeb Site at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaaugust/ >**************************************************************** >