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- History of Buffalo Presbyterian Church and Her People, Greensboro, N.C. by Reverend S. M. Rankin, p. 42 & 43.
"The four [Donnell] families that located near North Buffalo Creek (now Guilford County, North Carolina) must have been closely related. Thomas, Sr., and Robert, Sr., who came in 1753, were brothers; James, Sr., who came in 1760, and Robert, II, who came in 1771, may have been nephews of Thomas and Robert, Sr. In 1790, the Donnell families had a great reunion, and one of the old men laughingly asked, "What do you suppose has become of the "O" we cast overboard at sea, by this time?" This would indicate that they all came overseas together, and the name was O?Donnell in Ireland. They were all descendants, or related to, Donald I (861-863), King of Scotland. The writer was told by the late Dr. John McDonald, editor of the Toronto, Canada, that the Donnells, O? Donnells, Donalds and McDonalds were all of the same blood with a common ancestor."
Also from Rankin's book, p. 42, "Robert Donnell, the second, came from York County, Pennsylvania, and located on the north side of North Buffalo in 1771. His wife was Mary, and their children appear to have been William, Elizabeth, Daniel, Samuel, Sarah, Robert and George. William married Mary, daughter of Samuel Bell, in 1773 and moved to Tennessee in 1797; Elizabeth married Robert Donnell, son of Thomas, Sr., in 1775; Daniel (#105) married first Mary (#106), daughter of Robert Ervin, and second Catherine, daughter of Ralph Gorrell, Sr., in 1816; Samuel became a Presbyterian minister and was pastor of Spring Creek Church, Tennessee; Sarah married John Donnell, son of Robert, Sr, in 1779; Robert married first Jennie Morrison, in 1790, and second Mrs. Nancy Cabe Latta, daughter of John and Mary Strayhorn Cabe, of Orange County, in 1820; George married Lydia, daughter of Arthur and Lydia Forbis, and located on the Reedy Fork."
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Abt 1728 - 1816 (~ 88 years)
