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source: Family HIstory Center microfilm roll #:1320530
[the following taken from a list of County tax rolls 1767-1789 of property owners, approx. two-thirds of all residents were property owners]
McDONaLD:
Alexander Wayne; freeman (unmarried taxable) 73, 79, taxed (married)
80-83; warranted (year of claim) 85; 5, 8 Battalion
Alexander Wayne; freeman (unmarried taxable) 83-87; warranted (year
of claim) 67
Angus Derry; freeman (unmarried taxable) 69, 73; 8 Battalion
Duncan Derry; (married) taxed 67-79; Overseer of Poor (township office)
John Derry; (married) taxed 67-72
John Armagh twp; (married) taxed 85
John Derry; freeman (unmarried taxable) 89
Margaret Derry; warranted (year of claim) 67
Mary Derry; warranted (year of claim) 67
Patrick Wayne; freeman (unmarried taxable) 73, 83
William Derry; freeman (unmarried taxable) 78; 5, 8 Battalion
County Histories - Mifflin Co
Colonel George Stewart and his wife Margaret Harris, their ancestors
& descendants
George & Margaret m. 15 Mar 1791
(Margaret dau. of John Harris Esq. of Mifflintown - now in Juniata Co.)
pg. 128
Captain John Steuart (d. 11 Oct 1805 ages 46 years)
"A public sale of 86 acres and 117 perches of John Steuart's land was
made 15 Sep 1807 to David and John McDonald for 477 - 2 pounds. to whom
a deed was given Nov. 21 following. [Noreen Mcann]
Vol. I Everts, Peck & Richard, (Phils., 1886)
[pg. 473] (Mifflin County)
Attorneys: Thomas McDonald, admitted April, 1823
[page 68ff.]
" 'Fort Bingham' was a strong block-house and small stockade located
about twelve miles from Mifflintown, in Tuscarora Valley, on the plantation
of Samuel Bigham, who, with three other Scotch-Irish settlers, viz:
John and James Gray and Robert Hoag, came and located at that place
soon after 1754...It was also used as a shelter by other settlers who came
to the vicinity during the succeeding seven years, until June 1756, when
it was attacked... From the Pennsylvania Gazette, June 24. 'The following
is a list of persons killed an missing at Bingham's Fort, viz: George Woods,
Nathaniel Bigham, Robert Taylor, his wife and two children, Francis Innis,
his wife and three children, John McDonnell, Hannah Gray, and one child
missing...
...John McDonald was captured and made his escape. He was with an Indian, who had him in charge. They came to a run in a thicket of laurels, where the Indian, being thirsty, lay down at the stream to get a drink, keeping his prisoner at a safe distance. McDonald made a spring an dashed into the bushes; the Indian, as quickly as possible, was in hot pursuit, guided by the sound of cracking bushes rather than by sight. After McDonald had run a distance, he started up a deer. He lay down behind a log, and the Indian passed on, misled by the sounds of the disturbed thicket, as the deer bounded onward in front of his pursuer, who supposed that the crashing noise was made by his recent prisoner. McDonald crouched beneath the log until the danger was over, and then returned to the settlement. His wife was probably the sister of John Gray, as he says in his will that in case neither his wife or daughter should ever return, their half of the plantation was too to 'my sister, Jane McDonald,' and he also mentions 'Mary McDonald, my niece.' He had taken out a warrant for one hundred acres on September 8, 1755. He was the father of Theophilus, Joseph, John and Daniel, from whom there are numerous descendants still in Tuscarora Valley, as well as scattered over the Western States."