Pvt. Alexander Donald (born around 1790) was in the Light
Company of Capt. Peter B. Rogers in Col. William Youngblood’s First Regiment of
South Carolina Militia. For this service, this Alexander Donald received bounty
land in Jasper County, Mississippi. See document www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~msjasper/deed/deedalexanderdonald.gif This document clearly links service in
Rogers’ company with the Jasper land. Alexander Hezekiah Donald (b. 1792), not
the same guy as above, died in 1832 in Conecuh County, Alabama.
Alexander Donald (b. 1790) appeared in the Jasper County,
Mississippi, censuses of 1840 and 1850. In 1850 he was living in a home with
his daughter Lucy Donald Page and her family. Lucy was a sister of Robert
Leander Donald. Alexander Donald died in 1857 in Jasper County. In 1860 his War
of 1812 Bounty Land passed out of Donald hands. In the 1860 census, Watson
Augustus Donald (likely grandson of this Alexander Donald) was in the Jasper
County home of the above Robert Leander Donald, and living near to Watson’s
mother and sister Gabrilla. Let us step back a bit in time, now.
The War of 1812 finished in early 1815, and that was the
likely year of birth of Andrew J. Donald (probable son of Alexander Donald b.
1790). The first census following this would be that of 1820. In 1820, there
appears no Donald household in South Carolina headed by any Alexander Donald.
One household that had a couple of males under age 10 (including little Andrew
J. Donald?) was that of Wesley “West” Donald. This household had 14 people in
it, perhaps more than can be accounted for by West’s immediate family. West
Donald is thought to have been a brother of our Alexander.
In the 1830 census, an Alexander Donald family lived in
Pickens County, South Carolina. There were 7 in the household. If this were the
family of our particular Alexander, the composition would be: Alexander, his
unknown wife (Martha?), Andrew J., and 4 more people. Brothers of our Andrew J.
Donald (b. 1815) may have included Robert Henry Donald (b. 1818), Robert
Leander Donald (b. 1822), and James Donald (b. 1827). These sibs are beyond the
scope of this blog.
