Soon after the war headright grants of land were offered free except for office and surveying costs, and new settlers began trickling in. In 1784 the Cherokees ceded more land from which Franklin County was created. More and more settlers arrived in the area—some were people of Scotch-Irish descent from Pennsylvania, many were of English descent from Virginia or Maryland, and others were from all over the original thirteen colonies. Primarily, those who made their way to Georgia were the American-born sons and daughters of the original colonial settlers from England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany and other European countries. Some of them migrated directly to Georgia, while others moved first to the frontier areas in North Carolina or South Carolina then drifted on down to take advantage of the various types of land grants available on the newest frontier in the lower Piedmont area of Georgia.

Nearly all the men who were the first settlers in the Madison County area had served with the colonial forces during the Revolutionary War. Some were officers, but many more were ordinary foot soldiers. All served the cause of American independence.

Of the various families that comprise our ancestral tree, the first to appear in the original Wilkes County land records for the area that became Elbert County in 1790, then became Madison County in 1811 were members of the Daniel family. William Daniel, formerly appearing in the records of Wake, Rowan and Granville counties in North Carolina, was originally granted 200 acres on Beaverdam Creek [in present-day Elbert County] 21 Sep  1784, and appeared on the Wilkes County, Georgia, tax lists 1786-1790. He and wife, Nancy Daniel, bought land on Blue Stone Creek and sold land on Coldwater Creek in 1789. Allen Daniel, Sr., first appeared in the records of Wilkes County in 1789 when William Allen bought land on Beaverdam Creek from William and Nancy Daniel with Allen Daniel as a witness.

The following pages tell the stories of the various recently documented Daniel family groups, their descendants and related families to the present day.

We compiled the lineages of these descendants to the best of our ability and present them here. Many hours of work by many contributing family members have been put into the research and documentation of these family members. We all have attempted to make the following data as complete and accurate as possible, but we know that gaps and errors do exist. As with any genealogical research, this is a work in progress. Additions and corrections are welcomed. To protect privacy, we have omitted personal data on persons still living.

As a general rule the Webmaster updates this Web site at least twice per year, and certain pages are updated more often. Check the date at the bottom of each page of this Web site to see when it was last updated. The Webmaster has also posted GEDCOM files for the descendants of these families on the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project. The Webmaster updates those GEDCOM files each time new data is added to the research group's central database, so the files on the WorldConnect Project will always reflect the most current and correct family data.

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The Roger Daniell Y-DNA Group

Daniel Y-DNA Project

The Great "Osborn" Controversy

Elbert County, Georgia

William & Nancy Daniel [coming soon]

Family of Capt. John Daniel & Elizabeth Jenkins [coming soon]

Capt. John Daniel, Revolutionary War Patriot [coming soon]

James Jenkins Daniel: Private, War of 1812

Madison County, Georgia

Allen Daniel, Sr., Patriot? — or Nonexistant?

Major General Allen Daniel, Civilian, Civil Servant, Soldier, Statesman

Major General Allen Daniel: War of 1812 and Fort Daniel

Captain James W. Daniel: Cherokee Indian Removal, 1838 [coming soon]

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