Allen Daniel (henceforth "the General") was born in 1772 and moved to Georgia cir 1784 with his parents, William Daniel, Sr., and Ann "Nancy" Daniel. William Daniel was originally granted 200 acres on Beaverdam Creek [in present-day Elbert County] on 21 Sep 1784, and appeared on the Wilkes County, Georgia, tax lists 1786-1790. Allen and his five documented siblings, Elizabeth, Agnes, Nancy, William, Jr., and Charity ranged between eight and eighteen years old when they settled in that part of original Wilkes County, Georgia that became part of Elbert County in 1790, and fell into Madison County when it was created 5 December 1811. (Read the article, "William Daniel, Sr., & Family, Pioneer Settler and Land Wheeler-Dealer" for more information and documentation.)

General Daniel was buried in sight of the home in which he lived and died and where his wife lived until his death. The unique and massive headstones (about 8-9 feet tall) were made of rough native granite and were believed to be cut by slave labor. Today the grave is in a small, sadly neglected and overgrown, thicketed fenced area in the middle of a pasture on the south side of Georgia Highway 281. It is on the right-hand side of the road about 6 1/2 miles north of Danielsville, Georgia Militia District 438. The road leads to a bridge about a 100 yards north of the old Daniel's Ferry on the Broad River. The tombstone inscriptions read: "Mary Daniel, Dide [sic] Jun 15, 1858," and "General Allen Daniel, Dide [sic] 1836, age 64." [Madison County Cemetery Book , p 252]

• 18 Jul 1823, Allen Daniel to James Veal, both of Madison Co., Ga., for $200, two tracts of land containing 100 acres in Madison Co. on the south side of the North Fork of Broad River and Hudsons Fork; one of sd. parcels beg. hickory cor. at the mouth of a branch emptying into Hudsons Fork below Andrew McKever's Ford, up branch S25W 3 ch. 27 links to dogwood cor., S50E along McEver's line 48 ch. to red oak cor., N40E 15 ch. to black oak cor. on Broad River, up river to beg., 50 acres; the other tract, also 50 acres, adj. aforementioned tract, beg. black oak cor. on sd. river, being the black oak cor. above mentioned, S40W 19 ch. to black oak cor., S60E 54 ch. to hickory cor. on Broad River, up river to beg.; the first 50 acres being part of a 100 acre tract orig. surveyed for Benjamin Twedle, and the last mentioned 50 acres being part of a 200 acre tract orig. surveyed for William Twedle, bounded by land claimed by Joseph McConnell and Andrew McEver; with this express reservation; the said Daniel reserves for himself the entire and exclusive right of erecting thereon a Ferry or Bridge Landing and the entire benefit from any Ferry, Bridge or Boat, that the landing may be on any part of the above described land. (signed) Allen Daniel. Wit: Wilson Bird, Benjamin Borum, J.P. [Jurat Probandum] Recorded 17 Sep 1823. [From: Madison County, Georgia, Deed Book BDE, 1818-1828, p 322.]

• Ga.: 3 Jan 1827, Allen Daniel to James Daniel, both of Madison Co., for $500, 200 acres in Madison Co. on Scull Shoal Creek, beg. white oak cor. on east side of creek, commonly called Johnson & Ware's corner, N34E 14 ch. to pine cor., S60E 15 ch. to black oak cor., N30E 20 ch. to red oak cor., N80W 23 ch. 50 links to post oak cor., N30E 5 ch. to red oak cor., N76W 6 ch. to water oak cor. on the west side of Scull Shoal Creek at the mouth of Allen Daniel's spring branch, up branch 33 ch. to ash cor., N76W 22 ch. 7 links to post oak cor. on Ephraim Strickland's line, S25E 34 ch. to red oak on Ware's line, thence to beg., part of a 545 acre tract conveyed from Elisha Johnson to Allen Daniel, bounded by Ephraim Strickland & Allen Daniel on the west, Ware's land on the south & east, Allen Daniel on the north. (signed) Allen Daniel. Wit: Samuel Higinbotham, Benj. Borum, J.P. Rec. 24 May 1828. [From: Madison County, Georgia, Deed Book BDE, 1818-1828, p 579.]

• "Ga: Whereas by an act of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia passed 5 Dec 1811 entitled an act to lay out a new county out of the counties of Oglethorpe, Clarke, Jackson, Franklin and Elbert, the Justices of the Inferior Court or a majority of them of the new county (which is called Madison) are authorized to purchase 50 acres of land for the purpose of fixing thereon the public buildings of said county and for other county purposes, and whereas William Fergus, Charles Sorrels, James Sanders & Edw'd Ware, Justices of the Inferior Court of Madison County, have in conformity of the above purchased 50 acres of land for the purposes therein contemplated. 1 Jul 1812, Henry Mitchell and John Crowder of Hancock Co., Ga., to William Fergus, Charles Sorrels, James Sanders and Edw'd Ware, Justices of the Inferior Court of Madison Co., for $200, for the uses contemplated above, 50 acres in Madison Co. on the waters of the South Fork of Broad River, beg. at pine cor., N26E 22 ch. 36 links to hickory stake cor., S65E 22 ch. 36 links to lightwood stake cor., S26W 22 ch. 36 links to pine cor., N64W 22 ch. 36 links to beg., bounded on all sides by said Henry Mitchell and John Crowder, part of a 2900 acre tract orig. granted to Creswell & Offett. (signed) Hen'y Mitchell, Jno. Crowder. Wit: James Griffith, Thomas S. Bailey, Allen Daniel, J.P. [Jurat Probandum] Rec. 2 Jul 1812." [Madison County, Georgia, Deed Book A, 1812-1818, p 20]

Major General Allen Daniel—War of 1812 and Fort Daniel

William Daniel, Sr., & Family (the General's parents and siblings)

Descendants of General Allen DANIEL on WorldConnect

John Daniel, Captain of the Guard

Capt. John Daniel & Family — Pioneer Settlers

Daniel Y-DNA — Hypothetical Family Tree

Daniel Y-DNA Surname Project

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