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- Records for this family are from their family Bible. I've only included the first generation, since parents are not noted in birth records. And, I've stopped recording their children at 1822; it is theoretically possible that a birth in the Bible in 1829 (Minerva Frances, b. 7 Feb., d. 2 Apr. 1911) is also their child. Interestingly, the bible also records "negroes," presumably slaves, beginning in 1804; these continue, however, until 1900, so there must have been a family attachment which survived and extended far beyond the end of slavery. Perhaps they were family?
How might this family be related to the family of Dilly Donovan, from Havre de Grace, who also moved to Kentucky, and married John Hamilton? No Alexander this early appears in the Frances Frazee Hamilton's book on the Doniphan, Frazee, and Hamilton families (S22 on this site).
Note this: "Alexander Donovan was born December 10, 1780, in Maryland and married Hannah Whipps on February 9, 1806. He died in Mason County, Kentucky, on December 7, 1846. He may have been related to Peter Donovan (born 1748 in Ireland) who served in Col. Ewing's Battalion in 1776 in Harford County, Maryland." [2]
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