DORRANCE, DANIEL, was born in 1768, in Hartford, Conn. He was married in 1799, in Seneca county, N. Y., to Margaret Gilland, a native of Pennsylvania. They had two children, and moved to Ontario county, where Mrs. Dorrance died, Nov. 30, 1812. Mr. D. there married Mrs. Mary Price, whose maiden name was Arnold. They had one child, and Mrs. Mary Dorrance died Sept. 10, 1815. Mr. D., with his three children, moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving June 8, 1822, in what is now Woodside township, and in the spring of 1823 moved to what is Loami township. Of his three children--

MARGARET, born March 30, 1800, in Seneca county, N. Y., married in Sangamon county to Henry Kinney, Jun. See his name.

GERSHOM, born Nov. 23, 1801, in Seneca county, N. Y., married in Sangamon county, Nov. 28, 1832, to Louisa H. Woodworth, who was born in 1814, in Massachusetts. They had nine children; three died in infancy, and DANIEL died at ten years. MARY L. married Nathan T. Underwood, have six children, and reside in Loami township. MARGARET E. married Benjamin Bane; had three children, CORA BELL, CARRIE and FREDDIE. Mr. Bane died Feb. 5, 1872. His widow and children reside one and a quarter miles east of Loami. JOHN J. resides in Christian county. LYDIA A., married George Collins and died, leaving one child, PHILIP. CLARISSA M., unmarried, and resides in Lincoln. Mrs. Louisa Dorrance died Feb. 1, 1855, and Gershom Dorrance resides one and a quarter miles east of Loami. He served in a lighthorse company from Springfield in 1831 and '2, in the Black Hawk war.

MARY A., born in 1814 or '15, in Ontario county, N. Y., married in Sangamon county in 1832, to David Lindsay. See his name.

Daniel Dorrance never married after coming to Illinois, and died Sept. 10, 1831, in Loami township. He was about seven years old when the battle of Lexington was fought, and he remembered having heard the firing of cannon at some of the battles that took place soon after. His father was a native Englishman, but was a surgeon in the revolutionary army, and lost his life in the service. A powder horn once owned by Dr. Dorrance is now in possession of his grandson, Gershom Dorrance, near Loami. It may have been picked up by him on some battle-field. It is carved with figures of men, trees, animals and other hieroglyphics, and the following inscription:

February 14, 1758.
Simon Hough's Horn, made at No. 4.

I Powder with my Brother Ball,
A Herow like, I conquer all:
Drumbs a Beeting, colours flying,
Trumpets sounding, men a Dying,
These are the bold Affects of

WAR.