Good Morning: For those that want to keep stating that Josiah DANIEL, son of T&E, of Hampton County, SC married an Elizabeth DIXON, as has been erroneously transcribed in the records of Effingham County, GA and not an Elizabeth MAY, read the following from the history of the STAFFORD family. Notice the TISON (TYSON) and JOHNSTON connections to this MAY family. Elizabeth MAY married Samuel TISON, Sr. as her first husband, before marrying Josiah DANIEL after Samuel's death in 1771. They had a child, Samuel TISON Jr. b. ABT 1770 who married Elizabeth STAFFORD, daughter of Samuel STAFFORD and Dorcas WILLIAMS. Also, notice the name, Seth, which was one of the names that Josiah DANIEL and Elizabeth MAY gave to one of their kids, Seth DANIEL b. ABT 1777. <<< "Gen. Leroy Augustus Stafford: His Forebears and Descendants," pages 10-11: William Stafford IV GEN. LEROY AUGUSTUS STAFFORD early settler of North Carolina but was a large land owner and a member of the House of Burgesses. He married Jane, daughter of John Brown, but whether this marriage took place in Virginia or North Carolina we are unable to state with any degree of accuracy. The only information we have of him besides that given above is from his will. There is an abstract of this instrument in the North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. I, page 75. He died sometime between February and August of 1728. His will befl.rs the date of February 16, 1728, and was probated August 3, 1728. In it he mentions his sons John, Edward, William, and Samuel, and his daughters Ann, Frances, Mary, and ~ ane, and also his wife Jane. This William Stafford's brother John, who came to North Carolina with him, settled in Bath County. He died there in 1733, leaving five children : William, John, Joshua, Edward, and Thomas. On page 72 of Vol. I, North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register we find the abstract of a will of another William Stafford. It was dated July 16, 1742, and probated October 14, 1742. It mentions his sons William and James, and his wife Frances. This was very probably a son of John Stafford, brother of William III. WILLIAM STAFFORD IV. William Stafford, the fourth consecutively of that name in this country, and son of William Stafford III of Currituck Precinct and his wife, Jane Brown, was very probably born in Currituck Precinct. After reaching adult life he moved farther south along the coast and settled in what is now New Hanover County, North Carolina, near the present city of Wilmington, just above the mouth of the Cape Fear river. We know little of his life there except that he died in 1765, leaving a wife and nine children. An abstract of his will may be found on page 357 in "Abstract of North Carolina Wills" by J. B. Grimes. This will was dated August 31, 1765, and was admitted to probate in October, 1765. It mentions his wife's name as Elizabeth, and designates his sons William and John as his executors. His nine children were, as per names mentioned in his will, Mary May, Richard, William, John, Samuel, Ann Forbes, Prudence Stone, Seth and Elizabeth. His will also tells us that he divided one plantation among his sons William, John and Richard, and gave them one negro each; that he gave his son Samuel a plantation in Pitt County "lying on Samuel Tison's branch" and also one negro; that he gave his son Seth a plantation. We further gather from his will that his daughter Mary married a May, that Ann married a Forbes, and Prudence a Stone. The husband of Mary Stafford, who was apparently the eldest of the nine children, was John May. There is a tradition that he was of an old Dutch family, the first of whom in this country settled at Charleston, South Carolina, and founded a large importing house there in partnership' with the famous Dutchman, Admiral Gillon. Tea was one of the chief commodities they dealt in. May is certainly not a Dutch name and the writer is inclined to believe that tradition has gotten cloudy with age and has mixed up the nationality of the ancestor of John May with that of his distinguished partner. John May died many years before his wife, leaving her with seven daughters, all of whom married. One (name unknown) married John Tison; One (name unknown) married Josiah Johnston; Elizabeth married Josiah Daniels; Jerusha married John Paisley; Sarah married John Garnett; Mary (MAY), born October 21, 1755, married Samuel Maner on July 8, 1772; Jane Aseneth, the seventh and youngest, married William Maner, brother of Samuel. Both of these Maner brothers were Revolutionary soldiers and served in General Francis Marion's brigade. The progeny of these seven daughters is almost as numerous as the leaves of the forest, and through them a bond of relationship exists between most of the old families of the Carolinas and Georgia. Mary (Stafford) May, after the death of her husband John May in 1763, married a man named Mullett. There is no record of any children by this second marriage. She died in 1823 and her tombstone may be seen today in the Bostick graveyard, one mile south of Garnett station, in Hampton county, South Carolina, in the lot of Captain William Maner. The inscription on it reads as follows: Sacred To the memory of Mrs. Mary Mullet, Aged 106 years. >>>> John R. Clarke Thomasville, GA