Also, If you'll examine much of the contemporary literature from the time of the American Revolution to the Civil War, many times the "s" was written (and typed) like the "f," except the cross bar was not written, and on occasion only half of it. I found a William "Maffey" (without the cross bars on the f's) on a published list of patriots who were killed at Concord Bridge, just west of Lexington and Boston, in 1775. I at first dismissed it until someone told me that was an old-fashioned way of printing my name. Sincerely, William (Bill) Massey of Franklin, Tennessee