This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5UB.2ACI/766.768.779.1138.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I have been researching the Hemphills as the name comes up with people born in 1750's . The earliest was William Hemphill and I believe he was in Mecklenburg or Old Rowan Co., NC In our line the Millican family use it early and I think the Scott family. These people went into S, C. and several went on to Ga. and Ala.