Meg, I have a message from you from Dec. 2001 in my folder to be on the lookout for your Posey names. I have not seen them, but today I was reading thru a book in the SCDAR library that is housed here in Camden, SC and found an abstract of the will of one Frances Posey, will proved 14 Jan 1788, Orangeburg, Dist, SC. Frances Posey (male) written 19 Nov 1787 son Absalom Posey dau Phebe Hollingsworth dau. Nancy Smith dau. Sally Martin dau. Gugay Shuriss Suckey Posey (not a typo on my part) dau. Mary son Benjamin son Far. Milly Posey his wife and Absalom Posey, son, and my true friend Benjamin Hollingsworth, EX/Extrx Witness: Elijah Walker, Benj. Posey, Wm. & James McCarter Proved 14 Jan 1788, Recorded Book A., p. 5. During that time, the Orangeburg Dist included the todays counties of sourthern Aiken Co., parts of Barnwell, Bamberg, Calhoun, Lexington Co SC, as well as Orangeburg. I am not a member of the Posey list, but feel free to post this info. there for others. Source: Court House Records - Bible Records, Edgefield Co., SC, (compiled and published by the SCDAR, 1940). Location: SCDAR Library Collection, Camden Archives, Camden, SC (book 36) Billie Jones Camden, SC tjones@camden.net