This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AgB.2ACI/1148.1 Message Board Post: From M.H. Spivey, "A Genealogical History of Lexington, SC, 1735-1870": Barbara Caughman was the daughter of Andrew Caughman, b. ~1762, d. aft 1830, and Anna Maria Derrick. Her siblings were John (b. 1789), Jemima, Emanuel (1802-1881), Daniel (b. 1800), Jacob (1796-1860), Catherine/Kate and Elizabeth/Bettie. Sister Elizabeth married Acel Roberts, brother of Noah and of Absalom (who married Barbara). From Brent H. Holcomb, Petitions for Land from the South Carolina Council Journals, Volume I: 1734/5-1748: Meeting of Wednesday the 22d of Jan'ry 1745/6: Read the Petition of Anthony Caufman, a protestant pallatine, humbly shewing That the Petit'r came a few years ago into this Province on the Encouragement which is given by his Majesty to foreign protestants and being then not able to pay for his passage, he was obliged to serve Collonel Vanderdussen in order to discharge the same, being now free & having 4 persons in family, viz't himself Wife & two children, for whom he has received no land, humbly prays that a Warrant be issued for laying out to him 200 acres of vacant land in SaxGotha Township, and that he may obtain the usual Bounty. The Petit'r appearing Swearing...the prayer thereof was granted... Anthony Kauffman's plat for 200 acres on Savannah Hunt Creek (off the Congaree River) was laid out on 20 Oct 1746, granted 20 May 1747. Andrew Caughman was "possibly" a son of Anthony, more likely his grandson through one of the two children who arrived with Anthony before 1745. The Revolutionary War claim for Barbara's father Andrew Kofman can be ordered from SCDAH--it's file No. 4375. His brother Christopher is file No. 4376, "Stophel Kofman". But you wouldn't want to look into Christopher's war record too closely! He lived on Hollow Creek, near the NW corner of Lexington Co, attended the nearby Lutheran church of Mt. Zion on Twelve Mile Creek in 1800. Theresa M. Hicks, in "Saxe Gotha Neighbors" (Columbia SC: Peppercorn Publications, Inc., 2000) includes a war story about the actions of a "Rank Tory" named Caughman, captured at a skirmish on Hollow Creek.