Sorry for the cross-post, which was to the Greenville list also: Shortened, my genealogy is Martin MAHAFFEY, who was born circa 1728 in Ireland and emigrated to the US in 1768 on the ship "Chichester" He married Martha (maiden name unknown). They had a son John MAHAFFEY, Sr. who married Phebe Langley. In 1788/89, John Mahaffey (Sr.) was granted 670 acres near the Enoree River. A lovely housing development named Mahaffey plantation is being built there. It's east of Simpsonville, SC off Circle Road in the Cross Roads Baptist Church area. The Mahaffey family cemetery and their slave cemetery, I understand, "have been preserved and nicely landscaped." The developer told someone (Wanda Snow Franklin), who passed it on to me, that he may be interested in putting a historical marker at the Mahaffey cemetery and that he would like to know more about this Mahaffey family to give to people who have purchased or will purchase houses in the development. Note the website of the development is _www.MahaffeyPlantation.com_ (http://www.mahaffeyplantation.com/) . One of the children of John MAHAFFEY, Sr. and Phebe Langley was John MAHAFFEY, Jr. (born circa 1790, died 1868) who married Leah FOWLER between 1790 and 1795. One of their children was John Manning MAHAFFEY ( His grave stone shows his name as J. Manning MAHAFFEY in Ebeneezer Methodist Church cemetery in Greenville, SC). He married Frances Jones, with one of their children named Patillo Golightly MAHAFFEE, born 1845 in SC, but who died in March 1935 in Rutherford County, NC. (His grave marker and that of his wife Rose A. BROWN is on _www.findagrave.com_ (http://www.findagrave.com/) ). He was my greatgrandfather. He served in the Civil War, along with his father. One of their sons was Manning Brooks MAHAFFEE (born 1864 in SC and died in 1947 in NC), who married Ms. Johnnie FORTUNE. One of their children was Joseph Walter Mahaffee (1908-1987), my father, who was born in Rutherford County, NC. The is kind of a "Reader's Digest" summary of the info that I have. Census records have even had the last name shown as MAHATTY! I would love to have some more info on Martin Mahaffey, born in 1728 in Ireland, AND his ancestors. Also, I have heard that my greatgrandfather Patillo Golightly MAHAFFEE served time in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta after the Civil War. I would absolutely love to have his records from prison so that I could have more info on that incarceration and the reason for it. I heard it was for lynching, which would not make me proud... Max G. Mahaffee Charleston, SC