|
a.
|
Note: 7826 There are a number of reasons to believe that James McHaffey of Lancaster Co. PA was the father of John McHaffey/ie of 1780s Botetourt Co. VA records, of Andrew McHaffie, witness at John's marriage in 1789, and on 1787 tax list as age 16-21 with John paying a tax on Andrew, and of Jane McHaffie who in 1803 in Montgomery Co. VA was married to John Edward Ballenger. Andrew McHaffie married Catherine dau of David Harless in 1803 also in Montgomery Co. VA. Several researchers using county histories for Indiana and Missouri have indicated that John and Andrew were born in Pennsylvania. One history indicates that John joined the Revolution at age 16 and served for 6 years, and was with Washington at Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered. John and family moved to Knox Co. TN in about 1801 (deed, Feb 1802), and Andrew and family moved there in 1811, and Jane McHaffie and her husband John Edward Ballenger moved there also. It is likely that there were other siblings, probably James,and possibly William. James McHaffey received a Revolutionary pension, papers burned. P. 67 Mahaffey Descendants by Estelle Kinports Davis & Mary Mahaffey Carst publ. 1914, Harrisburg PA. P.67 Mahaffey Descendants: Little Bertian Twp Lancaster Co. PA enlisted 1 May 1775, Pvt., Revol. War, Capt Ross's company with Washington's army.. Boston... reenlisted... 1 May 1776. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers: James Mchaffey 10 Oct 1774 in Dunmore's War in right wing with Governor Dunmore at Chillicothe OH on day of battle across Ohio River at Point Pleasant. James McHaffey on payroll, Winchester and Romney VA, spring 1775. Bockstruck states that these men had to wait months for their pay. John Murray, Lord Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, returned to England. That should be Little Britain twp. rather than Little Bertian. In 1750s, Covenanter minister Rev. John Cuthbertson, whose 40 year Register of marriages, baptisms lists McHaffey children and their father, Martin in York Co., Lower Chanceford twp., PA, on Susquehanna River. Pastor Cuthbertson was educated in Scotland and the Reformed Presbyterians/Covenanters/ Cameronians had waited years to have him come to minister to them. Rev. Cuthbertson in 1755, York Co., PA, visited one "J. McH." This was the only family in his register with a name having as part McH. Mr. McHenry is listed in the 1780s as I recall. One Thomas McHaffey in Ireland had an agent in Lancaster Co., PA, and moved to PA about 1767, spelled surname Mahaffey. In Bockstruck's Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants By State p. 349: James Mchaffey was assigned 200 acr by Michael McDowell, PA, Pvt., 21 Nov 1786. National Archives has James McHaffey pay slips, 1st Regiment, PA Line and also one for James McHaffey, 10th Reg PA; a James McHaffey rec'd pens Oct 1789, PA. These pay slips and a Donation Lands item for James McHaffey were obtained by Martha McHaffie Traylor in Washington, D. C. P. 1400 of L. P. Summers' Annals of Southwestern Virginia publ. cir. 1900: Revolutionary Vet., James Mahaffey, Montgomery. Co. VA. According to researchers of Guyan McHaffie/ Mahaffie of PA 1750s, another, younger James McHaffie of Cumberl Co PA was not in militia till 1780s which indicates he is not the same as James McHaffey the Revolutionary Veteran. On 1810 census Montgomery Co. VA, James Mcafie; 1820 James Maafie, Montgomery Co. VA. F. B. Kegley in Virginia Frontier states that the well-known McAfee family from Ireland, including James jr., George, Robert, also of Botetourt and Montgomery Co. VA area, had left the area in 1770s, pioneering in Harrodsburg, KY, with old James McAfee dying by 1785. Augusta Co., VA, marriage records list only the name of the groom, but in Sep 1763 one James McAffee married in that large county, and in Sep 1765, a marriage is given for a James McAffee. An area along the border of PA and VA was disputed for a time and some Virginia records are said to be found in southwestern PA counties. The fact that runaway servant John MacHafee, age about 20, in 1738, had been living in Bucks Co., PA, and that Pvt. John McHaffy, 1741, in the War of Jenkins' Ear, on ship HMS York, serving with young Lawrence Washington tends to lend credence to the story about the banished McHaffie ancestor from Scotland, and one John McHaffie, Covenanter, who on 17 Oct 1684, Wigtown, was banished for life to labor on the American Plantations (per Dobson's The Original Scots Colonists). copyright 2001 Mary Lou McHaffie Ramsey
|
