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[Identification of item], in the Michael Gaffney Diary, #2887-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Gift 1953

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• Charleston (S.C.)--Description and travel.
• Gaffney (S.C.)--History.
• Gaffney family.
• Gaffney, Henry G., fl. 1894.
• Gaffney, Michael, 1775-1854.
• Irish Americans--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Merchants--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• New York (State)--Description and travel.
• South Carolina--History--1775-1865.
• South Carolina. Militia--History--War of 1812.
• Union County (S.C.)--History.

Diary of Michael Gaffney of Ireland, who came to America in 1797, and spent a short while in upstate New York in 1799, and Charleston, S.C., in 1800, before moving to Union County, S.C., eventually settling at the present site of Gaffney, S.C., in 1802, as a merchant. He organized a company of militia and saw service in 1814. In addition to his diary, the volume contains the names of Gaffney's children, the names of some of the men in his militia company, and other biographical data. The diary was copied and edited and additional information was supplied by his son, Henry G. Gaffney, in 1894. Typed transcript of this later manuscript were made in the 1930s and it is from one of these that this copy was created for distribution. It is not known if the original diary still exists.