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See the messages in this site particularly one from Carol Page Tilson with the URL exact links to the two most readily accessible sites for the answer to your question.
When you reach the entries on this site for a family try using the choices provided particularly "Descendancy" and "Registry" either of which will provide you with a single page containing descendants of the subject of the page you are looking at.
Each of the two sites has its virtues so if really interested explore them both.
Here is what I wrote for a volume published on Chester County which included background information of the county but over two-thirds of which were family written histories of families living or passing through Chester (including many of the original immigrants to that area). I also did others on McAliley descendants and the families of their spouses. If you have any questions you can contact me at oftheMac_Ailghiles@yahoo.com.
More is known since this version was printed but this should be close to what was published in 1982. Some of the presumptions have been proven true and some false.
THE JOHN AND ELIZABETH MARTIN McALILEY FAMILY
The surname McAliley apparently derived from the Gaelic surname Mac Ailghile which is the name of a sept of branch of the clan Mac Guire of County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The McAliley family of Chester County, South Carolina, by family tradition, emigrated from County Antrim, Northern Ireland through Boston and Pennsylvania to the vicinity of what now is Chester County, South Carolina.
The first recorded date involving a McAliley was a recorded survey of land for a John Maclellie (undoubtably a variant spelling of McAliley) which survey is evidenced by a Royal Grant of King George III through his representative Lord Charles Greville Montagu, Captain General, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Province of South Carolina. Through this grant John McAliley was allowed 200 acres of land in Granville County subject to certain rents or taxes, limitation and reversions. No exact legal description of the land is found on the grant, but a Memorial exhibited by the same John Maclellie indicated that the land was on Long Canes, apparently in what is now Abbeville County. It is believed that John McAliley did not keep the Abbeville land for very long, but this cannot be proven since early property records of Abbeville County are now unavailable.
Property records in Chester County do reveal that by 1767 John McAliley owned land in northern (on the South Fork of Fishing Creek) and central (on Bull Run) Chester County. A land grant from North Carolina was issued in 1770 securing the claim of John McAliley to the land at Fishing Creek, indicating that the 200 acres were adjacent to land owned by Samuel Morrow.
John McAliley was the husband of Elizabeth Martin and he left as survivors upon his death, c. 1805, his widow, sons, Samuel, Richard, George, William and James, and daughters, Mary Boyd and Peggy Miller, all named in his will. The only recorded reference to John McAliley during the Revolutionary War is one indicating that he provided forage for horses of a South Carolina cavalry unit under the command of Col. Edward Lacey.
As for his children, no additional information is currently known about his daughters, Mrs. Boyd and Mrs. Miller (beyond an isolated reference to his grandson Jim Miller), due in part to their husbands' relatively common (and therefore less historically traceable) surnames. This name-related malady never befell any male of the name McAliley. (It is likewise a certainty that every person male or female born with the surname McAliley has encountered often strange spellings of the properly pronounced name and even more unusual pronunciations of the written name.) On this same subject it is noted that the name "John Mcalily" appears on the 1790 census as the head of a Chester County household and that the only other listing of similar pronunciation is a "William McLilley" of Halifax County, North Carolina (most likely a brother or other close relative). Every person bearing the surname with spelling as "McAliley" and pronunciation similar to "Mack'-uh-lily" in America appears to have obtained the name through descent from this John McAliley or from a marriage or other association with such a descendant.
Three of John McAliley's sons moved west after his death and the other two remained in Chester County as residents for their
lifetimes. Samuel McAliley married Janet Johnson and moved to Highlands, Illinois after his father's death. In 1834, according
to a story related by Miss Nellie Greene Clarke a descendant of this Samuel and Janet, Samuel and his wife died of cholera contracted after a trading trip to St. Louis, but they were survived by several children. Richard McAliley (born c. 1782) married Mary Young (Yongue) of Chester and moved to Gibson County, Tennessee sometime before 1810, but probably after his father's death. Subsequently upon his mother's death in the 1820's at the approximate age of 85, James McAliley likewise left Chester County for Gibson County, Tennessee. Like their brother Samuel, Richard and James left surviving descendants.
George McAliley (born in the 1780's) remained in Chester County, married a Miss Trussell, served as executor of his father's estate and appears on the roster of Captain John Walker's Company of the 1st Regiment of the South Carolina Militia during the War of 1812 (serving as a substitute for John Trussell, Sr., presumably his father-in-law). George McAliley had three daughters, believed named Elizabeth, Milley, and Susa (possibly for Susannah), whose husbands were, not necessarily repectively, Hiram Miller, Ben McDonald and a Mr. Cook (who went west).
The fifth son William McAliley remained in Chester County, married Mary Wylie, and produced seven known children, George, John, James, Ann, Sarah, Samuel and Mary McAliley. His descendants were the sole source for the continuation of the name McAliley in Chester County.
The exact date of death of John McAliley is unknown, but it would necessarily be between August 1, 1804 (the date of execution of his will) and March 1806 (the date of appointment of his son George as executor of his estate). All his property was left in varying shares to his wife and two youngest sons George and James. An inventory of his tangible personal property is available in the Chester County Estate Records. It is believed (according to family tradition) that John McAliley (and later his wife and possibly some children) was buried in a grave marked by field stones in a McKeown burying ground near Cornwall, Chester County and near a larger McKeown Burying Ground.
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