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John McHaffie was from Knox Co Tennessee He was son of Andrew McHaffie and wife Catherine Harless. In about 1835 or so John is said to have taken his musket gun and his dog and walked from northwest of Knoxville TN over to southwestern Missouri near what became Springfield MO. He liked what he saw, went back to Knox Co TN and got his brothers and a sister ( all of whom were getting married about that time) and the group moved over to south of Springfield. Your kin among these McHaffies helped me so much back in about 1990 when I started searching really hard for my Daddy's McHaffies of Oklahoma, who had moved down to n.w. Arkansas in 1872 from Indiana, and the old 1800s Indiana family history books tell that these McHaffies were from Knox Co TN. Then I did lots more work and learned that John's father Andrew was the brother of my John McHaffie born about 1760 in we think Pennsylvania who married Jannet "Jenney" Campbell in Botetourt Co VA/ Virginia in 1789. My John and Andrew McHaffie lived in the same house in 1787 in Botetourt Co VA and when part of that county was cut off to form a new county, Montgomery Co VA, Andrew lived in Montgomery and got married there in 1803. We find McHaffie spelled Mahafey/Mahaffey sometimes, but then for the same county we will find it spelled McHaffie. Knox Co TN deeds are signed big and clear Andrew McHaffie and also John McHaffie (in 1801) but unfortunately they are indexed in the court house there as McAfee apparently because more people use that spelling. Andrew was 16 yrs to 21 years old in 1787 and his brother John paid a "poll tax" for Andrew. My John in 1798 named a son Andrew so we know it is a different Andrew. These boys and their sister Jane were the children of James McHaffey of Montgomery Co VA who also sometimes shows up as James Mahaffey. L. P. Summers wrote a big History of Southwestern Virginia, and he also wrote Annals of Southwestern Virginia. In one of these on page 1400 he says a Revolutionary veteran named James Mahaffey lived in Montgomery Co. VA. John McHaffie's 1789 marriage is listed on page 518 of one of these 2 huge books, but it is not in the index. In Early Adventurers on the Western Waters by Mary B. Kegley, the marriage for your Andrew McHaffie and Catherine Harless in 1803 in Montgomery Co VA is listed. Andrew and Catherine moved down to Knox Co TN about 1811 because their boy David (who moved to southwest Missouri) was I think 5 years old at the time they moved to Knox Co TN where my John and his family were living and had been since about 1801. The Oklahoma McHaffies passed down a story that our McHaffie ancestor was banished from Scotland, and this proved to be true -- the king was having presbyterians arrested and executed or forced to leave the country in 1684 and 1685, and one John McHaffie in Gargerie in Kirkcowan parish, Wigtownshire, Scotland, was captured, jailed at Wigtown and on Friday 17 October 1684, was banished, and then forced to walk up to Edinburgh Scotland to Canongate Prison, and this is all in the records and in the books about people who emigrated from Scotland. In 1738 there is a John MacHafee, a runaway servant in Bristol PA (across river from New Jersey). In 1741 there is Private John McHaffy serving in the Navy on the ship HMS York for his "victuals only" and a Private Martin McHaffy was serving in the Navy also in 1738 we think. We believe John from Scotland lived in 1685 in New Jersey. I have photos of the ground where the stone house called Gargerie stood, shared with me by a man who lives in Scotland down the road from there. John in Scotland had been at a battle, called Battle of Bothwell Bridge, southeast of the city of Glasgow, but the court record indicates that he escaped and was able to hide from 1679 to Oct 14 1684 when he was caught and jailed, and he refused to say that the King of England and Scotland was "Head of the Church" and for that he was jailed, his house was ordered to be pulled down and destroyed by the sheriff (and the other 9 people living in the house were thrown out), and John was finally sent to America.
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