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- 1797-1992 (Creation)
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118pp
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Extracts of the journal of Captain Michael Gaffney, who emigrated from Granard, County Longford to America in 1797. Gaffney served as an officer in the American army in the War of 1812, and eventually founded the city of Gaffney in Cherokee County, South Carolina. The extracts are taken from Killion, Ronald G. and Bobby G. Moss, eds. (1981). The Journal of Michael Gaffney: Second Edition - Revised Genealogy. Greenville, South Carolina: A Press.
The series also contains: Kerby A. Miller's correspondence with researchers, colleagues and the Cherokee County Public Library; photocopied pages from the Gaffney city directory; and photocopied pages from the 'Federal Works Agency Works Projects Administration,' compiled by Spartanburg District Office, South Carolina Writers' Project, Work Projects Administration, which also contains sections of the Gaffney journal.
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Only portions of the publication transcribing materials in the public domain are published here. The remainder of the text is not available online in full due to copyright restrictions. It may be consulted in person in the University of Galway's Archives and Special Collections Reading Room.