John Maffitt

John Maffitt may refer to:

  • Reverend John Newland Maffitt (preacher), Methodist itinerant preacher in the United States
  • Commander John Newland Maffitt (privateer), officer in the United States Navy and Confederate States Navy, nicknamed the "Prince of Privateers", son of the above

Famous quotes containing the word john:

    Fair, rich, and young: how rare is her perfection,
    Were it not mingled with one foul infection!
    I mean, so proud a heart, so curst a tongue,
    As makes her seem nor fair, nor rich, nor young.
    —Sir John Harington (1561–1612)