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William George Juett (1768 - 1821)

William George Juett
Born in Virginiamap
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Husband of — married Mar 1789 in Fayette, Kentucky, United Statesmap
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Died at age 53 in Harrison, Kentucky, United Statesmap
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Biography

William Jewett/Juett/Jouett (abt 1766-abt 1821) and Anna Falkoner (Faulconer) (1769-1834) were the parents of Ellen Jane (Nellie) Jewett Gouge (1789-1849) wife of James M Gouge (1777-1858/60).

Thought to have moved from Virginia to Bourbon (now Harrison) County Kentucky, where Nellie was born.

William Jewett‘s parents were John Jewett (?-?) and Mourning Harris (?-?). John may have been a Captain of Virginia Militia during the American Revolution - although this identification may be confused with a son, Jack Jewett.

John's parents were Mathew Jouett (?-abt 1734) and Susannah Moore (?-?). John Jewett's grandson (and therefore cousin of Nellie Jewett/Juett Gouge) was Matthew Harris Jouett (1788-1827), a well known portrait painter of Lexington, KY.

William Jewett's brother and the father of the painter, was Captain Jack Jewett (1754-1822), who, after the Revolutionary War, settled in Woodford County KY on Craig‘s Creek Pike. In 1781 Captain Jack raced from Cookoo Tavern in Louisa County VA to Charlottesville to warn Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson and the colonial legislature of the approach of British soldiers. The governor and the legislature got away just in the nick.

The Jewett family of Virginia appears to have been Huguenots (French Calvinists) whose surname in France may have been De Jouet. After 1685, many Huguenots immigrated to America, fleeing political and religious persecution in France. These troubles were precipitated during the Protestant Reformation of the previous century. In France bitter and bloody sectarian fighting was only temporarily and intermittently settled by the 1588 Edict of Nantes, which divided French cities and regions into Protestant and Catholic enclaves. The edict offered a measure of security to both camps, but was revoked by King Louis XIV.

William Juett's mother, Mourning Harris is said to have been born in 1732, daughter of Robert Harris and Mourning Gleason Glenn. Mourning Harris married John Jouett (?-1805) in Albemarle County, VA. [1] [2]

Sources

  1. Find A Grave: Memorial #42517901
  2. All of the Above I (Google eBook)
    Title: All of the Above, 1 ed
    Author: Richard Baldwin Cook
    Publication: Cockeysville, Maryland: Nativa Publishing, 2008.
    Text: Google books link at [1]
    Note: Sources quoted in the book include the following:
    Betty Huey Tayloy Cook's collected data and her unpublished book
    Genealogy of the Huey Family, John L. Huey (1908)
    Williams data from Sally Williams Black
    Major Lee Utz, "History of the Williams Family" (1941)
    James and Nellie Gouge: "History of Grant County Kentucky," Grant County Historical Society (1992), James B. Conrad, editor.
    Jewett/Juet infomration: Huguenot Emigration to Virginia and to the Settlement at Manakin-Town, Robert Alonzo Brock (1886, 1962)
    Crouch details from Elizabeth Taylor Rubio
    William Myrix Williams ancestry and descendants: Maryland Genealogical Society, Maryland members ancestry, www.mdgensoc.org/genealogyfortng
    Gouge Family Cemetery: Grant County Cemeteries, compiled by Virgil Chandler, Sr (Grant County Historical Society, 1988).

Acknowledgements

  • This person was created through the import of VOELKER.ged on 11 March 2011.




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Juett-3 and Juett-314 appear to represent the same person because: possibly same person
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