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Here is a pretty clear referance to Matthew Jouett. I've had this for years and I'm surprised no other Corn stalker has figured this out...:)
From the book "Twelve Virginia Counties"
Page 248: "The legislature then met in Stauton and voted Jack Jouett 'and elegant sword and pair of pistols.' The distance from Cokoo to Charlottesville by modern highway is thirty-eight miles, and Jack Jouett could not have cut more from that distance. his route was probably longer.
No poeet has describe the ride of Jack Jouett as Longfellow has so beautifully portrayed the ride of Paul Revere. But historians throughout the nation have acclained Jack Jouett's remarkably exploit."
Jack Jouett made a 38 mile all night ride to wan the legislature of something he overheard at the Cokoo Tavern on the night of June 3, 1781. He heard the approaching British Calvary and lit off to warn every one.
Later in the book we find on page 246:
'The first couthouse was built in 1742 on lands of Mathe Jouet and at his expense on Beaver creek......The lands of Mathew Jouett, probaly the grandfather of Jack Jouett...were extensice andreached fromCokoo almost to the southern corprate limits of what is not eh Town of Louisa...."
In the Albemarle Count section page 3339:
"Matthew Jouett owned large acreage in Louisa County extending from about Cuckoo to the outskirts of the town of Louisa. Amongh the earliest court records in Albemarle in 1745 is a notice of the death of Matthew Jouett. It is believe that this was the same man, and also that Joun Jouett for many years a prominent citizen of Charlottsville, was his son. In 1773 John Jouett bought 100 acres on the eastern outskirts of Charlottesville and establushed the famous SWAN TAVERN, He also owned 300 acres south of the town. His death occued in 1802. His wife was Mourning Harris Jouett, and of his children MATTHEW {Jouett) was a CAPTAIN in the REVOLUTION and was KILLED in the Battle of Brandywine."
Knowing that JP Corn was illiterate as were most of his kith and kin and that anyone writing a record was most likely doing it phonetically it seems reasonable to assume that however the hill folk heard and managed to transcribe their leader's name is about how it came out...DeWitt.
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