Gasper Faught in Knox & Blount Co.,TN.,Circa 1793- 1805
I believe the Gasper Faught in Knox County 1792-93 court records and Gasper Vaught in US Army 1795- 1805 Tellico Blockhouse and Blount County,TN. records were the same person.
Proof of dual-spelling of name is found in an 1805 letter written and signed by Gasper Faught[Fought].The letter, addressed to Indian agent Colonel R.J. Meigs,states Gasper Faught has the written permission of the Cherokee chiefs to live with his family on Indian land.The agency filed it as Gasper Vaught.
This letter was probably written at Brownsville,near Lookout Mountain, where in 1802,Major William Lovely set up an Indian Agency post.In Colonel Meigs' day book is found an entry that Lovely had a German millwright from Blount County named Gasper Vaught build a grist mill near Lovely's post in the Cherokee Nation. In a history book about Lookout Mountain is writtenGasper Vaught built a house and tavern for Chief Brown at Brown's Ferry.It is also written that he went to nearby Nickajack Cave to mine saltpetre,used to make gun powder.
I wish to determine if he married Louisa Blount -Blackledge at the Eusebia Presbyterian Church in Blount County in 1798.Also, the children's names from this marriage.
I also wish to determine if this is the Gasper Faught found in Shelby County, KY. records in 1812[militia],1815[land grant] and 1818[witness on Rev.War pension application for a neighbor Levi Wentworth[#S-37511]. Also,I wish to obtain any records on Gasper Faught after 1818.
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Re: Gasper Faught in Knox & Blount Co.,TN.,Circa 1793- 1805
Denise Brown 12/03/11