Re: Jeter/Vaughan/Vaughn
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Re: Jeter/Vaughan/Vaughn
Craig Nelson 12/11/01
Add this to the mix:
From a letter written by Thomas Horatio Jeter to his nephew William Thomas Jeter on 11 January 1880:"The origin of the name in America is traced to two brothers who came from Wales in the Colonial period and settled on the James River near Richmond, Va.Our ... grandfather came from the descendants of the brother who remained in Virginia." (Thomas Horatio Jeter was the son of Thomas Jeter, the grandson of William Jeter, the great-grandson of John Jeter, Jr., and the great-great-grandson of John Jeter, the immigrant.)
I think that Uncle Horatio was in fact referring to the brothers John Jeter, Jr., and William Jeter, putative sons of John Jeter, Sr.John, Jr. did indeed remain in Virginia while William, who married Margaret Vaughn, removed to Edgefield Co., SC.
There is speculation that John Jeter, Sr. was among those on the one unnamed of the four ships paid for by King William of England to transport Huguenots to Virginia and which arrived there on 20 October 1700.The Jeter surname appears among the Huguenots settlers in the Mattapony River valley and John Jeter, Sr. is documented there in St. Asaph's Parish of King William (later Caroline) County.
I have not and I don't know of anyone who has pursued the Huguenot connection in depth.It is possible this family left France around the time of Edict of Nantes and settled in Wales.This hypothesis may be worth a look.
Vic
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