William Loftis m. Lucy Vowell, 1790 Halifax Co VA
A William Lofty wrote in 1834 pension application that he was born 1761 in Chesterfield Co VA, moved at age six (1767) to Halifax Co VA.Left Halifax 1797 to Catawba River NC, then 1802 to Cocke Co TN.I believe he is same William Lofty/Loftis who married Lucy Vowell in Halifax Co VA in 1790 and they appear in the 1800 Salisbury Co NC census as a married couple with three children under 10.They are in the Cocke Co TN 1830 census age 60-70 (b 1760-70) adjacent to Page Lofty.Also in Cocke was an Abraham Lofty.Other researchers have wondered if the daughter might be Emily.
The deed records of 1767 Chesterfield Co VA show a land sale by William Loftes and wife Elizabeth.She may be the same Elizabeth Loftis who witnessed a land transaction in Chesterfield in 1751.I suspect they were the parents of William Loftis who served Rev War in Halifax and married Lucy Vowell there in 1790, then known as William Lofty lived in Salisbury NC and Cocke Co TN.
Vowell DNA studies show that a Mann Page Vowell who married in 1790 Halifax had a MANN biological father.Mann Page Vowell was born in the 1760s, likely in Amelia Co VA.He appears to have been an out-of-wedlock son born to Mary Vowell, daughter of Thomas Vowell who lived very near Robert Mann.Robert was brother to Page Mann.It is of interest that William Lofty and wife Lucy Vowell Lofty named a son Page Lofty.He may have been named for Lucy's brother, Mann Page Vowell, or perhaps in acknowledgement that Lucy was also the daughter of Page Mann.Mary Vowell, who appears to be mother of Mann Page Vowell and Lucy Vowell, later married Christopher Bailey.In 1798/9Christopher Bailey, his wife Mary Vowell Bailey, and her son Mann Page Vowell (plus his wife, Nancy Parrott Vowell) moved to Knox Co TN.In 1799 they participated in a successful petition for the division of Knox into two counties.The area in which they lived became Anderson Co TN.That is in Powell's Valley where William Lofty and wife Lucy Vowell Lofty temporarily removed in 1807, per his Rev War pension application.Poor health caused them to return to Cocke Co TN.Interestingly, some of the Vowells relocated within Anderson from the Clinch River low lands to a nearby mountain now called Vowell Mountain.