Family/Spouse: Gehan COURSIER. Gehan was born about 1635 in L'Isle de Re, France; died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Pierre JOUETT. Pierre (son of Daniel JOUETT) was born about 1683 in L'Isle de Re, Aunis, France; died on 17 Dec 1743 in Louisa or Albemarle County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Jouett is supposedly a French Huguenot name, although some by this name had been in England at least as early as 1485. In The Hugenot Immigration to Virginia by Brock, we read:
It is exhibited that there were numerous instances of individual settlements of French Hugenots in Virginia prior and subsequent to the influx of 1700. The names of Bertrand, Bowdoin, Cottre.. Flournoy, Jouet, Lacy, Michie, Trezevant and others have been most estimably represented.....
Note: Matthew Jouett patented large tracts of land in Hanover in 1732. Thomas Jouett patented lands in Albemarle in 1752. Captain Jack Jouet, by hard riding in May, 1781, apprised the fugitive Legislature, then sitting at Charlottesville, Virginia, of the approach of the British under Tarleton, and thus prevented their capture. The service was acknowledged by a resolution of thanks, passed June 12, 1781, and the presentation of an elegant sword and a pair of pistols. Captain Matthew Jouett of the State Line in the Revolution, fell in the service, and his representative received 4,000 acres of bounty land. A son of Captain Jack Jouett, the late Matthew Jouett, of Louisville, Kentucky, is said to rivalled in ability Gilbert Stuart as a portrait painter. It is claimed that the name was originally De Jouet.
A writer in Leslie's Popular Monthly for July, 1898, page 25, said:
Widow Robards built a large, handsome house; was uniformly kind considerate, and a generous, warm-hearted woman; proud, high-spirited, and was considered the most influential personage in the Blue Grass region; that her daughters - viz: Sallie Robards Jouett, wife of Captain John Jouett, member of the Virginia Legislature for several years, and Elizabeth Lewis Robards, wife of General William Buckner, were noted for their beauty and social tact.
Captain Jouett was the hero of the following daring deed In the heat of the Revolutionary War, in June, 1781, when Cornwallis was near Richmond, burning the barns, fences, and crops, and killing the horses of the farmers of Virginia, he sent Colonel Tarleton, with 250 cavalry on a special secret raid to surprise and capture the General Assembly, then in session at Charlottesville, in Albemarle County, Virginia. Their clandestine, rapid march was observed by Captain John Jouett. He divined their dangerous purpose, and started at once on his fleet thoroughbred horse to defeat their strategy. The passing, firing, race was swift, daring and perilous - so hot and close that a single unlucky bullet, or a misstep of his faithful steed, would place Captain Jouett at the mercy of the marauding troops. Fortune - Providence - favored the brave patriot. He gave the sudden warning, but so narrow was the escape of the Legislature that seven of the members were captured. A copy of the concurrent resolutions adopted December 12, 1786, shows the appreciation of the House and Senate of Virginia of the daring and important service of Captain John Jouett in baffling the scheme of Lord Cornwallis and his noted cavalry leader, Colonel Tarleton.
Matthew Jouett died in Louisa County, Virginia in 1734. He owned extensive land in Hanover in 1732, and was said to have furnished the land and built the courthouse for Louisa County on his land on Beaver Creek. He owned the Cuckoo Tavern in Louisa County, which got its name for the cuckoo clock which hung on its walls. This was supposedly the first cuckoo clock brought to Virginia. Does this mean that Mathew Jouett was a descendant of "Willam Jewett of Hanwell, clocksmith," one of the "Newgate prisoners reprieved for transportation to Barbados," and thence to Virginia, on July 15, 1663?
Matthew Jouett married Susannah Moore, and their children were Matthew, John (father of Captain John Jouett mentioned above) and Mary. John married Mourning Harris and their children were Robert, Mathew, John (Jack Jr.), and possibly the William Jouett (Juett) who was born about 1766. Was it this William Juett who married Ann Faulconer, (daughter of Joyce Craig and John Faulconer) in Fayette County about 1786, died in Harrison County, Kentucky October, 1821, and produced two daughters who married James Henry?
The brochure provided at The Jouett House outside Versailles, Kentucky, states:
The Jouett House is especially important because of the fame of its builder, Captain John (Jack) Jouett. Born in Albemarle County, Virginia, of French Huguenot ancestry, he was a son of Captain John and Mourning (Harris) Jouett. Of imposing physique, he became an expert horseman and hunter. He, his father and two brothers, early supporters of independence, were Captains in the Revolutionary Army in Virginia.
More information about Captain Jack Jouett, the Revolutionary hero (and grandson of Matthew) can be found at:
http://louisacounty.com/jouett.htm
http://www.americanrevolution.org/jouett.html
http://www.ushistory.com/jouett.htm

Matthew married Susannah Price MOORE in 1718 in Hanover County, Virginia. Susannah (daughter of John MOORE and Susannah PRICE) was born in 1707 in Elizabeth City, Virginia; died about 1740 in Louisa County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henrietta married Joseph WILLIAMS about 1746 in Virginia. Joseph (son of John WILLIAMS and Mary KEELING) was born on 21 Jan 1720/21 in Hanover County, Virginia; died on 15 Oct 1792 in Elbert County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]