The records that were saved from Tarleton show that John Jouett, Senior, owned much land in and around Charlottesville. There he erected the Old Swan Tavern, on the site where the Red Land Club now stands. It was an old wooden building, two storyed, with double porches, dormer windows and large sign before the door, which bore the picture of a swan — John Jouett, Senior, mar- ried Mourning Harris, a member of a prominent family of Brown's Cove, Albe- marle County. The Revolution soon began and John Jouett was among the first to advocate the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence, written by his neighbor and friend, Mr. Jefferson."
"He was a Captain in the Virginia State Militia. Four of his gallant sons were Captains in that war, an unusual record for a single family — five captians for the same army. He was also a signer of the Albemarle Declaration of In- dependence. John Jouett, Junior, the subject of this sketch, was a Captain in the same Militia and a signer too of the Albemarle Declaration of Independence .[1]
Capt. John (Jean) JOUETT Sr. was born in 1720 [likely closer to 1730] in Hanover County, Virginia. He lived Charlottesville, Virginia in 1773. He died in 1802 in Charlottesville, Virginia. [2]
In 1773, John Jouett bought 100 acres from John Moore adjoining the town of Charlottesville....In 1776, he bought 300 additional acres from Moore. He erected the Swan Tavern, and ....in 1790, he laid out High Street in Charlottesville.
Buried somewhere in the backyard of the premises upon which the Swan Tavern stood; Lot No. 58, Charlottesville. "As late as 1824 the grave could be pointed out; and in the Central Gazette, a paper published in the town, there appeared on October the 18, 1824, an earnest appeal to the citizens of Charlottesville to erect a stone over the grave; but the appeal was unheeded, and the exact spot where he was buried is not now known and never will be. At the time of his death (1802) there was no public place of burial in Charlottesville , or the immediate vicinity and according to the custom of that day he was buried in the yard in the rear of the house.".[3]
Spouse:
Mourning Glenn HARRIS. Capt. John (Jack) JOUETT Sr. and Mourning Glenn HARRIS were married in 1753 in Albemarle County, Virginia.[4]
Children were:
Capt. Matthew JOUETT, fell at Brandywine.
Capt. John (Jack) JOUETT,
William JOUETT,
Capt. Robert JOUETT, lawyer, Colonel 7th artillery, 2nd division. Died1796
Mary Ann JOUETT, married Thomas Allin
Alexander JOUETT,
Capt. (Rev.) Charles JOUETT, 47th regiment, 2nd division. In Detroit in 1803
Frances JOUETT, married Menan Mills
Elizabeth JOUETT, married Clifton Redes
Susannah JOUETT, married Thomas C, Fletcher
Margaret "Peggy" JOUETT. married Nathan Crawford[5]
He and his son were captains in the Virginia Militia and a signer of the Albemarle Declaration of Independence. [6]
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