The Jouett Family and The Revolution
Jack Jouett served as a Captain in the 16th regiment of the Virginia militia during the American Revolutionary War. He was of an old Norman family of Huguenot origin settled in Touraine, and directly descended from the noble Matthieu de Jouhet, Master of the Horse to Louis XIII of France, Lord of Leveignac, and Lieutenant in the Marshalsea of Limousin, whose grandson, Daniel de Jouet, came to the Narragansett country, in Rhode Island, in 1686. Daniel's youngest son, Jean, Jack's grandfather, settled in Virginia. He was an imposing figure at 6'4" and 220 pounds and contemporary accounts describe him as muscular and handsome. Jouett's family, based in Albemarle County, was very active in the revolutionary cause. Both Jouett and his father, John, Senior, had signed the Albemarle Declaration, a document renouncing King George III signed by 202 Albemarle citizens. During the Revolution, Jouett's father supplied the military with meat for its rations, and Jouett's three brothers all served in the military, including one who was killed at the battle of Brandywine.
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