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From: "Debbie Honeycutt" <>
Subject: Re: [GANN] to Debbie Honeycutt
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 00:22:40 -0400
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Hi:

I have ran across that story as well. I do find court documents that seem
to indicate this may be true.

In Jefferson County, TN, Grand Jury Minutes for June 1815 is found the
following:

Page 322:
The grand Jurors presented to court at this term that six children of
Elizabeth Gann are in a suffering situation. And it is ordered by court
that a ? (not able to make this word out) issue to the Sheriff of Jefferson
County to bring them in at the next term of this court to show cause why
they would not be bound out. to wit Alexander, Henry, Jane, Solomon, Abraham
and Louis.

In Jefferson County, TN, Grand Jury Minutes for March 1816 is found the
following:

Page 377:
Henry Fairer alias Gann now sixteen years of age by order of the court
bound by Indenture to Lewis Franklin until he arrives at the age of
twenty one.

Page 378:
Solomon Gann now of the age of twelve years old by order of court bound
by Indenture to Michael Branner Junior untill he arrives at the age of
twenty one
Alexander Fairer, alias Gann now in the eighteenth year of his age since
the first of December last by order of the court bound by Indenture to
Francis Collins untill he arrives at the age of twenty one.
Abraham Gann now ten years old by order of the court bound by Indenture
to Gasper Branner untill he arrives at the age of twenty one

From this it would appear that Henry and Alexander may have been
children of a previous marriage.
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Subject: Re: [GANN] to Debbie Honeycutt


> Hello cousin Debbie Honeycutt.......
>
> All I have is henry Farrow Gann
>
> I think Elizabeth is a Scott, dau of the Indian trader.?????? And that
> is pure specualtion..
>
> the name farrow comes up at the VANN PLANTATION OF CHEIF
> JAMES vANN OF THE CHEROKEE NATION OF SPRINGPLACE , GA.
>
> Some have sd henry was not a Gann by birth? but a Farrow.
> I do not know????? That his father was a man named Farrow?
> Farrow died and she then marr a Gann....
>
> My real knowledge comes from my Gann/Dewitt family..because some
> of the older ones still living knew mary Melissa Gann-Dewitt..
>
> and one in his 90's knew Delilah the wife of robert mastin Gann..
> She had remarried after Roberts death,,they called her gramma
> sharp, as she married a Sharp........
>
> I have a pile of things from my Vann research with clues abt
> Farrow...he was a overseer evidently on the Vann plantation..
> now he could not have been white..as it was illegal for a indian
> to employ a white.....James Vann was 1/2 Cherokee and a cheif.
> there is also specualtion abt his father?????
>
> I wasnt any help..but that is what I know...
>
> your calif cousin
> nancy
>
>
>
>
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