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Note: The Maifeld Family Tree as posted at RootsWeb WorldConnect Ronald Maifeld <ronmaifeld@@juno.com>
ID: I5670 Name: ANDREW JOHAN ANDREAS PAULUS VOGT Given Name: ANDREW JOHAN ANDREAS PAULUS Surname: VOGT Sex: M Birth: 1721 in CARLSBAD,GERMANY Death: 1787 in MONTGOMERY CO,VA Note: Name also appears as Andrew Vaught. He married Elizabeth, they could have married in the Piedmont of VA or in the Shenandoah Valley. Both locations were in Orange Co., VA in 1741-1744. In 1743 Germans began moving South from the Shenandoah Valley following the Indian path between the Blue Ridge and the Appalachians. These Immigrants passed the German settlements on the headwaters of the James River and settled on Reed Creek and Crippled Creek, tributaries to the New River.
75 German families were there before the Revolution. John Andrew Vaught was assignee of John Parkes for 600 acres of the head of the Reed Creek, surveyed in 1753-54 and Andrew was to pay the interest on the land starting in 1762. Andrew sold land in the Peaked Mt. Area to his brother Gasper, in May 1762, and again in Feb 1768. By 1772, the Vaught name appears on the Militia Lists from SW VA. Most records for Andrew Vaught and his sons are from what is today Wythe Co., VA area. In 1770 Reed Creek and Cripple Creek were in Botetort Co., VA from 1772-1777 the area was Fincastle Co., VA. In 1777 becoming Montgomery Co., VA with Wythe Co being formed in 1790.
The area of Cripple Creek where some of the Vaughts lived became Smyth Co., in 1832. During the 1770's in SW VA, Vaughts other than Andrew began to appear in the records, starting with John Vaught in 1772. These were probably sons of Andrew Vaught, Sr., who were reaching adulthood. The records from 1772 to 1792 yield the names:
Andrew Vaught, Sr., Andrew Vaught, Jr., George Vaught, John Vaught, Gasper Vaught, Christian Vaught, David Vaught and Henry Vaught.
No probates or land settlements have been found for Andrew Vaught or his brother Gasper Faught, sons of John Paul Vaught.
To list the children of both takes some guesswork. There is no evidence that Andrew's brother Gasper or any of Gasper's children ever moved to this SW part of VA.
A German birth (Fraktur) exists that states the parents of the babe, Andrew were George and Christiana Phillippi Vaught and the grandparents were Andrew and Elizabeth Vaught.
John Paul's son Andrew is known to have a wife Elizabeth. The date on the Fraktur, Feb 1787, is the right time period to provide proof that Andrew had a son George. There is, so far, no proof of this assumption other than land association and the lack of any
other known Vaught in the area at the time to whom the other 6 Vaught men could have belonged.
A tax list of 1787 in Wythe Co., VA lists both Andrew Vaught, Sr., and Andrew Vaught, Jr. so Andrew, s/o John Paul Vaught was still alive in 1787. In 1786, George Vaught granted 572 acres on the headwaters of Crippled Creek to Henry Vaught and to Christley Vaught for 20 pounds on the same day Henry granted 130 acres of his share to Christley Vaught for 10 pounds. In 1788 the old survey (1753-54) was assigned to Gasper Vaught viz, 200 acres to Adam Dutton and 200 acres to Philip Dutton. In 1790 (survey book D, pg 61m Item 463) Gaspar Vaught resurveyed the 600 acres on Reed Creek that were in the name of Andrew Vaught. The old survey was apparently being settled. These land maneuvers tend to paint a picture of estate settlement, and it is possible that Andrew Vaught, Sr. died around 1787 in Montgomery Co., VA. No evidence of any possible
daughters of Andrew has been found, however, Mary Vaught was a sponsor for the Baptisms of Mary Creager in 1797. This Mary Vaught does not fit any but Gasper had another daughter named Mary. So she may have been a daughter of Andrew. No other reference for this Mary Vaught has been found. It appears that all of Andrew and Elizabeth's sons were married after the move to SW VA about 1770. Many of the Vaught's in SW VA were sympathetic to the Loyalists and not to the Revolution, on April 1779, in Wythe Co., VA, Michael Henninger claimed in court that a group of 4,000 men under John Giffith (Griffith?) had shown Loyalist sympathies. This group included John and David Vaught and the "old Vaught" who owned the mill. At the trial these men, John and David were released on their good behavior. Andrew Vaught of Cripple Creek was included in the group of Loyalist sympathies by the testimony of Peter Kinder on 17 Aug 1780. (this would have been Andrew Vaught, Jr.) These Germans took their oath to King George seriously, they nearly all named a son George. John and David Vaught were later fined 1,000 pounds each. John, David and Andrew Vaught went to Tennessee by 1792. It is possible that John and David left the County and State rather than pay such a heavy fine.
Father: JOHAN PAULUS "JOHN PAUL" VOGT b: 1680 in LUCKENBERG, THALFANG VILLAGE,GERMANY Mother: MARIA CATHERINA b: 1687 in , Germany Marriage 1 ELIZABETH b: 1725 in , Germany Married: 1742 in Piedmont, Shenandoah Valley, Orange Co., VA. Children 1. George VAUGHT b: 1745 in ORANGE CO,VA 2. John VAUGHT b: 1747 in WYTHE CO,VA 3. Gasper VAUGHT b: 1749 in AUGUSTA CO,VA 4. Christley VAUGHT b: 1751 in ,VA 5. David VAUGHT b: 1757 in ,VA 6. ANDREW VAUGHT b: 1761 in ,VA 7. Henry VAUGHT b: 1764 in ,VA ------------
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