Dorcas Duncan, sister of Ga Ho Ga

Dorcas

Dorcas MNU Benge Duncan (sister of Ga ho ga) was married to an unknown Benge, not “The Bench”, had son Edmond Benge, married second to Charles Duncan, no known connection to Bob Benge.

Emmett Starr recorded Nancy and Dorcas as full-blood women of the Deer Clan.

• Dorcas Benge - Duncan
• Duncan triangulation segment per claimants is ch 7 at 91-100 mil per SNP group studies, ongoing; claimants claiming Wur teh, Duncan, Benge, and Lightfoot match there in small numbers but growing. Triangulation from claimants of Benge triangulate to Lightfoot claimants on ch 2 at 95-100 mil segment, in Lightfoot to Benge Circle to Sally Lott Circle.
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lightfoot-716
• daughter of Ga Ho Ga
• father unknown
• sister of Ga-ho-ga ‘Nancy’ Adair
• Married 1) Bob "the Bench" Benge 2) Trapper Young Charles Gordon Duncan
• study : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kdYSSi-4bovFX0Zt-QBcxO54JK7jbZW...
• discussion: https://www.geni.com/discussions/182137?msg=1221320
• not a known child of Mary Ruffin & Capt John Lightfoot, "Younger" of Antiqua & Eutaw, AL
• not considered as 1/5 siblings of grandchildren mentioned in Phillip Lightfoot Jr's estate papers Philip Lightfoot died in 1748 at Sandy Point, VA long before any of the supposed Cherokee Lightfoot children were born. He was born in 1689, married a woman named Mary Armistead and had four children, John, William, Armistead, and Philip. Philip died before his father, so the will includes his son, Francis.

Family 146 of Registration Roll of 1819 is not related to Dorcas and her family. Reservee # 146 was an unrelated person named Edmond Fawling.

Dorcas and her son Edmond are #51 and #52. They both took reservations on Wau hough Creek. No one named Lightfoot too a reservation.

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Cherokee Planters in Georgia 1832-1838 by Don L. Shadburn.....pg. 17. page 220-221

Dorcas Duncan, "a half blood old woman" on the Etowah River, widow of Charles Gordon Duncan, a white man, took a reservation of 640 acres (one mile square) under the Cherokee treaty signed July 6, 1817. This tract with certain improvements was later surveyed on Wahoo Creek in Hall County. In 1823, like many other reservees, she sold her reservation of land to Georgia commissioners, receiving $1,500 on June 21. Her improvements in Lumpkin County joined the land of her son-in-law, James Landrum, and were :pointed out:to the agents aby her grandson, Charles E. Landrum.

Mrs. Duncan (nee Lightfoot), a member of the Deer Clan, had changed her residence to Cherokee County at the time of the removal treaty. Her improvements shown to agents included two cabins, three acress of upland ($8 per acre), eight acres of bottom land ($10 per acre), and two peach trees, for a total valuation of $135. She also claimed dispossession of her land and house for two years; spoliations were assessed at $120. To support this claim, testimonial certificates were taken by the agents from Charles E. Landrum and T.W. Howard on November 4 1836, as follows:

I certify that Dorcas Duncan dispossessed of about 3 acres of upland & 2 cabins on the Hightower near Landrums some time in the Spring of 1836 & that said place was worth at least $ 12. rent pr annum.

Howard's statement read:

I certify that some time in the Spring os 1836 Peter Weaver took possession of about 8 acres of river bottom land on the Hightower being part of the improvements of Dorcas Duncan in said county of Lumpkin.

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Family 146 enumeration on Registration Roll of 1819, Qualla Boundary. Ministry worker with Baptist Association to Florida Parishes and MS Territory. Deer Clan https://www.myheritage.com/names/dorcas_benge
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=90523525

Birth: 1760 Qualla Boundary:  1836 Lumpkin County Georgia, USA Dorcas LIGHTFOOT Benge Duncan Born ABT 1760 in Qualla Boundary; Death: ABT 1836 in Lumkin Co, Ga.

Dorcas was considred a full blood Qualla / Deer Clan -- Ga-ho-ga; took a reservation of 640 acres (one mile square) under the Cherokee treaty signed July 6, 1817. This tract with certain improvements was later surveyed Wahoo Creek in Hall County. In 1823, like many other reservees, she sold her reservation of land to Georgia commissioners, receiving $1,500.

Spouse: CHIEF ROBERT BENGE b: ABT 1750 " The Bench" or his Father JOHN TRADER BENGE.

Children: Edmund Benge Duncan 1784-1844 (adopted later by Charles Duncan) Spouse : Young Charles Gordon DUNCAN b: ABT 1750 in Scotland d. 1817 = =Children: Emily Duncan, Charles Duncan, Rebecca Duncan; Family links: Spouse:  Young Charles Gordon Duncan (1750 - 1817)* Children: John Duncan (1785 - 1851)* Charles Gordon Duncan (1790 - 1850)*

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Dorcas Lightfoot Born: Abt. 1760, Qualla Boundary Died: Abt. 1836, Lumpkin County, Georgia Parents: John Lightfoot & Ga-Ho-Ga Cherokee Woman of the Deer Clan 1st Spouse: Unknown Benge, Married Abt. 1783 Born: Abt. 1750, of Laurens County, South Carolina Child: Edmund Duncan, Born: Abt. 1784, Cherokee Nation, Georgia

1817-19 Reservations 1: February 07, 1818, # 51, as Darcus Duncan, Wauhough Creek, 3 in family 1817-19 Reservations 2: June 21, 1823, sold reservation back for $1, 500 Blood: Full Blood Cherokee Clan: Ani'-Kawi' = Deer Clan (Ga-ho-ga)

Per The Dunns' Cherokee Connections; Michael C. Dunn: Many earlier works on Cherokee genealogy either say that Dorcas' maiden name was unknown or call her Dorcas Foster, but it was her sister, Ga-Ho-Ga Foster, who married into that name. Don L. Shadburn's Cherokee Planters in Georgia says she was Dorcas Lightfoot and a daughter of Captain John Lightfoot, apparently a white man. If so she was "half-blood" by white standards and her daughter Emily Duncan "quarter blood", but Emily's children seem to have considered Emily a fullblood, counting themeselves as "half blood". This sort of thing was more important, as far as I can tell, to the white lawyers than to the Cherokee, who basically considered anyone raised a Cherokee as an Indian regardless of ancestral line. In addition, most of these marriages were between white men and Cherokee women, and in Cherokee society a man belonged to his mother's clan, not his father's (one could not marry within one's own clan). Thus children of a Cherokee woman and a white man were always considered Cherokee, at least if they chose to live as such. John Ross, the Principal Chief of the Nation during the Trail of Tears and on through the Civil War era, was only one-eighth Cherokee in ancestry. Anyway, Emily Duncan seems to have usually been counted as if she was a fullblood by her descendants. Her mother, by the way, was still living at the time of the Cherokee Removal, living in Lumpkin County, Georgia.

• Per http://www.users.mis.net/~chesnut/pages/bobbenge.htm Circa 1788: Robert Benge was married to a Cherokee woman and settled at a site still called Benge's Field just south of present-day Trenton, GA. This was the Cherokee village called Lookout Town [from Evans, 1976]. Robert was reported in many publications to have married Jennie Lowrey and his brother, Martin was reported to have married Eliza Lowrey, her sister. However, the two Benges who married the Lowery sisters were the nephews of Robert who had the same name and were the sons of Robert's half brother, Obadiah Martin Benge. Some of the children reported as Robert Benge's were the children of his nephew. It is thought that Robert was married and did have children, but their identity is uncertain [Oleta Benge Kite, personal communication, 1995-1997].

2nd Spouse of Dorcas Lightfoot: Charles Gordon Duncan Born: Abt. 1750, Scotland; of Laurens County, South Carolina, Died: July 1817, Lumpkin County, Georgia Married: Abt. 1784, Laurens County, South Carolina Children: John Sa-Li-Gu-Gi Duncan, Born: Abt. 1785, Cherokee Nation East, Georgia, Died: Abt. 1850 Rebecca We-Gi Duncan, Born: Abt. 1792, Cherokee Nation East, Georgia, Died: February 15, 1872, Cherokee Nation, Vinita, Craig County, Oklahoma Emily Duncan, Born: Abt. 1795, Cherokee Nation East, Georgia, Died: Cherokee Nation, Married: Alexander Kell, Born: Abt. 1785, Rowan County, North Carolina: Father: James Kell Elizabeth Duncan, Born: Abt. 1797, Cherokee Nation East, Georgia Lewis Duncan, Born: Abt. 1799, Cherokee Nation East, Georgia Charles Gordon Duncan, Born: Abt. 1801, Cherokee Nation East, Georgia, Died: Cherokee Nation, Married: Mahala Abercrombie, Abt. 1819, Born: Abt. 1798, of Laurens County, South Carolina, Died: Cherokee Nation Martha Benge Duncan, Born: Unknown

4. John Lightfoot, Born: Abt. 1730; md Ga-Ho-Ga Cherokee Woman of the Deer Clan, Born: Abt. 1730 Children:Dorcas Lightfoot, Born: Abt. 1760, Qualla Boundary, Died: Abt. 1836, Lumpkin Co, Ga Nancy Lightfoot, Born: Abt. 1755, Qualla Boundary, Married: James Foster

Family Progenitors: Captain John LIGHTFOOT, II/Jr., (Esquire,) (British Royal Navy sea Captain who died in Suriname in Antigua Virginia c. 1670 with his brother, (Colonel) Philip LIGHTFOOT, I/Sr., (sons of Elizabeth PHILLIPS and John LIGHTFOOT, I/Sr., (Esquire,) of London, Middlesex, England. John LIGHTFOOT, born: Abt. 1730 in New Kent Colony, MD;, died: Bef./Abt. 1781/86 in Va.

Per June Hines - http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2243840&id=I58790... Deer Clan Qualla. . Her name means Beloved Woman. My grandmother also says she was Medicine Woman. Full Blood. Emett Starr's Book.

Dorcas LIGHTFOOT Benge Duncan

Born ABT 1760 in Georgia, Cherokee Nation East • Death: ABT 1836 in Lumpkin Co, Ga.

Dorcas was considred a full blood Cherokee and was a member of the Deer Clan (Ga-ho-ga).

Bio: Dorcas took a reservation of 640 acres (one mile square) under the Cherokee treaty signed July 6, 1817. This tract with certain improvements was later surveyed on Wahoo Creek in Hall County. In 1823, like many other reservees, she sold her reservation of land to Georgia commissioners, receiving $1,500.

Spouse: CHIEF ROBERT BENGE b: ABT 1750 " The Bench" or his Father JOHN TRADER BENGE.

Children:

Edmund Benge Duncan 1784-1844 (adopted later by Charles Duncan)

Spouse : Young Charles Gordon DUNCAN b: ABT 1750 in Scotland d. 1817

Children: Emily Duncan Charles Duncan Rebecca Duncan https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90523525/dorcas-duncan