Lightfoot

Geni collaboration as of 2019 Unknown father of George Lightfoot, son of Ga Ho Ga & William Lightfoot, son of Ga Ho Ga who had no known children.

Primary Source: 500 First Families of America - Name is John Lightfoot, 2nd married to Scotch-Irish Faires/Ferris. See Avatar. Jean (Faires) Adair.

Reply to Research notes in 2020: This family was using the ubiquitous term Cherokee for "Mountain Cherokee", a common generalization for "native". The term Ga Ho Ga is not Cherokee language but is an Arawakan term roughly meaning the same thing: Native People + of the Deer.

Research notes from 2019:

On the supposition that Dr. Emmett Starr, in his genealogies of Old Cherokee Families, missed a generation in connection with Nancy Foster Adair and Dorcas Benge Duncan, many researchers list a Cherokee woman of the Deer clan, named Ga ho ga, as their mother. Starr lists no parents and records Nancy and Dorcas as full-blood women of the Deer Clan. James HIcks and Don Shadburn, both of whom compiled extensive genealogical informationnn on the Cherokee, list her as the wife of a white man named Lightfoot, making Nancy and Dorcas mixed-blood Cherokees. There is no conclusive documentation to confirm who Lightfoot might have been or if in fact he was the father of the two women.

Nancy died about 1790 when her oldest child was only 8 or 9 years old and her children were brought up by a white step-mother. An 1836 document refers to Dorcas as a half-blood woman. Testimony given in 1877 by Nancy's grandson Judge John T Adair made no mention of the Lightfoot name, stating "My grandfather John Adair had two families his first wife was a Cherokee woman named Nancy Forster." None of the grandchildren of Nancy or Dorcas who filed an Eastern Cherokee application mentioned the Lightfoot name.

Records of the Moravian missionaries include references to two men named George and Will as uncles of James Foster, son of Nancy and her first husand. Neither man left any known descendants.