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About Martin Gouge
The name Gouge -- or Gooch, or Gouch -- is prominent throughout colonial America, and piecing together the life of any one member of the clan is challenging. It's made especially so by the ravages of time, in which court houses are burned down, records lost, and time eats away at our memories of names, faces, and events. So it's dififcult to pin down the early life of one Martin Gouge, who was born in North Carolina, raised a family in Tennessee, pioneered Missouri, and passed away ... somewhere.
Martin Gouge was born circa 1780 in North Carolina, the residence for several Gooch or Gouge families in the 18th century. Details of the later life of his father, James Gouge are seen in various records in Wilkes county, North Carolina, throughout the years in and around the American Revolution. James claimed land in neighboring Burke county in 1784 but is not to be found again in county records. But Martin's older brother William is there: He married Milley Poe in Wilkes County, NC. The Gouge's moved with their father to Rhea County, Tennessee around the turn of the century.
Tennessee, and the Creek Indian War
In about 1809, James Gouge died and Martin and William were listed in their father's estate, along with his widow Clerisha Gouge: "William Gouge, Josiah Gouge, James Gouge, Dorothy Gouge, Clerisha Gouge Jr, Elizabeth Gouge and Martin Gouge, heirs of the said James Gouge decd. Have hereby mutually and interchangably made and indorsed the following agreement for the distribution of the estate of the said James Gouge."
From Rhea, the Gouges moved to Cambell County, where Martin married Elizabeth McKinney in 1812. The family's fates would be interwined thereafter.
In the southern US, the Creek Indian War (1813-1814) was a war within the War of 1812. The Creeks
(also known as the Red Sticks), led by Chief Menawa, were supported by the British and Spain. In early 1814, about 1,000 Creeks established camp on the Horseshoe Bend of the Tallapoosa River in what would become east-central Alabama. On 10 January 1814, in Jacksboro, the seat of Campbell County, Tennessee, Captain John Inglish enlisted volunteers into the 2nd Regiment of East Tennessee Militia, under the command of Colonel Samuel Bunch. Among the men that joined that day were 1st Lieutenant James English, Corporal William Fulkerson, Martin Gouge, and Private James McKinney. Captain English marched his men to Knoxville, Tennessee, where they remained about two weeks as other units joined them. From Knoxville, they marched to Camp Ross on Lookout Mountain, near the present-day site of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Perhaps on cold nights during the war, Captain John English and his comrades from Campbell County sat about the fire talking about what they would do after the war. Perhaps one of their dreams was to pack up and move 600 miles to the western frontier of the United States, to a spot near the mouth of Lewis and Clark's Little Moniteau Creek -- because that's precisely what they did.
Cole county, Missouri
Goodspeed's History of Cole County, Missouri states: "The earliest settlement made within Cole County as now constituted was that by the Tennessee colony in 1815-16, at the mouth of the Moniteau. The war waged with England to maintain the rights of the young Republic was won by the soldiers of Tennessee and Kentucky. Lewis and Clarke [sic] had made known throughout the country the beauty of the Missouri region, and the United States had completed treaties with the original red owners, built forts for their protection from other warriors, and opened the highway for immigration.
Among the members of the Moniteau party were John Inglish (Captain English) and his four sons (including 1st Lieutenant James), Henry McKenney and three sons (including James William), James Miller and five sons, James Fulkerson and three sons (including Corporal William), David Young and three sons, William Gooch and four sons, Martin Gooch (Gouge) and two sons, John Harmon and one son, and Joshua Chambers and two sons."
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Sources:
McKinney family history, Ancestry family tree
- Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Dec 21 2022, 16:25:29 UTC
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/41377174/person/19...
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Martin Gouge's Timeline
| 1780 |
1780
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North Carolina, United States
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| 1812 |
January 5, 1812
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Tennessee, United States
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| 1813 |
June 22, 1813
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Tennessee, United States
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| 1815 |
1815
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Tennessee, United States
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