N.N.

This was a Cherokee man

• partner of Ga Ho Ga
• father of her daughters, Dorcas Duncan, sister of Ga Ho Ga & Nancy Foster Adair, daughter of Ga Ho Ga
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kdYSSi-4bovFX0Zt-QBcxO54JK7jbZW... for a detailed study
• https://www.geni.com/discussions/182137?msg=1221320 for discussion
• not the same as Capt John Lightfoot, "Younger of Antiqua & Eutaw, AL
• did not marry Mary Ruffin

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Research notes: Some Cherokee researchers, including James Hicks and Don Shadburn, list a white man named Lightfoot at the husband of Ga ho ga and father of Nancy and Dorcas. No documentation for this claim has been found to date. Two men identified as Nancy's brothers, William and George, were probably half-siblings.

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Research notes:

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.