William Lightfoot, son of Ga Ho Ga

William Lightfoot

• https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0002... has the Adair family being descended from a woman named Ga ho ga. It is unclear whether there were two women, mother and daughter, both named Ga ho ga, or whether the Cherokee name of Nancy who married Foster and Adair was Ga ho ga and her mother is unknown Hicks entries for the early members of this family are an undocumented theory.
• Son of Ga Ho Ga
• Brother of George Lightfoot, son of Ga Ho Ga
• no known children
• not the same as William Lightfoot, of Teddington

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.

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.