Mary “Ga-ho-ga” Lightfoot (Clack), (born in MD) - Separating Mary Clack and Ga ho ga

Mary Clack and Ga ho ga were two totally separate women. Three families have been conflated in this one profile.

Regardless of anything you find in Wikitree, no Cherokee person lived in Maryland or had any connection there in the 18th century.

The James Adair who wrote about the Cherokee was NOT related to the Cherokee Adairs. James Adair the author had a Chickasaw family. He mentions almost no one by name in his section on the Cherokee, no mention of anyone named 'Lightfoot' or ' Gahoga'.

The Cherokee villages of the 18th century were centered on the Tennessee River, not in North Carolina. "Qualla Boundary" refers to a specific and very small area in North Carolina.

Vann families in Texas have nothing to do with Cherokee in the middle of the 18th century.

Adair's book does not name the Cherokee clans, and he mentions them only in passing. The seven clans of the Cherokee are: A ni gi lo hi (Long Hair), a ni sa ho ni (Blue), A ni wa ya (Wolf), a ni ga te ge wi (Wild Potato), an I a wi (Deer), a ni tsi s qua (Bird), and a ni wo di (Paint). Nancy/Gahoga Foster Adair and Dorcas Benge Duncan were members of the Deer Clan.

The 'Old Settler' Roll was created in 1851. The only rolls created between 1817 and 1819 are the Emigration Rolls; Nancy/Gahoga Adair died about 1790. Dorcas was alive as late as 1823. She took a reservation of land under the Treaty of 1817 which was taken from her by the State of Georgia in 1823. Her son Edmond took a reservation, also taken by the State of Georgia. Her son Charles Gordon Duncan and his family emigrated to Indian Territory in 1834. Dorcas was not with them. There is no one named 'Lightfoot" on the Emigration Rolls, the census of 1835, or any of the four 1851 rolls - the 'Old Settler', the Drennan, the Siler, or the Chapman.

There is no one named Lott found on Cherokee rolls. These people have been erroneously connected to the family of Ga ho ga.

Ga ho ga was a Cherokee woman of her own and she as Deer Clan.....I am direct descendant of the Cherokee Adair line

I am not a manager of this mary lightfoot profile

Linda Bomes

I believe you refer to this family line

Ga-ho-ga ‘Nancy’ Adair

According to what little I can find, Dorcas Benge Duncan Passed away in 1838 in Georgia

There was no Mary clack, but there was a Lightfoot, Ga ho ga had more than one husband

There is no Ga ho ga clan we have no clan by that name...people often get it confused when they see a name off to the side , it means that is who that person comes off of

Mary Clack was an unrelated white woman married to a man named Lightfoot. Ga ho ga was a Cherokee woman whom some people believe was also married to a man named Lightfoot. There is no documentation for this relationship, and no information about the man. He was NOT the man married to Mary Clack.

John Lightfoot “Will” April 20, 1751 and had all in his papers- Clack’s, Thornton, Lightfoot (Jstor)

The following journal article, available on JSTOR, clearly identifies Mary Clack and her connection to John Lightfoot:
Citation: Clack Family
The William and Mary Quarterly
Vol. 19, No. 2 (Oct., 1910), pp. 109-111
Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
DOI: 10.2307/1921264
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1921264
Page Count: 3

Excerpt:

“Issue of James and Mary Clack (1) Sterling Clack, clerk of Brunswick County, married Anne Eldridge, and had issue: James and Eldridge Clack, probably others. After his death in 1757, his widow, Anne, renounced the provisions of his will. (Brunswick County records.) (2) Mary, married I. John Lightfoot. No issue; II. Robert Ruffin, (marriage bond Sept. 6, 1751), …”

The John Lightfoot that had no issue was the John Lightfoot killed in the Indian Wars. Different John Lightfoot.

There were many Lightfoots in Virginia in the 1700's. They seem to be descendants of two brothers who arrived in the last quarter of the 17th century. There were also unrelated Lightfoots in Pennsylvania. I tracked all that I could find and could not place any of them in the Cherokee Nation.

https://www.geni.com/projects/Lightfoot-Lott-Van-Duncan-Ruffin-Powe...