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Jack Jouett
John "Jack" Jouett, Jr. (December 7, 1754 – March 1, 1822) was a politician and a hero of the American Revolution, known as the "Paul Revere of the South" for his late night ride to warn Thomas Jefferson, then the governor of Virginia, and the Virginia legislature of the approach of British cavalry, who had been sent to capture them. Jouett was also the father of Matthew Harris Jouett, a famous painter from Kentucky.
==The Jouett family and the revolution==
Jack Jouett served as a captain in the 16th Regiment of the Virginia militia during the American Revolutionary War. He was of an old Norman family of Huguenot origin settled in Touraine, and directly descended from the noble Matthieu de Jouhet, Master of the Horse to Louis XIII of France,
〔Jonas, Edward Asher. ''(Matthew Harris Jouett, Kentucky portrait painter (1787-1827) )''. The J. B. Speed Memorial Museum, 1938.〕〔''(Daughters of the American Revolution magazine )''. Volume 64, R.R. Bowker Co., 1930.〕 Lord of Leveignac, and a lieutenant in the Marshalsea of Limousin, whose grandson, Daniel de Jouet, went to the Narragansett country, in Rhode Island, in 1686. Daniel's youngest son, Jean, Jack's grandfather, settled in Virginia.〔Hart, Charles Henry. "(Kentucky's Master Painter )". ''Harper's magazine'', Volume 98: December 1898 – May 1899. Making of America Project. 1899.〕
Jouett, who stood tall and weighed , was a physically imposing figure, and contemporary accounts describe him as muscular and handsome. His family, based in Albemarle County, Virginia, was very active in the revolutionary cause. Both Jouett and his father, John Sr., had signed the Albemarle Declaration, a document renouncing King George III that was signed by 202 Albemarle citizens. During the Revolution, Jouett's father supplied the military with meat for its rations and Jouett's three brothers all served in the military, including one who was killed at the Battle of Brandywine.
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