SECOND GENERATION

3. Peter VAUGHT was born on May 30 1784. He died in Nov 1867. Peter Vaught lived on a plantation near his father, Matthias Vaught, between Wampee and Red Bluff during the early years of his marriage. He served as Sheriff of Horey County, a member of the Congress and carried the honorary title of Colonel Peter Vaught.

'I have often heard my father say that Colonel Vaught was a man of wealth and considerable influence, and while he was not a lawyer that he wrote all the deeds and conveyances in the Conway section, and owned a large plantation with a large number of negroes, and that the old slave quarters, constructed of brick, were existing in his day.'(John D. Bellamy)

Peter Vaught was also a teacher in the River Planter School. He did not serve in the War between the States, but was concerned abouth the yankee ships shelling the Minerals Salt Manufacturing Company along the shore and requested protection by the Confederate forces.

Peter Vaught married first Mary Sweet, daughter of Anthony Sweet II, by whom he had six children.

Contributed by Douglas Hester 3-5-99

Peter VAUGHT and Mary SWEET had the following children:

17 i. Waites Alston VAUGHT was born in 1810.
+18 ii. Mary Sweet VAUGHT.
+19 iii. Martha Caroline VAUGHT.
+20 iv. Charlotte Rebecca VAUGHT.
+21 v. Peter VAUGHT JR..
+22 vi. Anthony Sweet VAUGHT.

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