I am looking for information about Joseph Deraque or Durock or Durard, and his wife Elizabeth Bennett Durard. Their son Lewis married Sally Tippy about 1816. I believe Joseph was from Quebec, Canada. I have a copy of "Incidents in the Early Settlement of East Tennessee and Knoxville" dated October 1859 and "DUNCAN, John Revolutionary war Pension Applications" dated 5 March 1833. In the first article, it talks about "Deraque, a Frenchman, and Finnelston, a half-breed, were sent to Nashville, with a promice to return in ten nights with a report of the country's condition for defence(sic). The warriors at Lookout Mountain town, however, did not wait the return of their faitless emissaries." ect. In the second article, John Duncan remembers, " Subsequently, again he was ordered out in a light hourse company to Nashville in Tn and there go in pursuit of the indians under the command of Coln. Robert Hays, under an apprehension from the report of one Durock? and a half breed that the indians intended attacking and taking Nashville: but the indians not making the attack at that time." ect. Thank you for any information Jim