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In this material I see the following: "Not that the Cherokee were reading the name Gouedy, but Robert Gouedy lived among them for 40 or 50 years and surely had many children but no Cherokee "Gouedy" families are known." According to Robert L. Meriwether's, THE EXPANSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA 1729-1765, 132. The Cherokee trade brought within reach of the Saluda settlers what was probably the largest store above the fall line, and made Robert Goudey the most important man, next to Francis, in the valley. Goudey first appears in the Cherokee trade about 1747, and was actively engaged in it for several years. In 1751 he came from the upper Cherokees with a hundred horse loads of skins. But two years after Herman Geiger's death he had a store at Ninety Six and was thereafter merchant rather than trader, carrying on enterprises larger, perhaps, than those of any other Indian merchant save Patrick Brown himself. 41. He sent out one trader with goods worth three thousand pounds of skins, and in 1758 got judgment against Cornelius Daugherty for fifteen hundred pounds sterling. He had already the year before gone into the Cherokee country with two constables and six men and carried away four slaves from Daugherty in the night. When he died in 1775 or 1776 there were about four hundred persons in debt to him; some of the accounts, however, were of men dead fifteen years. By his will he left his property to his wife, son and daughter, but gave to his three Indian daughters a small sum of money each. 42 41. JC, July 18, 1748 (letter of Ludovick Grant), June 5, 1751, July 6, 1753 (statement of Elliott). An impressive sketch of a house "the forest, belonging to Mr. Gowdie" appears on the plat of the Simpson-Murray tract (above, p.127, n.25) on the east bank of the Saluda and nearly opposite the upper corner of the tract. Note "the forest" of P, V, 411, and "Windsor Forest" of JC, June 7, 1751. 42 JC, June 5, 1751; Indian Books, V, 44, VI, 105-109 (letters of Grant and Demere); Court Records, Common Pleas, Feb. 1758 (Goudey vs. Cornelius Docharty); Wills, 1774-1779, pp.303-304; Inventories, 1774-1785, 195-208. There are additional entries for Robert Goudey in this book. Joy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce G. Reece" <jgreece@earthlink.net> To: <CherokeeGene-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 3:22 PM Subject: [CherokeeGeneCommunity] Ludovic Grant >A summary of Ludovic > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnpolk2/grant.htm