An American Family History

The Mauck Family of Sullivan County

also spelled Mauk and Mock

Shenandoah, (was Orange then Frederick) County, Virginia

East Tennessee is part of Appalachia. At the end of the French and Indian War, colonists began drifting into the area. In 1769, they first settled along the Watauga River. During the Revolution, the Overmountain Men defeated British loyalists at the Battle of Kings Mountain. The State of Franklin was formed in the 1780s, but never admitted to the Union.

Peter Mauck was born about 1707.

He moved to Shenandoah County, Virginia with other families who settled in Sullivan and Washington Counties.

Peter 's children may have included:

Frederick Mauck,
Andrew Mauck (1759, married Elizabeth Broyles),
Henry Mauck, and
John Peter Mauck (1739).

In 1745 Peter applied for naturalization papers.

Peter Mauk of Frederick Co.,
410 acres on Toms Brook of North River of Shannandoah in said County.
Surv. Robert Rutherford.
Adj. Charles Huddle, Mathias Gabbart, Rynard Bodding, Henry Fravel
3 Aug. 1767.
(from Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray)

Peter's died in 1771. His will was filed in Frederick County, Virginia.

Andrew and Henry moved to Sullivan County, Tennessee. In 1784, Henry received a warrant for land in Sullivan County, Tennessee. At that time it was in North Carolina.

Land Grant 352
November 10, 1784
to Henry Mock
50 shillings for every 100 acres
200 acres in Sullivan County, NC
on the north side of Holston River in the Island Flatts
joining Pendleton's pattent land...near the waggon road..near a dry branch
adj. David Weedley

November 6, 1788
Henery Mawk and Eve his wife
to Alexander Berry
all of Sullivan

In 1835, Andrew appeared on the pension list in Sullivan County, Tennessee.

Sullivan County is in far northeast corner of Tennessee between North Carolina and Virginia and was originally part of those states. It was formed in 1779 when it was divided from Washington County.

Shenandoah County, Virginia was established in 1772. It was originally Dunmore County.

John Mauck and Elizabeth Heiser came to Tennessee about 1799.

Joseph Mauck b. 9/7/1787 married in Washington Co., Tenn to Grace Broyles and
they moved to Gibson Co. Ind in 1826

Samuel Mauck (1790- 1876) married Mary (Polly) Broyles (1795-1865).

Samuel was the son of John Mauk and Elizabeth Heiser.

Samuel served in the War of 1812.

Their children probably included:

Ellender Mauck (1812, married Ephraim Bird),
Elizabeth Mauck (1814 married Alexander Julius Broyles),
James M. Mauck (1816, married Malinda Templin),
John Mauck(1819, Polly Ann Broyles),
Abraham Mauck (1823, unmarried)
Mary Ann Mauck (1823, married William Henderson Smith),
Lucinda Mauck (married Amos Bird),
Montgomery Mauck (1833, married Mira Jane Bell),
Tempa Mauck (1828, married Jesse Taylor),
Jacob Stephen Mauck (1836, married Josephine Presnell and Susan Smith) and
Elijah Embree Mauck (1839, married Nancy Katerine Kirk).

Samuel built the first cold blast furnace on the Nolachuckey River in Washington County, Tennessee. A town grew up in that vicinity and was called Mauktown. Mauktown had a general store, a blacksmith shop, a saloon, a grist mill, and a lumber mill.. In 1901 the town was washed away in a flood.

Samuel died May 7, 1876, and Mary died in 1865.

The Nolichucky River flows through Western North Carolina and East Tennessee. It is a tributary of the French Broad River. During the 1770s, European Americans established the "Nolichucky settlements" in what is now Greene County, Tennessee.

Jacob Mauck b. 1791 married in Washington Co. Tenn. 8/9/1811 to Margaret
Hemp. They moved to Harrison Co. Ind. about 1820 where Jacob was killed in a
fall from a horse at Maukport in the late 1820's Brother Joseph took his widow
and children to Gibson Co. Ind

Children of Andrew Mauk and Elizabeth Bowles included:
Rebecca Mauck
Christina Mauck (1785),
Henry Mauck (1786, married Margaret Latture)
Mary Mauck (1788)
Catherine Mauck (1789, married Christopher Latture)
Esther Mauck (1791)
Sarah Mauck (1794)
Andrew Mauck, Jr. (1800)

Henry Mauck was born in 1786. His parents were Andrew Mauck and Elizabeth Broyles.

He married Margaret Latture.

Elizabeth Mauck (1815)
Nancy Anne Mauck (1821, married Henry Daniel Geisler)
William Mauck (1823, married Malinda Miller),
Louisiana Mauck (1825),
Henry Mauck (1827, married Rebecca Stanfield),
Sarah C. Mauck (1832, married William M. Stanfield),
David Mauck (1829).

Henry died in 1851 in Sullivan County, Tennessee.

Margaret died in 1870 in Sullivan County.

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