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From THE LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE, Lyman C. Draper, LL.D., Edited by Ted Franklin Belue, 1998, p.365: On 23 May 1775, 18 delegates from the four Kentucky settlements assembled at Boonesborough - the next day they formed the 1st legislative assembly west of the Alleghenies. Col. Thomas Slaughter was unanimously chosen chairman and Matthew Jouitt was chose clerk.

Was educated to be a lawyer. Served in the War of 1812 in at least one campaign in the then Northwest. Studied under Gilbert Stuart in Boston 1816-17. Most distinquished painter of Kentucky - painted many famous men including George Rogers Clark and Gove Isaac Shelby, 1st Gov of KY.

From
http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyfayett/leavy/memoir_part8.htm
A MEMOIR OF LEXINGTON AND ITS VICINITY
With Some Notice of Many Prominent Citizens and Its
Institutions of Education and Religion
By WILLM. A. LEAVY
Continued from the October [1943] Register
Source: Register, Kentucky State Historical Society, Volume 42, Number 138, January 1944, pages 26-53. This is the last of eight Register articles containing a transcription of a photocopy of the original William Leavy manuscript located in Special Collections, Transylvania University, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky.
p.193-4
In this little memoir I cannot help devoting a few lines to the memory of my noble friend Matthew H. Jouett, whom I remember with the deepest feelings of love, admiration, and regard; having with him a pleasing intimacy and uninterrupted friendship for many years. I was plodding over the Latin Grammar in 1803 or 1804 when 7 or 8 years of age when he a grown up young man first took up the study bounding forward and soon left the juniors out of sight. After finishing his collegiate course he studied law but very soon gave it up for his darling preference of the pencil. His name as a man of genius and skill as an Artist illustrates Lexington and Kentucky. The pursuit of his profession led him to Boston to study and practice a season with the celebrated Stuart. His portraits of President Holley and Col. James Morrison and of Mr. clay are beautiful pictures, and life-like and striking, those of Mrs. Jouett and Mrs. Nannette Smith are very fine portraits. I have a very fine portrait of Col. Geoe. Trotter, Junr. painted for his brother Saml. now hanging in our parlor, and an excellent one of my brother Laurence with whom he was very intimate painted for me by him just before he left Lexington for N. Orleans in the year 1822, an accurate copy of which he painted for the hon. Wm. T. Barry, and presented by his widow to my brother-in-law Mr. Hawkins.— In addition to these I now have in my parlours the portrait of my sister Harriett & her husband A.F. Hawkins—Jouett's portraits in style and colouring I do not think have been surpassed. He was in the city of New Orleans during past of my brother's residence there, and I had the satisfaction of some very interesting letters from him at that point. Though he felt compelled to pass much of his time from his family no man could enjoy his home while there more than he. His pure and natural affection, made his home a special delight upon his returns from his distant professional engagements. When he gave himself to it he was a successful reader and student, and if his reading was not extensive it was choice and select. Dr. Johnson was a favorite author and he had an excellent copy of his Works in his Library. His conversation was lively natural and rich. He was visited in his (194) last illness by his old Preceptor and friend Dr. Blythe, and I think he gave evidence to him of possessing a well grounded hope of Salvation. I attended his remains as one of the pall-bearers to their last resting place in the Family burying ground of his deceased father in law captain Wm. Allen within a short mile of the sweet cottage home which had been his residence so long. He died in August of the year 1827.

Birth	22 Apr 1788	Mercer County, Kentucky
Marriage	25 May 1812	Margaret H. Allen
Military	1812	from KY, War of 1812
Death	10 Aug 1827	Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky

Spouse

Margaret H. Allen ( - )

Father	Capt John "Jack" Jouett Jr. (1754 - 1822)
Mother	Sarah "Sally" Robards (1765 - 1814)
Sibling	George Payne Jouett (1785 - 1811)
Sibling	Catharine Jouett (1787 - 1790)
Sibling	Elizabeth Lewis Jouett (1790 - 1848)
Sibling	Polly Allin Jouett (1792 - )
Sibling	Jack Jouett III (1793 - )
Sibling	William Robards Jouett (1795 - )
Sibling	Landon Carter Jouett (1797 - 1828)
Sibling	Robert Jouett (1799 - 1816)
Sibling	Thomas Jefferson Jouett (1801 - )
Sibling	Virginia A. Jouett (1803 - 1822)
Sibling	Lynch Jouett (1805 - )