Christopher Vought
BIRTH
Feb 14, 1714
New Jersey
DEATH
June 21, 1809
New York
FAMILY
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Vought, Christopher
(1714-1809)
Christopher Vought, also known as Johannes Cristoffel Vought, was a prosperous Hunterdon County farmer and active Loyalist. He and his son John were arrested after a 1776 Loyalist attack on Captain Thomas Jones's tavern. The family later joined British forces, lost its New Jersey property, and went into exile.
Christopher Vought was born on Feb 14, 1714 in New Jersey. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Christopher Vought with work or public activity as a farmer. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.