Person:James Hoge (5)

James Hogg

• In A History of the Hogue Family as Compiled by Dr.Delos Wylie Hogue in the Years 1955 and 1956:

Delos connects our James Hogg with Peter and Thomas Hogg who arrived in Augusta County, Virginia in 1745 (immigration records) from Bemersyde, Scotland.

• Sara Gibson also connected James as the brother of Peter and Thomas in her Gibson Family History.

In the Biographica Sketches . . . of Warren County, Illinois the article on Thomas Gibson, husband of Martha Hogg, a daughter of James, mentions that his wife was the daughter of James and Margaret Parks Hogg who came to Augusta County around 1750 from Ireland, but were of Scots decent. In the will of Peter Hogg he mentions another brother Walter (who stayed in Scotland) and his father James.

• According to Delos

Bemersyde is mostly level country and used for farming and cattle raising, so that her people suffered frequent raids from cattle and horse thieves from both north England and the Highlands. Some time in 1747, three Hoge or Hogg brothers came from Bemersyde, Scotland to Alexandria, Virginia. They were Peter, James and Thomas (Peter's will is signed Peter Hogg). It is interesting to note what the conditions were in Scotland at that time. The country had just pased through a bloody war known as the Forty-Five Rebellion. It was the result of an attempt of Bonnie Prince Charles Stuart to seize the English throne and bring back Catholicism to Scotland. He came over from France where he had taken refuge. He began by organizing both the Highlanders and Lowlanders and lead them in a number of battles, at first successful, but in the end complete defeat with staggering losses of life among his brave Scotchmen. As our people were from the lowlands where much of the fighting took place, they must have suffered severely in loss of property and damage to their homes. Then there was that other condition, which had always been with them, the Highlanders in their rocky glens, with little pasturage were often short of food, so considered it their right to help themselves to a fat cow now and then from their more prosperous Lowland neighbors.

Of the three, Peter seems to have been the most aggressive. He soon entered the social and political life of the colony. He was a neighbor of George Washington and became his friend and took part in some of his enterprises. Together they acquired a large tract of land in Augusta County, Virginia (now in West Virginia). Washington had 5,000 acres and Hogg, 2100 acres. Peter became a favorite with Governor Dinwiddie, who gave him a commission as captain and requested him to recruit a company of soldiers. [Another connection to George Washington: a nephew of Margaret Parks, the wife of James Hogg, married a niece of George Washington.}

It appears that James participated in the French and Indian War. In the book The Ancestors of James M. Hogue, by Earl F. Arnett, there is an extract from the journals of Major William Preston, who was a captain earlier in the forces commanded by Col. George Washington. It is a receipt for pay signed by James Hogg. Preston's journal is preserved in the State Archives of Wisconsin at Madison. The receipt indicates that James served under the direct authority of Capt. William Preston and also that James had some minor command responsibility as he was collecting not only his own pay, but also that of other men. The receipt reads: "Rec'd of Wm Preston Forty Nine Pounds fifteen Shillings and four Pence being the full of my Pay of the Party under my Command. Also Eighteen Pounds Ten Shillings & ten Pence in full for my Provision acct. which accounts I sent down with Preston to receive ___ of the treasurer for which sums he gave a ___ Dec. 30th 1757 James Hog.

Apparently at some time previous to the coming of the three brothers, other Hoges had come from Bemersyde, Scotland, and settled in Baltimore. James evidently considered them as relatives and visited them. On one of these visits he met Margaret Parks. The Parks family had arrived from Ulster, Ireland, sometime about 1760 and she and James were married not long after that, as their first child John was born on June 3, 1762. (This must have been told to Delos as part of family history since there is no source to verify that James went to visit relatives in Baltimore.)

After their marriage, James and Margaret went to live on a farm southwest of Washington, D.C. near Manassa. Years later, during the Civil War, the Battle of Bull Run was fought on his farm. They did not remain on this farm very long, as it had been over cropped from raising tobacco. (Gibson Family History, 1845, by Sara Gibson) Sara Gibson wrote that the Hogg plantation was near Alexandria and the creek of Bull Run ran through his farm. On 2 Dec 1785 James received a Land Grant in Augusta Co., VA for 154 acres on the East side of the Black Thorn, a branch of the South branch of the Potomac.

Next we find James and Margaret in the Shenandoah Valley near Lexington, VA and the Natural Bridge in Rockbridge Co., VA. [The grandmother of Sara Gibson was James' daughter Martha. Martha Hogg and Thomas Gibson were married 31 Oct 1791 in Lexington near the Natural Bridge. According to Delos "It may have been here that James and his sons began to make wagons, as it appears that he had an ambition to put the Country on wheels." (Indiana census indicate that James' son Samuel was a wagon maker.)

• Blount County, Tennessee

In 1790, the Hogg family migrated to Blount County, Tennessee. On the trip to Tennessee they were accompanied by other famillies and probably the Houston family. They traveled over the newly completed "Wilderness Road." [Daniel Boone helped with making the Wilderness Road - in 1774 he was surveying for this road. Delos likes to think that James helped him.] Before going to Tennessee, James first went thru Pennsylvania to visit relatives - his wife's sister. On the way his oldest son John contracted smallpox and died. His sister Martha, came down with smallpox after taking care of her brother and her Aunt nursed her back to health. According to the Gibson Family History Martha's aunt kept a cloth soaked in sweet cream on Martha's face so that when she recovered there were no scars except for two small marks.

In Tennessee James settled on a farm near Maryville in Blount County, Tennessee. It was on the Holstein River (a branch of the Tennessee River). According to Delos who visited the farm in 1956 the farm was located no the state road and was known as the "Indian Trail" farm because there was an old trail crossing it at one time. According to a Blount County History, on July 1, 1793, two houses were burned by Indians on James' farm. (In 1774 James' brother Thomas was killed by Indians.) This is the farm that was sold to Elizabeth Houston, mother of General Sam Houston; Sam Houston grew up on this farm. John Houston, an uncle to Samuel, was one of the witnesses for the will of James Hogg in 1808.

1.   Hogue, Delos W. (Delos Wylie). A history of the Hogue family. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1986).

   James Hoge, with his two brothers, emigrated from Bemersyde, Scotland, and settled in Virginia, in 1747. He served in the army during the Revolutionary War. He married Margaret Parks of Baltimore, Maryland, ca. 1760. They had nine children, 1762-ca. 1782. The family lived first on a farm southwest of Washington, D.C., then moved to Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, ca. 1782, then to Blount County, Tennessee. He died ca. 1808. His grandson, Samuel Hogue, was born in Virginia in 1784, the son of John Hogue. He married Jane Woods in Tennessee in 1807. They had six children, 1809-1824. The family setted at Princeton, Indiana, in 1809. Descendants of his sons, John Anderson Hogue (1809-1887) and Joseph Woods Hogue (1811-1864), lived in Indiana, Illinois, and elsewhere.

2.   My Genealogy Web ( dhogge@hdhdata.org)
   descendants of James Hogg of Edinburgh Scotland [1].

   The descendants of James Hogg and Margaret Parks were compiled by Mary N. Triplett: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=utah2&id=I2511
   However, She has William Hoge and Barbara Hume of the line NJ1682 as the ancestors of this James, which is not correct.

3.   Arnett, Earl F. (Earl Franklin). The ancestors of James M. Hogue (of Texas). (Columbus, Ohio: E.F. Arnett, 1983-).

   James Hogue (1730-1808) emigrated from Scotland to Augusta County, Virginia, married Margaret Parks in 1760, moved to Blount County and elsewhere in Tennessee. After his death, his widow and the family moved in 1809 to Gibson County, Indiana. James M. Hogue (1847- 1875), direct descendant in the fifth generation, married Emily A. Newton in 1866, and moved from Indiana to Ellis County, Texas. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Texas and elsewhere.

4. ↑ Scotland. Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. (FamilySearch Record Search)
   [2].

   Name James Hog
   Gender Male
   Christening Date 16 Apr 1723
   Christening Place EDINBURGH PARISH, EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND
   Father's Name James Hog
   Mother's Name Janet Blaikburn