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John Henry Hagerty, Methodist Preacher
Facts and Events
John Hagerty was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:
- Page 410.--14th July, 1775. James Davison's will--To wife, Jane; to eldest son, John, infant; to two youngest children; to daughter, Mary; to division "among my children." Executors, Archibald and John Hopkins. Teste: John Hagarty, Wm. Chesnutt, James Dunn. Proved, 19th March, 1776, by Chesnutt and Dunn. Executors summoned. At a Court for Augusta County by authority of the Commonwealth of Virginia, August 20, 1776, Archibald and John Hopkins refuse to qualify executors.
- Vol. 1 - AUGUST, 1793 (A to D). - John Haggerty vs. Anthony Ingleton and Mary, his wife.--Writ, 4th January, 1793.
- Vol. 1 - MARCH, 1795. - Samuel Blackwood, William Blackwood, Joseph Blackwood, by Walter Davies, guardian, Ann Blackwood, Eleanor Blackwood, Rebecca Blackwood, Robert Scott and Mary, his wife, formerly Mary Blackwood, vs. Mark Hadden (Hatton).--Spa. Chancery. 7th April, 1793. Orators, etc., are heirs and devisees of William Blackwood, deceased. Their mother, relict of William, married Mark Hadden. Their mother is dead. The marriage took place about 1781, and the mother lived about eleven years. One year after the mother's death, settlement shows: 1781-2, to maintaining and clothing William Blackwood, six years; to maintaining and clothing Eleanor Blackwood four years, to maintaining and clothing Rebecca seven years, to maintaining and clothing Joseph Blackwood seven years. 1782, cash paid James Doak for teaching two of the children; 1783, cash paid Newton Conley for teaching two of the children; 1786, cash paid William Chambers for teaching two of the children; 1789, cash paid John Hagerty for teaching three of the children; 1787, cash paid Wlliam Ranson for teaching ____ of the children; 1791, to maintaining, boarding and keeping Ann Blackwood nine years, to maintaining, boarding and keeping Samuel Blackwood three years, to maintaining, boarding and keeping Mary Blackwood three years. Bill for settlement of William Blackwood's estate.
- Vol. 2 - Marriage Bond - 1795--April 1, John Brown and Vincent Tapp, surety. John Brown and Margaret Hagerty, daughter of John Hagerty (consent). Teste: Vincent Tapp, Hannah Haggerty.
- Vol. 2 - Marriage Bond - 1802--January 25, Leonard Lootz and John Cooper, surety. Leonard Lootz and Hannah Hagarty, daughter of John Hagarty.
References
- Peyton, John Lewis. History of Augusta County, Virginia. (Staunton, Virginia: Samuel M. Yost and Son, 1882)
pg. 87.
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN AUGUSTA.
The Methodists are a comparatively new sect, having sprung up in England about the year 1737, under Rev. John Wesley and George Whitfield, students of the University of Oxford. It was founded in New York in 1766. They received their name from living by a stricter regimen and method than the members of the Church of England, and they are more animated, spirited and zealous than the regular clergy of that church. The Methodists are, however, baptised with the Episcopalians, attend Episcopal services and sacraments, admire the Episcopal liturgy, and only blame the Episcopal church for lukewarmness and want of energy and animation. About the year 1775, John Hagerty and Richard Owens, two Methodist preachers, delivered, at Stephensburg, near Winchester, the first sermons ever preached by any ministers of this sect in the Virginian Valley, making a most favorable impression; many joined the church, and a place of worship was soon erected in Stephensburg, and the Methodist is now one of the most numerous, wealthy and intelligent denominations in this section of Virginia.
- Scharf, John Thomas. History of western Maryland: being a history of Frederick, Montgomery, Carroll, Washington, Allegany, and Garrett counties from the earliest period to the present day; including biographical sketches of their representative men. (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1882)
pg. 902.
[Page 902] Paul Hagarty was a member of the Pipe Creek Society, as was also his brother, John Hagarty, who became a travelling preacher, and could hold services in both German and English.
[Page 941) - The Centenary Methodist Episcopal church was built in 1869. Methodist teaching was held at private dwellings in Westminster as early as 1769, and among the local or travelling preachers who held services were Hezekiah Bonham and his son Robert, Robert Strawbridge, Paul Hagarty, John Hagarty, Robert Walker, and Freeborn Garrettson, who came at irregular intervals and preached in this new settlement.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
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