Person:John Pugh (13)

Pugh background: James M. Pugh, Quaker (1665-1724) and Joan Price were married on April
23rd, 1692, at the Radnor Meeting House, Radnor, Delaware County, Pennsylvanian progenitors
came to West Chester County. The Pughs hailed from Meroneth, Monmouthshire, Wales and
Joan's father David and mother Joan Awbery, Quakers were of Brecknockshire, Wales.
Their eldest child Thomas Pugh, (1703-1797), who married his cousin Elizabeth Pugh, removed
his family from Chester County, Pennsylvania like many of the Chester County Quakers down
the Long Gray Trail through Augusta County, Virginia to Sandy Creek, Randolph County
around 1747. Thomas was received into the Cane Creek Friends Meeting in 1756. Thomas was
involved in the North Carolina Regulators from 1768 - 1771. Pugh then was disowned by the
Cane Creek Friends Meeting for taking part in the Battle of Alamance. It was around this time
we find records indicating the Pughs converted to Methodist Religion.
Of the nine known children of Thomas & Elizabeth's, only John Pugh, Senior (1744-1821) with
his wife Elinor Fruit and family journeyed across the Great Smokey mountains to Kentucky.
According to the Pugh family history John Pugh arrived in Christian County, Kentucky about
1800. Pugh's first record appears on the 1803 tax list on Pond River, with later records show
taxes on the Little River.

http://www.oregonpioneers.com/bios/MaryDonovanPugh_1846.pdf

John Pugh is the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Pugh. John Pugh was married to Elinor Fruit who was the the daughter of James and Girzel Fruit.

John and Elinor had seven children.

1. Elizabeth Pugh m. Joseph John Hinds
2. John Pugh m. 1st Hannah Campbell, 2nd Mary Donovan
3. Peninah Pugh m. William Nichols
4. Thomas Pugh m. 1st Beulah Hall 2nd Anna Wakefield
5. Mary "Polly" Pugh m. Edmund Taylor
6. Anna Pugh m. William Hall
7. Unknown daughter Pugh

In 1762 John Pugh along with his father Thomas Pugh and siblings Elizabeth Pugh-Fruit and Enoch Pugh attended and were witness to the Quaker marriage of his sister Mary Pugh to Herman Husband, who a few years later is considered the leader of the Regulators.

John Pugh was among those who signed Regulator Advertisement Number 9. In May of 1768 the Advertisement goes into circulation, John Pugh, his father Thomas Pugh and brothers Jesse, Enoch and James Pugh, his brothers-in-law William Walker and John Fruit all sign it. John, his brothers and father were all involved in the regulator rebellion.

John Pugh was even indicted, the claim was John Pugh was an outlaw for committing several acts of outrage on the 24th and 25th of Sept 1770. A petition for pardon was signed by residents of Randolph county and several people testified on John's behalf including his sister Peninah and his mother Elizabeth and John was eventually pardoned.

Circa 1805 John Pugh his wife and family later moved from North Carolina to Christian Kentucky where John Pugh died circa 1819 in Christian Kentucky, he is found in the census of 1810 but not in the 1820 census.

John Pugh had seven siblings

1. James Pugh m. Jane Patterson
2. Elizabeth Pugh m. John Fruit (the brother of Elinor Fruit, John Pugh's wife)
3. Mary Pugh m. Herman Husband
4. Peninah Pugh m. William Walker
5. Enoch Pugh m. Esther Worthington
6. Jesse Pugh m. Elizabeth Stewart
7. Thomas Pugh m. Barbara Amick

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