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Colonel John Hogan

John Hogan was proprietor of the paper mill a mile and a half northeast of Hillsborough that advertised for rags in November 1777. In August 1777 he was one of two merchants cited by the county court who took the oath of allegiance, and in 1778 the court made him county trustee (treasurer). In 1790 he held ten people in slavery.

Source: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), pp. 47, 96, 174, 176

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1745–1792 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineGuns, powder and paper at Hillsborough, 1775–17781775–1778 · 6 events · During the Revolution the Hillsborough merchant William Johnston apparently produced gunpowder, lead and rifle flints at his Snow Hill plantation northeast of the town. In 1776 Nathaniel Rochester was named to a commission to set up a gun factory near Hillsborough and led a wagon train to Philadelphia to get iron for it. On April 24, 1776 the Provincial Congress told three commissioners in each district to set up a public works for muskets and bayonets, gather gunsmiths and pay no more than 5 pounds a gun, and for Hillsborough District it named Johnston, Thomas Burke and Ambrose Ramsey, with up to 1,000 pounds to spend. On November 14, 1777 a notice in the North Carolina Gazette announced a newly built paper mill near Hillsborough and asked households to save linen rags for it. John Hogan owned the mill, a mile and a half northeast of town. In 1778 the Continental officer Absalom Tatom took charge of the state's arsenal at Hillsborough as assistant quartermaster. That summer the gun factory shut down: its shop sat beside a creek on Burke's land about two miles northeast of town, and a dry summer left the creek too low to drive its wheel. The drought slowed the paper mill as well, and the Assembly gave Hogan more time to earn the state's premium for paper. StorylineOrange County's militia in the Revolution, 1775–17791775–1779 · 17 events · Orange County had to field a Revolutionary militia in a district the Council of Safety thought full of disaffected persons. The Provincial Congress named the county's officers in 1775, and in February 1776 Orange men held Cross Creek while Nathaniel Rochester took about 500 retreating Loyalists prisoner. In April 1776 the congress split the militia into Northern and Southern regiments under John Butler and James Saunders. Asked for 500 men against the Cherokee, Orange met a quota of 300. By 1778 the county owed the state's troops 73 hats and 146 pairs of shoes, and in 1779 Hillsborough became an army depot as Orange militia fought at Stono Ferry. StorylineThe test of allegiance in Orange County, 1775–17821775–1782 · 9 events · During the Revolution, Orange County's new authorities sorted friends from enemies by an oath of allegiance. In 1775 the Provincial Congress at Hillsborough tried persuasion with former Regulators and people of scruple. By 1777 the county court was jailing a man who refused the oath and ordering merchants who had traded with Britain to swear or leave within sixty days. Magistrates tendered the oath district by district in 1778, Loyalist property was inventoried, and in 1782 the Assembly named a commissioner of confiscated estates for the Hillsborough District. StorylineBridging the Eno, 1787–18161787–1816 · 13 events · For three decades the county court kept ordering, paying for and chasing repairs on bridges across the Eno at Hillsborough. In 1787 it ordered a bridge at the ford near the town and named men to let the building, and in 1788 the superintendents it named were to hold the builder to seven years of repairs. Payments to John Walker and John Elliott followed. In 1804 the court found a bridge "highly necessary" and levied a tax for it, and in 1808 it ordered suit against the builder, Henry Goodloe, unless he repaired it. In 1814 it ordered a new bridge with another tax, and a bridge at Bennehan's and Cameron's mills was finished in 1816 for 600 dollars. StorylineBridging Morgan Creek: McCauley’s and Merritt’s mills, 1793–18181793–1818 · 10 events · Where the road from Hillsborough to Fayetteville crossed Morgan Creek, the county court had to get a bridge sited, built and paid for, and the record shows how a county did public works through its court. The court fixed a site at Matthew McCauley's public mill in 1794 and named commissioners and inspectors, and after a nine to nine vote in 1797 it paid the builder, Tobias Rogers, 94 pounds in 1798. Henry Merritt later built a mill and a bridge, which the court made a toll bridge in 1811, and in 1818 it paid Merritt 195 dollars for a bridge across the creek. StorylineRoads and bridges to the new University, 1793–18171793–1817 · 33 events · Beginning in 1793 the county court ordered roads to tie the seat of the University to the surrounding country: toward ferries on the Haw River, toward the Chatham line and to Hillsborough. In August 1794, on a memorial from the trustees John Haywood and Alexander Mebane, it ordered a road from the east end of Franklin Street, a name already in use, and later roads from that street to the New Hope road and the old Raleigh road. On the road to Raleigh it ordered bridges over New Hope Creek in 1802 and Ben's Creek in 1807 and had both repaired or rebuilt in 1816 and 1817. Juries were still adjusting the Haw River ferry roads in the 1810s.

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  1. Orange County chooses a committee of safety Orange had no committee of safety until the summer of 1775, and Samuel Johnston wrote on August 14 that one had been chosen. By 1776 John Hogan was its chairman and James Hogg its secretary; its records for 1775 and 1776 are lost. People: James Hogg, Samuel Johnston, Colonel John Hogan Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 39 · Also: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952
  2. The Provincial Congress names Orange County's minutemen and militia officers Orange was to raise three companies of minutemen, and James Thackston was named colonel of minutemen for the Hillsborough district. For the county militia the Congress named John Hogan colonel, John Butler lieutenant colonel, William Moore first major and Nathaniel Rochester second major. People: John Butler, Nathaniel Rochester, James Thackston, Colonel John Hogan Place: Orange County · Also named: William MooreSearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 51 · Also: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952
  3. John Butler is commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Orange County militia The Third Provincial Congress named John Butler to the committee of safety for the Hillsborough District and on September 9, 1775 made him lieutenant colonel of the Orange County militia under Colonel John Hogan. Minutemen officers were named by district, not county. Butler went on to lead the county's militia in the Moore's Creek Bridge campaign and became its colonel in April 1776. People: John Butler, Colonel John Hogan Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Hillsborough DistrictSearch the index · Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, vol. 10, pp. 204-205: Journal of the Provincial Congress, September 9, 1775 · Also: NCpedia: Butler, John
  4. The Provincial Congress lets Colonel John Hogan resign command of the Orange County militia regiment Sitting at Halifax, the congress granted Colonel John Hogan of the Orange County militia regiment leave to give up his command. Nine days later it split the county militia into two regiments under new colonels. Place: Orange CountySearch the index · North Carolina Provincial Congress, Journal of the Proceedings of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, Held at Halifax, April 4, 1776 (1831), scan p. 20
  5. Merchants who traded with Britain are ordered to swear allegiance or leave Under a state act, the August court cited fourteen merchants and agents, among them James Hogg, and only Nathaniel Rochester and John Hogan took the oath. The court ordered everyone who failed to appear or to swear, Quakers excepted, to leave for Europe or the West Indies within sixty days. People: James Hogg, Nathaniel Rochester, Colonel John Hogan Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 174 · Also: Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary
  6. John Hogan's paper mill opens near Hillsborough A notice in the North Carolina Gazette announced a newly built paper mill near Hillsborough ready to work and asked households to save linen rags for it. John Hogan owned the mill, a mile and a half northeast of town; drought hampered it in 1778, and the Assembly gave him more time to earn the state's premium for paper. People: Colonel John Hogan Place: Paper mill northeast of HillsboroughSearch the index · DigitalNC: The North-Carolina Gazette (New Bern), November 14, 1777, p. 4 · Also: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952; Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary
  7. Drought shuts down the state gun factory near Hillsborough The factory's shop sat beside a creek on Thomas Burke's land about two miles northeast of town, and a dry summer left the creek too low to drive its wheel. The dry spell slowed the paper mill as well, and the Assembly gave John Hogan more time to earn the paper bounty. People: Thomas Burke, Colonel John Hogan Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 48 · Also: Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary
  8. John Hogan is appointed trustee for Orange County The county court named John Hogan trustee, the office later called county treasurer, under a bond of 1,500 pounds. The book dates the treasurer's office in Orange from 1778 to its abolition in 1948. People: William McCauley, William Cain Sr., Colonel John Hogan Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 176
  9. John Hogan sits as Orange County's state senator For the 1779 General Assembly, Colonel John Hogan was Orange County's senator, with Mark Patterson and William McCauley as its members in the House of Commons and Thomas Tulloch for the borough of Hillsborough. People: William McCauley Place: Orange County · Also named: Mark Patterson, Thomas TullochSearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 72
  10. Thomas Lloyd signs his lands and enslaved people over to his sons-in-law To keep his property from confiscation as a Loyalist, Thomas Lloyd conveyed his lands and the people he enslaved to his sons-in-law Daniel and John Hogan for nominal sums and leased them straight back. His property was never confiscated. People: Thomas Lloyd (died 1792), Colonel John Hogan Place: Orange County · Also named: Daniel HoganSearch the index · NCpedia: Lloyd (or Loyd, Loyde), Thomas
  11. The court orders a bridge over the Eno at the ford near Hillsborough The court ordered a bridge built across the Eno at the ford near Hillsborough and named John Estes, William Lytle, William Waters, William McCawley and John Hogan to let the contract and oversee the building. People: Colonel John Hogan Place: Eno River at the ford near Hillsborough · Also named: John Estes, William Lytle, William Waters, William McCawleySearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: February Term 1787
  12. The court orders a public bridge over the Eno at the Town Ford The court ordered a bridge built over the Eno at or near the Town Ford and named William McCauley, John Taylor, John Hogan, William Lytle and James Carson to let the building. The bridge was to be a public one when finished. People: William McCauley, Colonel John Hogan Place: Eno River at the Town Ford, Hillsborough · Also named: John Taylor, William Lytle, James CarsonSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1787
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  1. Trustees fix the university at Chapel Hill and list its Orange County land donors Meeting on December 5, 1792, the trustees voted unanimously to place the university at New Hope Chapel Hill and recorded nine donors of Orange County land, among them Matthew McCauley (150 acres) and William McCauley (100 acres). Each donor could have one student educated free of tuition. People: Matthew McCauley, Mark Morgan, Christopher Barbee, Colonel John Hogan, William McCauley Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Libraries, History on the Hill: Original Donors to the University and the Myth of Free Tuition

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  1. The court orders a road laid out from the University toward Clerk's ferry on the Haw On the petition of John Hogan and others, the court named a jury to view and lay off the best road from the seat of the University toward Clerk's ferry on the Haw River, as far as the Chatham County line, and named the hands to clear it. People: Colonel John Hogan Place: From the University seat to the Chatham County line, toward Clerk's ferry on the HawMark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: August Term 1793
  2. The court orders roads laid out to the University from Hillsborough and the Chatham line At November Term 1793 the court named a jury to lay off a road from the University to the Chatham line on the road toward the Red Field ford, ordered the road John Hogan petitioned for opened between Collins Creek and the road from Hillsborough to the University, and summoned a jury to lay off the nearest and most convenient road from Hillsborough to the University. People: Colonel John Hogan, Matthew McCauley, William McCauley Place: From Hillsborough and from the Chatham line to the University site, Chapel HillMark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: November Term 1793
  3. John Walker resigns as county treasurer and David Ray succeeds him John Walker came into court and resigned as county treasurer, and the court appointed David Ray in his place on his giving bond of £5,000. Later in the term it named John Hogan and Walter Alves to help Ray examine and settle Walker's accounts and vouchers. People: Colonel John Hogan, Walter Alves Place: Hillsborough (county court) · Also named: John Walker, David RaySearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: February Term 1794
  4. The court names commissioners to build a bridge over Morgan Creek at McCauley's mill The court appointed Edmond Jones, Alexander Piper and John Hogan to oversee the building of a bridge over Morgan Creek at Matthew McCauley's mill, to be let to the lowest bidder. People: Colonel John Hogan Place: Morgan Creek at Matthew McCauley's mill · Also named: Edmond Jones, Alexander Piper, Matthew McCauleySearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: February Term 1795
  5. Orange Republicans nominate John C. Hogan and Washington Duke for the House The Republican county convention at Hillsborough nominated John C. Hogan and Washington Duke for the state House and named no candidates for sheriff, clerk, treasurer or register. By July both had left the ticket, with I. R. Strayhorn and H. B. Guthrie in their places. People: Colonel John Hogan, Washington Duke, Hugh B. Guthrie, Isaac R. Strayhorn Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 27, 1874, p. 3

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Hogan genealogy: the descendants of Colonel John Hogan and Mary Lloyd Hogan of Orange County, NC and Montgomery County, TN / by Cleo Greer Hogan and Charles Edw

Hogan, Cleo G. · 1998 · C.G. Hogan and C.E. Hogan

Cleo Greer Hogan and Charles Edward Hogan's genealogy of the descendants of Colonel John Hogan (about 1745-1792) and Mary Lloyd Hogan of Orange County, North Carolina, and Montgomery County, Tennessee. Self-published in 1998 in one illustrated volume with various pagings, it follows the family from the Orange County Piedmont to Tennessee.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Hogan, John, approximately 1745-1792 -- Family.

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