James Hogg

Life and Orange County connections

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1. About 1775 James Hogg moves to Hillsborough and opens his company's office there The merchant James Hogg, who had brought emigrants from Scotland to North Carolina in 1774, moved from Cross Creek to Hillsborough about 1775 to open his company's office, and lived at Old House on his land east of town.Search the index · NCpedia: Hogg, James
2. summer 1775 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 JohnstonSearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 39
3. 1777 James Hogg sits on the Hillsborough board of commissioners James Hogg, a member of the Hillsborough Committee of Safety during the Revolution, sat on the town's board of commissioners in 1777.Search the index · NCpedia: Hogg, James
4. August 1777 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 RochesterSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 174
5. May 1778 Orange magistrates tender the state oath across the county The county court named two magistrates in each district to offer the oath to people suspected of disloyalty, and they returned lists of those who took and refused it to the May 1778 term. At that term James Hogg, William Johnston and Samuel Strudwick were cited again, and those who still declined were given sixty days to leave. People: James Hogg, William JohnstonSearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 53
6. February 12, 1779 General Assembly charters an academy near Hillsborough named Science Hall Meeting at Halifax, the General Assembly passed an act to establish an academy in the neighborhood of Hillsborough, naming William Hooper, Thomas Burke, Nathaniel Rochester, James Hogg and others as trustees. The act named the school Science Hall and gave its trustees the same powers as those of Liberty Hall in Mecklenburg County. People: Alexander Martin, Nathaniel Rochester, Thomas Hart, James Hogg, Thomas Burke, William Hooper, William JohnstonDocumenting the American South: Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1779 (Colonial and State Records, vol. 24)
7. September 12, 1781 Loyalists rob James Hogg at his Hillsborough house during Fanning's raid During David Fanning's raid on Hillsborough on September 12, 1781, Loyalists ransacked James Hogg's house on Cameron Street and took his watch, buckles and keys until an officer posted a guard. Poplar Hill, sometimes named as the scene, was not built until about 1793.Search the index · Open Orange: James Hogg House
8. October 23, 1783 Continental officers organize the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati at James Hogg's cabin Former officers of the North Carolina Continental line gathered near Hillsborough in a cabin owned by the merchant James Hogg and founded the state's Society of the Cincinnati. They elected Jethro Sumner president, Thomas Clark vice president and Adam Boyd secretary. Sixty-six of the roughly six hundred commissioned officers the state sent to the war joined by contributing a month's pay. People: James Hogg, Adam BoydSearch the index · North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati: History
9. September 25, 1784 William Hooper divides enslaved people among his children At Hillsborough, William Hooper gave his son Thomas Hogg Hooper a woman named Judah and her child Jack, in place of Tom, a man Robert Hogg had willed to Thomas and whom Hooper had sold to Samuel Campbell for 120 pounds. The same day, to put his children on an equal footing, he made over Pat and her son Alfred to his daughter Elizabeth and sold a girl named Molly to his son William, each transfer completed by handing a silver spoon to James Hogg as trustee. People: William Hooper, James HoggOrange County Deed Book 2, pp. 455 and 457 (Register of Deeds images read 2026-10-01); abstract in the Register of Deeds' slave records
10. December 18, 1789 The university's trustees hold their first meeting, at Fayetteville Senate Speaker Charles Johnson chaired the meeting, and Alexander Mebane and James Hogg attended for Orange County. Davie and Hogg were charged with printing the two subscription papers, one under the charter's terms and one for outright gifts. People: James Hogg, William Richardson DavieLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 72
11. July 1791 Trustees adopt a university seal showing Apollo and the rising sun A committee of James Hogg, Alfred Moore and John Haywood, given sole power to choose a device for the corporation's seal, picked the face of Apollo with the rising sun, meant to stand for the dawn of higher education in the state. People: James Hogg, John HaywoodDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 15
12. 1792 James Hogg of Hillsborough gathers Orange County land and money for the university site Hogg, a Hillsborough merchant who sat on the commission that fixed the university's place, brought in pledges of land and about 1,600 dollars from people in Orange County for the New Hope Chapel Hill site. The ground chosen lay roughly twelve miles from Hillsborough on the road running from Petersburg through the town and on south to Pittsboro.Search the index · Documenting the American South: 1795-1819, The Establishment of the University
13. November 5–9, 1792 Willie Jones views New Hope Chapel Hill as a university commissioner and signs for the site Jones was one of six commissioners the trustees sent to fix the seat of the university. On November 5, 1792 he handed the commissioners Joel Lane's offer of 640 acres in Wake County; the commissioners then went on to view New Hope Chapel Hill in Orange County, where they took offers of 1,390 acres and about 798 pounds. Jones signed the report. People: James Hogg, David Stone, Joel LaneSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Board of Trustees Minutes, December 3-13, 1792 [Containing Reports Regarding the Site of the University]
14. 1793 or 1794 James Hogg moves across the Eno to Poplar Hill Hogg, who owned the land along the south bank of the Eno opposite the town, lived east of Hillsborough on the later Cameron property until 1793 or 1794. He then moved across the river to Poplar Hill, later the site of Julian S. Carr's Occoneechee Farm. People: Julian S. CarrSearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 38
15. July 13, 1795 UNC holds its first public examination, announced by Governor Spaight The University's first public examination took place at Chapel Hill on July 13, 1795, after notice appeared in the newspapers over the signature of Governor Richard Dobbs Spaight. The governor's wife, Mary Spaight, was the only woman present, and about a dozen men attended, including William R. Davie, James Hogg, Alfred Moore and James Glasgow. People: James Hogg, William Richardson DavieSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, Vol. 1 (1907)
16. 1803 James Hogg sells Poplar Hill to his son-in-law William Norwood James Hogg, who had built the house later called Poplar Hill on an 1,100-acre tract on the south bank of the Eno, sells the estate in 1803 to his son-in-law William Norwood. It later became the home of John Wall Norwood. People: William NorwoodSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), 203 South Cameron Street, Poplar Hill
17. 1804 James Hogg builds a large house on Franklin Street James Hogg acquired the eastern half of Lot #11 from William R. Davie when his son Gavin entered the university, and built a ten-room house there. Debts forced him to sell in 1806, though he kept living in it; the house later passed to merchants and became the core of the Central Hotel.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 33
18. November 9, 1804 James Hogg dies and is buried in Hillsborough James Hogg, the Scottish merchant who came to North Carolina in 1774 and pressed the trustees to put the university at Chapel Hill, died on November 9, 1804. He is buried in Hillsborough two blocks north of the site of his state highway marker on Churton Street.Search the index · NC DNCR: James Hogg 1729-1804 (G-108), Highway Historical Marker Program
19. 1940s The James Hogg House on the Burnside grounds is torn down The house associated with James Hogg, the Revolutionary-era merchant, was demolished in the 1940s. The remains of one chimney still stand northeast of Burnside.Search the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 24
20. 1989 A state highway marker for James Hogg is cast for Churton Street in Hillsborough The North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program cast marker G-108 for James Hogg, the Scottish-born merchant and university trustee. It stands on South Churton Street and points to his home half a mile east and his grave two blocks north.Search the index · NC DNCR: James Hogg 1729-1804 (G-108), Highway Historical Marker Program