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James Hogg

James Hogg (1729 to 1804), a merchant, settled at Hillsborough in 1775, served on its Committee of Safety and town board, and was a chief benefactor and trustee of the Science Hall academy there. A University of North Carolina trustee from 1789, he organized local gifts of land for the Chapel Hill site. He is buried in Hillsborough's Old Town Cemetery.

Source: NCpedia: Hogg, James

1729–1805 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineThomas Burke of Hillsborough, 1772–17891772–1789 · 15 events · Thomas Burke went from a Hillsborough law practice to the Continental Congress and the governor's office, and Orange County sent him to each stage of the Revolution. Douglass credits him with drafting Orange's 1776 instructions to the Halifax Congress, and he sat on the committee whose report empowered the delegates to join in declaring independence. The Assembly at Hillsborough cleared him in 1778 in his quarrel with Congress. Elected governor in 1781, he was captured in David Fanning's raid, broke his parole to return, and died near Hillsborough in 1783. In 1789 the court let his executor sell four people the estate held in slavery. 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. StorylineChapel Hill grows from a college village to a town, 1800–18191800–1819 · 14 events · Between 1800 and 1819 stores, houses and shops went up on Franklin Street, and in 1819 the General Assembly named commissioners for the town of Chapel Hill. Along the way John McCauley opened one of the first stores by 1803, James Hogg built a ten-room house in 1804, and Thomas H. Taylor, Christopher Barbee, Thompson and Trice and Edward Robson added a shoe store, a smithy, a store and the post office. The county court licensed stores to retail spirits in 1817 and 1818, and a student of the class of 1818 remembered about a dozen houses on the main street. StorylineJulian S. Carr's Occoneechee Farm, 1891–19231891–1923 · 15 events · By 1896 Julian S. Carr's Occoneechee Farm held nearly all of the registered cattle and hogs that put Orange first in the state's register of blooded stock. The Durham industrialist bought Poplar Hill, the house James Hogg had built about 1794 on the Eno, in 1891 and renamed it. He gave the Norwood Mineral Spring a marble basin and spring house and built a large stock barn, a gate wall and a model sheep fold. The State Dairymen's Association met there in 1896, and a Farmers' Institute in 1906 drew several hundred people. Wind, lightning and a 1918 storm destroyed barns, and Carr rebuilt. On November 22, 1923 the farm was sold at auction in small farms.

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During their lifetime

  1. Richard Henderson forms the Louisa Company with Thomas Hart and other Orange men Richard Henderson organized the Louisa Company in 1774 to buy western lands, taking in Thomas and Nathaniel Hart, John Williams, Lancelot and William Johnston, John Luttrell and others. Reorganized as the Transylvania Company after its purchase from the Cherokees, its partners, among them James Hogg and David Hart, recorded their agreement in the Orange County deed books. People: Richard Henderson, Thomas Hart, John Williams, William Johnston, James Hogg Place: Orange County · Also named: Nathaniel Hart, John Luttrell, David HartSearch the index · Internet Archive: Durward T. Stokes, "Thomas Hart in North Carolina", North Carolina Historical Review 41 (1964), p. 329
  2. 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. Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · NCpedia: Hogg, James
  3. 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
  4. 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. Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · NCpedia: Hogg, James
  5. James Watson becomes register of Orange County and a Hillsborough commissioner under the new state When county government resumed under statehood in 1777, James Watson was the county's register and one of the first commissioners of the town of Hillsborough, with William Johnston, James Hogg, John Shields and William Courtney. People: James Watson, William Johnston, James Hogg, William Courtney Place: Hillsborough · Also named: John ShieldsSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 46
  6. William Courtney is one of the first Hillsborough town commissioners under the state When the new state government was organized, the commissioners for the town of Hillsborough were William Johnston, James Hogg, John Sheels (Shields), William Courtney and James Watson. People: William Courtney, William Johnston, James Hogg, James Watson Place: Hillsborough · Also named: John SheelsSearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 71
  7. 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
  8. 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 Johnston, Samuel Strudwick Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 53
  9. 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 Johnston, John Kinchen Place: HillsboroughDocumenting the American South: Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1779 (Colonial and State Records, vol. 24)
  10. 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. People: David Fanning Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Poplar HillSearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 86 · Also: Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903); NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register; Open Orange: James Hogg House
  11. 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: Jethro Sumner, James Hogg, Adam Boyd Place: near Hillsborough · Also named: Thomas ClarkSearch the index · North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati: History
  12. 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 Hogg Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Thomas Hogg Hooper, William Hooper Jr.Orange County Register of Deeds: Deed Book 2, pp. 455 and 457 (deed image) · Also: Orange County Register of Deeds: sales of enslaved people, 1761-1867; Orange County Indexed: the record of Deed Book 2/455, with everyone named in it; Orange County Indexed: the record of Deed Book 2/457, with everyone named in it; Mark Chilton’s abstract of Deed Book 2/455, in Orange County Indexed’s historic deeds; Mark Chilton’s abstract of Deed Book 2/457, in Orange County Indexed’s historic deeds
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  1. The court gives Thomas Burke's executor leave to sell four enslaved people to pay the estate's debts The court gave James Hogg, executor of Thomas Burke, deceased, leave to sell Flora, Cate, Peter and Fran, people held in slavery by the estate, with other perishable property, to pay the debts the estate owed, and to report to the next court. People: James Hogg, Thomas Burke Place: Orange County · Also named: Cate, Flora, Fran, PeterMark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: August Term 1789
  2. 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; House Speaker Stephen Cabarrus was among the other trustees present. 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 Davie, Alexander Mebane Place: Fayetteville · Also named: Charles Johnson, Stephen CabarrusLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 72
  3. The court orders the road east of Hillsborough turned along the road to the mineral spring on James Hogg's land On a petition from a number of inhabitants, the court named a jury of fourteen, among them William Watters, Sterling Harris and Absalom Tatom, to lay out a new course for the road running east from Hillsborough on the south side of the Eno, so that it would take the road that went to the mineral spring on James Hogg's land, and to report to the next court. People: Absalom Tatom Place: South side of the Eno east of Hillsborough; mineral spring on James Hogg's land · Also named: William Watters, Sterling HarrisSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1791
  4. 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 Haywood, Alfred Moore Place: Chapel HillDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 15
  5. 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. Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Documenting the American South: 1795-1819, The Establishment of the University
  6. 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: Willie Jones, James Hogg, David Stone, Joel Lane, Alexander Mebane Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: William HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Board of Trustees Minutes, December 3-13, 1792 [Containing Reports Regarding the Site of the University]
  7. 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. Carr Place: Poplar Hill, south of the EnoSearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 38
  8. 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: Richard Dobbs Spaight, James Hogg, William Richardson Davie, Alfred Moore Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Mary Spaight, James GlasgowSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, Vol. 1 (1907)
  9. Trustees attend the university's July examination and praise its teachers Governor Benjamin Williams, Judge John Williams, James Hogg, Adlai Osborne, Willie Jones and Walter Alves attended the examination. Their report thanked the professors and tutors and said complaints against the steward had ended. People: Adlai Osborne, John Williams, Benjamin Williams, James Hogg, Willie Jones, Walter Alves Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 116
  10. Samuel Chinny buys the East Tryon Street land later called BelleVue Samuel Chinny bought land at the east edge of town that had first belonged to James Hogg, and probably built the house that became the eastern part of the Phillips-Hill-Webb House; a deed of 1801 mentions a house on the lot. People: James Hogg Place: Phillips-Hill-Webb House (BelleVue), 209 East Tryon Street, Hillsborough · Also named: Samuel ChinnySearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), 209 E. Tryon, Phillips-Hill-Webb House
  11. 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 Norwood Place: Poplar Hill, south bank of the Eno River (now 203 South Cameron Street), Hillsborough · Also named: John Wall NorwoodSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), 203 South Cameron Street, Poplar Hill
  12. John McCauley builds a store on Franklin Street By 1803 John McCauley had a store on the northeast corner of Lot #11, one of the village's first. James Hogg's large house, built on the same part of the lot a year or two later, may have grown out of it. People: James Hogg Place: McCauley's store, Lot #11, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: John McCauleySearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 27
  13. 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. Place: Hogg house, east half of Lot #11, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: William R. Davie · Also mentions: Central HotelSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 33
  14. 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. Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Churton StreetSearch the index · NC DNCR: James Hogg 1729-1804 (G-108), Highway Historical Marker Program

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  1. The Rev. William Mercer Green builds the first house on the land later called Montrose Around 1827 the Rev. William Mercer Green, rector of St. Matthew's, built the first house on land he had bought that May from William Kirkland, who had acquired it in 1821; the tract had first belonged to James Hogg. William A. Graham bought it in 1842. People: William Mercer Green, William Kirkland, James Hogg, William A. Graham Place: Montrose, 320 St. Mary's Road, Hillsborough · Also mentions: St. Matthew'sSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Montrose, National Register nomination (OR0050), section 8 · Also: NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register
  2. Julian S. Carr buys Poplar Hill south of the Eno and renames the estate Occoneechee Farm The Norwood family sold Poplar Hill, the house James Hogg had built about 1794 on the south bank of the Eno, to the Durham industrialist Julian S. Carr, who renamed the property Occoneechee Farm. Carr enlarged and altered the house over the next three decades. People: Julian S. Carr, James Hogg Place: Poplar Hill (Occoneechee Farm), south bank of the Eno River, Hillsborough · Also mentions: Poplar HillSearch the index · National Register: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation (2014), section 7, p. 20
  3. 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. Place: Burnside grounds, South Cameron Street, HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 24
  4. 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. Place: South Churton Street (US 70 Business), HillsboroughSearch the index · NC DNCR: James Hogg 1729-1804 (G-108), Highway Historical Marker Program
  5. Local historian Scotty Washington proposes a James Freeland Day Writing in the News of Orange County, local historian Scotty Washington urged readers to mark July 24, Freeland's birthday in 1918, as James Freeland Day. He credited Freeland with more than 700 Hillsborough homes, some for people of modest means, with moving the house where James Hogg and later James Carr lived, the Dickinson House and the Gatewood House, and with the Hillsborough Historical Society's Engstrom Award for restoring the Whitted House. People: James J. Freeland, James Hogg Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Scotty Washington · Also mentions: News of Orange CountySearch the index · The News of Orange County: Scotty Washington, "Freeland helped shape Hillsborough of today" (July 26, 2014)

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By James Hogg

James Hogg papers, 1772-1824.

Hogg, James, 1729-1805 · 1772

Papers of James Hogg, who lived from 1729 to 1805, spanning 1772 to 1824: about sixty items in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 341-z. The papers concern Scottish emigration to North Carolina, Scottish Americans, an eighteenth century shipwreck and Hillsborough history. The library filmed the papers in 1978.

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Cheshire, Lucius McGehee · 1970

Lucius McGehee Cheshire's typescript on James Hogg of Hillsborough, 1729 to 1805, prepared for delivery to the Hillsborough Historical Society and dated 12 March 1970. It runs to 26 pages with ten further unnumbered leaves. The account connects Hogg's life in Hillsborough with the early University of North Carolina. Part of UNC's North Carolina Collection.

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Session of December 1793-January 1794: Senate Committee Reports

North Carolina. General Assembly · 1793

Reports of North Carolina Senate committees, December 1793 to January 1794, 91 images, on the militia bill, public bills, a petition from Blackledge, disease in Fayetteville and the work of a Committee of Emancipation. Quakers, sheriffs and Richard Dobbs Spaight figure in the papers, with Hillsborough among the places tied to them.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Hogg, James, 1729-1805.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Joint Select Committees: Reports and Papers, May 8 - May 18

North Carolina. General Assembly · 1782

From the 1782 session of the General Assembly, joint select committee reports and papers of 8 to 18 May, in 134 images. Captain James Reed, James Houston of Rowan County and George Meek are among those whose cases came before the committees. Other matters include State Legion officers, disabled veterans, price regulation, Cherokee affairs, Thomas Burke, and Hillsborough and Orange County.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Hogg, James, 1729-1805.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Commissary Correspondence, April 1781

1781

Commissary letters of April 1781 under the state Board of War, dealing with provisions and supplies for the army. James Hogg complains that the military destroyed his plantation. Hillsborough, Halifax County and Warren County appear in the letters. 18 images.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Hogg, James, 1729-1805.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

HOGG. James Hogg Family Records (Mrs. Mary Deal Haynes Papers)

North Carolina. Division of Archives and History

Family records of James Hogg, gathered in the papers of Mrs. Mary Deal Haynes and filed with the Bible Records at the State Archives of North Carolina. The material concerns James Hogg and the Hogg family, with connections to Orange County.

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35 deeds, 1779 to 1804, in the county’s deed books name James Hogg as a party, from Mark Chilton’s published abstracts. Each links to the deed-book page at the Register of Deeds.

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