Skip to content

Person in the county’s record

John Hogg

The index holds one work for John Hogg so far. Search further, by the Library of Congress heading: WorldCat · OCPL. If you know a source, tell us.

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 1 dated event in the chronology →

  1. The court sends Laban Taborn, a free apprentice of color held in jail, back to the Granville court The court found that Laban Taborn, held in the Orange jail as a runaway, was a free person of color bound by the Granville County court to David Bradford, who had since moved to Rowan County, and that Bradford was alleged to have used him ill. It ordered him delivered to anyone who gave security before Absalom Tatom or John Hogg for his appearance at the next Granville county court, once his prison fees were paid. People: Absalom Tatom, John Hogg Place: Hillsborough, the jail · Also named: Laban Taborn, David BradfordMark Chilton, Freedom Bound: Apprenticeship, Racism & Liberation in Orange County, North Carolina 1777 to 1868 (Wandering through the NC Piedmont)

People named in the same events

People named in the same dated entries as John Hogg, those sharing the most entries first. Each line links one of the shared entries in the chronology, where its source is cited. A shared entry shows these people in the same event, not how well they knew each other.

Indexed works

Works about or by John Hogg. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.

By John Hogg

John Hogg account books, 1795-1815, 1841

Hogg, John, 1765-1826 · 1795

Account books kept by the merchant John Hogg (1765-1826), running from 1795 to 1815 with a further volume for 1841, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 342. The papers document nineteenth century commerce at Hillsborough, Fayetteville, Raleigh and Wilmington, and include the firms Hogg and Company of Wilmington and Hogg and Meng of Fayetteville, along with the names Robert Adam, Andrew Adie and Robert Halliday.

UNC

John Hogg Company

Hogg, John · 1767

Business records of John Hogg's firms, general and commission merchants, 1767 to 1812: a letterbook, daybooks and cash books. His partnerships included Adie and Hogg of Chapel Hill and Hillsborough, Hogg and Adam of Hillsborough, Hogg and Meng of Fayetteville, and Huske and Hogg and Hogg and Campbell of Wilmington, and he also traded alone in Hillsborough, Raleigh and Wilmington.

Places in this person’s story

Buildings, schools, churches and other sites named in the dated events on this page, the most often named first. The map shows them all.

Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. Site locations from the N.C. State Historic Preservation Office survey, Open Orange, Orange County GIS, OpenStreetMap and a few other published sources named on each site’s page; town and community pins show approximate locations.

All places and the county map →

Research sources

Sources and research tools for this person. Research guide: Trace a family through historical records.

Records of the time

Collections and databases

  • NC LIVE: prepared search for John Hogg Library card Search NC LIVE for this subject and Orange County. You can change the search terms. Sign in through your North Carolina library to access the materials.
  • Ancestry Library Edition In the libraryOrange County Public Library Census, birth, death and marriage records, and more, free on the public computers at OCPL libraries

Local help

More to discover

Keep Reading Local

The Friends connect people with new library materials, local writers and publishers, and resources documenting Orange County.

Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026