Early Hogues

Hello and welcome back to The Hogue Connection! This entry dives into the Early Hogues, and, is Post #100, dating back to when I started the blog in December of 2017. Post #1 had a family group sheet of William G. Hogue (1794-1866) and a pedigree of my dad, Chuck Hogue (1937-2003). That pedigree went back to our earliest known ancestor, John Hogg of Franklin, NC. We continue to dig deep, using new technology in the process.

Back in my February post, I talked about our early Hogue ancestors and what we really know about them up to this point. Since that time, I got a chance to meet a new cousin, Carmen Alexander, both online and in person. We first connected through WikiTree and then met for coffee on our last trip to our old stomping grounds. Carmen has done an excellent job in improving the bios of our early Hogue ancestors. It’s been great to have someone to collaborate with on our family tree.

The Early Hogues Spreadsheet…

…was our starting point. Finding our third great grandmother Hollin’s last name at birth has always been a brick wall. I felt like really pinning down where the early Hogues lived was a crucial thing to nail down. So, I lined out what we know on this spreadsheet:

We took it and ran with it, hoping to confirm as many dates and places as we could, and turning up new and important information. Carmen takes full advantage of full text search, which is available for free on FamilySearch.org. We also used North Carolina Digital Collections for research, and AI search via Claude. Claude doesn’t give you the answers; it just tells you where to look. It was also important to compare our discoveries to the information available at the Hogg DNA Project, here .

The late Dr. Henry Dwight Hogge, PhD started this project back in 2006. He wanted to clarify some information on his family lines and grew things from there. It started out as a project focused on Y DNA, which is passed down through the male lineage for many generations. Eventually, he added other DNA types, and discovered over 40 different Hogg/Hogge/Hogue lines that do not share a common ancestor. Unfortunately, Dwight passed away in 2019 or 2020, and the project has not taken on any new DNA donors. Luckily, the previously acquired data remains on the internet for analysis.

So, What Did Our New Research Plan Reveal?

Here’s the updated basic timeline for our oldest known Hogue ancestor, John Hogg I:

   1732 – John Hogg was born, possibly in Virginia.

   10 Aug 1775 – Appears for the first time in Bute County, NC court minutes.

   27 May 1778 – Enters a land claim for 640 acres in Bute County.

   08 Apr 1779 – Land claim issued.

   12 Nov 1779 – Filed another claim for 300 acres, later withdrawn. Bute County is now Franklin County.

   18 Jun 1782 – Sells 175 acres of original land claim.

   Mar 1787 – Posts bond in settlement of a guardianship dispute.

   Aug 1790 – recorded on the first U.S. Census of Franklin County, NC.

   Dec 1793 – Noted as serving on a Franklin County jury.

   Mar 1795 – Files suit in Franklin County court.

   Jun 1795 – Exempted from paying Poll Tax.

   17 Sep 1795 – Sells 159 acres of his original land claim.

   26 Oct 1795 – Writes and records last will and testament.

   12 Dec 1795 – John passes away just before this date in Franklin County.

For a more detailed version of the timeline, please follow this link to John’s profile on WikiTree.

Early Hogues…More Details to Follow…

In my next post, I’ll show you what we came up with for our next ancestor in line, John Hogg II. He went by John Hogge to differentiate himself from another Hogg family in the area. We know he died in York District, South Carolina in 1837, leaving a will. He now have a new surname to add to our tree, and other facts, too! Thanks to Carmen Alexander for her help!

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