Crow, Hoggatt, Dabbs
Anthony Hoggatt and Eleanor Crow(e)
Proposed Lineage
Compiled by Judy Griffin, 2007 - email address
Thomas
and Mary Crow
...... 2 John Crow (ca 1654 - ca. 1718) + Elizabeth ( - bet
1719-1720)
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3 Judeth Crow ( - bet 1728-1737) + (1) John Dickenson, (2) James Dix
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3 Mary Crow (ca 1695 - bef 1747)
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3 Eleanor Crow (1680 - ) + Anthony Hoggatt
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3 Thomas Crow
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3 John Crow
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3 William Crow
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3 Anthony Crow
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3 Sarah Crow
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3 Anne Crow
Anthony
Hoggatt (1683/84 - 1755) + (1) Eleanor Crow/Crowe
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2 Nancy Ann Hoggatt (1716 - ) + (1) Joseph Dabbs, (2) James
Webb
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3 William Dabbs (ca 1734 - 1804) + Catherine _?_ ( - 1790/91 or bef
1807)
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3 Richard Dabbs (ca 1735 - 1809) + (1) Elizabeth Foster (1730 –
bef 1804), (2) Anne Cunningham
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3 Nathaniel Dabbs (ca 1737-40 - 1800) + Elizabeth Haney
(ca 1743 - after 1820)
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3 Joseph Dabbs ( - 1781) + Hannah Kolb (ca 1753 - )
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3 Eleanor Dabbs died in infancy
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3 Mary Dabbs (1743 - 1831) + Patrick Henry Boggan (ca 1725 - 1817)
Second
husband of Nancy Ann Hoggatt + James Webb
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3 Theodoric Webb + (1) Mary Lacy, (2) _?_ Miller
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4 Hockett Webb
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3 James Webb + Sarah Lacy
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3 Hannah Webb + Stephen Miller
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2 Catherine Hoggatt + William Neil (possible, undocumented)
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2 Nathaniel Hoggatt
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3 Nathaniel Hoggatt, may have lived with Elizabeth and Stephen after
Nathaniel’s death.
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2 Elizabeth Hoggatt + (1) Stephen Collins, (2) Job Thomas
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3 Anthony Collins
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3 Eleanor Collins + John Foster
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4 John Crow Foster + (1) Mary Brown, (2) Sarah Kirksey
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4 George Singleton Foster + Hanna Carr
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4 Josiah Foster + Mary Foster
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4 Mary Foster + William (or Pete) Hendley
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4 James Hoggatt Foster + Nancy Brown
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4 Frances Foster + (1) William Grant, (2) _?_ McWhorter
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4 Robert Singleton Crow Foster + Susanna Elizabeth P. Young
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4 Nancy (Anna) Foster + (1) Benjamin Perry, (2) Frederick Foster
Second
husband of Elizabeth Hoggatt, (2) Job Thomas
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3 Jesse Thomas (1750 - 1805) + (1) Mary Howell, (2) Sally Woods
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3 Phineas Thomas (ca 1752 - 1807) + Ann Price
Second
wife of Anthony Hoggatt (2) Frances Whitlock
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2 Frances Hoggatt + James Hunt
John Crow
Father of Eleanor Crow (wife of Anthony Hoggatt)
John Crow son of Thomas and Mary Crow, was born circa 1654 and died before August 18, 1718 in Essex County, Virginia. John is said to have married Elizabeth Dobyns (possibly Elizabeth Russsell) circa 1675. Elizabeth died between 1719 and 1720 in Essex County. There is some support for the possible marriage between John Crow and Elizabeth Dobyns. A Thomas Crow of Essex County drew his will on September 21, 1708 in which he left Daniel Dobyns a ring valued at twenty shillings. (1) The will was witnessed by Daniel Dobyns, Nicholas Smith Jr. and John Powell and was proved on October 11, 1708. The plantations of Thomas Crow, Nicholas Smith and Daniel Dobyns’ adjoined each other. (2)
John’s grandfather may have been a John Thomas Crowe who was born in 1594 in Newton, Waterford, Ireland and died in 1688 in Virginia. This John Thomas Crowe is said to have married an Anna _?_ and may have arrived at Jamestown, Virginia circa 1620.
Little is known about our John (circa 1654) and Elizabeth, or their children, and there is no documentation regarding their parents. John Crow owned slaves and had a plantation in Essex County. John was found in several Essex County records:
May 17, 1716 - John Crow signed a bond for Robert Coleman, deceased.
June 14, 1716 - John served on a jury of the Essex Court.
December 18, 1716 - John signed the inventory of Homer Rodin, deceased.
John Crow signed a bond of 100 Sterling for Mary Milbourne as the
administrator of John Milbourne, deceased (no date). (3)
John’s Will was dated January 20, 1717 and named all of his living children, including our Eleanor. (4) “ I, John Crowe of Essex County, being sick and weak in body, . . . To my loving dau Judeth Dickason 1 shilling; To my loving dau Mary Coleman, 1 negro man, named Dick, now in her possession; To my loving dau Eleanor Hogart 1 shilling; To my loving son, Thomas Crowe 1 shilling; To my loving son, John Crowe, all my land lying on the south side of Dragon Swamp and joining on the land of Henry Baker. To my loving sons, William Crowe and Anthony Crowe, all the rest of my land whereon I now live to be equally divided. My son Anthony to possess the plantation whereon I now live. All the rest equally divided amongst my loving wife, Elizabeth, my son John, my sons William and Anthony, my daughter Sarah and my daughter Anne. My loving wife sole executrix. John Crowe. Witnessess: Henry Perkins, John Dickerson, Judeth Dickerson.”
From the will it appears that John’s daughters, Sarah and Anne, were not yet married. Dragon Swamp (present-day Dragon Run) is about 50 miles east of Richmond, Virginia. Dragon Swamp extended some 20 miles in a relatively straight line; and winding through the swamp was an impassable creek, Dragon Run.
Elizabeth’s will was dated 1719 and probated on June 21, 1720. (5) She also named all of her children. “To my two sons, John and William 3 lbs Sterling. All the rest equally divided among my three youngest children, Sarah Crowe, Anne Crowe, Anthony Crowe. All my children which are now under my tuition and care to be well clothed and a negro be bought by my executor for the benefit of my three youngest children. My three youngest children, each of them, to have two years schooling. My three daughters, Judeth, Mary and Elinor and my son Thomas, each of them 1 shilling.”
The children of John and Elizabeth were (birth order unknown):
Eleanor Crow was born in 1680 and married Anthony Hoggatt, possibly in 1715. Anthony was born March 15, 1683/84 in Berkshire, England, and died on March 2, 1755 in Albemarle, Virginia (more on Anthony below). Eleanor may have married William Hoggart before marrying Anthony Hoggatt. There is an undocumented marriage record for an Eleanor Crow married William Hoggart in 1707 in Essex County. (6) Dabbs researcher James Dabbs stated that after Eleanor Crow died, Anthony married a Frances Whitlock in 1740. (7) Frances (Jones?) Whitlock widow of James Whitlock (d. 1736) of Hanover County, Virginia married 1738 Anthony Hoggatt of Albemarle County, Virginia. The children of Eleanor and Anthony were Nancy Ann “Nanny” Hoggatt, born in 1716 in Essex County and Elizabeth Hoggatt, died after 1805 and married Job Thomas. Nanny married Joseph Dabbs on July 1, 1733 in Goochland County, Virginia. She married, second, James Webb. See Dabbs family history for this family.
Thomas Crow.
Judeth Crow married John Dickinson. There is some additional information that seems to be Judeth/Judith. (8) Their probable children were Peter, John, Elinder, Eliza, Rossman. According to this researcher:
Judith Dickenson was mentioned in the December 18, 1724 will of her husband John Dickeson. She was to receive her lawful 1/3rds of his estate for her natural life and was named executrix. (9) After John’s death, Judith married James Dix circa 1725 before her first husband’s estate was settled. On August 17, 1725, James Dix, Judith Dix, William Gray and John Watkins were bound £400 sterling for James Dix’s and Judith Dix’s execution of the will of John Dickenson. Signed James (his mark) Dix, Judith (her mark) Dix, William Gray, John Watkins. (10)
Judith/Judeth was executor of her parents’ estates. (11) The record mentioned her brothers Anthony, John, and William. Apparently Anthony had died and his brother John accepted ‘satisfaction’ for his brother. On February 23, 1727/8, John Crow stated: Recd of James Dix and Judeth his wife acting Executor of John & Elizth Crow Decd full Satisfaction for my Decd father and mother John & Eliz Crows Estate and for my brother Anthony Crow Decd his Estate. Dated 23 February 1727/8. Signed John (his mark) Crow. Witnesses: Henry P[illegible], William Crow. On 28 February 1727/8 William Crow discharged James Dix and Judith his wife in rights in his fathers and mothers estate. Dated 28 February 1727/8. Signed William Crow. Witnesses: Henry Purkins junr, Eliz (her mark) Caston.
John Dickenson’s estate was not settled until 1737/8. (12) The estate of John Dickenson in account with James Dix Exor was settled by Henry Purkins, Wm Gatewood and Jos Mann. It mentioned the schooling of their sons Peter and John Dickinson and twice mentioned the estate of Elizabeth Crow. Ordered recorded 22 March 1737/8.
There are two land transaction records for Judith/Judeth and James Dix/Dicks: (13) On 14 March 1725, James Dicks and Judey his wife of the parish of Southfarnham and County of Essex sold to Erasmus Allen of the same. For 5 shillings, 190 acres in the Parish of Southfarnham bounded by the lands of James ffullerton, Thomas Dicks, William Dicks and Thomas Todd. Signed James (his mark) Dicks, Judy (her mark) Dicks. Witnesses: WBourne, John Allen, Richard Jones. Recorded 15 March 1725. On 15 March 1725, James Dicks and Judey his wife of the parish of Southfarnham and County of Essex released to Erasmus Allen of the same. For 2100 pounds tobacco with cask, 190 acres in the Parish of Southfarnham bounded by the lands of James ffullerton, Thomas Dicks, William Dicks and Thomas Todd. Dated 15 March 1725. Signed James (his mark) Dicks, Judy (her mark) Dicks. Witnesses: WBourne, John Allen, Richard Jones. Recorded 15 March 1725.
Mary Crow married _?_ Coleman. This could be a Spilsbe Coleman who was born about 1692 in Essex County, Virginia. (14) He died before September 21, 1727 in Essex County, Virginia. Spilsbe was employed as Ordinary Operator and died intestate. (15) Spilsbe married Mary Crow, daughter of John Crow and Elizabeth, prior to November 30, 1715, the date of his mother’s will in which Mary was referred to as ‘daughter Mary, the wife of son Spilsbe.’ Spilsbe put up a bond of 10,000 lbs. tobacco to keep an Ordinary in Tappahannock Town. Securities were brother-in-law Daniel Brown and John Farguson, father of Daniel Brown’s son-in-law. He was granted a license to operate an Ordinary for one in year on 21 Jun 1726. (16) Mary was born about 1695 and died before 1747. They had two known children: Robert and Richard.
On 21 Sep 1727, Mary came into court and made oath that Spilsbe had left no will and sought permission to obtain Letter of Administration. On 21 Sep 1727, she was granted a license to operate an Ordinary at her house in Tappa Town.
In 1730, Mary married Francis Crane, but their marriage soon ended. On June 15, 1731 she sued Francis Crane for separate maintenance on the grounds that “he beat and abused her so unmercifully that she could not live with him.” The court agreed with her and awarded her separate maintenance of one-half the rents belonging to Francis Crane. The rents were to be paid to William Covington “for just support of the aforesaid Mary Crane.” (17)
John Crow.
William Crow.
Sarah Crow. This Sarah Crow may be the wife of Robert Singleton.
Anne Crow.
Anthony Crow died before February 1727/8.
Anthony Hoggatt was born March 15, 1683/84 in Berkshire, England, and died on March 2, 1755 in Albemarle County, Virginia. He married Eleanor Crow, probably in 1715. Researcher James Dabbs states that after his first wife Eleanor Crow died, Anthony married a Frances Whitlock in 1740. (18) Frances (Jones?) Whitlock widow of James Whitlock (died in 1736) of Hanover County, Virginia married in 1738 Anthony Hoggatt of Albemarle County, Virginia. The children of Eleanor and Anthony were: Nancy Ann “Nanny” Hoggatt, born in 1716 in Essex County; Elizabeth Hoggatt, who died after 1805 and married Stephen Collins and later Job Thomas; Nathaniel; and possibly Catherine. See the Dabbs history for Nancy Ann Hoggatt’s family.
The earliest mention of Anthony was in 1725, when a John Utley, of Henrico County named Anthony as the executor of his estate (see below). (19) In 1726 Anthony built a grist mill in Henrico County (probably the area that became Goochland County the next year). (20) A 1751 Virginia map does show a location named Hoggatts Mill. There was a land record, dated April 12, 1726 in Henrico County that stated Edward Scott would build a gristmill for Anthony Hoggatt.
April 12, 1726 - Edward Scott & Anthony Hoggatt agreement that sd. [said] Scott with sd. Hoggatt agrees to build a good overshot water grist mill fit for the grinding of all sorts of grain & to fix the same on Tuckahoe Creek to a dam of sd. Hoggatt’s where his mill now stands & to erect a good house over the sd. mill for the safe keeping of meal and storing grain & to procure the said Mill with a good and large pair of stones and Iron work & all other things necessary & appertaining thereto, to build a good pair of water gates 3 feet wide each gate and 12 feet deep & sd. Scott agrees &c. to keep the sd. mill & gates &c. in good repair at his proper cost with the each Voool & amed [?] to them, & if by any means the dam should break or go away by means of sd. Scott’s not securing his work, then sd. Scott to mend the break & if sd. dam break for want of the cear [?] of sd. Hoggatt and carry away either mill or gates then sd. Hoggatt to repair the same. Sd. Hoggatt agrees to enlarge & raise his dam to hold a head of water pr sd. mill above mentioned at least 16 ft. high & to keep the same in good repair, & it is agreed upon that sd. Scott & sd. Hoggatt shall be at equal charge for hiring a miller & equally divide the grain of sd. mill between them & that they shall always have a reasonable time for building and repairation. They bind themselves in the sum of £500: sterlg. to be recovered by the part agrieved, delinquent or failing to performe his part. [p. 158]
March 4, 1726 - Edward Scott and Anthony Hoggatt agree further about the over shot water mill. [p. 159] September 27, 1728, Edward Scott & Anthony Hoggat to Thomas Randolph 4 acres with one water grist mill standing on Tuckahoe Creek in Goochland County. (21)
In 1728 Anthony had a land grant of 50 acres in Henrico County. (22) In 1729, Anthony was the surety for the birth of a Henry Wood in Goochland County (became Goochland County in 1728). He was also surety for Henry Wood’s death in 1738. In September 1730, Anthony and a Roger Powell came to the assistance of a Judith Ballow:
Grand Jury-vs-Judith Ballow-one bastard child. September Court, 1730. Jury verdict ordered to be recorded and is as followeth: “Wee find the Defendant guilty. John Mcbride, Foreman. Whearas it is considered by the Court that the Defendant do pay unto the Church wardens of St. James Parish the sum of five hundred pounds of tobacco and cask with costs and a lawyer’s fee.” For the defendant Roger Powell and Anthony Hoggat gave recognizance for her child stating “will pay 50 pounds current money if child is named William and not chargeable to St. James Parish.” It is not known why Roger Powell and Anthony Hoggat were came to Judith’s rescue in such a generous fashion. (23)
This may be part of the same 1730 court record: In June 1731, Judith Ballow was before the grand jury for having a bastard child. Thomas Walker confesses. Judgment for 500 pounds tobacco and ordered to pay the same to the Church Wardens of St. James’s Parish. (24) Judith was brought before the courts two more times for having a bastard child. 14 May 1736 Grand Jury sworn for Judith Ballow having a Bastard childe. (25) 20 Apr 1739 Church Wardens of Raleigh Parish vs Judith Belew for having bastard child. Judith failed to appear so Thomas Prewett, security to pay 50 shillings or 500 pounds tobacco and costs to Church Wardens. (26)
There were two Ballow’s living in the St. James Parish of Goochland County in 1730-31, Thomas and Leonard Ballow. In 1730 Joseph Dabbs was a witness to their land purchase of 400 acres. (27) The next year Joseph Dabbs and a John Woodson requested 384 of this acreage because it had not been seated by Thomas and Leonard. Unless Thomas and Leonard appeared in the next court session, Dabbs and Woodson would get the land. (28)
A Robert Napier was brought into July Court, 1732, on the charge of calling Anthony Hoggatt, Gent. a fool. Napier readily admitted his guilt and offered for an excuse that he was drunk at the time. He was ordered to pay five shillings current money to the church wardens of St. James Parish for being drunk. (29)
By 1733 Anthony was a Justice in the county. On June 25, 1733 - Anthony Hoggatt was appointed to be among the Justices for the “tryall” of Champion, Lucy, Valentine, George, Sampson and Harry, all Negro slaves belonging to various men in the county. See the Dabbs history for the account of this tragic incident.
In 1738 and 1739, Anthony was involved in land transactions with his daughter’s husband, Joseph Dabbs. (30) Anthony Hoggard filed leave to add 400 acres of land for the convenience of building a valuable mill to 600 acres surveyed for him and Joseph Dabbs on the Appamatlock River, Goochland County, Virginia, December 19, 1738. At Council, Goochland County, Virginia, Haggard vs. Dabbs. Surveyor of Goochland County to divide 6000 acres according to quality and quantity, Dabbs to have his choice, June 13, 1739.
Anthony Hoggatt was also found in the Goochland County, Virginia Order Book from 1731 to 1744. (31) Anthony was a surveyor, in addition to operating/owning a mill, as these court orders indicate. The Road Orders contained in the Goochland County Court Order Books cover the period 1728-1744 and concern the early roads of the County. During this period Goochland stretched southward to the Appomattox River and west to the Ledge, or Blue Ridge, and contained all or parts of the present Counties of Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Fluvanna, Nelson and Powhatan. Establishing and maintaining the public roads was an important function of the County Court during the colonial period in Virginia. Each road was opened and maintained by an Overseer or Surveyor of the Roads charged with this responsibility and appointed by the Gentlemen Justices. He was usually assigned all the “Labouring Male Titheables” living on or near the road for this purpose.
There seems to have been two Anthony Hoggatts (various spellings of the surname). A Philip Hoggatt was born January 16, 1686/87 in Berkshire, England (32) and may be a brother of Anthony. Philip and his family owned land in Goochland County, Virginia as early as 1727. His sixth child was named Anthony Hoggatt/Hockett.
This record does appear to be our Anthony. (33) On March 24, 1725, a John Utley acquired two patents, each for 400 acres in Henrico County. He paid 40 Shillings for each tract. The first parcel of land was described as being on the north side of the James River, on Tuckahoe Creek near the ridge between the James and Pamunkey rivers. It adjoined lands of Alvis and Cottril. The second tract was on Little Tuckahoe Creek next to the land of Rene Laforce. A patent issued on the same day to John Black for 400 acres in Hanover County identified the tract as adjoining lands of John Utley (Uttley), John Sims, George Brock, John Syme, Surveyor and Richard Anderson. Henry Chiles of King William County obtained a patent for 400 acres in Henrico County on October 13, 1727, which was situated on the north side of the James River, the east side of Licking Hole Creek and bounded by Utley's (Utly’s) line on Elk Licking Hole Creek. On September 17, 1731, Richard Brooks received a patent for 120 acres in Hanover County next to the lands of John Utley (Uttley), Robert and Charles Anderson, John Sims and John Black. Little Tuckahoe Creek rises in Hanover County and flows south along the line between Goochland and Henrico counties to join Tuckahoe Creek. Pamunkey River is the north boundary of Hanover County, While James River is the south boundary of Henrico and Goochland counties.
On 15 June 1731 John Utley sold the land upon which he lived to Anthony Hoggatt for 100 pounds. The 800 acres were on the north side of James River, partly in Goochland County and partly in Hanover County. Thomas Cookson, John Utley and Robert Willis witnessed the deed. There was neither wife’s signature nor release of dower. This land was supposedly called “Tuckahoe,” was purchased from John Utley’s estate.
The changed description regarding the location of John Utley's land mainly reflects a jurisdictional revision. In 1725, when he obtained the patents, the land of John Utley was described as being in Henrico County, which was established in 1634, but part of the land must have been in Hanover County at the time. When he sold his land in 1731, it was partly in Goochland County and partly in Hanover County. Goochland County was formed in 1728 from Henrico County and adjoining Hanover County was taken from New Kent County in 1721.
It is likely that the grantor was John Utley, Sr. and the witness his son, John Utley, Jr. The land was sold to Hoggatt as the result of a court decision, the final determination of a long-standing dispute between Hoggatt and John Utley, Sr. John Utley, Sr. can be tracked back into Henrico County records. The Deed:
This indenture made the fifteenth day of June in the fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the grace of God of Great Britain, France & Ireland, King Defender of the Faith etc. in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty one between John Utley of the County of Goochland of the one part & Anthony Hoggat of the same county witnesseth that the said John Utley for one hundred Pounds Sterling money hath sold unto Anthony Hoggat all that tract of land whereon he the said John now lives. Situated on the North side of James River in the said county of Goochland and part thereof in the county of Hanover being by estimation eight hundred acres. In witness whereof the parties have hereunto set their hands & seals the day & year first above written. Signed, sealed & delivered in presence of Thoms. Cookson. John Utley (Seal), John Utley, Robert Willis
The word Planter erased & these words (being by estimation eight hundred acres be the same more or less) first interlined. At a court held for Goochland County June 15, 1731 this deed was proved to be the act and deed of John Utley by the oaths of the witnesses hereto and was thereupon admitted to record.
According to Goochland County land records, Anthony Hoggard sold 300 acres on August 1, 1734, part of the tract purchased from John Utley.
Anthony’s will gives the names of some of his descendants, others whose relationship has not been determined, and reflects the large size of his plantation: (34)
1744 October 5 - Will of Anthony Hoggard dated in Albemarle County, Virginia, probated March 14, 1755, by Abraham Venable, Jr., William Dobbs, and William Neale, three of the witnesses. Other witnesses Richard Allwood and James Hunt, Jr. Executors were friend James Hunt, Charles Venable, and Nathaniel Hoggatt. Summary of Will of Anthony Hoggard:
“. . . being in a lo state of health but in rite mind and perfit memory . . . My will and desire is that all my just debts will be paid whereas I have sold a piece of land to Hugh Scott lying in Prince Edward County on both sides of Vaughns Creek near the Shaw Spring and bounded by a line from Stobals line to Harrisses and whenever said Scott shall pay the sum of money contained in a memorandum left in the hands of James Senter then the Executors shall make him a phanticke (permanent) deed. Unto my son Nathaniel Hoggatt 1000 acres of land whereon he now lives to him and his heirs in fee. Unto my beloved wife Frances Hoggatt one negro boy named Sheriff . . . To William Dobbs £10 current money. To my wife £150 current money of Virginia. To Coltrain Neil £10 current money. To Frances Hunt £5 current money. I do order that all my personal estate shall be sold and as much of my real estate as shall pay all my debts and legacies and the remainder to be equally divided between my two grandsons Anthony Hoggatt, son of Nathaniel Hoggatt, and Anthony Collins, son of Stephen Collins. (s) Anthony Hoggatt.
In 1744 Albemarle County was formed from Goochland, Anthony probably had not moved.
Elizabeth Hoggatt, daughter of Anthony, is said to have first married Stephen Collins and second, Job Thomas. Named in Anthony Hoggatt’s 1744 will was a grandson, Anthony Collins, son of Stephen Collins. Elizabeth was not named and could have died. However, other researchers state that Elizabeth married Job Thomas circa 1749, with children born in the 1750s. Stephen Collins was frequently mentioned in the Estate Account of Joseph Dabbs in the 1750s (Elizabeth’s sister’s husband see Dabbs history, Hoggatt Appendix). (35) Perhaps the various researchers are in error or there was a divorce. Elizabeth and Stephen are said to have had two children, Anthony and Eleanor.
Eleanor Collins is said to have married John Foster circa 1758 in Pinckneyville, Union District, South Carolina. Others state that John “Uncle Long” Foster married Eleanor Collins in Craven County, South Carolina. John was born circa 1737 in Caroline County, Virginia and died in 1787 in Greenville County, South Carolina. Another source states that John was born in 1739 in Amelia County, Virginia and died circa 1778 in Greenville District. The children of Eleanor and John Foster were (also see Foster-Haney history):
John Crow Foster married (1) Mary Brown on August 10, 1790 in South Carolina, and (2) Sarah Kirksey in 1797 in South Carolina.
George Singleton Foster married Hanna Carr circa 1783 in South Carolina.
Josiah Foster married Miss Mary Foster circa 1790 in South Carolina.
Mary Foster married William (or Pete) Hendley circa 1791 in South Carolina.
James Hoggatt Foster married Nancy Brown.
Frances Foster married (1) William Grant circa 1792 in South Carolina, and (2) _?_ McWhorter circa 1805 in South Carolina.
Robert Singleton Crow Foster married Susanna Elizabeth P. Young circa 1820 in South Carolina.
Nancy (Anna) Foster married (1) Benjamin Perry, (2) Frederick Foster circa 1802 in South Carolina.
Elizabeth Hoggatt’s second husband, Job Thomas, was born in October 1730 in Goochland County or Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and died in 1791 in Cumberland County, Virginia. (36) According to a Thomas researcher, Job married Elizabeth Hoggatt circa 1724 in Cumberland County, Virginia. He gives conflicting information stating Elizabeth was a daughter of Anthony Hoggatt and his second wife, Frances. Another researcher gives interesting information on Job and Elizabeth. (37) In Cumberland County Virginia and its People, Bessie Thompson Jackson says, “In 1740 we find Job, Elizabeth and two teen age sons Jesse and Phineas well established in Cumberland, Va.” It is very doubtful that the date is correct. It is also said that Job was a Long Hunter, that he left home to go on a long hunt and that during the course of the hunt he heard that his wife Elizabeth had died and he remarried a Miss Crow, by whom he had another family of children. Job served in the Revolutionary War from Virginia and is listed in the DAR Patriot Index. (38) The will of Job H. Thomas of Littleton Parish, Cumberland, Virginia, dated March 6, 1787, probated October 25, 1792. “Son Phineas, the upper half of the land wheron I now live, it being part wherof he now lives; rest to my son, Jesse, Exr.: Jesse Thomas. Wit. John Matthews, Hesse Hill, William Burton.” (39) This would appear to confirm that he did not have another family by Miss Crow. The Thomas Book states that Job was a Long Hunter in Cumberland County from 1746-53. In 1750 he bought land on Willis River from Thomas Basset. In 1752 he bought land from Nathaniel Bassett on Willis River. He was on the 1782-84 tax lists for Cumberland County, listing ten whites. The children of Prudence Rodgers, Sarah, Ann and Jane, were bound to Job in 1761 according to Cumberland County court records. Elizabeth is said to have died after 1805, the widow of Stephen Collins, with whom she had one child, Eleanor, who married John Foster. It is said that Job left to go hunting and did not return and Elizabeth, with their two sons, Jesse and Phineas, grew up with her on the Royal Oaks Plantation.
Their children are said to have been: Jesse Thomas, born in 1750 and died July 22, 1805 in Virgina; and Phineas Thomas, born circa 1752 in Cumberland County. Phineas married Ann Price circa 1779 in Cumberland County and died in 1807 in Cumberland County. Jesse Thomas is of interest because the names of his children indicate a connection to the Hoggatt family: John Thomas, Anthony Hoggett Thomas, Nathaniel Hoggett Thomas, Phineas Thomas, Elinor Crow “Nelly” Thomas, Elizabeth Hoggett Thomas (married a Wilkinson), Nancy Thomas, Jennie Thomas, Mary S. “Polly” Thomas, Porcias/Portia Thomas, Job Howell Thomas, and Nathaniel Hoggett Thomas.
Endnotes
1 Essex County Will Book 13, p. 157.
2 www.myoutbox.net/ddcv02.htm.
3 Essex County Records, Vol. 2, page 51.
4 www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/r/i/Carolyn-M-Wright/index.html, Accessed 2/28/1999, hereinafter cite as Carolyn M. Wright. Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 3, pages 28-29.
5 Judith Dickenson was mentioned in the 12 December 1719 will of her mother Elizabeth Crow, who appointed her as co-executor in the event of the death of Judith’s husband John Dickenson. Judith was to receive one shilling. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 3, page 160.]
6 IGI, Batch number: 8600904; Sheet: 10, accessed April 04,1999.
7 Re: Nanny Hoggatt, email from James Dabbs, February 28, 1999.
8 Thomas Moore's Genealogy Pages, homepage.mac.com/thomas_moore/genealogy/ps15/ps15_094.html, accessed February 2005.
9 Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 4, pages 105-106.
10 Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 4, pages 106-107.
11 Virginia State Library, Research and Information Services Division, Essex County Court Records, Suit Papers 1729-1734, Folder 107-A-1729.
12 Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 6, pages 120-121.
13 Essex County, Virginia, Deed Book 18, pages 171-173.
14 Descendants of Robert Coleman Sr. from before 1622, online at www.geocities.com/colemangenealogy/cldg03.htm, accessed February 2005.
15 Essex County, Will Book 4, p. 242.
16 Essex County, Virginia, OB 1725-29, Pt. I.
17 Essex County OB 1720-33, p. 158.
18 Re: Nanny Hoggatt, email from James Dabbs, February 28, 1999.
19 Historical Files of Clinton R. Haggard, as compiled by Susan E. Haggard Hayashi (his daughter). Online at www.surnames.com/haggard/historical/history.htm. Hereinafter cited as Clinton R. Haggard.
20 Ancestry.com. Valentine Papers (Virginia), Vol. 1-4, 1864-1908. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Original data: Edward P. Valentine, The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers, Vol. 1-4, 1864-1908, Richmond, VA: The Valentine Museum., circa 19xx.
21 Edward Pleasant’s Valentine Papers, Vol. 2, p. 848. From Goochland County Records V. 1, 203.
22 Virginia County Records, X Index to Land Grants Henrico County. Book No. 13, p. 439.
23 Carolyn M. Wright.
24 Goochland County, Virginia Order Book 2, p. 136.
25 Court Order Book 1, Amelia County, Virginia 1735-46, p. 10.
26 Court Order Book 1, Amelia County, Virginia 1735-46, p. 70.
27 Goochland County, Virginia Deed Book 1 1728-1734, pp. 235,236.
28 Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia, Vol. 4, p. 80.
29 Carolyn M. Wright.
30 Clinton R. Haggard. Virginia Council Journals, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XIV, No. 3, January, 1906, pp. 238, 239, 339, 340.
31 Nathaniel Mason Pawlett, Goochland County Road Orders 1728-1744, Charlottesville, Virginia: Virginia Highway & Transportation Research Council, 1975. Online at www.virginiadot.org/vtrc/main/online_reports/pdf/75-r71.pdf, accessed February 2005.
32 GenForum, posted by tobey c. hockett on February 02, 1999.
33 The Utley Family, First Generation, online at freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heidisfamily/firstgeneration.html, accessed February 2005.
34 Albemarle County, Virginia, Will Book 12, p. 2.
35 Lunenburg County, Virginia, Will Book No. 1, With Inventories, Accounts, Etc, 1746-1762, page 172. Account Current of the estate of Joseph Dabbs, deceased.
36 Thomas Roll Call PA>VA>TN, posted to [email protected] by Frank D. Denny Thomas, August 13, 1997.
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38 DAR Patriot Index, Centennial Edition Part 3.
39 Will Book No. 2, p.520, probated 24 Oct 1791, source Janice Carter.