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Crow, Hoggatt, Dabbs

Anthony Hoggatt and Eleanor Crow(e)


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Compiled by Judy Griffin, 2007 - email address




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:

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):



Anthony Hoggatt

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.

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:

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:

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:

In 1744 Albemarle County was formed from Goochland, Anthony probably had not moved.


Elizabeth Hoggatt

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):

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.

37 Lombard-Ehrsam-Mulvane-Whitaker-DeAngelo, placed online by Michelle DeAngelo at awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2363550&id=I511845033, updated August 2004.

38 DAR Patriot Index, Centennial Edition Part 3.

39 Will Book No. 2, p.520, probated 24 Oct 1791, source Janice Carter.