NEW FOR 2004

 

·        Wife’s name is Rebecca (proof by Bud Miller)

·        SEARCH FOR HEIRS IN ROBERTSON COUNTY, TN.

·        Walter, Humphrey, and Jonathan Hogan

·        640 Acres Land sold off for back taxes 1802

·        Rebeccah Hogan Hines Relinquishes Title to 1/3 of Same Land 

·        Fincastle Co. Militia: Humphrey Hogan + Daniel Boone

·        Daniel Hogan continues to parallel Humphey Hogan’s movements

 

NEW FOR 2005

·                    Walter Hogan in Old Miller County, Arkansas 1825, part of which extended across the International boundary into Texas.

·                    Different parents for Davis L. Hogan (born 1810)

·                    William Hogan (born maybe 1800-1810), son of Humphrey Hogan + Catharine Fisher

·                    Son – Charles Hogan in Mexican Territory of Texas in 1825

·                    Location of Walter G. Hogan's Arkansas Property

 

NEW FOR 2006

·                    Y-DNA Assists Children's Names (See Section II)

 

NEW FOR 2007

• 1758 Record for Humphrey Hogan (See Section III)
• Mary Hogan and Daniel Hogan in Halifax County
• New Information Halifax & Bedford Counties, Virginia (Section III & IV)
• Original Source found for 1st School Teacher in Tennessee (Section VI) 

 

NEW FOR 2008

Letter Found: Humphrey Hogan with Eaton Party

Reaches Middle Tennessee January 1780 - See Section VII

 

NEW FOR 2009

 

·                    Found: 1784 Land Warrant Station Camp Creek in Middle Tennessee

·                    John Meyer defines Barnabeth Herod (Burnet Harrod)    

 

 

Humphrey Hogan (The Long Hunter)

Rebecca (Jonson or Johnson ?)

 

            Humphrey Hogan

            Born: Unknown location and time.  Best birth date estimate is now 1745-1750.

            Married: Rebecca Johnson, estimated marriage date ~1770 at unknown location

            Died: 1789 or 1790, probably leaving some children not yet adults

            Parents: speculation exists, but simply no one knows.  Mother may be Mary Hogan (born ? to ~June 1767) as noted in Antrim Parish Records, Halifax County, Virginia.   Current research efforts are looking at an earlier Humphrey Hogan (born ~1693 and died 1739) who married on 10 January 1713 at Anne Arundel County, Maryland to Rebekah Murphy.  A subsequent 1739 probate named two heirs – Charles Hogan (probably his son) and Rebecca Hogan (probably wife to Maryland's Humphrey Hogan).   Charles Hogan had a wife by the name of Mary.  Picking up the trail of this Charles Hogan is the problem so far.

 

            Rebekah or Rebeccah Jonson(or Johnson) 

            Born: unknown, but estimated 1750.

            Died: noted living 1804

            Marriage 1^st to Humphrey Hogan and 2^nd to William Hines

            Parents: unknown.

            Relative: possibly Walter Johnson of Sullivan County, Tennessee

 

            Updated 20 June 2009 – Morphew/Murphy Story at www.planetmurphy.org

 

            This chapter is divided into the following sections:

 

            (I).......Hogan Connections

            (II)......Y-DNA Comment – April 2006

            (III).....Halifax County, Virginia <1758 to 1765

            (IV).....Bedford County, Virginia, possibly as early as 1764 to ~1771  

            (V)......Long Hunters Explore Kentucky and Tennessee 1769 and 1770

            (VI)....SW. Virginia and Eastern Tennessee 1771 to 1779/80

 

            (VII)...Bound for Middle Tennessee 1779 or 1780

            (VIII)..Early Middle Tennessee Records 1779/80 to 1784

            (IX).....Estate of Humphrey Hogan and Heirs

 

            (X)......Rebekah Hogan Hines, former wife of Humphrey Hogan Surfaces

            (XI).....Children of Humphrey Hogan – the Long Hunter           

 

 

The break-through on Humphrey Hogan's wife and at least one child was found on the following record:  "Charles Jonson Hogans, son of Homfrey (Humphrey) and Rebecca Jonson Hogan" listed at St. Martin of Tours Church, St. Martinville, Louisiana.  Here a Charles Jonson Hogans + Sara Hatcher gave birth to two daughters – Prudence Hogans 8 January 1806 and Anne Hogans 22 June 1808).  (From Southwest Louisiana Records, Volume 1 – 1756-1910," by Rev. Donald J. Hebert, 1974).

 

Thanks go to Bud Miller and Gary Tharp for their great assistance and support.  The mystery of Humphey Hogan's origins is not yet solved and it is hoped more findings will come to light.

 

 

            Two Y-DNA tests for 37 markers showed a perfect match between a living male descendant from Walter G. Hogan (~1778) and another from William Hogan (1777) of Estill County, Kentucky.   Now both descendant lines can be better linked to Humphrey Hogan – the Long Hunter as the common ancestor. 

 

            Furthermore to our surprise, two other Y-DNA tests showed a relationship to another William Hogan (also born 1777) of Union County, South Carolina and Overton County, Tennessee.  These last tests averaged 2 mutations over 37 markers, suggesting a common ancestor further back in time, perhaps in Ireland.   

 

            For the discussion on Y-DNA testing, see the William Hogan for a Y-DNA discussion.            

 

 

            March 1758 Halifax County Court: "Ordered that the Churchwardens of Antrim Parish bind out Humphry Hogan, a poor orphan, according to law" – 16th March Court 1758. 

(Halifax County, Virginia Court Orders 1758-1759 – Plea Book No. 2, Part 2, TLC Genealogy, 1998); Original in Pleas #2, Part 2, 1755-1759, page 273, 16th march 1758 Court, microfilm #31919. 

 

 

            Comment: The name of Humphrey's father has not come to light.  Is this Mary Hogan be his mother?  Keep in mind that Colonial law defined an "orphan" as having no father, but could include a living mother.  Oddly, out of place is Mary Parks "nursing" an orphan in 1759.  What does "nursing mean? 

 

            Best estimate of Humphrey Hogan's birth date is 1745-1750 which would make him at least 8 or 9 years old by November 1759.  Was Mary Hogan's child orphan too young to be Humphrey?   If this is so, where is Humphrey in the Antrim records?  Could "nursing" also mean caring for an orphan in poor health?           

 

            "Samuel Parks" had one tract of 98 acres of land on Buffalo Creek at the NE corner of today's Pittsylvania County.  Buffalo Creek empties into the Roanoke River in Halifax County.   

 

            10 January 1765 Halifax County: James Terry of Orange County, North Carolina, Gentleman to Theophilus Lacy of Halifax County, Gentleman, for 70 pounds, 1,200 acres on Polecat and Miry Creeks, being part of a greater tract of 2,950 acres granted to said Terry by patent 13 March 1755, or record in the Secretary's Office of this Colony; beginning at Stith's corner...Thomas Spencer's line...John Wood's line...All trees, woods, ways... (Signed) James Terry.  Witnesses: Richard Murphey, Garland Terry, Joseph Terry, Humphrey (+) Hogan.  Recorded 21 February 1765

(Halifax County, Virginia Deed Books 2-6, 1759-1767 by Marion Dodson Chiarito, 1986)

           

            Comment: Two different Hogan lines have been found in Halifax County during these years.  Could Humphrey Hogan be related to one of these lines?

 

            Hogan line #1 includes William Hogan (~1705) + Sarah Sullivan and their children, including James Hogan (~1728) and his wife Silence, and William Griffin Hogan (~1730).  They lived or had land in the SE corner of today's Pittsylvania County (established 1766/67 from Halifax County) along creeks that emptied in both the north and south sides of the Dan River. 

 

            Hogan line #2 includes Daniel Hogan, whose origins are unknown.  On 20 June 1757 in Halifax County, he purchased 100 acres on both sides of the North Fork of Panther Creek, now known as George's Creek.  He appears a number of times in Halifax County records until he sold this land on 21 November 1763.           

 

            Comment: As Bud Miller pointed out, John and William Payne are Mary Hogan's Church Warden caretakers.  John and William Pain also witnessed a 1763 grantor deed by Daniel Hogan of the North Folk of Panther Creek.  John Pain also owned land on the North Fork of Panther Creek, although he had other lands.  Daniel's land was about 7 miles SE of the town of Gretna in today's Pittsylvania County, possibly within a triangle bounded by county road 686, 685, and the creek.    

(Panther Creek location from "Property Lines from the Old Survey Boos, Pittsylvania County, Virginia in 1746 to 1840," by Roger C. Dodson 1995, pages 121, 123.)

 

            On the other hand, the 1765 James Terry deed which was witnessed by Humphrey Hogan is also interesting.  Terry, an Antrim Parish churchwarden, a sheriff in 1754+, and surveyor of Halifax County, sold in 1755 land adjoining William Hogan on Cain Creek in present day Pittsylvania County, Virginia.  This 1755 land belonged to William Hogan (~1705) who married Sarah Sullivan.  Nearby was his son James Hogan (~1728) and wife Silence Hogan.           

 

 

            “Humphry Hogans,” served for 11 days in a 1764 expedition authorized by Colonel Andrew Lewis and commanded by Captain William Christian.  Between 6 April and 16 September 1764, one hundred seventy five troops were deployed to the James and New Rivers in Virginia in search of hostile Indians and to protect settlers. 

(From “Early Adventures on the Western Waters, Volume 1.  The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days 1745-1800,” by Mary B. Kegley and F. B. Kegley, page 289, and “Virginia’s Colonial Soldiers,” by Lloyd Dewitt Bockstruck.)

 

            Comment: Humphrey Hogan had to be in western or southwestern Virginia to be employed by Captain William Christian.  

 

            Halifax County's Daniel Hogan sold his land on 21 November 1763 and disappeared from this county.  However on 28 February 1764, a Daniel Hogan was deeded 150 acres in Bedford County on a location of the south side of Stanton River which has not been identified.  On the following 28 May 1765, Daniel Hogan sold this land to Joseph Calland of Cumberland County, Virginia.  Daniel did purchase another 100 acres in Bedford County, but the grantee deed has not been found.  However in 1768(?), Daniel Hogan and his wife Elizabeth of Bedford County sold this land to Joseph Calland of Cumberland County.

 

            Comment: We now have a major problem with the Daniel Hogan entries.  There is another Daniel Hogan of Cumberland County, Virginia who married Elizabeth Roberson (per Cumberland County will of John Roberson 1767).  Cumberland County's Daniel Hogan made continuous records by being a legal guardian twelve times from 26 February 1759 to 22 October 1764 for Sarah, Phebe, and Drusilla Holloway, infant orphans of John Holloway, deceased.   He is on a 1759 jury, a 1760 witness, and a debt case from 1760 to 1762.  After October 1764, their migration path to Burke County, North Carolina is not understood.      

 

            Who, then, is the real Bedford County Daniel Hogan?  Were both married to an "Elizabeth?"  To me, it is 50-50 which Daniel Hogan was in Bedford County.  Could the Halifax County Daniel be same Daniel Hogan (1733 – 1811) who later migrated to Davidson and Robertson County, Tennessee?

 

            After the marriage of Humphrey Hogan to Rebecca Johnson, about ~1769, their son Charles Hogan (born <1771) reported to an 1806/1810 Louisiana Church that (see Section XI): "Charles Jonson Hogan (son of) Homfrey & Rebecca Jonson) was of "Bedfort County, Virginia."

 

 

            The stories of the Long Hunters vary, but the best is from Lyman Draper, as reported:

           

In June 1769, about twenty hunters met at branch of New River, called Reed Creek, about 8 miles below old Fort Chiswell, Virginia (still on current maps).  Included were Casper Mansker, John Rains, Abraham Bledsoe, Isaac Bledsoe, John Baker, Joseph Drake, Obadiah Terrill, Robert Crockett, Henry Smith, Thomas Gordon, Humphrey Hogan, Castleton Brooks, Ned Cowan, Uriah Stone, and others.   Previously in 1766-67, Uriah Stone had traveled with the party of Colonel James Smith and others along the Cumberland Valley in Kentucky and probably served as a pilot.

 

The hunters and explorers passed down the Holston Valley, through Moccasin Gap, into Powell’s Valley, through Cumberland Gap to Cumberland River, and into a place known as Price’s Meadow or Settlement in present-day Wayne County, Kentucky.  This was beautiful open country and was near an excellent spring where they decided to make it their main camp to deposit their skins and furs.  Then they dispersed in different companies with intentions of returning every five weeks.  Some of these parties directed their course southwest and came to a southern tributary of Cumberland and called it Obey’s River after Obadiah (Obey) Terrill.  Years later, “Obey Terrill” was found cut upon a tree on the bank of this stream.  Near the headwaters of Roaring River, Robert Crockett was killed by Cherokee warriors.

 

Several parties continued down the southern side of Cumberland River to reach Caney Fork before re-crossing to the north side of the river and moving west to Big Barren River, and then up Drake’s Creek to its head.  They crossed over a ridge and traveled down a creek to within three miles with the Cumberland.  Here they set up camp, giving creek the name of Station Camp Creek   A buffalo road passed by the camp, so Bledsoe and Mansker explored in opposite directions for 12 to 13 miles in search of suspected salt licks or sulfur springs.  Bledsoe found hundreds of buffalo congregating in an hundred acre area fed by a dozen sulfur springs.  During the hunting trips, Drake’s Creek, Drake’s Pond and Drake’s Lick were named. 

 

While they were absent from camp, Twenty-five Cherokees carried off or destroyed about 500 deerskins, some clothing, ammunition, pots, and kettles.  The hunters were unable to track the Indians and found themselves with little remaining ammunition and key camp supplies.  Bledsoe and two others agreed to return to the settlements for the needed supplies and eventually returned to complete the hunt.

 

By 6 April 1770, half or more of the party decided to return to the settlements.  Meanwhile Stone, Mansker, Baker, Gordon, Hogan, Brooks, and four others built two boats, two trapping canoes, and with a deserted boat they found, loaded them with furs and bear meat and descended the Cumberland River.  They discovered French Lick where Nashville is now located.  Near there they killed several buffalos in an immense herd for their hides to cover their boats.  Canoeing further, they reached the mouth of Cumberland at the Ohio River.  With their bear meat at risk of spoiling, they turned it into bear oil for market and stored it in the lightest boat. 

 

At this location, they met Piomingo, the Mountain Leader also called John Brown, and his 25 Chickasaws on their way to war against the Senecas.  These Indians robbed the explorers of two guns, some ammunition, salt and tobacco.  The guns proved the heaviest loss, but were soon replaced by some passing French boats   They even traded for some tafia, a cheap kind of rum. 

 

They descended the Mississippi River to Spanish Fort Natchez where they sold their cargo.  By then, most wanted to return home.  However, Mansker was delayed by illness, but finally they moved on with Baker to Ozark where they met one Fairchild, a Drover.  They passed through the southern Indian country to Georgia and then to New River, probably in the summer or early autumn. 

(From Lyman Draper’s unfinished book about Daniel Boone and found in Draper Manuscript Collection by Wisconsin Historical Society – Volume 3B, Chapter 5, pages 47-52, modified)

 

 

            1771 Botetourt County, Virginia tithables:  Humphrey Hogan – 1.  Next to Isaac Bledsoe –1, from Robert Doacks list of Tithables, “not” returned August Court,

(From Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 9 and 10. 1966-7.

 

            7 July 1773, Fincastle County, Virginia Court: Obadiah Terril, Gasper Manscar, Castleton Brooks and Uriah Stone, each were allowed two days attendance in court as witnesses in suit of Josiah Baker against Humphrey Hogan.  The parties were “fully heard, and the case dismissed with costs.”

From Fincastle County Order Book #1, page 104). 

 

 

3 November 1773, Fincastle County Courts:  Humphrey Hogan versus Jacob Stern, on attachment - defendant failing to appear, the judgment was awarded to the plaintiff (Hogan) 3 pounds, 2 shillings.  The Sheriff ordered the attached watch of the defendant to be applied to the proceeds to the judgment. 

(From Fincastle County Order Book #1, page 147, courtesy of Bud Miller 9/2002.)

 

1773:  “Early records show that many of the first settlers in this area had fine hand writing which was evidence of formal education.  With few roads and scattered settlements, some families used tutors to teach children in the home.  Forts often served as classrooms.  Sullivan County’s first such school (1773) was in King’s Fort, Arcadia area.  The teacher was Humphrey Hogan, Explorer and Long Hunter.” 

(From “Families and Histories of Sullivan County, Tennessee, Volume 1. 1779-1992,” page 141, entry 147, compiled by Holston Territory Genealogical Society, 1993 and source was “Adventures in Education,” Sullivan County 1773-1983 by Thelma G. Barnes – her source is Draper Manuscript Collection)

 

            Undated: "Humphrey Hogan is mentioned in the Lyman C. Draper manuscripts in a letter dated 25 September 1853.  George Christian, born 28 March 1769, wrote Mr. Draper in Madison Wisconsin: "of Humphrey Hogan I can only say he was the first school teacher I ever heard of.  He taught a school near King's Fort on Sandy Creek.  My brothers and sisters older than myself went to him...."

(From "Adventures in Education," by Thelma Gray Barnes and shared by Bud Miller, letter of 13 April 2007)   

 

About 1773 - Reedy Creek Settlement on Virginia-Tennessee border:  “Among these hardy pioneers who journeyed into the Reedy Creek settlement (1770-1773) from Virginia were Humphrey Hogan, William Anderson, three brothers of the Roberts family, Henry, John, and David, John Clendenin, Archibald McNeal, Gilbert Christian and members of the McMillian, Williams, and King families.   King built a large mill above the cascades of the North Fork of Reedy Creek, now Boozy Creek.  Humphrey Hogan, the local schoolmaster, perhaps Tennessee’s first schoolteacher, was a rugged long hunter who could read but not write.  However, he taught the children of Reedy Creek settlement how to read and cipher.  Gilbert Christian had picked his homestead location from where it flowed into the Holston River.  Here between 1772 and 1773 he brought his wife Margaret Anderson Christian and their children, Robert, Elizabeth, William, George, and John....” 

(From “Kingsport Heritage – The Early Years 1700 to 1900,” by Muriel Millar Clark Spoden, 1991.”

 

Comment:  There was a Lochaber Treaty Line of 1770 with the Cherokee Indians.  This line ran from the South Fork of the Holston River, beginning six miles east of Long Island of the Holston River and ran to the Ohio at the junction of the Kanawha.  Any intrusion west of the line became a fighting call for the area Indians.  The early Reedy Creek settlement mentioned above was just east of this line by about two miles.  The line probably became worthless even before the 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant or the 1776 Battle of Long Island (Holston River), which surely ended the treaty.  Long Island was about 10 miles SW of the early Reedy Creek settlement.

 

7 May 1774, Fincastle County Order Book: Thomas Gather (Gathor) versus Humphrey Hogan, on petition - “Defendant not being served, plurias (additional) summons ordered issued (was) not given.”  Also Josiah Baker versus Humphrey Hogan, on petition, defendant not being served, plurias summons ordered issued. 

(Fincastle County Order Book #2, pages 104, 107, courtesy of Bud Miller 9/2002 and “Fincastle and Kentucky Counties, Va-Ky Records and History, Volume 1,” by Michael L. Cook, C.G. and Bettie A. Cummings Cook, C.G. 1987)

 

 

            10 June 1776:  The following is a Fincastle County Petition, endorsed as received on 10 June 1776:  “To the Honourable the President and Gentlemen of the (Virginia) Convention.  The Petition of the western parts of Fincastle County humbly sheweth that the great extent of our County and the difficulty of attending Courts induced your Petitioners sometime ago to solicit the General Assembly for a division of the said county.  But the subsisting disorders in the State then commencing prevented an answer.  Whereby your Petitioners have been obliged to labour under the hardship of attending (many of them) near 150 miles, upon all Publick business, which grievance induces your Petitioners how to address your Honourable House for relief by a Division, if practicable, or a separate district, same that we may attend Committees & c. without so much expense and trouble as at present we are exposed to.”  (213 names, included)...Humphrey Hogan. 

(From “Holston Pastfinder,” Holston Territory Genealogical Society, Volume 18, Number 70, March 2000) 

           

            17 November 1778 Washington County, Virginia Court Record: Humphrey Hogan and Paul Whistenhunt gave special bail for Alexander Hamilton at the suit of James Patterson. 

(From “Annals of Southwest Virginia 1769-1800,” page 1005.)

 

            There was an early “Hogan” at “the Forks” (probably Holston River and now inside the City of Kingsport) in Sullivan County, with no further details. 

(From “Goodspeed’s History of Sullivan County, Tennessee.”)

 

This “Hogan” must be Humphrey Hogan.  On 16 March 1779 Robert Sellers requested a 300 acre land grant in Washington County, North Carolina.  The Entry Book recorded it on 17 June 1780 next to “Humphrey Hogan’s old improvement on the south side of the Holston River” in Sullivan County.  On 10 November 1784, Sellers was granted 267 acres of this land in Sullivan County, Tennessee on South side of “Holstein River (Holston).”  

 

Comment:  The March 1779 date put the request within Washington County, North Carolina at the time (now in Tennessee, established 1777), and when granted in June 1780 put the land within Sullivan County, North Carolina, (county established 1779).

 

19 March 1779 Petition of Inhabitants of Washington District to (have Sullivan Territory) to be made a County of North Carolina:  Beginning on S. or SW of Holston River, six miles above the Long Island in said river SW to the ridge, which divides waters of Watauga from waters of Nolachucky SE to the blue ridge or line dividing North Carolina from the Cherokee lands to the Virginia line west along Virginia line to Holston River.  Humphry Hogan is listed as a petitioner. 

(From “Families and Histories of Sullivan County, Tennessee, Volume 1, 1779-1992,” page 5, entry #7, compiled by Holston Territory Genealogical Society, 1993.

 

 

Thomas Eaton Interview in Draper Manuscripts

September 22, 1844 (courtesy of Bud Miller, 4 May 2008)

 

            "Amos Heaton (his father) was living near the Long Island in 1772.  (He) emigrated to the Cumberland (Middle Tennessee) in 1779 – three months crossing, stopping several days to hunt for game by the way.  Amos Eaton (Heaton), Fred Stump, John Thomas, William Scoggins and Humphrey Hogan and their families and others – some eight families in all.  On the way Stump went out one morning and got several shots without killing anything; conceited that one Hopper, a young (Indian-?) along had placed a spell on his gun, returned to camp in anger and swore "I'll be dam, I'll be sware, I'll shoot you, you spell my gun! And cocked his gun and would have shot but for the interference of others.  Stump was always impressed with the belief (that) he could only see an Indian first they could not shoot him."

(From Draper Manuscripts, Series S, Volume 1, page 74, Wisconsin Historical Society microfilms)

 

            The first settlers to start out for French Lick (Nashville) were the James Roberson party, who began in October 1779.  They passed through the Cumberland Gap, and traveled overland through southern Kentucky and arrived Christmas Day, 1779.  They built a stockade called the Bluff Station for protection from the Indians.  This was located at the foot of Church Street in today's Nashville. 

 

            During the same winter, a number of immigrants followed the same route and reached Cumberland country first beginning in January 1780.  Amos Eaton (Heaton) built his Eaton Station about 1.5 miles west of Bluff Fort on the Cumberland River.

 

 

Humphrey is listed with the signers of the Cumberland Compact, May 1780 and in the North Carolina Preempton Act of 1784 as one of the settlers on the Cumberland in 1780 who had stayed and defended the settlements.  This entitled him to 640 acres without any price to be paid to the public.  Later, Humphrey Hogan brought lawsuit against Stephen Ray before the Committee of the Cumberland Association March 4, 1783.

 

The exact location Humphrey Hogan lived in the early 1780’s is unknown at this time.  If he was with friends, then this might be important:  In 15 March 1783, Captain Isaac Bledsoe, and Lieutenant Casper were at Manskers’ Station.   On the other hand, the locations of his associates and individuals from his law-suits suggest the West Fork of Mill Creek about 1783-1786 (eastern edge of today’s Nashville) or possibly near the north bank of the Cumberland River 1.5 miles from today’s center point of Nashville as noted: 

West Fork of Mill Creek:  John Brown, James Mayfield, Daniel Hogan

North bank of Cumberland River 1.5 miles from town:  Daniel Hogan, Stephan Ray (Wray), John Kitts

Nashville Town:  Obediah Terrell, Abednego Llewallen

 

 In April 1783, Humphrey Hogan and Henry Ramsey were ordered by the Committee of Cumberland District, North Carolina to lay off a road between Heatonsburg (Eaton’s Station) to Mansco’s Station.   Mansker’s or Mansco’s Station was on Mansker’s Creek about 12 miles north and slightly east from the center point of today’s Nashville. 

(Davidson County Pleas, book 1, folder 1, page 3 left)

 

He also brought suit against John Brown, Isaac Mayfield, Mayfield’s mother, for the recovery of a kettle lent to James Mayfield, deceased, father of Isaac Mayfield by Hogan.  Witnesses were Casper Mansco and Phillip Trammel.  The court found in favor of Hogan and “that John Brown and his mother-in-law pay the costs of the suit.”  

 

Humphrey Hogan filed a suit for scandal, or libel, against Stephen Ray, in behalf of Hogan’s wife.  Ray pleaded that Hogan had not taken the oath.  The plaintiff’s witnesses were Rebecca Montgomery, and Cheziah John.  Committee found for the defendant Stephan Ray.   Hogan also brought suit against Obediah Terrell and Burnet Harrod. 

 

John Meyer tells us that Burnet Harrod is more correctly spelled Barnabeth Herod, son of James and Elizabeth Herod.  Elizabeth later married Daniel Hogan after James Herod was killed at Fort Nashville probably during an attack by Dragging Canoe.

            (email 20 June 2009 courtesy of John Meyer)

 

In 1784, Davidson County Court Minutes record Humphrey Hogan in the following:

 

 

Deeds of Humphrey Hogan

 

The following are deeds of Humphrey Hogan or which mention his name.

 

 

Other Records for Hunphrey Hogan between 1785-1789

 

1787 Davidson County tax list:  H. Hogan

 

 

            By 1790 Humphrey Hogan is dead, as noted by the following records: 

 

 

Humphrey Hogan estate inventory is noted in 1794 (with a few spelling corrections):  An inventory of the person estate of Humphrey Hogan, deceased...formally returned: viz, 2 horses, 3 mares, 1 colt, yearling when before returned, 3 cows, 1 calf, 10 head of sheep, 1 kettle – 18 gallons, 1 Dutch Oven, 2 axes, 1 mallet, one set of ploughs, 4 weeding hoes, 1 bed, 1 woman’s saddle, 6 pewter plates, 2 pewter dishes, 3 pewter basins, one cotton wheel and spindle, with one of the above mares and colt SOLD before any sale was made of the property.  The above property was sold at public sale some time before the October Court 1794 and amounted to the sum of 87 pounds.  This inventory was never signed by any person. 

(1794 Montgomery County, Tennessee Wills and Inventories, #36.  Comment:  This was really filed in Tennessee County, as Montgomery County didn’t exist at this time.)

 

Why Land is Declared in the Name of Heirs

 

Tennessee had a strange law that did NOT require heirs to register their new lands until they sold.  It is possible for one tract of land to pass through several generations before being recorded again.  Tracking Humphrey’s heirs became important because the names of his children were not much more than speculation.  However, this opportunity seemed to be a dead end when taxes for the land went unpaid and Robertson County officials ordered it to be sold.

 

Sale of land by Robertson County, Tennessee

 

Reported Lands for Taxes:  “Whereas the following tracts of Land was last Court Ordered to be published agreeably to the Law in the Tennessee Gazette, it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that said Land has been published agreeably to the Law; Judgment is hereby entered up against said lands for the tax and costs due thereon.”

 

“It is therefore ordered by the Court that the Clerk issue execution immediately for the taxes due on each tract that the Sheriff proceed to sell agreeable to the law, the tracts are as follows, to wit;” (entries combined, Robertson County, Tennessee Minutes Book #1, pages 206 - 208, 217, 218, 219) and found on http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~circuitcourtrecords/countycourt/book1.html   

 

For the year 1799:

            Humphrey Hogan’s Heirs, 640 acres

            Humphrey Hogan 100 acres

 

 For the year 1800

            Humphrey Hogan Heirs, 640* acres

            David Rounsavall ASSEE Humphrey Hogan 100*

            William Hogan 471

 

For the year 1801

            Daniel Hogan 100 acres

            Humphrey Hogan’s Heirs 640

            Humphrey Hogan 100

            William Hogan 471*

 

For the year 1802

            William Hogan 471*

 

For the year 1803

            Daniel Hogan 100 acres Sulfur Fork

 

The court record further noted that the “*”owners had no goods or chattels within the county on which tax collector, James Menees, could “distress,” although it is not clear if this statement extended to other entries. 

 

The Tennessee Gazette Extra, 31 March 1802 did, indeed, advertise the Robertson County tracts of land to be sold for nonpayment of taxes for the year 1800 and 1802.   

(From Genealogical Abstracts from Tennessee Newspapers 1791-1808,” by Sherida K. Eddleman.)

 

 

 

After the land was sold for back taxes, one heir, Rebecca, former wife of Humphrey Hogan, deceased, surfaced to legally acknowledge William Karr’s deed to her former land. 

 

Note that this following deed was indexed under the name of Robert Hines and not William Karr (Deed Book F, page 149).   The deed index books for Robertson County show no other entries for Robert Hines.

(1) Historical Records Survey at Tennessee Archives 1797-1838

(2) Robertson County Courthouse Indexes. 

 

                 

 

Information on William Hines, 2^nd Husband of Rebekah Hogan.

 

Little information has been found so far.  The first two entries may not be our subject:

 

1787:  Listed on same property: William Hines, Hamilton Hinds, James Hines, and Thomas Hinds on the 1787 Davidson County tax roll with 3 taxables. 

(1770-1790 Census of the Cumberland Settlements, compiled by Richard C. Fulcher, 2002)

 

1792:  Davidson County Inventory for Wm. Hind, W1, 255, 1792, 305.  (Comment -  This Inventory has not been seen, and could this mean that this William Hinds of Davidson County is dead?) 

 

1796 First (ever) Robertson County Court Minutes, July 18:  County of Tennessee:  Deed William Hinds to Jacob McCarty proven by the Oath of James Herod, a Subscribing Witness.

(Robertson County Court Minutes, Book 1, page 3.  Comment: deed listing is incorrect and should be a lease.)

 

1797 Robertson County April Term Minutes:  Thomas Johnson Plaintiff versus. William Hinds, Defendant.  Case.  “To which at April Term 1797, the plaintiff appeared by Bennet Searey, Esquire his Attorney; the Defendant failing to appear or any person for his Judgment by Default was Entered Against him after which the cause and Preceding se had thereon was continued until July Term 1797, at which time came here into Court the Plaintiff by his Attorney aforesaid the Defendant still failing to attend or any Person in his behalf there thereupon came a jury lawful me.  

(No other details about case were found, both items from Bud Miller, 18 August 2003)

 

1797 Christian County, Kentucky Tax Lists:  William Hynes – 1 white male over 21, 2 horses, and no other information.  He does not appear again (1797 to 1809 covered).  Comment:  This is the year that Christian County was established from Logan County, and he does not appear in Logan County records.  Also, there is no marriage record in Christian County showing Rebecca Hines remarrying.      

 

 

The children of Humphrey Hogan + Rebecca Johnson are probably:     

 

 

Charles Hogan is estimated born before 1773, better before 1771, mentioned to be from Bedford County, Virginia and died on or before 1837.   Charles Jonson Hogans married Sara Hatcher or Hocker (~1780 to >1860?).  There is a marriage record for Charles Hogan to Sarah Hocker on 20 December 1800 at Ohio County, Kentucky (county record).   (Thanks go to Bud Miller for sharing his information on Charles Hogan, 3/2005 – 8/2005, with the St. Martin material confirmed by me at the Newberry Library, Chicago.)

 

 

Comment:  Believe the parish scribe was spelling the names phonetically, so that Charles Jonson Hogan should be Charles Johnson Hogan.      

 

Charles was reported from Bedford County, Virginia and Sara from Louisville, Kentucky (From SW Louisiana Records, Volume 1 for 1756-1910," by Rev. Donald J. Hebert * and marriage record, courtesy of Bud Miller).  Key entries as reported in this book from records of St. Martin of Tours Church, St. Martinville, St Martin Parish, Louisiana:

 

"Hogans, Charles Jonson (Homfrey & Rebecca Jonson) married Sara Hacher."

"Hogans, Homfrey married Rebecca Jonson"  Children record here are:

 

(a) "Hogans, Anne (Charles Jonson of Bedfort County, & Sara Hacker of Louisville, Kentucky) born 22 June 1808."

(b) "Hogans, Prudence (Charles Jonson of Bedfort County, Virginia & Sara Hacker of Louisville, Kentucky, b. 8 January 1806."

(c) "Hogans, Thomas David Lucas (Charles Jonson of Bedfort County, Virginia & Sara Hatcher of Louisville, Kentucky), born 2 November 1810."  The correct name is thought to be Davis L(ucas) Hogan, as found on Louisiana U.S. Census for Clairborne Parish in 1850.

 

There are probably more children, but they are not known at this time.  Probable sightings for Charles Jonson Hogan are:

 

1796 Logan County, Kentucky Tax Record: Charles Hogan with 1 male 21+ and 1 horse.  (females were not entered).  In the following year the newly formed county of Christian was formed.

 

1798, May: Charles Hogan, Joab Hardin, and George Hardin were appointed Road Commissioners to plan a road from the mouth of Cumberland River as far as Cal Fitsworth's on its way to the Christian County Court House.  (From "Christian County, Kentucky, Historical and Biographical," edited by William Henry Perrin, pages 120-121, courtesy of Bud Miller, 29 January 2005, via Marla Goodrich, via Carol Hogan).

 

1806-1810 St. Martin Parish, Louisiana – see church record/registry.

 

1825 Charles Hogan in Mexican part of Texas:  "Besides the McFarlands, other Irish in Ayish Bayou, Texas were....Charles Hogan (from http://users.ev1.net/~gpmoran/ch2.htm and http://users.ev1.net/~gpmoran/ch2b.htm)."  The town founded in Ayish Bayou was San Augustine (now in San Augustine County), which still exists today.  1825 was 11 years before the Battle of the Alamo was fought!

 

1833/34 - his grandson, Charles Hogan, was recorded born in Texas, according to the 1850 U.S. Census, suggesting this line stayed in Texas this long.

 

1833 Columbia Township, Lawrence County tax list:  Charles Hogan.  Martin M. Hogan is also on this same list.

 

Currently, confusion exists on the names of Davis L. Hogan and Charles Hogan in Sevier County, Arkansas.  Do these records belong to his son, Davis L Hogan, or is there another person by that name?  Is this Charles Hogan our subject here?  Bud Miller and I believe that there is only one Davis L. Hogan who is the son of Charles Hogan.

8 May 1837:  Sevier County:  Personally appeared Davis L. Hogan, living in Sevier County, the following heirs and legal representatives of "Chs. Hogan," deceased:  (includes only) Sarah Hogan and said Davis L. Hogan. 

 

 July 1837, July, Sevier County, Arkansas: Davis L. Hogan was named administrator of the estate of "Charles L. Hogan," deceased.  The "L" was repeated twice.  Estate of Charles Hogan was settled and dismissed in probate court on July 1841.

 

Comment:  My speculation is that "Charles L. Hogan" is the father and less likely a brother of Davis Hogan.  This is not a sure thing, however.

 

1840 Jackson Township, Sevier County, Arkansas (U.S. Census), Davis Hogan is recorded next to the families of Catharine Hogan and Walter Hogan.  Davis appears to have another family living with him, including a female, age 50-60 which could be Sarah Hoglan.   Catharine Hogan (born ~1770) is the widow of Humphrey Hogan (Jr,), (born roughly 1770), and Walter Hogan (born ~1800-1805) is her son.  It is this census that creates so much confusion.  

 

Further Details on Davis L. Hogan, son of Charles Hogan

 

Davis L. Hogan married at least three times.  The name of his 1st wife is unknown.  He married on 20 July 1842 at Sevier County, Arkansas to Sarah Burnside (county record).  By 1850, Davis is married to Catharine __.   

 

            The 1850 U.S. Census of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana gives useful information on where Davis lived. This Davis Hogan has a wife, whose name is Catharine __, born ~1810 in Missouri.  Included in the family is Sara Hogland (~1780), born Kentucky, who is the mother of either Davis L. Hogan or possibly his wife Catharine. 

 

Davis Hogan 40, Planter, born Louisiana

Catharine Hogan 40, Missouri

Charles Hogan 16 Texas   (approximately 1833/34)

Jefferson Hogan 14 Arkansas

Elizabeth A. Hogan 13 Louisiana

Amanda C. Hogan 8 Louisiana

Joseph Hogan 7 Arkansas

Sarah Hoglan 70 Kentucky

Elizabeth Hoglan 18 Texas

 

The following individuals are listed in next 1860 U.S. Census of P.O. Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana appear badly distorted.  The head of the household is a D. L. Hogan, who appears to be married to Mary Jane __.   Elderly Sarah Hogan is now listed as 101 years of age, born Kentucky.  There is an ancestry.com listing for a Sarah Hogan (born 5 June 1852 and daughter of Lucas Davis Hogan), who married an Andrew Jackson Murphy and lived in Polk County, Texas.   It appears some of the children moved to  

 

D.L. Hogan 50, born Mississippi

Mary Jane Hogan 30 Mississippi

Sarah Hogan 101 Kentucky

Joseph Hogan 14 Arkansas

Elizabeth Ann Hogan 12 Louisiana

Sarah Hogan 8, Louisiana

Ann Thares 11 Arkansas

 

 

 Humphrey Hogan (Jr.) married 24 June 1800 in Davidson County, Tennessee (county record) to Catharine Fisher, born ~1770-1780. 

 

The following are records found for Humphrey Hogan in the Sulfur Fork of Red early Tennessee.   It is not clear how this land came into his possession.  In fact the land appears close to the 640 acres of Humphrey Hogan – the Long Hunter and the question arises how many deeds might refer to the Heirs of Humphrey Hogan.  This confusion remains to be sorted out.

 

 

Humphrey Hogan lived in the following locations before his marriage:

 

1796 - 1800 Davidson - Montgomery County, Tennessee: In 1799 Davidson County, Tennessee Court noted:  Benjamin Drake to oversee from Wilie Barrows ferry towards Clarksville beginning at Dry Fork above Potters to the fork of the ridge with __ north of the East fork of White Creek and East and West of Main White’s Creek from the crossing of Whites Creek and below Fed Stumps new mill up the above mentioned Dry Fork.  Names to assist include: Humphrey Hogan

 

Humphrey and Catharine Fisher Hogan lived in following locations:

 

1802 Davidson County reported a list of persons for taxes due by John Boyd, Jr. Collector, included:  Humphry Hogan, 1 w. Poll.

 

1806 – 1812:  Christian County, Kentucky:  Humphey Hogan is noted on their yearly tax lists beginning 1806.  The 1810 U.S. Census for Christian County, Kentucky shows him with 2 males 0-<10, 1 male + 1 female 26-45.  He is adjacent his brother, Walter Hogan on this census.  The tax lists for this county note the following:

 

1806:  Humphrey Hogan, 10001 (1st number is 1 male 21+, 5^th number is 1 horse, mare, or cattle), entered in south district of the County.

1807:  Humphrey Hogan, 10001, west district

1810:  “Umphrey Hogan,” 1003 (only 4 numbers, middle two numbers are blacks 21+, total blacks, and last number is horses, mares, or cattle).  U.S. Census reports 2 males  0-10 years of age, 1 male and 1 female ages 26-45.

1811:  Humphrey Hogan, 10003

1812:  Humphrey Hogan, 1004 (only 4 numbers entered)

 

1815 & 1816 Lawrence County, Missouri Tax List (Future Arkansas):  Humphrey Hogan and Walter G. Hogan.

 

1830: Sevier County, Arkansas Territory:  Catharine Hogan, without Humphrey is noted on the 1830 U.S. Census.  She was now a widow, age 40-<50 with 1 male 10-<15, 1 male 15-20, 1 male 20-<30 and 1 female 5-10.  Her son, Walter Hogan is listed elsewhere.      

  

1840: Jackson Township, Sevier County, Arkansas:  Catharine Hogan appeared on the U.S. Census adjacent to her son Walter Hogan and nephew(?) Davis Hogan. 

 

1850 Clear Creek Township, Sevier County, Arkansas: Catharine Hogan, age 80, born Tennessee was living in the family of Margarie Morris, age 49 (from 1850 U.S. Census).  This census stated she was 80 years old.  

 

The children of Humphrey Hogan + Catherine Fisher are becoming better understood, although James Hogan continues to be a puzzle.  Tax records of 1800 and 1802 Christian County, Kentucky mention a James Hogan.   Catharine Hogan's 1830 Census + Walter Hogan suggest four sons and one daughter.  

 

            (A). Walter Hogan (1800-1805 to 1843 at Sevier County, Arkansas).  Wife's name may be possibly Millie Morris, who died about 15 November 1843 with her estate probated.  Walter noted in the following (information courtesy of Bud Miller in various mailings from, 3/2005 to 28 July 2005):

 

1825: Old Miller County, Arkansas Territory Petition requesting reconsideration of ceding lands to Choctaw Indians which settlers had prior settlements.  Petitioners included: "Walter Hogon."  A portion of Old Miller County extended into what is now Bowie County, Texas due to a vague international boundary with Mexico. 

1828: Old Miller County, Arkansas Territory Petition, named Walter Hagen.      

1830: Sevier County, Arkansas Territory (U.S. Census)

 

1835 October Term:  Sevier County Clerk of the Court announced Walter Hogan, administrator of the Estate of James Hogan, deceased, presented letters of administration.  Who James Hogan is or belongs is currently unknown.

1840: Jackson Township, Sevier County, Arkansas, next to Davis Hogan and Catharine Hogan.

1841, July Term:  Sevier County Court reported Walter Hogan was Administrator of the Estate of James Hogan, deceased, and business of the Estate be closed.  No other names were mentioned.

1843: Sevier County Court reported James Morris, administrator of the Estate of Walter Hogan, deceased, begun 22 November 1843, duties performed.  Mentioned William Story and Henry Morris.  Names of heirs: "Eliza Hogan, Polly Hogan, Alexander Hogan, James Hogan, Sally Hogan and Marjory Hogan, children of the said deceased of Sevier County Arkansas." 

1845: April Term:  Sevier County noted Henry Morris, Adminstrator of the Estate of Milly Hogan, deceased, this day came Margaret Morris, a plaintiff, in the estate business.

 

(B). William Hogan, born after 1800.  Little is known about him, except - (courtesy of Bud Miller, July 2005):

 

1828 Old Miller County Petition included:  "Walter Hagan" and "William Hogan."

1828 – 1832:  Loss of lands, Claim #360 in Old Miller County, Arkansas.  Deposition stated William Hogan was an inhabitant of that part of the Territory of Arkansas, which was ceded by the treaties of 1820 and 1825 to the Choctaw Indians, and was engaged in the cultivation of his own two acres of land on Little River, about 20 miles north of Red River and 8 miles west of the present western boundary line of Arkansas Territory.  On 5 April 1832, his deposition stated he was a single man, over the age of 21 years, and resided with his mother Caty Hogan, and now resided in Sevier County, Arkansas.   Deposition witnesses included Walter Hogan, James Morris, John Dunlop, Phineas Robinson, and William Shelton (courtesy of Bud Miller, e-mail 11 July 2205, from Marla Goodrich.  Original source was "The Settlers of Lovely County and Miller County Arkansas Territory 1820-1830" by Melinda Blanchard Crawford and Don L. Crawford).       

 

 

Walter G. Hogan was born at or before 1778* and died between 1838-1839 at Pocahontas, Randolph County, Arkansas.  Walter married 18 March 1800 at Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky to Susannah Miller (born 1778 at Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina and died 1857 at Pocahontas, Randolph County, Arkansas. This marriage is a county record.

 

* 1880 U.S. Census for Martin Miller Hogan stated his father was born in Tennessee.  Also the 1799 Tax list for Christian County, Kentucky stated Walter was 21 or older.

 

Walter and Susannah Miller Hogan lived in the following locations:

 

1800 – 1813 Christian County, Kentucky tax records, South District of County.  The 1807 tax records showed he had 150 acres on the Cumberland River.  The 1810 U.S. Census of Christian County, Kentucky gives this data: 2 males + 1 female 0-<10; 1 male + 1 female 26-<45.  Adjacent to him on the 1810 Census is Humphry Hogin.

           

            1815 & 1816 Lawrence County, Missouri Territory tax list:  Walter G. Hogan & Humphrey Hogan.

 

            1820, March 28: On petition of Walter G. Hogan and others to alter the road leading through his plantation....  (from "Early Lawrence County, Arkansas, Records")

 

            1825: Martin Miller, father of Susannah Miller, died and his will named Susanna Miller, alias Susanna Hogan. (Lawrence County, Arkansas Loose Probate Papers 1815-1890).

 

1829, 1830, & 1832 Columbia Township, Lawrence County tax lists note Walter G. Hogan having 160 acres the SW1/4, Section 8, Township 20N, Range 1 East.  In 1888, he is granted 40 acres adjacent to this land.   He is Lawrence County tax lists from 1829 – 1835.  This land location is in present day Randolph County (established 1835) near the Missouri State line, on Tennessee Creek about 1 mile from where it empties into the Fourche River, and near Tyler Ridge Road.  Close by is Ingram, Randolph County, Arkansas.

 

Regarding the old homelands: "My mother and my two sisters and I visited the old farm of Walter G. and Martin Miller Hogan in July.  It is a beautiful farm and a beautiful area.  (From Marla Goodrich 27 September 2006, courtesy of Bud Miller, email 3 October 2006)  

 

The reported children of Walter G. Hogan and Susannah Miller are:

 

(A). Martin Miller Hogan (28 August 1801 – 26 January 1894 Randolph County, Arkansas), who married 10 March 1826 Cape Giardeau County, Missouri to Sophia A. Myers, and 2^nd on 27 December 1846 in Randolph County, Arkansas to Mary Ann Mooris (county record) but is really Myers, a sister to Sophia.  According to the writings of Mary Ann Hogan, granddaughter of Martin Miller Hogan, Martin Miller Hogan + Sophia Myers had eight children: (1) Humphrey Hogan, (2) Henry Andrew Jackson Hogan (may be two persons), (3) Rebecca Susannah Hogan, (4) Benjamin Hogan, (5) Daniel F. M. Hogan, (6) Jane Hogan, (7) Mary Elizabeth Hogan and (8) Martin Hogan. Martin Miller Hogan + Mary Ann Myers had four children: (1) Delilah Hogan, (2) Lavina Hogan, (3) Joseph Antony Hogan and (4) John Gabriel Hogan.  (From Marla Goodrich, courtesy of Bud Miller, 3 October 2006). 

 

The Hogans lived in the following locations:

 

1828, 2 March: "John Divers, Martin M. Hogan, William Jarrett and Lewis Russell are appointed overseers of various roads." ("Early Lawrence County, Arkansas Records")

1829: Columbia Township, Lawrence County, Arkansas Territory Tax List

            1830: Lawrence County, Arkansas Territory (U.S. Census)

            1831 Columbia Township, Lawrence County tax list

            1833-35 Columbia Township, Lawrence County tax list

            1838:  Randolph County land Grant in same section of land as Walter G. Hogan – T-20N, R-1E, Section 8.   

            1846 - 1894: Randolph County, Arkansas       

            1880 U.S. Census in Columbia Township, Randolph County, Arkansas.  States father was born in Tennessee.

            1886 – Martin went to live with his two youngest sons, John G. Hogan and Joseph A. Hogan after his wife Mary Ann died.  (from Marla Goodrich).                   

 

(B). Humphrey Hogan (1806) married to Phoebe Dotson.  They lived in the following locations:

 

1830: Mitchell Township, St. Francis County, Arkansas Territory (U.S. Census)

1832 Columbia Township, Lawrence County tax list

1833 Cache & Languiell Townships, Lawrence County tax list

1839: Land grant in today's Cross County, Arkansas (T-9N, R-3E, S-11).  This grant is about two miles north of Cherry Valley and about 1-1.25 miles north of Copper Creek. 

1840: Mitchell Township, Poinsett County, Arkansas

1856:  Another land grant in today's Cross County, Arkansas (e1/2se T-9N, R-3E, S-36) about 1.5 miles north of Pleasant Hill and slightly west.  Also it is about 1-1.25 miles north of Prairie Creek when it turns straight west.  This is very mountainous and U.S. Geological Survey Map shows that it has/had a mine.    

 

(C). Rebecca Hogan (1809), who married James McDonald.  On 4 September 1823, "Martin Miller hereunto moving, gives to his granddaughters, Sophia Hogan and Rebekah Hogan, some cattle.  Part of the cattle was given by said Miller to Sophia Hogan in the year 1813.  Recorded 10 September 1823 (Early Lawrence County, Arkansas Records)."   

 

(D). Sophia A. Hogan (1814) married Daniel Legate. 

(details from Bud Miller 9/2002 – 3/2005 and Marla Goodrich 31 October 2003)

 

            (E) Charles Hogan, son of Walter G. Hogan, has been questioned.  However a descendant, Edna Hughes, had done quite a bit of research stated Charles was a son of Walter G. Hogan. 

 

 

(V). Rebecca Hogan is speculative at this time.  Her birth date is unknown, and she married on 19 September 1791 at Davison County, Tennessee to John Nancarrow.  If she married about the age of eighteen, Rebecca's birth year might be estimated to 1773 or 1774.  Also, this marriage record could be the former wife of Humphrey Hogan – the Long Hunter.

 

            Warren County, Kentucky tax records show a John Nancarrow from 1801-1803. 

 

 

            William Hogan was born 1777 Tennessee and died 1825/26 at Estill County, Kentucky.  He married Nancy Wadlaw/Wadlow (1778->1830).   Although a 37 marker Y-DNA linked perfectly to a descendant of Walter G. Hogan, I cannot explain why William Hogan was first found so far east of Davidson/Robertson Counties, Tennessee and remained so isolated from the other Hogans.  Possibly he left home when his mother remarried to William Hines, and returned to the Johnson clan, of which nothing is known at this time.  Two key children of William Hogan stated he was born in Tennessee, which included his son Humphrey Hogan (1809).

 

            See the William Hogan (1777) + Nancy Wadlaw chapter for this line of Hogans and further details.

 

 

Possibly James Hogan was a child of Humphrey Hogan.  He migrated westward to Christian County, Kentucky and later into Arkansas with the Walter G. Hogan and Humphrey Hogan (Jr.) lines.  Speculation exists that he may be an illegitimate son of Humphrey Hogan – the Long Hunter and Mary Kitts, as noted in several vague Davidson County Court records.

 

James Hogan appeared on the 1800, 1803, and 1806 Christian County tax records for adults 21 and above.  Then on 1802, he is listed to be 16-20 age.  The 1806 tax record stated that he had 100 acres on or near the Cumberland River.  For many years the Tennessee-Kentucky border was a point of confusion and Cumberland River lands would appear better in Tennessee.    

 

1841, July Term:  Sevier County, Arkansas Court reported Walter Hogan was Administrator of the Estate of James Hogan, deceased, and business of the Estate be closed.  No other names were mentioned.  There is no indication he married.

 

 

There are two Jonathan Hogan sightings to report:

 

(A).  Jonathan Hogan appears in the Christian County, Kentucky tax lists who is most likely our subject: 1806 Christian County tax record notes Jonathan Hogan as one male age 16 to less than 21 and no further details.  The1807 Christian County tax record has Jonathan Hogan with 400 acres in the East District of County, “in Warren County, Kentucky,” with 1 male age 21 and above, 1 male 16-<21, and one horse.  A search of yearly Warren County Tax Records was negative for Jonathan Hogan.

 

The two 1806 and 1807 Christian County tax records might suggest Jonathan Hogan was born about 1786, but the actual record quality is much too poor to depend on for such dating.  Interestingly enough, there is a single 1804 Christian County tax record for a “Rebekah Hogan” with one male age 21 and above, and one horse and no further details.  The 1805 tax year returns were damaged and cannot help us. Might Rebekah be living with Jonathan by 1806?

 

(B). There is a Jonathan Hogan reported in the Minutes of the 1827 Elk Lick Baptist Church in old Estill County, Kentucky.  He mixes with the William Hogan (1777) + Nancy Wadlow (1778) clan, and would be more likely a son.  Any other link would seem most speculative.