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Size | 3.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1200 items) |
Abstract | Thomas Devereaux Hogg was a businessman of Raleigh, N.C. The collection includes scattered papers of Gavin Hogg (1788-1835), lawyer of Windsor and Raleigh, N.C., and of his son, Thomas Devereux Hogg. Included are account books of David Clark, merchant and planter of Martin and Halifax counties, N.C., for whom G. Hogg was executor, and accounts and letters pertaining to the affairs of Joseph Blount and his son, Joseph, Jr., of Edenton and Hillsborough, N.C. G. Hogg was Blount's executor and James L. Bryan, of Windsor and Baltimore, Md., was attorney for Joseph, Jr., who was at intervals an inmate of the Friends Asylum in Pennsylvania. T. D. Hogg married Bryan's niece and was his executor. Also, letters of Benjamin Maitland of Baltimore, Bryan's partner in operating a distillery; letters of Lucy Haywood (Mrs. John S.) Bryan on personal affairs and news of Raleigh; notes of James, brother of G. Hogg, on the medical lectures of Drs. David Hosack and James S. Stringham of New York; accounts of T. D. Hogg as ordnance and commissary officer of North Carolina, 1862-1865; and accounts of a sawmill and a stage line. Later papers are those of Colin M. Hawkins and Janet (Hogg) Hawkins. |
Creator | Hogg, Thomas Devereux, 1823-1904. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Rebecca Hollingsworth, May 1992
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, April 2011
This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.
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Gavin Hogg (1788-1835) was born in Wick, Caithness, Scotland, and came to the United States with his parents, James and Mary Finlayson Hogg, around 1797. He became a lawyer, practicing in Windsor, Bertie County, N.C. He married Mary Ann Bayard Johnson of Stratford, Conn., in 1822; they had several children who died in infancy and one surviving son, Thomas Devereux Hogg.
Thomas Devereux Hogg (1823-1904) was born in Raleigh. In 1853, he was appointed to the board of commissioners for the State Hospital for the Insane (later renamed Dorothea Dix Hospital). He was also an incorporator, director, and stockholder of the Raleigh Gaslight Company, chartered in 1859. In 1860, he became the president of the Oak City Savings Bank. His antebellum business activities also included a partnership with his wife's uncle, James L. Bryan, in a Baltimore distillery and one with Robert W. Haywood in the Raleigh Planing Mills, which began operation in the summer of 1853. During the Civil War, he was chief commissary officer of the Subsistence Department of North Carolina. Thomas D. Hogg married Janet Bryan, the daughter of John S. Bryan of Plymouth, N.C., in 1848. They had three daughters: Sally, who never married; Lucy, who married Isaac Foote Dortch and had eight children; and Janet, who married Colin Hawkins.
James L. Bryan (1799-1856) was a lawyer in Baltimore and in Windsor, N.C. For many years, he managed the affairs of his cousin Joseph Blount, Jr., who was subject to periodic fits of insanity. He was also a partner in the firm of Bryan and Maitland. James Bryan never married.
Back to TopThe collection includes scattered papers of Gavin Hogg (1788-1835), lawyer of Windsor and Raleigh, N.C., and of his son, Thomas Devereux Hogg. Included are account books of David Clark, merchant and planter of Martin and Halifax counties, N.C., for whom G. Hogg was executor, and accounts and letters pertaining to the affairs of Joseph Blount and his son, Joseph, Jr., of Edenton and Hillsborough, N.C. G. Hogg was Blount's executor and James L. Bryan, of Windsor and Baltimore, Md., was attorney for Joseph, Jr., who was at intervals an inmate of the Friends Asylum in Pennsylvania. T. D. Hogg married Bryan's niece and was his executor. Also, letters of Benjamin Maitland of Baltimore, Bryan's partner in operating a distillery; letters of Lucy Haywood (Mrs. John S.) Bryan on personal affairs and news of Raleigh; notes of James, brother of G. Hogg, on the medical lectures of Drs. David Hosack and James S. Stringham of New York; accounts of T. D. Hogg as ordnance and commissary officer of North Carolina, 1862-1865; and accounts of a sawmill and a stage line. Later papers are those of Colin M. Hawkins and Janet (Hogg) Hawkins.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Correspondence of James L. Bryan, Thomas Devereux Hogg, and other members of the Bryan and Hogg families. Included is correspondence between James L. Bryan, guardian of Joseph Blount, Jr., and Dr. Charles Evans of Friends Asylum, Philadelphia, chiefly concerning Blount's mental health; and correspondence between Bryan and Frances C. P. Hill, Blount's mother, concerning Blount's health, activities, and financial affairs. Also included are letters to Bryan from Benjamin Maitland, concerning their Baltimore distillery; correspondence of Thomas D. Hogg, chiefly concerning his activities as executor of James L. Bryan; and letters from Thomas D. Hogg's son-in-law, Colin Hawkins, concerning genealogical inquiries about the Hawkins family.
Folder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
1829-1839 |
Folder 2 |
1840-1843 |
Folder 3 |
1844 |
Folder 4 |
1845 |
Folder 5 |
1846 |
Folder 6 |
1847 January-April |
Folder 7 |
1847 May-June |
Folder 8 |
1847 July-September |
Folder 9 |
1847 October-December |
Folder 10 |
1848 |
Folder 11 |
1849 January-April |
Folder 12 |
1849 May-December |
Folder 13 |
1850 January-May |
Folder 14 |
1850 June-December |
Folder 15 |
1851 January-June |
Folder 16 |
1851 July-December |
Folder 17 |
1852 |
Folder 18 |
1853 January-June |
Folder 19 |
1853 July-December |
Folder 20 |
1854 |
Folder 21 |
1855 |
Folder 22 |
1856-1857 |
Folder 23 |
1858-1889 |
Folder 24 |
1890-1896 |
Folder 25 |
1897-1899 |
Folder 26 |
1900-1910 |
Folder 27 |
Undated |
Arrangement: chronological.
Bills, receipts, accounts, indentures, wills and other financial and legal items pertaining to Gavin Hogg, Thomas D. Hogg, James L. Bryan, and others. Included are many papers concerning Bryan's partnership with Benjamin Maitland, his administration of the affairs of Joseph Blount, Jr., and his activities as executor of the estate of his brother, John S. Bryan. There are also a few bills of sale involving Bryan and various members of the Capehart family, including his niece Susan Martin Capehart and her husband George Washington Capehart; a contract, 1853, between Thomas D. Hogg and Robert L. Haywood to build a sawmill; and a number of receipts and accounts of Thomas D. Hogg as attorney for Joseph Blount, Jr.
Folder 28 |
1799-1829 |
Folder 29 |
1830-1839 |
Folder 30 |
1840-1843 |
Folder 31 |
1844-1845 |
Folder 32 |
1846 |
Folder 33 |
1847 |
Folder 34 |
1848 |
Folder 35 |
1849 |
Folder 36 |
1850 |
Folder 37 |
1851 |
Folder 38 |
1852 |
Folder 39 |
1853 |
Folder 40 |
1854-1856 |
Folder 41 |
1857-1859 |
Folder 42 |
1860-1889 |
Folder 43 |
1890-1910 |
Folder 44 |
Undated |
A history of St. Stephen's (Episcopal) Parish, Goldsboro, N.C.; several issues, 1895-1986, of The Lightning Bug, a humorous paper produced by students at Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Va.; newspaper clippings, including a sketch of the life of Gavin Hogg; genealogical material; and miscellaneous items. Genealogical materials chiefly pertain to the Hawkins family, but also include some information on the Bryan, McKenzie, and Clark families. Miscellaneous items include several poems, a paper certifying that Gavin Hogg's name appears on the muster roll of the War of 1812, a recipe for beef tea, and a story, evidently written as a school exercise, by Sally Hogg, daughter of Thomas Devereux Hogg.
Folder 45 |
History of St. Stephen's Parish |
Folder 46 |
The Lightning Bug |
Folder 47 |
Genealogical materials |
Folder 48 |
Clippings |
Folder 49 |
Miscellaneous items |
Notes taken by James Hogg, brother of Gavin Hogg, on medical lectures given in 1816 and 1817 by Dr. David Hosack and Dr. James S. Stringham at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.
Account books of Gavin Hogg, lawyer, of Windsor, N.C.
Accounts of David Clark, planter at Albin and merchant at Hogston and Hamilton in Martin County, N.C.
Folder 55 |
Volume 6: Daybook for mercantile business at Hogston and Hamilton, Martin County, 1798-1811 |
Oversize Volume SV-344/7 |
Volume 7: Daybook for expenditures, charges, receipts, Scotland Neck, N.C., 1811-1827 |
Oversize Volume SV-344/8 |
Volume 8: Ledger accompanying Volume 7, 1817-1827Enclosed in volume is a thin booklet, an index to Volume 8. |
Folder 58 |
Volume 9: David Clark Co., letterbook, 1815-1825Also includes some personal information. |
Oversize Volume SV-344/10 |
Volume 10: David Clark, "Albin.", personal and plantation daybook--receipts and expenditures, 1821-1829 |
Folder 60 |
Volume 11: David Clark, "Albin.", personal and plantation daybook--receipts and expenditures, 1824-1829 |
Folder 61 |
Volume 12: David Clark estate, Gavin Hogg, executor, 1829-1836Accounts; some records kept by Thomas T. Hogg, executor of the Gavin Hogg estate. |
Accounts of Joseph Blount, who named Gavin Hogg as his executor, and of Joseph Blount, Jr. James C. Johnston served as guardian for Joseph, Jr., during his minority. Some time after he came of age, Joseph appointed James L. Bryan to serve as his attorney. Joseph, Jr., was subject to periods of insanity and was eventually declared incompetent; J. W. Norwood of Hillsborough was appointed his guardian.
Folder 62 |
Volume 13: Accounts of Gavin Hogg, executor of Joseph Blount, and of James C. Johnston, guardian of Joseph Blount, Jr., 1827-1843 |
Folder 63 |
Volume 14: Accounts of James L. Bryan, attorney of Joseph Blount Jr., with some accounts of Thomas D. Hogg, executor of Bryan, 1843-1856Hogg transferred the assets of the estate to J. W. Norwood, who had been appointed guardian of Blount. |
Accounts of James L. Bryan, lawyer of Windsor, N.C. and Baltimore, Md.
Folder 64 |
Volume 15: Bryan's accounts as agent, executor, etc., for others, along with personal accounts, accounts for Snowfield plantation, and other accounts, 1826-1856 |
Folder 65 |
Volume 16: T. D. Hogg's daily accounts as executor of James L. Bryan, receipts and expenditures, 1858At the back of the volume, personal expenditures of Hogg for 1858. |
Personal accounts of Thomas Devereux Hogg, businessman, of Raleigh, N.C.
Folder 67 |
Volume 19: Daybook, 1865-1867 |
Folder 68 |
Volume 20: Ledger, 1866-1867 |
Oversize Volume SV-344/21 |
Volume 21: Accounts of T. D. Hogg, ordnance and commissary officer (captain and major) for the State of North Carolina, 1862-1865 |
Folder 69 |
Volume 22: Commonplace book of Janet (Bryan) Hogg, wife of T. D. Hogg, October 1851 |
Oversize Volume SV-344/23 |
Volume 23: Daily record of receipts and expenditures, presumably for J. J. Anderson, for the stagecoach line running from Blakely or Gaston to Fayetteville, N.C., 1837There is no other identification and no explanation of what connection, if any, this book may have with members of the Hogg family. |