John Hoge Sr. (1685 - 1754)

Born 1685 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey

Ancestors

Husband of Gwentholyn (Hoge) Bowen Hoge — married 1722 in Bedford, Cumberland, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 11 Oct 1754 at about age 69 in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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Biography

John Hoge was born around 1685 in Perth Amboy.^[1] He married a Welsh heiress, Gwentholyn Bowen Davis.^[1] He lived the majority of his life in Pennsylvania, where he founded the village of Hogetown.^[1]

Notes

Note @HOGE page 20 11. (This is clearly a quote, but it is not attributed.)^{[citation needed]}

John Hoge was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in 1688. Shortly thereafter the family removed to the Three Lower Counties of Penn's Provence (now Delaware) where John grew to manhood and married a Welsh heiress by the name of Gwentholyn Bowen Davis. A half century before the Declaration of Independence he purchased from William Penn a large tract of land nine miles west of where Harrisburg now stands and laid out the village of Hogetown. There he lived and there he died probably near the middle of October, 1754, his will being probated on the nineteenth of the month. He mentions therein his wife "Gwenthleen" and children John, Jonathan, David, Benjamin, Mary, Elizabeth (and her daughter Rachel), Sarah, Rebecca and Abigail. In Silver Spring Church founded by him in 1734, there still exists an old Communion service of hammered pewter and a pulpit Bible, gifts of the family. From his is sprung a branch of the family, scattered from New York to California, but chiefly found in Pennsylvania; men of substance and character; bankers, lawyers, judges, members of Congress, with now and then a minister of the gospel; leaders in church and state. The primitive roads in the territory when John Hoge settled his family there were Indian trails or paths, which the white traders followed with their pack-horses; these in time became the regular thoroughfares of the early settlers. The trails extended eastward to Easton; northward along the valley of the Susquehanna into New York state; southward along the river into Maryland, and westward to Fort Louden (now Bedford) and Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh) beside short and rough ways for neighborhood use. It was not an uncommon sight to see as many as five hundred pack-horses passing the John Harris ferry (now Harrisburg) westward loaded with merchandise, salt, iron, etc. The iron was carried on horseback being crooked over and around their bodies; barrels or kegs were hung on each side of these. The packhorses were generally led in divisions of twelve or fifteen horses carrying about two hundred weight each, going single file, and managed by two men, one going before as the leader, and the other in the rear to see after the safety of the packs. The path was in some places washed out so deep that the packs came in contact with the ground or other impending obstacles, and were frequently displaced. However, as the carriers usually traveled in companies, the packs were soon adjusted, and no great delay occasioned. The pack horses were generally furnished with bells, which were kept from ringing during the day drive, but were loose at night when the horses were set free and permitted to feed and browse -- the bells intended as guides to their whereabouts in the morning. When wagons were first introduced, the carriers considered that mode of transportation an invasion of their rights. Their indignation was more excited and they manifested greater rancor than did the teamsters when the line of packets or railroad cars came into use about forty years later. As the settlements increased in the interior of the Colony, the Susquehanna became an important avenue of transportation, at first by means of canoes, then by keel bottom boats, or "Broad-horns" as they were often called. Grains and other produce were the chief articles carried in these conveyances. Harris ferry and Middletown were noted marts for the storage and sale of grain at this period. In 1790 there were over 150,000 bushels of wheat brought down the Susquehanna and passed through Middletown for the Philadelphia market.

@PENN pg. 708 II.

• John Hoge 2 (William 1) b. about 1699 at Perth Amboy, New Jersey; d. October 1754, in East Pennsboro township, Cumberland County, PA. He went with his father to the Three Lower Counties,and there married. About the year 1729 removed to East Pennsporo township, then Lancaster, now Cumberland county, Pa., where he after-wards purchased a large tract of land from the Proprietaries, portions of which remained in possession of some of his descendants until recent date. Mr. Hoge m., about 1722, Gwenthleen Bowen Davis, who survived her husband some years. They had issue (surname Hoge):

Virginia Family, pg 306

• William Hoge was b in Musselboro, Scotland in 1660. He and Barbara Hume had nine children. 1) John b 1685 m Gwentholyn Bowen-Davis, a Welsh heiress. This was the only son remaining in Pennsylvania.
• Founder of Hogestown, PA

@BOBB pg.15 CUMBERLAND CO. HX. SOC. 9/1995 copied in Carlisle, PA

b.1699 in Perth Amboy, N.J.

m.1722 Gwnethleum Bowen in Delaware

d.Oct. 1754 Cumberland Co., PA

@SSHX pgs. 1,2,3,4

Marriage

Husband: John Hoge

Marriage:

Date: 1722^[2]

A merged profile showed that he was born in 1785 and that he died in New Kent, New Kent, Virginia.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Tyler, James Hoge. The family of Hoge: A genealogy. Greensboro, N.C.: J. J. Stone & co., printers, 1927. (Available online at HaithiTrust), pp. 15-16 about John Hoge
2. ↑ Source: #S0004

• Howe, Daniel Dunbar. Listen to the mockingbird; the life and times of a pioneer Virginia family. Boyce, Va.: Carr Pub. Co, 1961. HathiTrust

• Smith, Richard. A history of middle New River settlements and contiguous territory. Huntington, W. Va: Standard Ptg. & Pub. Co., 1906. Open Library

• LDS IGI STATE: Pennsylvania as of MAR 1992, pg.18,935

• Source: S1 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; Repository: #R1

• Source S2730 Title: Public Member Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.; Repository: #R1