Thomas Pugh (1726 - 1813)

Born 6 Aug 1726 in Nansemond, Colony of Virginia

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Died 15 Jun 1813 at age 86 in Bertie, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Thomas Pugh was a Virginia colonist.

Thomas Pugh is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A092073.

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Thomas Pugh Will Abstract, Bertie Co., NC, 1 Jan 1804^[1]

pg 537

ABSTRACT OF BERTIE COUNTY Wills.

Pugh, Thomas, Jan’y 1, 1804; Nov. Term 1806. Son William, grand-sons Francis, Joseph and William Pugh, grand-sons John H. Pugh, Esther Pugh (widow of Thomas) and her children, grand-son Whitmell, James and Augustin Pugh, Elizabeth Pugh (daughter of Theophilus, dec'd ), Martha Coleman, children of son Francis Pugh, dec' d, children of my son Thos. Pugh dec'd, son William, Sam’l W. Johnston and grand-son John Hill Pugh Exrs. Test, Jno. King, Cullen Cook, Turner Carter.

Thomas, Gerald W., “Indian Woods: A Lost Reservation”^[2]

Thomas Pugh was born in 1726 in Nansemond County, Virginia, the son of Francis Pugh and Pheribee Savage, who later relocated to Chowan Precinct. During the 1700s the Pughs became a large and prominent family in Bertie Precinct (subsequently, County). Thomas Pugh married Mary Scott in the 1740s. He relocated to Bertie County, where during the 1750s he began acquiring land, eventually becoming a substantial landowner. He served as a justice of the peace for more than three decades (1757–1789). Pugh served as Bertie County sheriff from 1761 to 1763. He represented Bertie County in the General Assembly, 1764-1765. He served as an officer in the Bertie County militia, first noted as a captain in 1765. He was a delegate to the Fifth Provincial Congress of November 1776 in Halifax. During the Revolutionary War he was appointed lieutenant colonel under Col. Thomas Whitmell in 1775. Upon Whitmell’s resignation in 1780, Pugh was appointed colonel. H leased land from the Tuscarora Indians on several occasions. At his death in 1806 at the approximate age of eighty, Pugh bequeathed his leased Indian lands to his sons, William and Francis Pugh, and to his grandsons Joseph, Francis, William, and John Hill Pugh. His son, Thomas Pugh Jr., was deceased when Thomas Sr. prepared his will (January 1, 1804).

Thomas Pugh - The American Revolution in North Carolina^[3]

Thomas Pugh

Lt. Colonel in the Bertie County Regiment of Militia - 1775-1778

Colonel over the Bertie County Regiment of Militia - 1778-1780

On September 9, 1775, the NC Provincial Congress appointed Thomas Pugh as a Lt. Colonel under Col. Thomas Whitmell in the Bertie County Regiment of Militia.

In August of 1778, Col. Thomas Whitmell resigned, and Thomas Pugh was promoted to Colonel/Commandant over the Bertie County Regiment of Militia. He retained this position until late 1780, when he too resigned.

Thomas Pugh was a delegate to the Fifth Provincial Congress of November 1776 in Halifax.

Thomas Pugh, the son of Francis Pugh and Pheribee Savage, was born in 1726 in Nansemond County, VA. He married Mary Scott in 1745, and they had five known children - Francis, Thomas, William Scott, Shadrack, and Amelia. He died in 1806.

Will of Thomas Pugh

Will of Thomas Pugh [F/26] 1 Jan 1804 – Nov Ct 1806 Bertie Co “…being in a low state of health…”

• – Son William Pugh – all my part of the Great Swamp from Mr. Johnston to Mr. Jones, also the tract of land where my water grist mill stands, by the name of the Beverdam, this land containing 219 acres also give him a tract on the Beaverdam land in a branch below Wat. Gibson’s Spring, John H. Pugh, being part of a tract I leased of the Tuscarora Indians.. son William – land where Oald London lives and the other where Isaiah Smith formerly lived.
• – Grandson Francis Pugh – land where his father Francis Pugh formerly lived, being one half the Sarah Walker tract containing 226 acres, also give him a tract known as the Island Tract.
• – Grandson Joseph Pugh – land where Thomas Whitmell formerly lived being part of the Sarah Walker tract, containing 226 acres.
• – Grandson Joseph Pugh all the part of the land except the Island Tract which I have given his brother Francis.
• – Grandson Joseph Pugh – half the tract where Fredrick Lasiter formerly lived, and the land where his mother now lives, also the land where Liscomb Sholar formerly lived, but this last tract is to remain in the possession of his mother for her lifetime.
• – Grandson Joseph Pugh – the Little Bare Garden land containing 900 acres.
• – Grandson William Pugh – land where Cullen Cook now lives containing 450 acres.
• – Grandson John H Pugh – plantation where I now live known as the Quisockey Tract containing 615 acres, also give him all the swamp land called the Sarah Walker land within my pasture down to the Indian Creek from Mr Johnston’s land except that part which is now within the fence of my son William Pugh. Grandson John H Pugh – land between my pasture fence and the main road from the Quisockey line, also the land I bought of David Canady containing 250 acres.
• – Son William Pugh – land called the Brier Pocoson, containing 640 acres, also the Great Bear Garden land containing 1000 acres.
• – To Easter Pugh [widow of Thomas Pugh, dec’d] – land and plantation where she now lives for her lifetime for her use and at her death to be divided among her children.
• – Grandson Whitmell Pugh – the Middlefield Lot containing 200 acres.
• – Grandson James Pugh – the Basketfield Lot containing 181 acres
• – Grandson Augustin Pugh – The Town Swamp Lot containing 200 acres.
• – Grandson Joseph H Pugh – land called “Oald Randol’s Oald Molley’s & Gipson’s” containing 200 acres
• – Son William Pugh – the remaining part of the Sarah Walker swamp.
• – To Elizabeth Pugh [daughter of Theophilus Pugh dec’d] – Negroes Barbary and Nicey.
• – To Martha Cloman – Negro London.
• – Remaining estate to be divided into three parts, one third to my son William Pugh, one-third to the children of my dec’d son Francis Pugh, and one third to the children of my dec’d son Thomas Pugh.
• EX: son William, Samuel W Johnston, grandson John H Pugh
• Wit: John King, Cullen Cook, Turner [x] Carter
• abstract by David B Gammon

Sources

1. ↑ Hathaway, James Robert Bent, Editor. "The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register", Volume 2, 1901, Edenton, North Carolina
2. ↑ Thomas, Gerald W., “Indian Woods: A Lost Reservation”, Research Paper. Posted to http://ncgenweb.us/bertie/indianwoodslostreservation.html, Accessed 11 Nov., 2020
3. ↑ Thomas Pugh - The American Revolution in North Carolina by: © 2013 - J.D. Lewis - PO Box 1188 - Little River, SC 29566 - All Rights Reserved

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