256.     Philip Hoggatt was born 16 Jan 1686/1687 in Berkshire England. He died 26 Jan 1783 in Guilford Co. NC and was buried in the Springfield Quaker Cemetery with his wife Mary. Philip married Mary Glendenning about 1722 in Chadford Chester Co. PA. 

Philip Hoggatt Cabin

Philip Hoggatt Cabin plaque

Philip Hoggat first settled in Chadsford, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Glendenning in Pennsylvania, and several of their children were born there. The family moved to Virginia about 1728, and Philip is mentioned in records of several Quaker Meetings in Virginia. Philip owned land on the north side of the James River in Goochland County, Virginia in 1730. In 1750 Philip is mentioned as a member of Camp Creek MM, Louisa Co., Virginia. In 1753 he is mentioned as a member of Cedar Creek MM, Hanover Co., Virginia. Philip moved his family to Rowan County, North Carolina by 1754, building a cabin for his family that year. In 1756, he is mentioned as a member of New Garden MM, Rowan Co., North Carolina. He died on 26 Jan 1783 in Guilford County, North Carolina when he was about 96 years old, and is buried in the Springfield Cemetery. His death is recorded at the Deep River Meeting in North Carolina.

The log house that Phillip built in 1754 in North Carolina is still in existence, and now stands at High Point Museum, in High Point, North Carolina.  It was originally on the south end of High Point, NC ‑ South Main Street Extension.  The house was moved to the museum in 1973 and restored as a public exhibit.  It is called the Hoggatt House or the Weaving House.  In 2004, a lightning strike caused severe fire damage the house and artifacts on display in it.  The Museum immediately began restoration efforts.

Guilford County Facts: Settlement began in the late 1740s and grew rapidly in the 1750s. Settlers came from Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Nantucket Island in Massachusetts, and the eastern and central counties of North Carolina. Migration into Guilford County was frequently over the Great Wagon Road through the Valley of Virginia. Group migrations were made by German Lutherans and Reformed settlers from Pennsylvania beginning in the late 1740's; Scots‑Irish Presbyterians from the Pennsylvania‑Maryland border area in the 1750s; Quakers from many locations in the 1750s; scattered Virginia Baptists organized meetings in the 1750s; and Methodists from the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the 1770s and 1780s. "Moving On" to the south, west and northwest began almost immediately and picked up speed about 1800. Upper Georgia and South Carolina were favored, then sights were set on the Cumberland Gap as a way to Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana.

Guilford County Facts: Guilford County was established in 1771 from Orange County (which formed about the eastern third) and Rowan County (which formed about the western two‑thirds). It included what is now Randolph county (which separated in 1779) and Rockingham County (which separated in 1785). The Battle at Guilford Courthouse was fought on 15 March 1781. Cornwallis won, but the victory left the British Army so weak that it caused them to lose the campaign in the southern colonies, and led to the surrender at Yorktown.

BIOGRAPHY: 1756, 1, 31. Philip rocf Cedar Creek MM, Va., dated 1755, 10, 11. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy [p.523] MINUTES AND MARRIAGE RECORDS page 547

LAND: In 1755 Philip Hoggatt was granted four hundred and twenty acres on Deep Creek in North Carolina by the Earl of Granville, who had been granted one‑eighth part of North and South Carolina by King George II in 1744. Philip's son Anthony was granted four hundred and eighty acres on Deep River the same year.

17 Feb 1783, Pleas & Quarter Session for Guilford Co North Carolina – PHILLIP  HOGGAT, dec; will pvd on oath of WALTHER THORNBERRY, subscribing witness, EXECUTORS: ANTHONY HOGGAT, JOSEPH HOGGAT, appt by testator.

257.     Mary Glendenning was born 08 Dec 1698 in Edenburg Scotland. She died 17 Nov 1780 in Deep River, Guilford Co. NC and was buried in the Springfield Quaker Cemetery Guilford Co. NC with her husband Philip.