Mary Hoggatt

Mary Glendenning was born about 1698 in Scotland, the daughter of David and Margaret Hall Glendenning. She died November 27, 1780 in Guilford County, North Carolina and was buried on November 19, 1780 in the Springfield Monthly Meeting graveyard.

Mary Glendenning married Phillip Hoggatt in Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1727. They had seven children. The log house that Mary’s husband, Phillip, built in 1754 in North Carolina is still in existence, and now stands at High Point Museum, in High Point, North Carolina.

Family lore states that Mary was captured near her home in Edinburgh, Scotland by English sailors who took her to America. There they sold her to American settlers to work as a servant girl.

Children of Mary Glendennings and Philip Hoggatt:

• Phillip Hoggatt b. a 1721
• David Hoggatt b. a 1723
• Jane Hoggatt b. a 1725, d. 15 Dec 1792
• William Hoggatt+ b. 1727, d. 1772
• John Hoggatt b. a 1728, d. 5 Jun 1816
• Anthony Hoggatt b. 8 Feb 1730/31
• Joseph Hoggatt b. a 1735, d. 17 Jul 1815

Sources:

• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=26517047
• http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mygermanfamilies/Hog...

From the book "Hocketts on the Move", by Sarah Myrtle Osborne and Theodore Edison Perkins. Page 1: The first account we have of our family dates back to about 1700, when our ancestors where still in Scotland. About this time, there was born to a Mr. and Mrs. George Clendenin {David Glendenning} a baby girl, who in time was to become the mother of a very large family. Her father being a member of the Royal Guard made it possible to give her a glimpse of royal life. Here she lived very happily for a few years, until strife arose between her mother country, Scotland, and England, and at the opening of hostilities, she was captured by a band of English sailors, transported immediately to America and sold to some settlers for a servant girl. The next account we have of her is a few years later, when in spite of her hard situation, she had met and married an English Quaker, by the name of Philip Hoggatt. With their settlement at Chadsford, Chester County, Pennsylvania, we have the beginning of the present Hockett family in America. (Page 4)Our family records continue with the one son, William, who came to North Carolina in 1750 (personal note: must have come with entire family). From the records of Springfield Meeting of Friends which is located near the present eastern limits of the city of High Point, North Carolina, we glean this information: In 1745, not a single white family inhabited this county (now Guilford). By 1750 several communities of Friends in this section began to crystalize in local meetings, first assembling in private homes and later building meeting houses or lodges. New Garden Meeting (near Guilford College) was established in 1754. In 1757 New Garden Monthly Meeting granted Centre Friends the privilege of holding meetings for worship from house to house. A meeting for worship was established at Deep River in 1760, and eighteen years later, in 1778, Deep River Monthly Meeting was set up. The first recorded burial at Springfield was that of Mary Hoggatt, wife of Philip Hoggatt and daughter of David Clendening (George Clendening) of Edinburgh, Scotland. She was eighty-two years of age, and knowing the end near, she said to her husband who was then ninety three, "Philip, our sons and daughters have moved into a new territory than the limits of Deep River Meeting. They have found homes near the field of Springs, and there their children and their descendants for many generations to come will live and worship. I have never been afraid of the wilderness. I have followed thee from Scotland to Pennsylvania, thence to Virginia and North Carolina. I have never known fear in life and I certainly shall not in death. When my body is put away, I shall like for it to be carried to Springfield and buried in the forest there, so that I may be near the meeting house and homes which our children have established. If I am buried there others will soon follow, so even as in life, let me in death be a pioneer." She died on the seventeenth day of eleventh month, 1780, and two days later her body was carried to Springfield and buried. For about twelve miles over the rough roads, slowly wended a creaky ox cart drawn by two big black oxen, and we wonder if Philip Hoggatt, then a man of ninety-five years of age, drove his black oxen or if he rode on horseback behind the procession. At any rate, on the twenty-sixth day of the first month, 1783, just three years later, when Philip was ninety eight, those black oxen again made the trip, this time carrying his body, that he too might be placed in the wilderness under the oaks by the side of his pioneer wife.

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Nov 1 2018, 10:53:58 UTC

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Daughter of David Glendenning and Margaret Hall. Married Philip Hoggatt 1726 Chester County, Pennsylvania. There were seven known children born to this union.