Samuel Haggard

Samuel married Nancy Hix about 1775 in Surray County, North Carolina. Nancy (daughter of Nathaniel Hix) was born about 1755 in Virginia; died about 1800 in Jackson County, Georgia U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

1. Susannah Haggard was born on 11 Apr 1792 in Surray County, North Carolina U.S.A.; died on 05 Dec 1856 in Loudon County, Tennessee U.S.A..
2. James Haggard was born about 1769 in Virginia; died on 04 Apr 1838 in Three Forks, Duck River, Bedford, Tennessee U.S.A..
3. Patsy Haggard was born about 1772 in Surray County, North Carolina.
4. Elizabeth Haggard was born about 1773 in Surray County, North Carolina.
5. John Haggard was born about 1776 in Surray County, North Carolina; died in 1835 in Roane County, Tennessee U.S.A..
6. Nancy Ann Haggard was born about 1777 in Surray County, North Carolina.
7. Samuel Haggard was born on 26 Dec 1778 in Surray County, North Carolina; died on 21 Nov 184 in Shelbyville, Bedford, Tennessee U.S.A..
8. Jonathan Haggard was born about 1781 in Surray County, North Carolina; died on 17 May 183 in Hardin County, Tennessee U.S.A..
9. George Haggard was born about 1784 in Surray County, North Carolina.
10. Gray Haggard was born about 1785 in Surray County, North Carolina; died on 27 Aug 185 in Carthage, Hancock, Illinois U.S.A..
11. Francis Haggard was born about 1786 in Surray County, North Carolina; died in 1849 in Jackson County, Georgia U.S.A..
12. Hannah Haggard was born about 1787 in Surray County, North Carolina.
13. Alfred Haggard was born about 1792 in Surray County, North Carolina U.S.A..
14. French Haggard was born about 1797 in Surray County, North Carolina U.S.A.; died before 1870 in Clarke County, Georgia U.S.A..
15. Sarah Haggard was born about 1780 in Surray County, North Carolina.

Granville married Mary before 1749 in Virginia. Mary was born about 1730 in Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

OCCUPATION: SCHOOLTEACHER / PLANTER
BIRTH: 1678, England
DEATH: 1770, Fredricksville, Louisa County, VA
IMMIGRATION: 1699, England to Norfolk, Norfolk County, VA
EVENT: Education 1: Educated for the ministry but upon arriving in Virginia was put to teaching school.
EVENT: Comment 1: ABT 1678, Born Bradenham Hall, England, son of a wealthy aristocratic Lord of England, was educated for the ministry.
EVENT: Comment 1: Among his pupils was Elizabeth Gentry, born about 1685, a daughter of Nicholas Gentry, Sr. They eloped to NC where they had a large family. Later they returned to Eastern Virginia.
EVENT: Comment 3: Some records show that James Haggard married Mabel Gentry, sister to Elizabeth, in 1721. That would imply that the last four children were from this union.
EVENT: Military service 1: He joined the English Army as a private against his father's wishes.
EVENT: Military service 2: Lord Haggard felt that the family's social status would warrant a commission) so Lord Haggard paid handsomely to have young James Haggard smuggled out of England aboard a merchant vessel bound for Nor
EVENT: Military service 3: The unscrupulous captain knowing Lord Haggard would never admit to such a scheme threw young James Haggard in with other indentured servants and
EVENT: Military service 4: sold a contract for his services to a wealthy planter, thus collecting for James' passage twice. Young James Haggard landed in Norfolk, Norfolk County, VA, ca. 1698 (prior to his 21st birthday
EVENT: Property 1: 1723, James Hoggard/Haggard, son of Anthony Hoggard, identified in 1723 Over-wharton Parish, Stafford County, VA, as a tobacco planter with three sons.


NI078026] JAMES HAGGARD, A SCHOOLTEACHER
(NOTE: These facts are copied this 17th day of August 1904 by Alfred M. Haggard and Finch Haggard from memoranda in the possession of Melvin Haggard Desoto, IA. He secured this from David Gentry Haggard within the last 5 years.)

A book by David Dawson Haggard Published in 1899 states that James Haggard is the first known Haggard in America. He migrated to America about 1699 when he landed in Norfolk, Norfolk County, VA. He is said to have been educated for the ministry but upon arriving in Virginia was put to teaching school. Among his pupils was Elizabeth Gentry, born about 1685, a daughter of Nicholas Gentry, Sr. They eloped to NC where they had a large family. Later they returned to Eastern Virginia. Some records show that James Haggard married Mabel Gentry, sister to Elizabeth, in 1721. That would imply that the last four children were from this union.

1678 -- James Haggard, (identified in the book by David Dawson Haggard) "The traditions of our fathers are that one James Haggard, born ca. 1678, Bradenham Hall, England, son of a wealthy aristocratic Lord of England, was educated for the ministry. He joined the English Army as a private against his father's wishes. Lord Haggard felt that the family's social status would warrant a commission) so Lord Haggard paid handsomely to have young James Haggard smuggled out of England aboard a merchant vessel bound for Norfolk, Norfolk County, VA. The unscrupulous captain knowing Lord Haggard would never admit to such a scheme threw young James Haggard in with other indentured servants and sold a contract for his services to a wealthy planter, thus collecting for James' passage twice. Young James Haggard landed in Norfolk, Norfolk County, VA, ca. 1698 (prior to his 21st birthday).

"The wealthy planter finding young James Haggard well educated put him to teaching school. There was connected with this school a young woman whose charms so impressed him that they eloped to NC and were married since it was illegal for a bonded servant to marry in Virginia. They had a large family including: Nathaniel, Edmund, Zechariah, and Gray or Granville."

1678 James Haggard, (identified in the book by David Dawson Haggard) "The traditions of our fathers are that one James Haggard, born ca. 1678, Bradenham Hall, England, son of a wealthy aristocratic Lord of England, was educated for the ministry. He joined the English Army as a private against his father's wishes. Lord Haggard felt that the family's social status would warrant a commission) so Lord Haggard paid handsomly to have young James Haggard smuggled out of England aboard a merchant vessel bound for Norfolk, Norfolk County, VA. The unscruplous captain knowing Lord Haggard would never admit to such a scheme threw young James Haggard in with other indentured servants and sold a contract for his services to a wealthy planter, thus collecting for James' passage twice. Young James Haggard landed in Norfolk, Norfolk County, VA, ca. 1698 (prior to his 21st birthday).

The wealthy planter finding young James Haggard well educated put him to teaching school. There was connected with this school a young woman whose charms so impressed him that they eloped to NC and were married since it was illegal for a bonded servant to marry in Virginia. They had a large family including: Nathaniel, Edmund, Zechariah, and Gray or Granville.

James Hoggard/Haggard, son of Anthony Hoggard, identified in 1723 Over-wharton Parish, Stafford County, VA, as a tobacco planter with three sons. Nearest neighbors, also tobacco planters, were James French and William Rice. The book by David Dawson Haggard identifies him as a schoolteacher with four sons. Records in the same area include two others believed to be brothers of those named. Mr. Leland Gentry identifies James Haggard's wife as Elizabeth Gentry, baptised 29 August 1687, St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, VA, daughter of Nicholas Gentry. (Undoubtedly there were daughters not shown.)

James married Elizabeth Gentry in 1707 in Overwharton, Stafford, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of Nicholas Gentry and Lucy Cornelius) was born on 29 Aug 1687 in Saint Peter's Parish, New Kent, Virginia; died in 1765 in Alabama. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

BIRTH: BEF 29 AUG 1687, Saint Peter's Parish, New Kent County, VA
DEATH: 1765, AL
BAPTISM: 29 AUG 1687, Saint Peter's Parish, New Kent County, VA
EVENT: Comment 1: (information from Mack and Alice Dickey, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS]
EVENT: Comment 1: The Fifth generation of the Gentry's had settled in almost every Southern Territory, as well as in Ohio, IN, IL and MO. The Gentry's have largely been an agricultural people
EVENT: Comment 3: interested in their lands and in their flocks and herds, and they were large slave owners until the Civil War ended.
EVENT: Comment 4: They seem to have preferred their plantations to commercial pursuits or political office Not many of them achieved greatness or national reputations, yet a large number of them have been prominent
EVENT: Comment 5: in their states and counties We find Gentry's represented in the legislatures of IN, KY, NC, TN and Misouri at various times.
EVENT: Comment 6: The Gentry's have been good, strong men, honest and upright, good citizens, patriotic and true, generally prosperous and many of them ministers, business men and doctors of marked ability, wealthy an
EVENT: Comment 7: They have been an honest, conscientious, religious, God-fearing people, loving their families and providing for them well.

Notes:

BIRTH: 1656, England
DEATH: 1755, Albemarle County, VA
EVENT: Comment 1: 1656, To own a patent in 1667, Anthony would have been born prior to 1646 (before Peter Hogard left England), so he would be a brother.
EVENT: Comment 1: BET 1727 AND 1728, Goochland [now Albemerle] County, VA, formed from Henrico County, VA
EVENT: Property 1: 9 OCT 1667, List of Head Rights: Edmund Huggarte in a patent to Col Edmond Scarburgh in Accomac County, VA.
EVENT: Property 2: 31 DEC 1667, Patent to Anthony Hoggard and Mr Robert King, for 737 acres of land in Stafford County, VA, on the Machiotix River, for transportation of John Bennett, John Marshall, Robert Whitehead, et al.
EVENT: Property 2: 31 DEC 1667, Above patent to Hoggard and King was adjacent to patent to Berriman and Palmers in Westmoreland County, VA
EVENT: Property 3: 17 APR 1669, Patent to Major William Ball and Thomas Chetwood, 1600 acres in Rapahannock County, VA, for transporting of 32 persons: Joseph Foster, William Haggard, Edward Salter, et
EVENT: Property 3: 1669, Also found as "possibles": Richard Habeart, Joseph Haberd, Richard Haggatt, William Habeard (1669 Stafford CO).
EVENT: Property 4: 10 APR 1719, to Thomas Butler, 200 acres Westmoreland adjoining Anthony Haggard.
EVENT: Property 5: 1731, Anthony Hoggard purchased 900 acres of land called "Tuckahoe" in Goochland [now Albemerle] County, VA, from the estate of John Utley.
EVENT: Comment 3: 1744, Albemarle County, VA, formed from parts of Louisa and Goochland Counties.
EVENT: Property 6: 13 JUN 1739, At Council, Goochland [now Albemerle] County, VA, Haggard vs Dabbs Surveyor of Goochland County to divide 6000 acres according to quality and quantity, Dabbs to have his choice.
EVENT: Property 6: Anthony Hoggard filed leave to add 400 acres of land for the convenience of building a valuable mill to 600 acres surveyed for him and Joseph Dabbs on the Appamatlock River, Goochland [now Albemerle
EVENT: Event 1: 1725, John Utley of Henrico County, VA, died leaving Anthony Hoggard as executor of his estate.
EVENT: Event 2: 13 JUN 1726, John Haggard from "Anopilus Royal" warned out of Boston. Taken from Boston Rec Com., Vol 13 p 154.
EVENT: Event 3: 25 JUN 1733, Anthony Hoggard was Justice in Goochland [now Albemerle] County, VA
EVENT: Event 4: 11 JUL 1733, Anthony Hoggard was surety for the marriage of Nannie Hoggard to Joseph Dabbs
EVENT: Event 5: 19 DEC 1738, Anthony Hoggard was surety at the birth in 1729 and death in 1738 of Henry Wood in Goochland [now Albemerle] County, VA.
EVENT: Will 1: 5 OCT 1744, Will of Anthony Hoggard dated in Albemarle County, VA, Will Book 12, Page 2, probated 14 March 1755, by Abraham Venable, Jr., William Dobbs, and William Neale, three of the witnesses Other witnesses R
EVENT: Will 2: Executors: friend James Hunt, Charles Venable, and Nathaniel Hoggatt.
EVENT: Comment 4: If Anthony Hoggard was born ca 1646 and died in 1755 then he would have been 109 when he died which seems unlikely It appears more probable that these Records are of two or more related people named A

Anthony married Frances in 1677 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Frances was born before 1657 in England; died in in Albermarle County, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

BIRTH: ABT 1656, Thaxted, Essexshire County, England
DEATH: 1736, Hanover County, VA
BURIAL: 1736, Hanover County, VA
IMMIGRATION: 11 FEB 1676/77, England to VA
IMMIGRATION: At age 19, Nicholas set sail for the American colonies He boarded either the "Rose" or the "Dartmouth" on December 3, 1676, and hey arrived in America, February 11, 1677.
EVENT: Residence 1: The original home of the Gentry family was in the west end of New Kent on Totopotony Creek.
EVENT: Comment 1: 1720, In 1720 New Kent was cut in two and made Hanover and Loucia Counties.
EVENT: Comment 1: It has been said that at one time, Nicholas Gentry owned the lands on which the University of Virginia are now located.
EVENT: Military service 2: BET 3 DEC 1676 AND 1682, When they arrived in America, February 11, 1677, Nathaniel Bacon was dead and the rebellion was over Nicholas and Samuel were stationed at Mattapony Garrison
EVENT: Military service 2: and remained in service to the British throne for another six years before being paid and mustered out.
EVENT: Military service 1: BET 3 DEC 1676 AND 1682, He and Samuel, his brother, were two of 1130 men sent by the King to quell the "Bacon Rebellion". Among soldiers sent from England to Virginia to cope with Beacon's Rebellion.
EVENT: Property 1: Early Land Records Indicate They Had Land Adjacent To Each Other
EVENT: Comment 3: BET 1687 AND 1702, The First Authentic Record We Have Found Of The Gentrys Is In The Register Of Saint Peter's Parishish Of New Kent County, VA, Shows The Baptism Of Peter Gentry, Son Of Samuel Gentry On 10 April 1687
EVENT: Comment 4: BET 1687 AND 1702, Saint Peter's Registry Also Shows The Baptism Of Elizabeth Gentry, On 29 August 1687; Nicholas Gentry Baptized 30 May 1697, And Mable Gentry Baptized 13 December 1702
EVENT: Comment 5: 1676, The Gentry's were of Old Germanic Stock, and sprung from English families, they are descendants of the Huguenots who escaped from France during the time of persecution in the 16th and 17th centuries.
EVENT: Comment 6: 1676, The name Gentry originally meant "Scribes" or learned people, and this was the name given to the family when surnames were adopted Later in England the name came to mean "Nobility".
EVENT: Comment 7: 1676, During the period of Roundhead Parliament under Oliver Cromwell, no new Governors were sent to the Virginia colony The people elected their own government and exercised rights of universal suffrage
EVENT: Comment 8: 1676, They became accustomed to having equality as British subjects and enjoyed self government After the Restoration, King Charles II sent Lord Berkley to Virginia to restore the authority of the throne.
EVENT: Comment 9: 1676, Berkley was a tyrant and imposed harsh taxes and restrictions on commerce Self government was abolished The people were aroused by the deprivation of their liberty, and
EVENT: Comment 10: 1676, in 1676 they rallied behind Mathaniel Bacon to overthrow the oppressive Berkley regime
EVENT: Comment 11: 1676, This time to prevent Berkley's return, they burned Jamestown to the ground. The colonist enjoyed liberty for a short time under Bacon's leadership, but he took ill and died.
EVENT: Comment 12: 1676, The colonist could find no one to replace him and Berkley once again regained control. He instituted vengeful reprisals against the rebels, hanging 22 of their leaders.
EVENT: Comment 13: 1676, King Charles recalled Berkley and replaced him with Lord Culpepper, who was as venal as Berkley King Charles recalled Culpepper and declared Virginia a royal providence.

Nicholas married Lucy Cornelius before 1685 in New Kent County, Virginia. Lucy was born in in New Kent County, Virginia; died in in Fort Nashboro, Davidson, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]