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[Identification of item], in the Thomas Devereux Hogg Papers #344, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

T. D. Hogg's accounts as ordnance and commissary officer are available on microfilm.

Additional microfilm: All or part of this collection is available on microfilm from University Publications of America as part of the Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series J.

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Received from Sallie Dortch before 1940.

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• Account books.
• Blount, Joseph, Jr.
• Blount, Joseph.
• Bryan, James L.
• Bryan, Lucy Haywood.
• Clark, David, fl. 1798-1829.
• Coaching (Transportation)--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Ordnance and ordnance stores.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Records and correspondence.
• Estates (Law)--North Carolina.
• Guardian and ward.
• Hawkins, Colin M., fl. 1860-1880.
• Hawkins, Janet Hogg, fl. 1800.
• Hogg, Gavin, 1788-1835.
• Hogg, James.
• Hogg, Thomas Devereux, 1823-1904.
• Hosack, David, 1769-1835.
• Insanity (Law)
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History.
• Maitland, Benjamin.
• Medicine--Study and teaching--United States.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Plantations--North Carolina.
• Raleigh (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Sawmills--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Stringham, James S. (James Sackett), 1775-1817.

Gavin Hogg (1788-1835) was born in Wick, Caithness, Scotland, and came to the United States with his parents, James and Mary Finlayson Hogg, around 1797. He became a lawyer, practicing in Windsor, Bertie County, N.C. He married Mary Ann Bayard Johnson of Stratford, Conn., in 1822; they had several children who died in infancy and one surviving son, Thomas Devereux Hogg.

Thomas Devereux Hogg (1823-1904) was born in Raleigh. In 1853, he was appointed to the board of commissioners for the State Hospital for the Insane (later renamed Dorothea Dix Hospital). He was also an incorporator, director, and stockholder of the Raleigh Gaslight Company, chartered in 1859. In 1860, he became the president of the Oak City Savings Bank. His antebellum business activities also included a partnership with his wife's uncle, James L. Bryan, in a Baltimore distillery and one with Robert W. Haywood in the Raleigh Planing Mills, which began operation in the summer of 1853. During the Civil War, he was chief commissary officer of the Subsistence Department of North Carolina. Thomas D. Hogg married Janet Bryan, the daughter of John S. Bryan of Plymouth, N.C., in 1848. They had three daughters: Sally, who never married; Lucy, who married Isaac Foote Dortch and had eight children; and Janet, who married Colin Hawkins.

James L. Bryan (1799-1856) was a lawyer in Baltimore and in Windsor, N.C. For many years, he managed the affairs of his cousin Joseph Blount, Jr., who was subject to periodic fits of insanity. He was also a partner in the firm of Bryan and Maitland. James Bryan never married.

The collection includes scattered papers of Gavin Hogg (1788-1835), lawyer of Windsor and Raleigh, N.C., and of his son, Thomas Devereux Hogg. Included are account books of David Clark, merchant and planter of Martin and Halifax counties, N.C., for whom G. Hogg was executor, and accounts and letters pertaining to the affairs of Joseph Blount and his son, Joseph, Jr., of Edenton and Hillsborough, N.C. G. Hogg was Blount's executor and James L. Bryan, of Windsor and Baltimore, Md., was attorney for Joseph, Jr., who was at intervals an inmate of the Friends Asylum in Pennsylvania. T. D. Hogg married Bryan's niece and was his executor. Also, letters of Benjamin Maitland of Baltimore, Bryan's partner in operating a distillery; letters of Lucy Haywood (Mrs. John S.) Bryan on personal affairs and news of Raleigh; notes of James, brother of G. Hogg, on the medical lectures of Drs. David Hosack and James S. Stringham of New York; accounts of T. D. Hogg as ordnance and commissary officer of North Carolina, 1862-1865; and accounts of a sawmill and a stage line. Later papers are those of Colin M. Hawkins and Janet (Hogg) Hawkins.

• Oversize volumes (SV-344/7; SV-344/8; SV-344/10; SV-344/18; SV-344/21; SV-344/23)