Thomas Hoggard Administration Files

Name: Thoms Hoggard
Probate Date: 1801
Probate Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Inferred Death Year: Abt 1801
Inferred Death Place: Pennsylvania, USA
Case Number: 12
Item Description: Administration Files, No 252-255, 1-75, 77-82, 1800-1801
Table of Contents 3 images
Cover Page 1
Administration Papers 2–3

Thomas Hoggard was Elizabeth Willcox's third husband. She was only married to him about a year when he was killed in a battle near Gibraltar. He was captain of the ship Louisa.

In "A Register of Marriages and Deaths 1800-1801" from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 23, it states the following:
A Register of Marriages and Deaths, 1800-1801 from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 23

Deaths (from the Issue of November 29, 1800):
Died--
At Gibraltar, of the wounds he received in his gallant action with several privateers and piratical barges, Captain Thomas Hoggard, of the ship Louisa, of Philadelphia.

We have adminstration files for his estate:

Know all Men by thefe Prefents, That we Elizabeth Hoggard wido of Capt. Thos Hoggard decd. Robert Webb of Southward Jeweller and Peter Scravendyke of the City of Philad. Tallow Chandler are held and firmly bound unto the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the fum of Four thousand Dollars to be paid to the Commonwealth: To the which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourfelves, jointly and feverally, for an in the whole, our Heirs, Executors and Adminiftrators, and each and every of them firmly by thefe Prefents. Sealed with out Seals. Dated the nineteeht Day of Jany in the year of our Lord One Thoufand eight Hundred & one.

Link to files


This book (not available online) talks about Captain Thomas Hoggard: Biography of a Colonial Town: Hamilton, Bermuda, 1790-1897 by Jean de Chantal Kennedy.

HOLY SMOLY FRIJOLE. Here's a story to behold: READ THIS!
Recollections of a Voyage to Italy in the year 1800 in The Port Folio
By Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall pp 207 to 236

https://books.google.com/books?id=c_EaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA210&dq=captain+thomas+hoggard&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjK1KbK2a3NAhUQ_mMKHbOEAAwQ6AEINjAF#v=onepage&q=captain%20thomas%20hoggard&f=false

I'm not sure if this document pertains, but if it does, it would be huge.

"READ an Application, certified by Capt. Moorfom, from Elizabeth Barton, Mary Cooper, and Sufannah Hall, of Gainsburgh, in Lincolnfhire, Sifters of the late Thomas Hoggard, Seaman, of H.M.S. Revenge, killed in action with the Combined Fleets, off Cape Trafalgar, on the 21ft of October laft:

RESOLVED,
That the fum of Forty Pounds be given, to be divided between the three fifters of the late Thomas Hoggard, at the difcretion of the Rev. C. B. Maffinberg, Minifter of the Parifh, and of the Chief Magiftrate of the place.

From https://books.google.com/books?id=yYdhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA332&dq=captain+thomas+hoggard&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjK1KbK2a3NAhUQ_mMKHbOEAAwQ6AEIMTAE#v=onepage&q=captain%20thomas%20hoggard&f=false