Hogg, James, 1729-1805

Scottish emigrant to Orange County, N.C., circa 1774.

James Hogg came to North Carolina from Scotland about the year 1774, and settled near Hillsborough, Orange County, N.C. He quickly became prominent in the community and during the Revolutionary War he sided with the Revolutionary party. His brother, Robert, a merchant of Wilmington, N.C., who had been in the colony for some time before James arrived, was a Loyalist during the Revolution and left North Carolina.

James Hogg had two sons, Walter and Gavin, whose surnames were changed to their mother's name of Alves. They moved to Kentucky. Hogg's daughter Elizabeth married John Huske of Wilmington, N.C.; his daughter Robina married William Norwood of Hillsborough, N.C.; and his daughter Helen first married William Hooper, the son of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and then Joseph Caldwell, president of the University of North Carolina from 1804 to 1835.