Oglesby, Thomas Jacob.

Merchants, farmer.

Smithson H. Davis and Bowker Preston, doing business as Davis & Preston, with headquarters at Lynchburg and Bedford, Virginia, were general merchants, traders in cotton, tobacco, wheat, hides and skins, and purchased and "hired out" slaves to various farmers. John Hook was a farmer and a cattleman who also operated a loan business, dealing in British currency. He was known as "A Scotchman, a man of wealth, and suspected of being unfriendly to the American cause."

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