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Colonel over the Orange County Regiment of Militia - 1775-1776 |
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| On 9/9/1775, John Hogan was commissioned as Colonel/Commandant over the Orange County Regiment of Militia. He led this regiment in the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge on 2/27/1776. He resigned his commission in April of 1776. | |||||
| John Hogan was born c.1745, the son of Thomas Hogan and Elizabeth ? in Prince William County, VA, and died in April of 1810 in Montgomery County, TN. By 1770, he had married Mary Lloyd, and they had six known children. By 1790, John Hogan had acquired 1,938 acres in Orange County, of which he donated 200 acres for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was elected as a State Senator from Orange County in 1779. After his wife's death, he moved to what became Montgomery County, Tennessee. | |||||
| If anyone has a decent biography of this man, please send it to this Author via e-mail or snail mail, and it will be added here, with full credit given. |
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