Joseph McLendon Hough

Joseph Hough Sr., G2 Born 14 Mar 1703 in Bensalem, Bucks, Pennsylvaniamap ANCESTORS ancestors Son of John Hough and Hannah (Worthington) Hough Brother of John Hough II, Mary (Hough) Fisher, Stephen Hough, Hannah (Hough) Ashton, Daniel Hough Sr. and Sarah (Hough) Richardson [spouse%28s%29 unknown] DESCENDANTS descendants Father of Joseph Hough II, Amos Hough, Sampson Hough, Barbara (Hough) Phillips, John Hough and Abraham Hough Died before 4 Apr 1775 in Anson County, North Carolinamap Profile manager: Barbara Roesch private message [send private message] Profile last modified 14 May 2020 | Created 10 Mar 2015 This page has been accessed 1,818 times.

Joseph was a Friend (Quaker) Joseph Hough's birth is recorded in the Falls Monthly Meeting Birth records, to John and Hannah Hough. [1] [1]

Though no specific document confirms it, multiple records show a close association between Joseph and Daniel Hough, Their birth images are a page apart along with siblings from John and Hannah (Worthington) Hough. Secondary and derivative sources support the children for more than several generations. They carry on into North Carolina and back to PA; thence to Quaker activities, births, marriages and burials in NC, SC, OH and IN for at least seven generations! (remember that number). Those derivative records are found among John Hough, Jr. G2 called "ye younger" ; his son; Daniel Hough G3; and Daniel's wife Judith Hartley along with at least 4 descendant generations of Daniel and Judith.

Returning to our subjects Joseph and Daniel Hough they are found recorded in Quaker record births as 14 June 1693 and 14 Mar 1703 as sons born of of John and Hannah. No other documents show other persons in their place. Joseph stayed in NC where he died in 1774/5.[2]

They disappeared from PA after the 1736 death and settlement of their father’s estate. Since they received more than their share prior to their father's death, they were not assigned further behests. It seems they decided to make their way south.

Joseph and Daniel HOUGH appeared in Bertie Co., NC in 1738 in deeds, jury lists, and other records supporting the connection between the brothers and a CHESHIRE family from NJ to NC which appears in 1739.

Land Acquisitions Also in 1739 Joseph Hough bought a section of land on the North side of the Meherrin River from Joseph Nixon[3] adj. land of William Faulk. Joseph Hough sold 170a of this land to Nathaniel FIELD, shoemaker who sold it to Robert Thorp of Surry Co., VA on 6 Mar 1840. [4].

Earlier, on 15 Aug 1739, an additional 140a had been sold for 20£ to Elizabeth CHESHIRE, an orphan who had chosen Daniel HOUGH for her guardian that year. [5] See Daniel Hough and wife Elizabeth.

When Edgecombe Co was formed in 1741, Joseph Hough's land fell in that county and he continued buying and selling property there. On 17 Sep 1741, he bought from Benjamin Hill of Bertie County 560a on the North side of Fishing Creek. [6] Joseph Hough on 15 Feb 1743 sold the 560a on Fishing Creek to Stephen Weaver of Edgecombe Co. [7]. Benjamin Hill was a merchant of Bertie Co., NC, who a few months later on 23 Aug 1743 bought out the personal property of Daniel Hough of Bertie Co for 289 pounds, 10 shillings. [8]]. Thus both men were in Bertie Co. between 1738 and 1743

29 Dec 1743 Joseph Hough bought for 8 pounds, Virginia money, 480a from Edward Poore of Edgecombe Co., land which Poore had purchased from William Weight of VA. [[9] Joseph sold this land a year later on 20 Nov 1744 for 46 pounds, VA money, to Joseph Whitehead [10] This property was on the West side of Elk Swamp between Bare Marsh and Little Swamp. No other records were identified in Edgecombe Co. According to historian Granville W. Hough; hereafter, the records were found in Halifax Co because, when Halifax Co. was formed, the old county seat was in the new county. The first Halifax County Clerk merely put the Halifax name on the old records. [11]

According to GWH, Daniel and Joseph HOUGH (shown as HUGH and HUFF in one index) were in Orange Co., NC records in 1755 which recorded taxation for himself and a “Negro wench named Joan.” [12]. The wench is also recorded exactly in the same words in Joseph’s 1775 Inventory but as “Jane.” The point being if they were the same woman, they were together nearly 25 years.

As an aside, referenced in the Daniel Huff and wife Mary (Worley) Huff profile, 1751 was the year Dunn MM of Cumberland Co, NC joined the Western Quaker Society and became closely associated with Cane Creek MM in Alamance Co., (aka Orange Co.) This is to indicate that Daniel and Joseph, both taxed in 1755 Orange County were also active near the same Quaker MM (Cane Creek, Deep River) gatherings, which is pertinent to the early PA immigrants and later IN migrants, around the turn of the coming new century. More support for the relationship.

Joseph HOUGH, Sr., then shows up on Cumberland County, which had been formed in 1754 from Bladen Co. In 1763 Joseph Hough, Sr. was a land owner on Great Buffalo Creek, 200a which he purchased from Alexander Thompson [13] That same year he sold 100a of the same land to Mathew Campbell.[14] and the second 100a he sold to Thomas Thompson. [15]; [16]

Joseph, in 1767 then purchased 5 acres of Yadkin's Road land from John Donahoe [17]. Then, by 22 Dec 1768, Joseph Hough had acquired an Anson Co., NC Patent on Brown’s Creek near one Samuel Hough. [18]. He sold 100a of the Brown's Ck. land on 25 Oct 1773 to William McHenry. [19]. Witnesses were Sampson Hough and Stephen Miller whose MILLER descendants in the next generation or two intermarried with the grandchildren of Joseph, Sr. [20]

Commenting on slave ownership is pertinent at this point. Quakers had always been slaveholders but by the 1770's they began to realize that the owning of another human being was against laws of humanity.

As early as 1776, Quaker records are filled with discussions among men's and women's monthly, quarterly and yearly meetings as to how to deal with it. They changed their positions on principals of behavior when using people of color. The laws in the south were impeding their desire to free slaves, making it legally and financially nearly impossible to do. Joseph's inventory includes a "Negro Wench" but does not use the word "Slave." Could this be a politically correct vocabulary when ownership was unacceptable? Or, until the owner either gave up and moved out of the south; or stayed and continued living between the rock and the hard place until being forced to face it in 1861? Those who stayed usually ended up no longer active, as did Joseph's descendants. There is a very old Quaker Cemetery in Camden, SC where some of Joseph Hough's grand and great grandchildren are buried.

The 1786 and 1790 censuses for Daniel and William in Surry Co. had no blacks (originally read as 11 blacks was actually 11 total free in the hh.) Still, it remains possible that they did use persons of color during this time of hard physical settlement work. Descendants of brother Daniel took the northwest "out" and removed to Indiana while Joseph's stayed in the Carolinas in the "upcountry" along the NC border.

Children of Joseph Hough, I and Unknown Joseph Hough (c 1740 - c 1806/17) is the Patriot Joseph Huff from SC. DAR records show a wife, Jane McLendon, sister or daughter of Joel McLendon. Unfortunately there is no document proving this wife. A second wife was given named Sarah who was likely confused with the wife of his brother Amos. [21] prob. Sampson Hough Sampson (c 1755 - 1823 Chatham Co, GA) Took in Amos Hough, his likely youngest brother, as guardian in 1775 and in 1777 bought Joel McLendon's land on Lane's Creek in NC. The following year, he sold this land to his presumed brother Amos. Sampson served in the Rev. War, by family tradition in KY, then one Sampson Hough moved through Barnwell District of SC to GA. The Sampson Hough will in Chatham Co, GA, in 1823 did not mention any family. Interestingly, Amos' son Joseph named a son Sampson who named a child Joseph McLendon. [22] Amos Hough (1755/65 NC/PA - 29 Jan 1729 SC) in 1775 chose Sampson Hough as his guardian. In 1778, he bought Lane's Creek land from Sampson Hough and stayed there until 1792, when he bought 100 acres of land in Chesterfield Co, SC, on Dead Pine Branch of Big Lynches Creek [23]. Amos md Sarah Bivens dau of Nathaniel Bivens by long standing tradition. Chn of Amos and Sarah were: Joseph; Amos; Nathaniel; Joel; Moses; John; Margaret; Mary; Dorcas; and Sarah. John Hough (1755/65 - 1802/10 Chesterfield Dist., SC) witnessed two deeds by Amos Hough in 1792 and one for Joseph Hough in 1794. He was definitely there in 1800 with a large hh. In 1810, there was a widow, Nancy Hough, in the county who was probably his wife. One younger John Hough later moved to Lauderdale Co, AL, then on to Itawamba Co, MS. This family seems to have been identified as descending from John. The same ch listed for John were once suggested as those of the Patriot. Barbara Hough Phillips (c1757 - d May 1842, age 85) in Washington or Wilkes Co, GA, md Rev. Levi PHILLIPS and had a large family. The PHILLIPS family moved from GA back into SC. (Lineage of Robert BURGESS of SC, dated 1980, in Dallas Public Library.) (With a birth year of 1757, it seems more than likely that Barbara was of the same generation as Joseph, Jr. [24] The Phillips family of Chesterfield Distr., SC, Aaron and Elijah, have been briefly followed and no relationship to Levi Phillips has been located to date. The marker for Levi names Barbara without a maiden name, yet the Hough name is added to her memorial. Tradition of Barbara has been around for over 70 years. See Findagrave Memorial #76599552 for Barbara and #76599427 for Rev. Phillips. Jacob Hough appears in an unsourced 1859 record of possible ch or grandchildren of Joseph, Sr. of Anson. One Joseph HUFF, is a neighbor to Jacob Huff in 1790 Orangeburg, SC suggesting a connection but no documents link him. Dr. Hough updated this profile later in 1992 stating: One Jacob HOFF or HOOFF was the ancestor of the HOFF families of Colleton Co, SC. In age, he was more likely a contemporary of Joseph HOUGH than a son. In 1790, in Orangeburg Dist. of SC, Jacob Huff showed 2-2-5, listed next to Joseph Huff, who showed 1-1-1. They were probably related but how is not known. This listing may be the reason Joseph was said to have had a brother Jacob. The only 1800 Jacob in SC is the one in Colleton Co, showing 02130-10010, then in 1810 as Jacob HOOFF with 30010-10010 and 14 slaves. These do not match. It is conceivable, however, that Jacob a brother of Joseph, could have established this HOFF lineage, later joined by relatives. A better candidate for son of Joseph was Jacob HOFF, listed near Joel HOFF on Goose Creek in 1810, showing 12110-11010. This Jacob in 1830, showed age of 50 to 60, which would fix his birth year to 1770 to 1780, which would fit the family of Joseph. Some of the descendants of the Goose Creek families changed to HOUGH after about 1850. Dna may have something to say about this.

One James Hough was considered but Dr. Hough stated later information suggested he was from a entirely different line.

The strongest contenders for sons of Joseph of Anson, Sr. are associated with the "Waxhaws" in the SC upcountry, aka, "backcountry" along the NC border. Jacob may be the man who removed to the lowcountry of Colleton County and developed a large family line in the Goose Creek lowlands. Jacob is better defined in his and his son's profile: DanielHough

NOTE: It was not uncommon to see a SC soldier, recently in Georgia, listed in Orangeburg county soon after returning to SC, at least from the early 1760s and through the Revolution. Private

An example is the Patriot Joseph buying property in 1793: Hugh McManus sells to Joseph Hough of the State of Georgia, county of Washington, land in Chesterfield District, SC. He may be the same Joseph Huff, neighbor of Jacob and possible brother but nothing confirms it. [25] Indeed, James McManus, brother of Hugh, above, was also recorded in Orangeburg County in 1768 after returning from GA and he soon returned to the upcountry.

The story of Joseph, I and Daniel, their PA ancestors and descendants to NC, SC and IN has significant secondary evidence to suggest the connection and nothing to contradict it to date. Hard evidence also supports the Daniel and Joseph as the same sons of John and Hannah through events surrounding their sons and by their future generational associations.

HOUGH lineage is: Joseph Hough of Early NC and prob. PA > John and Hannah (Worthington) Hough of Wilmslow, Macclesfield Hundred Cheshire, England), and Bucks Co. PA

DNA Test Data The following are four descendants who have taken a Big Y test:

Hough-Joseph W. Hough Big Y500 terminal SNP is I-Y49500 a direct descendant and 7th grandson of Joseph Hough, I, our subject. Hough-2759|Phillip Benjamin Hough]] has the same results as his third cousin, Joseph W., above. Marshall V. Hough, Sr. who is a direct descendant of Needham Hough, grandson of Joseph Hough, II, Patriot. Marshall has taken Big Y test and his Y-DNA Haplogroup is also I-Y49500. Any future Y-DNA tests of descendants should show the same I-Y49500 terminal SNP.

Death and Legacy The Inventory of Joseph, Sr.’s estate was administered in Anson County, NC on 12 Apr 1775 by Joseph Hough, Jr., Patriot

Estate Inventory of Joseph Hough, Sr. On 14 Apr 1775, Amos HOUGH (md BIVENS) chose Sampson HOUGH to be his guardian. JPatriot Joseph then bought 58a of land on Lane's Creek from William MCCULLOUGH, Esq., on 15 Apr 1774, with witnesses James POLK and Mary ELBECK. Joseph, stating he was of the Province of SC, sold this land 2 Jun 1777 to William MORRIS, [26]

So it appears that Joseph HOUGH, Sr. had a close relationship with a Daniel HOUGH of Bertie/Edgecombe counties of NC in the late 1730s into the mid-1750s; then in the 1760's with a Samuel Hough and probable wife named Frances HOUGH of Anson Co.

It will be with studied review of the NC Houghs and their migrations Northwest and Southwest to show via derivative evidence that they have a familial connection to John and Hannah Hough of Middletown, Bucks, Pennsylvania.

Acknowledgements Many thanks to Max K. Huff and his brother Billy Huff for their continued efforts to update, clarify and correct the genealogical history of the Hough and Huff Families of the U.S begun in the 1930s and earlier.

Sources ↑ Quaker Births, Deaths, Marriages Falls MM page 187, image 174 ↑ Quaker records, PA Bucks Co., Falls Meeting Birth Records, p186; Ancestry image 176. ↑ NC Bertie Co DB E:375 ↑ NC Bertie Co., DB F:245 ↑ Vol. 4:524, Colonial Records of North Carolina, and Bertie Co DB #:507, from research of Granville W. Hough ↑ NC Halifax Co DB 5:17 ↑ NC Halifax Co DB 5:137-138 ↑ NC Bertie Co DBF:528 ↑ C Halifax Co DB 5:239 ↑ NC Halifax Co DB 5:305 ↑ Comment by Granville Hough (GWH) in an unpublished update of this family to contributor ↑ Dept. of Archives & History T. O. 105:12 ↑ NC Cumberland DB2:184 ↑ NC Cumberland Co DB 2:186 ↑ NC Cumberland DB 2:189 ↑ ibid: Recorded in the minutes of said court. Rich’d Grove, C.C. Cumberland Court Feb 1763 ↑ Cumberland DB3:137 ↑ per GWH: V4:524, Colonial Records of North Carolina ↑ NC Anson Co DB K:550 ↑ See Fam. #134 John and Hannah Hough of PA and England, Dec 2015 ↑ Interviews between author Granville W. Hough and Elizabeth (PItts) Hough of Camden, SC c1976 ↑ 1882 South Carolina, Kershaw Co., Camden Courthouse Probate Dept Estate of Joseph McLendon Hough, Adm., Isaac Shepherd Hough ↑ Lancaster Co, SC, DB B:307 ↑ 1992 Update Granville W. Hough Library and Max Huff, Library Custodian. ↑ 1794 SC Deed Book B; p305 ↑ Anson Co DB K:496/449 Anson Co., NC, 1775 estate administration for Joseph Hough, Sr. Lancaster County, SC deeds 1790-1800 research of original record books at Lancaster County Courthouse, 1993 by Breece-42 copies available. Orville Louis. Hough, Hough in Bucks Co., PA, 1975, pp 91-97, 115-116, for Daniel and Joseph Hough, sons of John and Hannah. Ibid. Bucks Co., PA, Orphan’s Court Records, Book A1, p68, Partitioning of Estate of John Hough of Middletown. Granville W. Hough, Hough and Huff Families of the US 1790-1850, Vols. 2, 3, 4, (PA, NJ, NC, OH, IN, SC) 1976 Ibid. Southern Hough and Huff Families Vol. VII, 1978 Ibid. Huff-Hough Database, 1992-1995, Unpublished, including U.S. Federal census updates and adding new families. The late Max Huff, publisher of Hough and Huff Newsletter and custodian of Granville W. Hough library with updates. 1992-1995. May Wilson McBee, Anson County, NC, Abstracts of Early Deeds, 1978. [See Vol. 1, pp. 100, 103, 105, 106 for Joseph Hough; p. 100 for Joseph Hough, Jr.; p. 102 for Amos; and p. 116 for Sampson and see pp. 64 and 122 for James Hough of the other lineage.] NC research by Frederick Dornan, per Dr. Granville W. Hough, believed hired by SC Perry Belle (Bennett) Hough, Lancaster, SC historian and compiler. Records of Mrs. Harold (Elizabeth Pitts) Hough, 1407 Broad St, Camden, SC 29020, local historian with traditions and records pertaining to PA links in mid 19th century, personal correspondence 1993-2008. Pettus, Louise: Correspondence with B. Roesch regarding land transactions. Ms. Pettus, a SC college professor and published historian from York Co., SC. Roesch, Barbara, John and Hannah Hough of England and PA, Families. #24 and #103, Daniel and Joseph Hough, respectively. 2015, Amazon copyright waived, use Look Inside feature.

DNA Connections It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Joseph by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree: Phillip Hough Find Relationship : Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 500 markers, haplogroup I-Y49500, FTDNA kit #879074 Pete Hough Find Relationship : Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup I-m253, FTDNA kit #79966 It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share DNA with Joseph: Betty (Vanderford) Malone Find Relationship : 23andMe , GEDmatch M327399 [compare] Rhonda (Elliott) Carmody Find Relationship : 23andMe , GEDmatch M715672 [compare] Adele DeBruhl Find Relationship : 23andMe , GEDmatch M220064 [compare] Cheryl (Wohlgemuth) Blevins Find Relationship : 23andMe Bobby Caudle Find Relationship : AncestryDNA , GEDmatch A754825 [compare], Ancestry member DEBRA_CAUDLE Bill Vinson Find Relationship : AncestryDNA , GEDmatch A310805 [compare] Barbara (Breece) Roesch Find Relationship : Family Tree DNA Family Finder , GEDmatch T121145 [compare], yourDNAportal BAR911f187e, FTDNA kit #679780 Teri Martinovich Find Relationship : AncestryDNA Barb (Mauldin) Stokes Find Relationship : AncestryDNA , GEDmatch A091260 [compare], Ancestry member stokesbarb

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Barbara (Breece) Roesch Hi Barry, Thanks for the info. Is there something you want me to do to change things??Barbara

posted 4 months ago by Barbara (Breece) Roesch

Barry Huff I was reading what you wrote on a the Hoff/Hooff families that were listed in Colleton S.C. and the Huff counted in Orangeburg S.C. in the 1790 census, They were two different families and origins. The Hoff of Colleton SC were Dutch named the Van Margen Hoff, there was one Jacob V M. Hoff who can be confused with the Jacob Huff of 1790 Orangeburg and later St. James Goose Creek S.C. To make things more confusing there were some spelling errors of Huff in the early census, 1790 Sam Huff was mistakenly spelled a Hoff in St. James Goose Creek S.C. and in 1810 both John & Joel Huff were mistakenly spelled as Hoff in St. James Goose Creek as well. The Huff were originally spelled as Hough and had changed it after the Rev War as I see, my line kept the spelling while others went back to the Hough original. posted 4 months ago by Barry Huff