Solomon Hoge, Sr.

From Hoge, Nichols and Related Families (Nichols) Pg. V11

Solomon Hoge (1221) Son of William Jr. and Esther (Brown) Hoge married out of unity and acknowledge his error in 1774 and continued to reside in Richland until 1782 when he took his certificate to Virginia which included his wife Ester and their minor children. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ From Hoge, Nichols and Related Families (Nichols) Pg. 68-70

Solomon Hoge of Frederick County and State of Virginia, son of William and Esther Hoge, deceased, and Mary Fisher, daughter of Barak Fisher, deceased, and Mary, his wife, of aforesaid county, were married the 5th day of the 3rd month, 1794, at Back Creek. Among those signing the marriage certificate were: William Hoge Sr. (grandfather), Jesse Hoge, Asa Hoge, William Hoge and Esther Hoge. Solomon and Mary (Fisher) Hoge removed to Green County, Pa. Their son Solomon, born 3/13/1803, married Rachel Huss. They in turn were the parents of Solomon Fisher Hogue, A.M., M.E.D., Ph. D., who married Lydia Evans. Dr. Hoge was born at Hoge's Mills near Waynesburg, Green Co. Pa., April 1, 1848. He adopted the spelling "Hogue" claiming that the family had its origin in Normandy, France, prior to emigrating to Holland and Scotland. When in 1749, a meeting for worship was permanently established at Goose Creek, Loudoun County, their meetings were first held at the house of Isaac Nichols, father of Mary Nichols, second wife of Solomon Hoge, who was the father of the family delineated in the elegant family tree the data for which was gathered and organized by Lucina Hoge, and son of William Hoge (2nd), the first member to marry a Quaker and adopt the Quaker faith. Later a big meeting house was built on land donated by Isaac Nichols. In 1792 the meeting house was enlarged, also money was subscribed to help purchase a lot to accommodate the yearly meeting at Baltimore. In 1795, Isaac Nichols executed a deed to the ten acres of land which he had donated for the use of the meeting which was duly recorded in the name of the sundry trustees. In 1817 the need for a house for the accommodation of the "poor" became evident and after consideration it was decided to build a new meeting house and arrange the old meeting house for this purpose. So a little latter, when it was available, the old meeting house was partitioned into apartments, one of which was to be occupied by the family of the caretaker, and the rest of the rooms were used to accommodate the poor. In this connection it should be noted that Goose Creek metting has from its beginning taken good care of all its poor, even in some cases to the paying of Hospitalization in a Philadelphia hospital, thus keeping up the tradition of the Society of Friends that each and every meeting must take care of its own poor and that no poor member should ever be sent to a public ?lms house. In 1817 a new meeting house 65X40 was contracted for with Daniel Cockrill for the sum of $3500. The building was completed in 1819 at a cost of $4000. The builder was reimbursed for his loss. In 1815 a schoolhouse was built on the meeting lot after which a teacher was hired regularly and the school was kept in session during the greater part of each year. The meeting directed that all colored persons employed in the homes of members must be given a "useful school learning." A large stable to house the horses of members attending the meeting was built and in 1832 two saddle houses 8x12 were added. A large graveyard was set out and a stone wall built around it. It is one of the most beautiful grounds in Virginia and has been carefully tended since the beginning. In 1808 it was agreed that burial of non-members would be permitted but "the privilege could only be granted on condition of (those making application) conforming on those occasions to our plain way." Seperate meetings for men and women were kept until 1889 when it was decided to hold joint meetings between the two branches. In 1876 it was agreed "that when persons not members of the Society of Friends wishes to marry a member, he or she may make application to men Friends or women Friends for such marriage; if allowed, the marriage to be solomized in the usual manner, but this does not include receiving the said person into membership." Goose Creek Monthly Meeting is located nine miles west of Leesburg, Loudoun County, Va. forty-five miles west of Alexandria and eight miles south of Waterford, two miles south from "Purcell Station" of Washington and Old Dominion Railroad. In 1823 Virginia passed a law requiring all marriages be recorded in county offices. Prior to that date, Quaker marriages were recorded only in the Registers of Monthly Meetings. Thus Quaker marriages in Virginia from 1656 to 1823, one hundred sixty-seven years, can only be found in the old registers. It is to be remembered that the majority of families who were early settlers in the Shenandoah Valley migrated there from Pennsylvania beginning about 1732. East Nottingham Monthly Meeting being the nearest Monthly Meeting, families coming into the valley prior to 1737, left their certificates at this meeting. After Hopewell Monthly Meeting was established, all families immigrating into the valley deposited their certificates at Hopewell Monthly Meeting. Unfortunately, the books of Hopewell Monthly Meeting covering the period 1735 to 1759 were burned in a fire and these records with the exception of such as can be obtained through certificates from other Monthly Meetings were lost forever. Periodically, or about once each generation, a committee was appointed by Goose Creek Monthly Meeting to visit all families within its verge and gather from their family Bibles and other family records all possible data as to births and deaths. These committees had to travel great distances, usually on horseback, along roads which were largely mere trails, to reach the homes of those living in the outmost parts of the Shenandoah Valley within the verge of the Meeting; in some cases, they had to travel beyond the Alleghany Mountains. To make such visits to families took not merely days, but months. But the men and women composing such committees were hardened to frontier life and were undaunted by such an experience. Families living at great distances seldom attended services since it would require travelling by ox-team wagons for several days each way, if the whole family came, but even on horseback it was a long way. But such families gathered together with their neighbors and held meetings at each other's homes.

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