I doubt it had anything to do with pigs.  Hogg is a Scottish surname and certainly there were many Scots on the Eastern Shore. ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, July 7, 2010 6:44:11 PM Subject: Re: [LDR] HOGG Quarters..listings. Possibly that was the area in which pigs were kept.  And, since many  people had pigs, there would naturally be a lot of places called that.  At  any rate, it sounds logical. Elizabeth In a message dated 7/7/2010 7:40:23 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  [email protected] writes: John, I assumed that once someone named  their property, such as HOGG Quarters, that it was more or less consider  like a patent.  Now I see that I was wrong.  Now, one does  wonder how the early settlers ever came up with such a name.  ;) Michelle ----- Original Message ----- From:  <[email protected]> To:  <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010  5:40 PM Subject: Re: [LDR] HOGG Quarters..listings. > There  was no gatekeeper preventing tract names being used again and >  again.  There were over 60 different patents titled HOG QUARTER  (often > spelled then as HOGG ...) spread across Somerset, Worcester  and > Wicomico, and a few now in Sussex.  As I said in my earlier  post, over > a third of these were in what's now Worcester.    The most common tract > name, though, was just plain CHANCE, which seems  to have been used 155 > times ... This is the sort of thing which can  confuse things mightily > for researchers.  One of the  characteristic problems in Ruth Dryden's > published volumes is her  assignment of deeds in title histories to the > wrong tract of the same  name.  Using that data carelessly has led many > people to barking  up the wrong HOG QUARTER, or CHANCE, or whatever. > > Black cattle  were among the Somerset 1783 collected stats, too. > Googling a bit, one  finds that black Angus also became prized, but it > seems that was a  little later breeding development.  One wonders if > "black cattle"  was somehow a more general term of agricultural art, > applied to "the  best", whatever their breed, but this is beyond my pay > grade.  I've always wondered about these assessment categories, with > questions  like "What about sheep and hogs and oxen?"  There was surely >  method behind the particular madness of the chosen assets, and only >  those. > > John > > > > > >  -----Original Message----- > From: Michelle Burris Kenerly  <[email protected]> > To:  [email protected] > Sent: Wed, Jul 7, 2010 4:55  pm > Subject: [LDR] HOGG Quarters..listings. > > >  Members: >      I have read with great interest your  postings of property listed > as HOG > Quarters and HOGG Quarters.  It appears that this may have been several > acres and > or passed  down to a lot of different folks. >      My ancestral  records show that my GGGGG Grandfather Sothey KING > bought land >  listed as HOGG Quarters on March 18, 1776.  The deed showed that he  was > living > in Worcester Co., MD at the time. He may have even  lost the land later. >      Actually, I'm not  trying to get into the mix of things, just > thought it >  interesting that so many people had ownership of this named  property. >    Regards, >  Michelle > > > > >  *************************************** > QUESTIONS about POSTING  GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? > Visit The Lower DelMarVa  Roots Mailing List FAQ: >  http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >  ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please  send an email to > [email protected] >  with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the >  body of > the message > >  *************************************** > QUESTIONS about POSTING  GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? > Visit The Lower DelMarVa  Roots Mailing List FAQ: >  http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >  ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please  send an email to > [email protected] with the  word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of  the message *************************************** QUESTIONS about  POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? Visit The Lower DelMarVa  Roots Mailing List  FAQ: http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm ------------------------------- To  unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to  [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without  the quotes in the subject and the body of the  message *************************************** QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I'm sorry, but it had everything to do with pigs. Just as tracts named COW something referred to cows, and not Ebenezer Cow. Of some 12,000 patents and unpatented surveys made on the lower MD Shore, there seems to have been only one Hogg family represented, that of James Hogg who arrived in the general Berlin area ca 1700. A couple of tracts in that area were titled HOGGS FOLLY, referring to that family, and not the four-legged critters ... John -----Original Message----- From: Charles Webster <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, Jul 9, 2010 4:04 pm Subject: Re: [LDR] HOGG Quarters..listings. I doubt it had anything to do with pigs.  Hogg is a Scottish surname and certainly there were many Scots on the Eastern Shore. ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, July 7, 2010 6:44:11 PM Subject: Re: [LDR] HOGG Quarters..listings. Possibly that was the area in which pigs were kept.  And, since many  people had pigs, there would naturally be a lot of places called that.  At  any rate, it sounds logical. Elizabeth In a message dated 7/7/2010 7:40:23 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  [email protected] writes: John, I assumed that once someone named  their property, such as HOGG Quarters, that it was more or less consider  like a patent.  Now I see that I was wrong.  Now, one does  wonder how the early settlers ever came up with such a name.  ;) Michelle ----- Original Message ----- From:  <[email protected]> To:  <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010  5:40 PM Subject: Re: [LDR] HOGG Quarters..listings. > There  was no gatekeeper preventing tract names being used again and >  again.  There were over 60 different patents titled HOG QUARTER  (often > spelled then as HOGG ...) spread across Somerset, Worcester  and > Wicomico, and a few now in Sussex.  As I said in my earlier  post, over > a third of these were in what's now Worcester.    The most common tract > name, though, was just plain CHANCE, which seems  to have been used 155 > times ... This is the sort of thing which can  confuse things mightily > for researchers.  One of the  characteristic problems in Ruth Dryden's > published volumes is her  assignment of deeds in title histories to the > wrong tract of the same  name.  Using that data carelessly has led many > people to barking  up the wrong HOG QUARTER, or CHANCE, or whatever. > > Black cattle  were among the Somerset 1783 collected stats, too. > Googling a bit, one  finds that black Angus also became prized, but it > seems that was a  little later breeding development.  One wonders if > "black cattle"  was somehow a more general term of agricultural art, > applied to "the  best", whatever their breed, but this is beyond my pay > grade.  I've always wondered about these assessment categories, with > questions  like "What about sheep and hogs and oxen?"  There was surely >  method behind the particular madness of the chosen assets, and only >  those. > > John > > > > > >  -----Original Message----- > From: Michelle Burris Kenerly  <[email protected]> > To:  [email protected] > Sent: Wed, Jul 7, 2010 4:55  pm > Subject: [LDR] HOGG Quarters..listings. > > >  Members: >      I have read with great interest your  postings of property listed > as HOG > Quarters and HOGG Quarters.  It appears that this may have been several > acres and > or passed  down to a lot of different folks. >      My ancestral  records show that my GGGGG Grandfather Sothey KING > bought land >  listed as HOGG Quarters on March 18, 1776.  The deed showed that he  was > living > in Worcester Co., MD at the time. He may have even  lost the land later. >      Actually, I'm not  trying to get into the mix of things, just > thought it >  interesting that so many people had ownership of this named  property. >    Regards, >  Michelle > > > > >  *************************************** > QUESTIONS about POSTING  GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? > Visit The Lower DelMarVa  Roots Mailing List FAQ: >  http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >  ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please  send an email to > [email protected] >  with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the >  body of > the message > >  *************************************** > QUESTIONS about POSTING  GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? > Visit The Lower DelMarVa  Roots Mailing List FAQ: >  http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >  ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please  send an email to > [email protected] with the  word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of  the message *************************************** QUESTIONS about  POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? 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