President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison Grant Land to the Heirs of a Major Who Served in the Continental Army

On October 19, 1777, Thomas Hogg of North Carolina was promoted to Major and transferred to the 5th North Carolina Regiment. On June 1, 1778, he was again transferred, this time to the 3rd NC Regiment, where he remained until the end of the war. In July of 1778, he was given command of the “Major’s Company” of soldiers within the 3rd NC Regiment, and he led this unit into 1779. He continued as a Major until his retirement on 1/1/1783. At the end of the Revolutionary War, he succeeded to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He was in the Battles of Monmouth, Fort Moultrie and Charleston.

He was thus entitled to land as a reward, but because he had died in the interim, that land went to his family members.

Document signed by Jefferson as President and Madison as Secretary of State, Washington, January 10, 1805, granting land to Hogg’s brothers. “In pursuance of an act of Congress passed on the first of June 1796 entitled ‘An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the heathen’”, which act was supplemented by acts of 1799 and 1803, a grant of land was made to Samuel Hogg, Jr., and John Baptist Hogg, heirs at law of Thomas Hogg, deceased, who was a major in the late Army of the United States, in consideration of the said Thomas Hogg’s military service…”