 Abt 1747 - Abt 1803 (56 years)
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| Name |
Jacob Hough [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] |
| Birth |
Abt 1747 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Abt 1803 |
Jacobs Creek, PA  |
| Person ID |
I58764 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
8 Feb 2006 |
| Family |
Charlote Smith, b. Abt 1747 d. Abt 1827 (Age 80 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. Jacob Hough |
| | 2. John Hough |
| | 3. Paul Hough, b. 16 Nov 1771, Jacobs Creek, PA d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 4. David Hough, b. 27 Feb 1774, Jacobs Creek, PA d. 3 Mar 1858 (Age 84 years) |
| | 5. Joseph Hough, b. 29 Mar 1780, Westmoreland Co., PA d. 7 Dec 1846, South Huntingdon Twp., Westmoreland Co., PA (Age 66 years) |
| | 6. Eva Hough, b. 6 Nov 1781 d. 30 Nov 1870 (Age 89 years) |
| | 7. Peter Hough, b. 2 Nov 1784 d. 7 Jul 1845 (Age 60 years) |
| | 8. Soloman Hough, b. 14 Oct 1787, Westmoreland Co., PA d. Aft 1845, Westmoreland Co., PA (Age 58 years) |
| | 9. Abraham Hough |
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| Family ID |
F24752 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
22 Feb 2009 |
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 | Death - Abt 1803 - Jacobs Creek, PA |
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| Notes |
Hough Family Crest
from Hough Genealogy by Elmer Hough. |
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settled in South Huntingdon Twp., Westmoreland Co., Pa. on the watershed of Jacob's Creek, formerly known as Salt Creek. They are reputed to be the first Hough family settling west of the Alleghany Mountains. Jacob Hough recorded his deed (4-28-1782) for 140 acres bought from John Main.
He was in the Revolutionary War, Capt. Ezekial Ross Co., Westmoreland Co. Militia (Pg 39 Pa. Archives, 6th series Volume Two) in the same company as Absalom Hough and Mathias Hough. During the Sandusky expedition, the British kept inciting the Indians into scalping and burning attacks against the settlers of eastern Ohio and western Pa. This company joined Col. Wm. Crawford's attempts to put down these indians. In 1782, Crawford led a combined force of Virginians and Pennsylvanians in an attack on Mingo Indians and Delaware Indians along the Sandusky River. Crawford and his men fought off the natives and their British allies at the Battle of the Olentangy on June 6, 1782, but the following day the American forces were divided and Crawford and a number of his men were captured. The natives tortured and killed Crawford.
Jacob HOUGH and his sons were successful in farming, milling, and distilling. To market what they were able to grow, they found it advantageous to convert their corn to whiskey. This caused conflict with authorities, and Jacob and his sons were involved in the Whiskey Rebellion. By family tradition, there were nine children, but only eight were mentioned in the Jacob Hough will:
Looking at a map of South Huntingdon Twp. Westmoreland,PA published in 1873, in An Atlas of Westmoreland County, we find : |
D. Hough, two dwellings near town of Port Royal on the Youghiogheny between Smithton and West Newton; P. Hough occupying 122 acres a mile or two to the east of Port Royal; a mile and a half to the south of the 122 acres a group of homes/bldgs. labeled W. Hough (2), Wm. Hough, M.Hough (2), and Mrs. Hough;
in the town of Jacob's Creek on the Yough a dwelling labeled W. Hough ; on a small creek leading into Jacobs Creek a mile to the southeast from the town of Jacob's Creek labeled J. Hough a sawmill and gristmill; a single building labeled J.Hough in the center south of the Township ; and finally on the border between South and East Huntingdon a piece labeled 25 and J.Hough.
(email from Allen McCrady - 11/2004) |
Port Royal and Jacobs Creek
| Will Abstracts Westmoreland County,Will Book 1 |
Jacob Hough of East Huntington Twp. "Sick and weak", Wife,,Sharlota, Sons: Jacob,John,Paul,David,Peter,Joseph,and Salomon,Daugther:Eva Snider,Executors:sons,Jacob and Paul.Witnesses: Nicholas Swope and David (X) Weaver. Will dated -- --- ----; proved 19 Mar 1803. Testator signed with his mark. (page 176) |
| Orphans Court Abstracts Westmoreland County,Docket A |
22 Sept 1806,Jacob Hough and Paul Hough,exectors of the estate of Jacob Hough dec'd exhibited their account. Personal estate: $962,91.Disbursments,including $30 as allowance to the executors for their trouble and expense,are $307.41. Balance after deducting $1.75 ( cost of entry,Copy,and Certificate) is $653,75 to be distributed to the will of the deceased. (page 202) |
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| For more information see the Our Folk - Hart family Web Site |
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| Sources |
- [S864] David E Weiler, The Weiler-Ebersole Family Tree, (http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=weilertree&id=I5231).
- [S870] Ohio Historical Society, Ohio History Central, (http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/ohc/history/h_indian/people/crawfordw.shtml).
- [S865] Elmer Hough, Hough Genealogy, (1936 Rutland, VT).
- [S871] Jamie Simcox, My Family Ties, (http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=senorasimcox&id=I01362).
- [S925] Allen D. McCrady and Jamie Simcox, email from Allen. McCrady and Jamie Simcox, (Nov 2004).
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