Ancestors
Samuel Gregg
1706-1778 · Londonderry
Born 1706
Died 1778
Father: Capt. James Gregg
Children include Margaret
One of the four sons of Captain James Gregg, who was among the sixteen men who settled Londonderry in 1719. He married Mary Moor and they had seven children, four sons and three daughters. Their daughter Margaret married Robert Hogg, an Ulsterman who came over in the 1750s, and went with him to New Boston.
Two town histories written thirteen years apart put him together. The history of New Boston says that Robert Hogg married Margaret, daughter of Samuel Gregg of Londonderry, and that her mother was Mary Moor. The history of Londonderry, which never mentions the Hoggs, lists the captain's sons and says of the third that "Samuel married Mary Moor, by whom he had four sons and three daughters; James, John, Samuel, David, Margaret, Mary, and Elizabeth."
He held the rank of lieutenant. His nephew Samuel Gregg of Peterborough, writing in 1806, said that he and Mary Moore raised four sons and four daughters: James, John, Samuel and David, then Margaret, the eldest daughter, Elizabeth, Mary and Agnes.
He died on 1 October 1778 and was buried in the old burying ground at East Derry, near his father. His slate stone has a winged face and the words Memento mori across the top, and reads: "Erected in Memory of Lieut. Samuel Gragg who departed this Life Octr 1st AD 1778 in the 73 year of his age."
Children
Margaret Gregg (1733-1786)
Sources
Elliott Colby Cogswell, History of New Boston, New Hampshire (1864), pages 423 to 424. 'Robert Hogg. He came from the north of Ireland, when about twenty-two years old. Was born Feb. 25, 1732; his father's name was James. Robert Hogg married Margaret, daughter of Samuel Gregg, of Londonderry; her mother was Mary Moor. Mrs. Hogg died about five years after the death of her youngest child, of consumption, aged 55 or 56; and Mr. Hogg died Jan. 23, 1795; both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church, and were highly esteemed for their consistent piety. Robert Hogg came to New Boston in 1764, and purchased three lots of land, including the farms of Solomon and Israel Dodge and John Cochran, and built his house on the hill just in the rear of Solomon Dodge's house, and there he and his wife died. Their children were thirteen in number, some dying young.' Of his son James the same page says: 'James, son of Robert, married Jennet Morrison, and moved to Francestown, then to Acworth, and subsequently to Warrensville, Ohio.'
EDWARD L. PARKER, The History of Londonderry, comprising the towns of Derry and Londonderry, N.H. (Boston, 1851), genealogical sketches, pages 274 and 275.
"Captain James Gregg, one of the sixteen who first settled in Londonderry, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, and emigrated with his parents to Ireland, about the year 1690. Previous to his leaving Scotland, he had served as an apprentice to the tailoring business. He married Janet Cargil. They had four sons and one daughter; namely, William, John, Samuel, Thomas, and Elizabeth. Soon after his marriage he commenced the business of linen-draper, and for several years pursued it with success, and accumulated considerable property. In 1718, he embarked with many others for America, and was among those who passed the following winter at Cape Elizabeth, where they endured many privations and much suffering. As Mr. Gregg possessed the means, and also the disposition, he was very efficient in aiding and encouraging this company of settlers amid their trials and wants. He subsequently received a captain's commission, and commanded the first company of soldiers raised in the town."
"Samuel married Mary Moor, by whom he had four sons and three daughters; James, John, Samuel, David, Margaret, Mary, and Elizabeth."
That is the sentence that joins two books. Cogswell's New Boston, written thirteen years later and eighteen miles away, says Robert Hogg "married Margaret, daughter of Samuel Gregg, of Londonderry; her mother was Mary Moor." Parker, who never mentions the Hoggs, has a Samuel Gregg of Londonderry married to a Mary Moor with a daughter Margaret. There was one Samuel in the captain's family, and his brothers' wives were Rankins and a Leslie. The two accounts never met and they agree.
Parker also has the captain's daughter Elizabeth marrying a James Moor. Whether Mary Moor was that James's sister is not said. Autobiography of Major Samuel Gregg, 1806 (printed 1903 from the manuscript among the papers of Washington P. Gregg of Boston), pages 7 to 9, archive.org autobiographyofm00greg.
Gravestone of Lieut. Samuel Gragg, Forest Hill Cemetery, East Derry, New Hampshire, section W, lot 5; Find a Grave memorial 18314694, photograph added by D. J. Goldman, 2008.
Gravestone of Mrs. Mary Gragg, New Boston Cemetery, New Boston, New Hampshire; Find a Grave memorial 82757859, photograph added by Carol, 2016.
Autobiography of Major Samuel Gregg, 1806 (printed 1903 from the manuscript among the papers of Washington P. Gregg of Boston), pages 7 to 9, archive.org autobiographyofm00greg. Gravestone of Lieut. Samuel Gragg, Forest Hill Cemetery, East Derry, New Hampshire, section W, lot 5; Find a Grave memorial 18314694, photograph added by D. J. Goldman, 2008.
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