NameNathaniel Fogg
Birthabt 1681
Death1753
ResidenceEssex County, Virginia
Documentation
On 23 October 1707, Nathaniel Fogg was cited in a court document as being the father of a bastard child. [Virginia State Library, Research and Information Services Division, Essex County Court Records, County Court Papers 1683–1728, Folder 10/1707.]
On 11 March 1711/1712, Nathaniel Fogg witnessed a bond of George Lloyd, Henry Boughan and John Boughan for Lloyd’s keeping an ordinary. [Essex County, Virginia, Deed Book 14, pages 41–42.]
On 11 April 1712, Nathaniel Fogg, Ephraim Paget, Richard Buckner and Augustine Smith were bound 10,000 tobacco for Nathaniel Fogg and Ephraim Paget to “keep an ordinary at the house where they now dwell in the County of Essex.” Signed Nath: ffogg, Ephraim Paget, Richd Buckner, Augt Smith. Witnesses: Ja: Alderson, Geo: Lloyd. Recorded 11 April 1712. [Essex County, Virginia, Deed Book 14, page 41.]
On 10 December 1713, Nathanial Fogg was a witness to a deed between John Smith of the first part and Ephraim Paget and Mary his wife of the second part. [Essex County, Virginia, Deed Book 14, page 236.]
On 23 July 1717, Nathaniel Fogg was a witness to the will of Thomas Davice of St. Ann’s Parish, Essex County, Virginia. He appeared in court on 16 September 1718 to prove the will. [Essex County, Virginia, Wills, Inventories and Settlements of Estates No. 3, 1717–1721, pages 38–39, as abstracted by John Frederick Dorman.]
In 1717, Nathaniel Fogg received payments from the estate of Robert Bizwell. [Essex County, Virginia, Wills, Inventories and Settlements of Estates No. 3, 1717–1721, pages 70–71, as abstracted by John Frederick Dorman.]
In 1717, Nathaniel Fogg received payments from the estate of Wm. Jordan. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 3, pages 94–95, as abstracted by John Frederick Dorman.]
In October 1718, Nathll. Fogg, with Ephraim Paget, James Booth and Hary Nutum, inventoried the estate of Tho. Davis. [Essex County, Virginia, Wills, Inventories and Settlements of Estates No. 3, 1717–1721, pages 79–81, as abstracted by John Frederick Dorman.]
On 8 December 1719, Nathall. Fogg witnessed the will of Wm. Stoke of St. Anns Parish, Essex County. He appeared in court on 16 February 1719/1720 to prove the will. [Essex County, Virginia, Wills, Inventories and Settlements of Estates No. 3, 1717–1721, pages 130–131, as abstracted by John Frederick Dorman.]
On 29 January 1719/1720, Nathall. Fogg was a witness to the nuncupative will of Samewall Cartter of St. Anns Parish, Essex County. [Essex County, Virginia, Wills, Inventories and Settlements of Estates No. 3, 1717–1721, pages 133–134, as abstracted by John Frederick Dorman.]
On 16 February 1719/1720 Nathall. Fogg appeared in court to prove the will of Wm. Stoke. [Essex County, Virginia, Wills, Inventories and Settlements of Estates No. 3, 1717–1721, pages 130–131, as abstracted by John Frederick Dorman.]
On 20 September 1723, in a case brought by Ephraim Paget and Nathl ffogg against Larkin Chew, the defendant filed his plea in court, with the trial deferred until the following court. [Essex County, Virginia, Order Book 6, page 22.]
On 21 June 1727, Nathll ffogg petitioned to the court that at a Court held on 18 November 1718, “He was ordrd before the than [sic] Court, for picking of a Travelling mans pocket.” He now petitions for a retrial because he can now prove his innocense. [Virginia State Library, Research and Information Services Division, Essex County Court Records, County Court Papers 1683–1728, Folder 6/1727.]
On 6 October 1737, Nathaniell ffogg served on a jury in a suit between Henry Reeves and Joseph Reeves. During the trial he provided a deposition in which he gave his age as 56 years old and states that he lived on the land of Henry Reeves. Although the deposition is not dated, it is probably from 1737: “Nathanall ffogg aged about fifty six years being first Swar and before Alexer Parker gent Saith That he lived at Henry Reeves’s father to ye sd plt and that he Knows ye Creek Called Tigners and at the time that he Lived at ye sd Reeves which was about thirty Six years he often heard and it was always reputed and Called by ye sd Henry Reeves and his famely that over to the South side of the sd Tigners Creek to a plantation where one Jurdin Lived and where ye sd deft low lives was over the Bever Dams and that ye North Branch is ye main branch, and further he Saith not [signed] Nathall ffogg” [Essex County, Virginia, Land Trials 1715–1741, pages 123–124 and 132.]
On 20 March 1743, Cornelius Sale and Nathaniel Fogg were bound £300 sterling for Cornelius Sale’s executorship of the estate of William Jones. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 7, pages 94–96.]