Ahnentafel #952 - Joseph Ogle

Joseph Ogle

Born: 1707 New Castle, Delaware

Died: April 25, 1756 Frederick Co., Maryland

Buried: Unknown

Married: Sarah Winters, December 4, 1729, New Castle, Delaware

Biography:

Rocky Ridge - A small but significant settlement near today's Rocky Ridge opened the way for development of the section of northern Frederick County extending west from Miller's Bridge to Loys Station. The area was near the German Monocacy Road as well as Cartledge's Old Road so that travelers from Pennsylvania bound for Virginia or for Jonathan Hager's place in today's Washington County often encountered here the sole habitation for miles around. The two earliest settlers, Joseph Ogle and Henry Munday, were of English descent, but were born in this country. Both had experienced the rigors of the Conojohelar border "war" and, like Reisner, Bankauf and some of the others, had then sought more peaceful surroundings in the Monocacy area. Both were looked to as leaders. And both eventually had extensive landholdings in the Monocacy area.

Joseph Ogle (1707-1756) - grandpa - was the grandson of one John Ogle (1649-1684) who had come from England as a very young man - actually as a boy in his mid-teens. He was a member of the expeditionary force under Colonel Richard Nicolls which in 1664 wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch and began English history in what we know today as New York. Young John Ogle also participated later that year in the sequel expedition under Captain Robert Carr directed against the Dutch fort at New Amstel on the Delaware. That expedition was likewise successful, and the fort was renamed New Castle. There John Ogle settled to build a family and acquire considerable land in what is now the northern part of Delaware. His grandson Joseph Ogle, son of Thomas Ogle and Mary Crawford, was born in New Castle County and was married there in 1729 to Sarah Winters.

Sometime before 1735 Joseph Ogle joined Thomas Cresap west of the Susquehanna River in what is today Pennsylvania. On June 20, 1735 Pastor Stover visited the area, perhaps for the first time, and baptized Joseph Ogle's daughter Mary, born April 15, 1735. He indicated in his Journal that the Ogle residence was at Catores, i.e., the Codorus Valley in which the city of York was later founded.  [It should be remembered that the place names given in Stover's Journal were the home locales of the children's parents, not necessarily where the baptism took place.]  Andrew & Mary McGuill [Magill], also of Catores, were the child's sponsors, and they, too, had a child baptized that day. Josep & Sarah Ogle were its sponsors. But on the next day, June 21st, Sarah Ogle and Hannah Crysop were sponsors for the baptism of a child of John Low, whose residence was recorded as Canaschochele, or Conojohela Creek [Canadochly Creek, now], some ten miles east of the Codorus Valley, where this Creek flows into the Susquehanna below Wrightsville. Thomas Cresap also lived at Conojohela, and on July 21, 1735, a month later, Joseph Ogle, Andrew McGuill, Philipp Erns Gruber, Charlotta Friederica Gruber, Francis Foy and others, stood as sponsors for four of Cresap's sons.

Although allegedly the Annapolis land records did not show it, Ogle claimed to have purchased his land, a part of "Great Meadow" on the south side of the Codorus, from Magill. There in his buckwheat field on September 23, 1735 the so-called Conojohela War flared up. Andrew Magill, then in his sixties, was attacked by Sheriff Robert Buchanan and others from Lancaster County across the Susquehanna. On November 24, 1736 Ogle witnessed the burning of Col. Cresap's home by Sheriff Samuel Smith of Lancaster County. Ogle seems not to have been a party to the defense of the house, being ordered from it and staying during the siege in a thicket some 300 yards away. After the house burned down, Cresap, who was wounded in the shoulder, and one or two other men were taken up the River toward Wright's Ferry as captives. One man had been shot to death and another may have escaped. Mrs. Cresap, Rachel Evans, [Frances Cannon] the wife of William Cannon, and John Lowe's daughter survived.  Joseph Ogle was still in the area on May 6, 1736 when, accompanied by Thomas Cresap, he was surveying on the west bank of the Susquehanna with Thomas Guin and Thomas Franklin.

Early in the following year Joseph Ogle abandoned the Susquehanna and Codorus Valleys to make his first survey in the Monocacy area. On April 5, 1737 he surveyed 250 acres near the present site of Loys Station, midway between today's town of Thurmont and the Monocacy River at Miller's Bridge.  Quite understandably he called the tract "Peace."  Its beginning point according to the certificate of survey was on the east side of "Little Captain's [Owens] Creek below Arnold Livers' land."  This was one of the most important road junction points in early western Maryland, for here came together Cartledge's Old Road, the German Monocacy Road, a road connecting to the Manor Monocacy Road via Stull's Ford, the road to Robert Wilson's and the road to Pipe Creek and present Carroll County. On January 1, 1745 Ogle enlarged "Peace" to 1,000 through a resurvey whose name indicated no doubt his subsequent prosperity. He called it "Peace & Plenty." In his 1756 will Ogle referred to this land as "the plantation where I now live." He devised it to his wife Sarah.

Further land acquisitions of a very sizable nature followed, making Joseph Ogle one of the wealthiest land owners of his day. On June 17, 1745 Thomas Cresap surveyed "Middle Choice" for Joseph Ogle. It was located on Longs Mill Road between Ogle's Ford, now known as Stull's Ford, and Rocky Ridge. Lawrence Creager purchased the land and had it resurveyed in 1750. "Fountain Low" was surveyed on February 16, 1748 as 1,050 acres beginning on the west side of Hunting Creek. It was a resurvey of Philip Crever's "Hunter Lot" and lay between Michael Reisner's plantation and present-day Creagerstown. Joseph Ogle conveyed parts of this parcel in 1753 to Reverdy Ghiselin, Christopher Edelin and Nathaniel Wickham and by his will devised 50 acres to his son Jehu Ogle, "where his house now stands." Two parcels were surveyed for Ogle in today's Hauvers District, "Hog Hall" in 1749 and "Grazing Ground" in the Friends Creek area in 1751. The latter was sold in 1754 to John Miller. "Content," surveyed in 1750 as 210 acres, had the same beginning point as did "Peace."  It was enlarged to 685 acres by a survey in land at Graceham. Much later, in 1787, "Content" was resurveyed into "Good Fortune." "Farmer's Delight" was surveyed in 1752 near Ogle's Ford. Its subsequent conveyances included 150 acres to Peter Messner, 180 acres in 1769 to Martin Rouzer and 100 acres in 1770 to Christian Koone. Finally, "Ogleton" was surveyed in 1753 as a resurvey of Samuel Reed's "Creave" and the land surrounding it. "Creave" was described as being "below the ford that leads from the mountain to Pipe Creek."  The tract lay on the west side of the Monocacy River from Mumma Ford to near the mouth of Double Pipe Creek. "Ogleton" was patented, after Joseph Ogle's death, to his widow Sarah in 1757. She and her second husband, Adam Henry, conveyed parts of it in 1764 to Henry Neff and to John Griffith.

To the November 1741 Prince George's County Court a petition "of several of the inhabitants about Pipe Creek and Monocacy hereby sheweth that these petitioners being destitute of convenient roads from their several settlements toward the landing of proper places to transmit their goods and apprehend unless your Worships take the inconvenience we labour under into consideration it will remain so too long. Your petitioners hereby humbly pray your Worships that commissions may be issued for one good road from the Mountain near William Elder's through that part of the country most convenient for the inhabitants about Pipe Creek and Monocacy aforesaid, and that John Justice, William Roberts, Neal Poulson and William Elder, or any two of them, be appointed to lay out the same." The resulting road passed Joseph Ogle's homestead. The northwestern end of the road reached William Elder's "Slate Ridge" and was a part of Cartledge's Old Road. The eastern end passed Henry Munday's place, approximating today's State Route 77 through Rocky Ridge and Miller's Bridge. 

There were other road descriptions which made reference to Joseph Ogle's place. In 1754 that portion of the German Monocacy Road which passed from Keysville across the Monocacy River at Mumma Ford and continued on toward Ogle's place via today's Appolds Road was known as Ogle's Wagon Road.  What is today called Stull's Ford across the Monocacy between Longs Mill Road on the north and Oak Hill Road on the south, although now no longer used, was for many years known as Ogle's Ford. Road overseers were appointed annually, at least from 1750 to 1763, for the section of the Manor Monocacy Manor road described as running "from Major Ogle's Ford to John Biggs' Ford."

On May 10, 1748 Joseph Ogle joined Stephen Ramsburg in making depositions to the Council of Maryland concerning the practice of forcing German settlers to pay excessive quitrents on their land. When it came time to organize Frederick County and separate it out of the parent Prince George's County, Captain Joseph Ogle, Nathaniel Wickham, Jr., Major Thomas Sheredine, Thomas Franklyne, Thomas Beatty, Daniel Rawlins and Captain John Dorsey were appointed Commissioners to lay out the boundaries. Governor Samuel Ogle's proclamation of December 12, 1748 establishing the Court of Frederick County was addressed to 23 individuals who were constituted as justices to organize the Court. Included were Joseph Ogle and his neighbor Henry Munday. The March Court of 1749 appointed Edward Beatty, Joseph Ogle and Joseph Wood to lay out the road from "Captain" Ogle's Ford to Biggs Ford, and the August Court of 1751 named Nathaniel Wickham, Joseph Ogle, Thomas Stoddart and John Middagh to arrange with a contractor to build a bridge over Israel Creek near Thomas Beatty's place.  The same Court appointed John Darnall and Joseph Ogle to serve as referees in a suit between Dr. Richard Cooke and Robert Debutts. Clearly Joseph Ogle was looked to as a leader in the affairs of the fledgling County.

Joseph Ogle was mentioned by the early Moravian missionaries as a friendly host who helped them with accommodation and transportation on their journeys through Maryland to Virginia. Matthias Gottlieb Gottschalk described his journey of 96 miles from Germantown in Virginia to Captain Ogle's in April 1748. He managed 36 miles on the first day and the remaining 60 miles on the following day, arriving at Captain Ogle's at midnight. In instructions to Brother Joseph he noted that "Captain Ogle and Jacob Weller are both very dear hosts of the Brethern" and that "Kanigetschick [Conococheague] was situated 28 miles from Captain Ogle's across the little Blue Mountain toward the northwest where Jonathan Hager is our dear host . . . If Brother Joseph leaves Captain Ogle's house early Wednesday morning and rests during the hottest part of the day, he can be at Gottfried Mang's house in good time to stay overnight. Captain Ogle might also give Brother Joseph the little gray horse which he had presented to Brother Lighton and which he does not need at all. Thus the journey across the fearfully extended mountains might be made much easier and the night lodging in the valley or on the mountain which are both very unhealthy places, could be avoided."  On October 21, 1749 Brothers Schnell and Brandmuller visited the ailing Captain Ogle. 

How Ogle himself felt about the Moravians is best revealed in a conversation he had with Pastor Henry Muhlenberg on the latter's visit to Frederick in June of 1747. Muhlenberg's account shows most clearly Ogle's disappointment and dissatisfaction with the English ministers and with Lutheran itinerants such as Carl Rudolph. Quite obviously he preferred the human qualities of his Moravian visitors to the stiff orthodoxy of such as Muhlenberg.

Despite the variety of locales where their children were born, Joseph and Sarah Ogle listed in the records of the All Saint's English Church in Frederick all their births, except that of a last son George whom he named in his will. These children were: Jehu born 1731, Mary 1735, Sarah 1739, Eleanor 1741, Joseph, Jr. 1743, Benjamin 1747, Thomas 1749, William 1751, James 1753 and George. 

By 1755 the war clouds were gathering, presaging the coming French & Indian War.  On July 9th General Braddock met defeat near Fort Duquesne. But Joseph Ogle did not live to see the threat developing against the outposts of western Maryland. He passed away on April 29, 1756.  . . .

From Tracey, Grace & John Dern. Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland, 1721-1743, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., nd - available on Ancestry 

Records:

1739/40 March 5 - Prince George Co., MD - deed for Peace, 250 acres 

1745 June 17 - Prince George Co., MD - deed for Middle Choice 100 acres

1748 May 2 - Prince George Co., MD - deed for Peace & Plenty 1000 acres

1749 June 1 - Frederick Co., MD - deed for Hog Hall, 66 acres

1750 May 18 - Frederick Co., MD - deed for Fountain Low, 1050 acres

1750 October 8 - Frederick Co., MD - deed for Content 210 acres

1752 May 16 - Frederick Co., MD - deed for Fountain Low, 2110 acres

1752 September 25 - Frederick Co., MD - deed for Grazing Ground 100 acres & deed for Black Walnut Bottom 310 acres

1752 November 7 - Frederick Co., MD - deed for Warley's Delight 104 acres

1752 November 12 - Frederick Co., MD - deed for Tanner's Delight 440 acres

1754 May 20 - Frederick Co., MD - deed for Content 685 acres

1756 April 18 - Frederick Co., MD - Joseph wrote his will, naming:

Wife: Sarah

Children: John, Joseph, Benjamin, Mary Butler (wife of Peter Butler; have parted from each other), Thomas, William, James, George, Sarah and Elenor.

Cousin: Thomas Ogle, son of Thomas

Grand-dau: Judith, dau. of Mary Butler

Bros: Thomas and Benjamin Ogle

Nephews: Joseph, Jacob & Thomas, sons of Benja. Ogle

Mary, Susannah and Johana, daus. of Benj. Ogle

Tracts: "Fountain Low," "Farmer's Delight," "Telar Manor"

Exs: Sarah Ogle, Joseph Wood

Wit: John Darling, Benj. Ogle, Ninian Magruder Beall.

In the Name of God Amen this Eighteenth day of one thousand seven hundred fifty six I Joseph Ogle of Frederick County in the Province of Maryland being sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to Almighty God for the same and calling into mind the mortality of ye Body and knowledge that it is appointed for all men once to die Do make and ordain this last will testament and first of all . . . my soul into the hands of Almighty God our Heavenly Father . . . for forgiveness of all my sins through the merits and Intercession of my blessed Redeemer Jesus Christ and as . . .  such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life with. I give and dispose of the same in the manner and form following, Vizt: 

Imprimis I give and bequeath unto my well-beloved and first born son John Ogle his heirs and assigns forever one hundred and fifty acres of Land being part of the original tract of Land called Fountain Low to be by Joseph Wood laid out where his house now . . . not to discommode the remainder and also three hundred and fifty acres of land to be Laid out to the afsd. Joseph Wood at the Dower end of the afsd. tract beginning at same place of the Last . . . of the original and . . . the said . . . and . . . of the rest that the given some may include the afsd. three hundred and fifty acres. 

Item I give and bequeath unto my well beloved Daughter Mary Butler who is married unto Peter Butler and has parted from each other the sum of one hundred pounds currency towards her inheritance to be paid her at  the Descretion of my Executors as they shall find she has . . . of it and if it shall happen that she shall die before she has received the whole that then what is unused shall be paid unto her Daughter Judith when she shall arrive at age or marry.

Item I give and bequeath unto my grand Daughter Judith Daughter of my afsd Daughter Mary the sum of fifty pounds currency to be paid her when she arrives at age or marry but if she should die before she arrives at age or marry that then the aforesaid . . .  to be equally Divided between all the heirs of my children John Ogle . . . 

Item I give and bequeath unto my Cousin Thomas Ogle son of my brother Thomas Ogle to his heirs and assigns forever one hundred acres of Land to be laid out by Joseph Wood out of a tract of Land Called Farmer's Delight to be laid out a . . . the afsd Land next to . . . that I told him but if the afsd tract and . . . if it should happen that the afsd Thomas Ogle should dye before he becomes at age that . . . the afsd one hundred acres of Land to be sold and the money arriving thereon be equally Divided between my brother Benjamin's three sons namely Joseph, Jacob & Thomas. 

Item I give and bequeath unto my cousin Mary daughter of my brother Benjamin Ogle the sum of ten(?) pound currency and to my . . . Susannah and Johana Daughters of the afsd. Benjamin Ogle the sum of Five pounds currency each to be paid them as they arrive at age or marry and if it should happen that any of the three afsd. Daughters of the aforesaid Benjamin should die before they arrive at age or marry that then their part be equally divided between the . . . of them. 

Item I give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife Sarah to be During her Life the two Negro boys called Robet and Jacob and five hundred acres of Land out of the tract of land I now live on to be laid out by the above said Joseph Wood out of the . . . land . . . to include the Plantation and Improvements . . . be . . . to the . . .  not . . . to the Remainder part of the . . . or . . . and after her decease the aforesaid land and improvements and . . . to be equally Divided between all the children of John Ogle and . . . 

Item my will and Pleasure is that my well beloved wife Sarah Ogle . . .  of . . . the afsd. . . . Joseph Wood . . . to arrive at the age of . . . 

Item my will and Pleasure that . . . the rest of my estate both real and Personal after my Debts and Burial charges and Legacies are Deducted out that the Remainder be equally Divided between my children namely Sarah, Elenor, Joseph, Benjamin, Thomas, William, James and George allowing my wife Sarah as much as two of my children and if any of my children should die before they come at age or marry that then his, her or their part or parts to be equally divided between the survivors of my afsd. eight children. Lastly, I so constitute and appoint my Dearly beloved wife Sarah Ogle and my good and trusty friend Joseph Wood my Executors of this my Last will and Testament utterly Revoking and Disallowing all other former wills and Testaments to me in any wise before this time made --- tyme and . . . this and no other to being last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal the Day and year above written. 

Joseph Ogle {Seal}

Signed Sealed Published, Pronounced and Declared by the aforesaid Joseph Ogle to be his last will and testament in presence of us:

John Darling

Benjamin Ogle

Ninian Magruder Beall 

On the back of the foregoing will was wrote the following . . . 15th May 1756 came Benjamin Ogle and Ninian Magruder Beall two of the subscribing witnesses to the within will and made oath on the Holy Testament of Almighty God that they saw the testator Joseph Ogle sign the within will and heard him publish and Declare the same to be his Last Will and Testament and that at the time of his so doing he was to the best of their apprehension of sound and Disposing mind and memory and that they subscribed their respective names as witnesses to the said will in the presence of the said testator and at his request and that they saw John Darling the other witness to the within will subscribed his name in the presence and alike request of the said testator.   Sworn before . . . 

1756 May 15 - Frederick Co., MD - Joseph's will was probated. 

Children:

John

Mary b. 1735 md. Peter Butler

• Judith Butler b. before 1756

Sarah b. 1739

Eleanor b. 1740/41 md. 1) Ninian Magruder Beall, brother of John's wife Ruth Beall & 2) Guy Elder

• Sarah Beall b. 1759 md. Leonard McAtee
• Mary McAtee b. 1784, d. 1853 md. Henry O'Bryan, at least one child Henry Jr.
• Thomas Elder b. 1780, d. 1853 md. Lydia Hobbs
• Eleanor Elder b. 1810, d. ca 1833 md. 1825 Samuel Crayton, at least one child Mary
• Thomas George Elder b. 1825 md. 1848 Isabella Toon, at least one child William

Joseph Jr. b. 1743

Benjamin b. 1746/47, d. ca. 1805 md. 1776 Rebecca Stilley

• Horace/Horatio b. ca. 1790, d. 1831 md. 1812 Mary Shipley
• Columbus b. 1830, d. 1890 md. 1853 Frances Harbaugh, at least one child Catherine

Thomas b. 1748/49, md. Sybilla Schley

William b. 1751, d. 1810 md. 1777 Mary Cresap

• Thomas b. 1781, d. 1835 md. 1805 Anna Jones
• Rebecca b. 1815, d. 1902 md. 1835 Jehu Brooke Jones Porter, at least one child Louis Porter

James b. 1753

George