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- !SUBMITTERS: Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Olsen Duke, CMSI # 1157. Additional data from her sister, Margaret Elaine Olsen Crane, CMS 1772.
Also from Warren C. Henderson, CMS 1286, using the book "The Descendants of Hugh Montgomery, Sr. and Some Related Families" as the source for much of his information.
Submitted by Warren C. Henderson, CMS 1286, via GEDCOM.
BIOGRAPHY: As described in "The Descendants of Hugh Montgomery, Sr. and Some Related Families" by D.C. Montgomery, Jr. in 1976:
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"Chapter I - The Origin of Hugh Montgomery, Sr.
A consideration of the origin and possible ancestry of Hugh Montgomery, Sr. of Lancaster District, S.C., must necessarily involve a good deal of speculation, based largely upon a scattering of vague facts, family legends and traditions, and some technical assumptions which, at times, may be little more than educated guesses. We know that Hugh was a resident of the old Waxhaw Settlement from about the middle of the eighteenth century till his death in 1785. The dates of birth of Hugh's ten children are known to range from about 1752 or before to 1767, and based upon this bit of knowledge we must attempt our first assumption; i.e., that Hugh's birth was between 1725 and 1730. For reasons which shall become more apparent later, as well as for the sake of brevity, we will then make the further assumption that Hugh, Sr. was born in 1727.
There are three possible means by which Hugh, Sr., may have arrived in the Waxhaws in 1756 or earlier. He might have come directly from Ireland to South Carolina. He may have belonged to that immense group of Scotch-Irish families which emigrated first to Pennsylvania, thence to Augusta Co., Va., and finally to the Carolinas. Or he might have been a descendant of those earliest settlers in this country with the name of Montgomery, pioneer families that originally located upon the James River, and whose descendants migrated westward toward the interior of Virginia and southward to the Carolinas. It becomes necessary then for us to consider each of these several possibilities in turn, and to determine, if we are able, which seems logical (or more probable) in the case of Hugh Montgomery, Sr....
...(Description of origin of Montgomery/Montgomerie name in Normandy, and migration into England and Scotland, thence to Ulster and then North America... ) Thus the early history of the family in America is largely the history of the Scotch-Irish in this country, most of whom had settled originally in Pennsylvania, but many of whom later drifted on in the wake of John Lewis to the present county of Augusta, in Virginia. For this reason we will begin our search with a study of Lancaster County, Pa., and the area immediately adjacent to it..."
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"Lancaster County, S.C. -
Before undertaking further speculations as to the origin of Hugh Montgomery, Sr., it would be well to review what we know of him in South Carolina.
Our knowledge of Hugh, Sr. is indeed limited. We know he arrived in the Waxhaw Settlement, Lancaster District, S.C., in 1756 or before. Here in the Waxhaws he became a wealthy land owner and remained here until his death in 1785. His land lay along Cain and Camp Creeks, and his home was around 2 miles north of the present city of Lancaster.
Beyond these meagre facts lies a great deal of speculation. Since his oldest child was born no later than 1753 (and quite possibly five or six years earlier, as we shall see later), we have made the assumption that Hugh, Sr. was born around 1727. Students of the history of this region believe that he came to the Waxhaws from Augusta Co., Virginia, along with the other Scotch-Irish settlers in this region, and we have demonstrated that this is possible, if we think of the original Augusta Co. as embracing the entire western part of the state, including Roanoke County. Records show Hugh's purchase of 302 acres of land on both sides of Camp Creek on January 10, 1757. At some later time, he sold 110 acres of land on Camp Creek to Robert Montgomery, Sr. These records also show the sale of 244 acres of land on Camp Creek to Robert Montgomery in 1761, this land being adjacent to that of Hugh, Sr. It would certainly appear that Hugh, Sr. and Robert, Sr. were brothers.
It is also possible that Hugh, Sr. had other relatives in Lancaster District. Nineon Montgomery owned land on the same Camp Creek in 1771. Nineon had a son, Alexander, born in 1757, and a son, Nineon, Jr., born 1765. We may assume Nineon, Sr. was born about 1730. Part of the land which Hugh, Sr. sold to Robert, Sr. was transferred in 1796 to Nineon, Jr. by the said Robert, Sr. From all this we may deduce the possibility of Nineon, Sr. having been a relative of Hugh, Sr. and Hugh's brother, Robert Sr."
A B Montgomery says his father's name was William
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1727 - 1785 (58 years)
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