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mounted his horse and went leisurely along and was pursued by some of Tarleton's troopers. He let them come quite close to him, when giving his fleet horse the spur he was speedily out of sight. He owned con- siderable land in Albemarle and many lots in Charlottesville. He kept the Swan Tav- ern till he died in 1802. He married Mourn- ing, daughter of Robert Harris, of "Brown's Cove/' Albemarle county. His son Mat- thew was a captain in the revolutionary army and fell in the battle of Brandywine. His son John succeeded him in conducting the Swan, but later moved to Kentucky. His son Robert was also a captain in the revolution and was afterwards a lawyer. . He died in 1796, leaving a daughter Alice, who became the wife of James \V. Bouldin, of Charlotte county.

Hoge, Samuel Davies, born at Shepherds- town, Jefferson county. West Virginia, probably on April 16, 1792. second son of Rev. Moses Hoge and Elizabeth Poage, his wife. He was fitted for college by his father and at a classical school taught by his brother James, and graduated at Hampden- Sidney College in 1810. He had early shown great interest in religion, and when only nine years of age attended a camp-meeting, where, under the influence of strong excite- ment, he "prayed and exhorted with aston- ishing fervor and eflFect." He studied theol- ogy under his father, and at the same time was employed as a tutor in the college. On May 8, 1813, he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Hanover; in 1813 was installed pastor of the churches at Culpeper. Madison and Germanna; in 181 5 was trans- ferred to the Winchester presbytery, and was ordained to the ministry and installed

pastor of the Bethesda church at Culpeper, April 15. The church was unable to sup- port him, however, and in October, 1817, he was dismissed. He was active in the Win- chester presbytery, and represented it in the general assembly in 1816. After the disso lution of his pastoral relations, Mr. Hoge remained at Hampden-Sidney College, as professor, and for a time was vice-president of the college. In July, 1820, his father hav- ing died, he resigned, and, influenced by his brother James, removed to Ohio. He was pastor of the Presbyterian churches at Hillsborough and Rocky Spring, Highland county, until October, 1823, when owing to imj)aircd health he resigned and became professor of mathematics and natural phil- osophy in Ohio University, Ohio, preaching occasionally in the Athens church. His brother James wrote of him : "As a pulpit orator he lacked only voice and physical strength to have ranked with the first preachers of the age. His style was pure, simple and energetic, expressing with great exactness the nicest shades of thought, and his subject matter was always evangelical truth, presented in such a way as to in- struct, and at the same time deeply affect his hearers." As an instructor, he was highly popular. He married at Hampden- Sidney, Virginia, in February, 1817, Eliz- abeth Rice, eldest daughter of Rev. Drury Lacy, "of the silver tongue," and Anne, daughter of William Smith, of Montrose, Powhatan county. She was a beautiful woman, gifted in many ways; but especially as a singer and conversationalist. Mr. Hoge died at Athens. Ohio. December 10. 1826; his wife at Gallatin, Tennessee. November 20, 1840.

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