Notes for Francis Pugh: !Most of the information about the Pugh family is from research conducted by Phillip Farrington Thomas of Cartersville, VA, son of Frank Pugh Thomas, and great-grandson of Mary Elizabeth Pugh. Much Pugh data included here is taken from a chart prepared by Phillip 15 June 1994. The prime source of the information on Phillip's chart is an extensive genealogical chart entitled "The House of Pugh, Virginia-North Carolina- Virginia, 1666-1960." This chart was certified August 24, 1959, by Charles R. Holloman, Sr., Genealogist to the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati, at Raleigh, NC. "The above certification was made in attestation of the elligibility of Herbert Lamont Pugh (10th generation of Pughs in America) son of Samuel Eli Pugh, for membership in the Society of the Cincinnati." Phillip received this chart from George Pugh of Baton Rouge,LA. "In 1666 three brothers, Francis, Daniel and Thomas Pugh, came to Jamestown, Virginia from Caernarvon, Wales, reportedly bringing their families with them. Francis and Daniel settled in Nansemond County, Virginia, moving onto a plantation called 'Jerico.' (Pugh family tradition claims Francis Pugh built a brick house on this land. The same tradition says descendents of Daniel Pugh moved to South Carolina, and those of Thomas Pugh moved to western Virginia and the Ohio region.)"--from Phillip Thomas's chart. Phillip obtained the Pugh family genealogical records of Dr. Edward W. Pugh of Bertie County, NC, prepared in 1884. Dr. Pugh's information has few dates. Note: some information about the three Pugh brothers indicates they arrived in Virginia in 1665. Note: !The following is a quote from the genealogical chart entitled "The House of Pugh" -- "The name, Pugh, of extremely ancient Welsh origin, was originally ap Hugh, meaning "son of Hugh." It appears among the oldest Welsh and English and early American records in the various spellings ofHugh, Apugh, Apew, Pew, Pue, Pough, Peough, Peugh, Pughe, and Pugh. The last form listed is that most generally used in America today. "In the year 1666, three brothers, Francis, Thomas, and Daniel Pygh, left Carnarvonshire, Wales, and came to what is now Nansemond County, Virginia. (In March of 1645, the name of Upper Norfolk County was changed to County of Nansemum and in 1705, to Nansemond.) Some time later, Daniel Pugh and his family moved to South Carolina and Thomas and his family to West Virginia and the Ohio region. Francis remained in Virginia, and on his estate in Nansemond County, twenty miles from Norfolk near Suffolk, Virginia, he built "Jericho Manor." "During the approximately three centuries between 1666 and 1960, i.e. from Francis Pugh I to the present, fourteen generations have evolved and are designated on the chart by Roman numerals. [If we follow our own line of Pugh descent down to the youngest generation in the year 2000, we find but thirteen generations -- Kate Pugh Fanning Thomas being of the ninth generation.] "The genealogical outlay that constitutes this family tree is designed principally to set forth the ancestry (seven generations) and the progeny (seven generations) of Nicholas Ware Pugh who was born in Nelson County, Virginia, on 1 August 1815, and who, on 14 November 1842, married Winifred I. Wood. The family lineage antecedent to the birth of Nicholas Ware Pugh is, in considerable measure, fragmentary. Many details are missing and doubtless are impossible of determination. However, in the opinion of a number of well recognized experts in the field of genealogical research, the structure and continuity as revealed in this sketch are fundamentally correct and are amenable to documentary corroboration. Subsequent to the generation of Nicholas Ware Pugh, the record, save for a few minor elements, is complete and unquestionably correct." [Note that our branch of the Pugh line separates in the fifth generation, three generations prior to Nicholas Ware Pugh. In the fifth generation are three brothers, sons of Thomas Pugh I -- Francis Pugh V is the progenitor of the line leading to Kate Pugh Fanning Thomas; Colonel Thomas Pugh, Jr. is the progenitor of the line leading to our Bond cousins in Brownsville, TN; and William Scott Pugh is the ancestor of Nicholas Ware Pugh.]
Children of Francis Pugh and Ann Howe are:
+Francis Pugh, b. 1692, Cherrystone, Northampton, VA., d. 05 Aug 1736, Bertie, NC..
Francis Pugh (b. 1630)
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