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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Author: Dennis E. Bobb
Jonathan Hogg (1725-1800) Constitutional Convention and Cumberland County Militia
Jonathan was born in East Pennsborough (currently Pennsboro), Cumberland County, Pennsylvania on 23 Jul 1725 to John Hoge and Gwentholyn Bowen Davis. His grandfather, William, was born in Scotland and arrived in the colonies around 1682. He eventually settled in Cumberland County around 1729 with his family. He and sons began to lay out the town of Hogestown.
Jonathan married Isabella Armstrong in East Pennsboro Township (which was much larger at the time) in 1755.
In 1768, he was named Justice of the Peace of Cumberland County and in July 1776, he served as a member of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
During the Revolutionary War, Jonathan served as a member of the Cumberland County Militia.
He died on 19 Apr 1800 in East Pennsboro Township of a "stroke of palsy,” according to local newspapers. He is buried in the Silver Spring Presbyterian Cemetery in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania beside his wife, Isabella. Both have recreated gravestones marking their graves.
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