Henry Ogilvy

I represent Henry Ogilvy. I was of Dundee, Scotland, though I am sometimes referred to as Henry Ogilvy of Templehall. I came to West Florida from Charleston, South Carolina. I had a wife named Hannah, who I apparently married in Charleston, and several children. My son, Henry, was a shipmaster in Charleston. There was another son, Alexander, and an infant child, Harriet. Hannah petitioned the provincial council for a grant of land in November 1778. It was quite lengthy and was an impassioned plea with her stating she needed the land to save her family from starvation. The council rejected her petition, saying she had a husband. Well, I died in 1779 in Pensacola, so it may have been that I was ill and unable to support the family. My estate was probated in Britain with adminstration settled in 1784. It names Hannah as my widow, but by 1784 she had remarried to David Scott.

Sources: 29, 33, 67

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