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From: Don Ott <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] John Ghent Pigg
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:02:44 -0600
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Marsha,
Like many of the folks in North Central AR, the ancestors
from Virgina went to Lincoln/Rockcastle County Kentucky and
eventually some through Indiana to Arkansas. This family is so
intertwined with the Mullins, Owens and many others.
Don


At 10:56 AM 12/13/2010, you wrote:
>Thanks Don,
>Love a good story.
>I can't come up with it now, but someone on the list links to a Pigg
>family in AR.
>Marsha
>
>--- On Mon, 12/13/10, Don Ott <> wrote:
> Those who may be in some way related to the Pigg family know
> this must be one of the most interesting early families coming to America.
>John Pigg b. ca 1615 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, had been a
>strong supporter of King Charles and was a man of considerable
>substance in England. A member of the established church, a
>Cavalier, his life was probably made unpleasant under the
>puritanical rule of Cromwell. Like many of the upper class in
>England, Virginia seemed the logical place to escape persecution.
>Some time about the time King Charles lost his head, John Pigg
>decided to keep his by going to the Virginia Colony.
> I found an interesting article about the great grand son of the
> original Pigg immigrant, John Ghent Pigg b. 1650, New Kent, VA, d.
> 1735 ,King and Queen, VA. He is well chronicled as being addicted
> to drinking hot tea. (Remember this was the time of the Boston Tea Party)
> >From "Dixon's Virginia Gazette, July 8 1775"
> At a Committee meeting held in the Pittsylvania Court House on
> 22 May 1775, a complaint being brought to the committee that a
> certain John Pigg violated the Association {for the purpose of
> boycotting English Goods} by drinking, and making use of in his
> family, the detestable East Indian TEA, and also that he the said
> Pigg had taken uncommon pains in order to defeat the intention of
> the said Association, by exclaiming much against the measures of
> the General Congress, upon which the said Pigg was summoned to
> appear before the Committee, to answer the said charges, which he
> absolutely refused to do, declaring to the person who gave him
> notice to attend, that his intention was to do as he pleased, and
> that he would not pay any regard to the summons, of the committee;
> whereupon it is the opinion of this committee, that the said Pigg
> ought to be looked upon as a traitor to his country, and inimical
> to American Liberty. And it's recommended to all
> people to break off all intercourse and connection with said Pigg
> until such time as he reinstates himself in the good will and
> affection of all the good people of this country.
> Ordered, that the clerk of this committee do transmit the above
> proceedings to the different printers in Williamsburg and beg the
> will publish the same in their papers.
>William P. Clark, Clerk
>
>
>
>
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