BRIEF OUTLINE OF HAZELGROVE HISTORY

            The earliest record so far located of any Hazlegrove
            (Hazelgrove) in Virginia, is that of John Hazelgrove, whose
            will was recorded in Spotsylvania County, in 1780.  Whether
            or not he was the immigrant, is not yet established, but it
            appears improbable that the first immigrant of that name
            came to Virginia before 1725, or later.  Spotsylvania
            records are all preserved from the formation of that county,
            in 1722, and will be examined later.

            All Virginia records of the first United States Census,
            1790, were destroyed when the British burned the Capitol, at
            Washington, in 1814, but a county census of Hanover County,
            taken in 1782, list under heads of families, a Joshua
            Hazelgrove, with 9 white souls in his family.  The Hanover
            tax lists for the same year, in 1782, fail to show a Joshua
            Hazelgrove, but do show a Joshua Haselwood, owner of a 30
            acre tract, while no Haselwood appears on the Hanover census
            report for that year. Hanover tax lists, 1782, also show:

            Wm. Hazelgrove, owner of a 70 acre tract of land and Elisha
            Hazelgrove, owner of a 84 acre tract of land.

            Wm. Hazelgrove disappears from the Hanover tax lists after
            1792, when he conveyed his 70 acres tract to John Burnett.
            It may be merely coincident, but is significant, that in the
            year 1792, for the first time we find a Wm. Hazelgrove on
            the Cumberland County Personal tax lists, as owner of 1
            slave and 5 horses.  No other Hazelgrove (Hazlegrove) had
            previously appeared on Cumberland County tax lists, real or
            personal.

            In the index of Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia, is found
            the following evidences of military service in the
            Revolutionary War:

            Hazelgrove, James, Auditors Accts. xxvii, p.
            379;Chesterfield Supplement, 58.

            Hazelgrove, John, H. D. 1834, Document 35, page 7; Rejected
            Claim; War 4, 217

            The above references definitely establish that James
            Hazelgrove and John Hazelgrove did perform military service
            during the Revolution, but contain nothing that, taken
            alone, enables their positive identification.  This John
            Hazelgrove may be the same whose will is recorded in
            Spotsylvania in 1780, as John Hazelgrove.  No further record
            of a James Hazelgrove has been located near the
            Revolutionary period, but he may easily have been one of the
            Hanover family, since all court records of that period, for
            Hanover County, have been destroyed.

            The Wm. Hazelgrove  (later called Hazlegrove) above
            mentioned as appearing in Cumberland County in 1792, is
            probably the same whose name appears intermittently on the
            tax lists for subsequent years, in Cumberland County, until
            the last appearance of this name in 1803, but at no time
            does he appear to have owned real estate in Cumberland.  He
            may have died about 1804, or later.  It is possible that he
            was living there in 1809-1811, with Pleasant Hazelgrove, who
            is shown for those years with one other white male in the
            family over 16 years of age.  If so, it is presumptive
            evidence, only that Wm. then old, was living with his son,
            Pleasant Hazlegrove, who first appears on the Cumberland tax
            lists in 1802.  Further minute scrutiny of Cumberland
            records may throw more light on this.

            In Cumberland County Deed book 9, page 286, is recorded a
            deed from John Mallony to Pleasant Hazlegrove for 133 acres,
            which appears to be the first land which Pleasant Hazlegrove
            acquired in Cumberland County.  This deed was recorded Nov.
            28, 1803.  This tract was from four to five miles south of
            the present Cumberland Courthouse on Guinea Creek, where he
            subsequently added adjoining lands and appears to have lived
            until his death.  A portion of his estate was on what was
            known as the Davenport Road, and bordered Great Guinea
            Creek.  In 1838, he owned 363 acres, to which he added by
            purchase, in 1839, 338 acres from Alfred Hill and wife,
            Sarah.  This deed is recorded Nov. 25, 1839, in Deed Book
            23, page 492.

            Pleasant Hazelgrove's nearest neighbors were Sally Macon,
            one of the largest landholders and slaveholders in
            Cumberland County; Zachariah and Noton Goodman; Sterling,
            John and Newton Ford, and Peter T. Phillips.  About a mile
            southeast of Pleasant Hazelgrove's home was Felixville,
            established as a town about 1812 about which Miss Ida Sue
            Carter, now living on the old town site, published a most
            interesting and creditable article in the Farmville Herald,
            of Sept. 23, 1932.

            Pleasant Hazlegrove died in 1841, and his will was probated
            Aug. 23, 1841, being recorded in Will Book 10, page 296. He
            was survived by his wife Tabitha, and the following
            children:

            Charlotte L. Hazlegrove, who married James B. Anderson;
            Wm. R. Hazlegrove, who married (Marinda) Malinda D. Anderson
            Winston Hazlegrove, who married Nancy Marshall Johnson
            Selina Hazlegrove, who married Wm. N. England
            Mary Hazlegrove, unmarried when her father died
            Harriet Hazlegrove, who married a Phillips, brother of Lucy
            Ann Phillips

            Newton Hazlegrove, who married Lucy Ann Phillips, daughter
            of Peter T. Phillips and his wife, Elizabeth.  Newton
            Hazlegrove was named executor in his will. suggesting that
            he may have been the oldest son.