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1834–1890 · whole course in the settlement's file
The brothers stand at profile size here; the Huggart Settlement's whole course is its own file's. Samuel Huggart (b. c. 1804, Virginia) made the settlement's founding act — a federal land purchase at the La Porte land office on 11 September 1834, eighty acres in Section 29, patented 20 March 1837 — and appears in no county history: the only Samuel the works know is his nephew Samuel M., born 1852. His brother Andrew (b. 16 January 1816, Rockbridge County, Virginia) is the one brother the histories do carry — Chapman's sketch, corroborating the settlement record at almost every point: he "left Virginia in 1836, going first to Dayton, Ohio, and in a few years to Piqua, in Marion county, O." (Chapman's county; the settlement carriers place the Ohio years in Miami County, and Piqua stands in Miami — the variance registered whole), "he came to this county in 1850", married Jane Clark on 3 July 1839, shoemaker by trade, farming an "well-improved farm of 80 acres on sec. 29", with five children named — Wesley, Mary A., James M., Sarah M. and Samuel M. — against the six the obituary tradition implies, the count conflict printed whole in the settlement's file. Andrew's obituaries make him "the first colored man to run for office in this county" (the office itself named by no carrier), he died 30 September 1881, and the settlement he and Samuel anchored — the Bass, Boone and Manuel households beside them — farmed Section 29 and its adjoining ground from about 1850 into the 1890s. All of it, with the deeds, the censuses, the marker and the cemetery, is the black-history file's; the histories' own near-silence about the settlement — one Chapman sketch of Andrew, with no word of race in it, and the church-committee line Karst cites to Chapman — is itself part of that file's record.