? Name: Elinor Hulda AGAN ?

Baltimore Co., MD (now Harford Co.)

Thomas THOMPSON (173l) m.1752MD Elinor "Nelly" AGAN (1735-180O)
(Note: AGAN, also spelled EAGAN & EAGON, rhymes with "ray gun." HAGAN is another variant).
St. George's Parish Record (Baltimore Co. MD)

"Around 1745, Thomas Thompson, son of John Thompson of North Shields, Northumberland, England, had a fight with his abusive stepmother and ran away from home. Legend has it that he prevailed upon a ship's Captain to pack him in a barrel and ship him to America as goods. Another story says that he stowed away and was found after the ship sailed. The Captain sold him to a Philadelphia merchant to pay for his passage. Thomas obtained a 99-year lease on 99 acres on Broad Creek, in Maryland, in 1750.

He married Elinor/Ellender "Nellie" Agan (Hagan), of English Quaker extraction, and they had 17 children. The couple lived in the hill country of Baltimore County, Maryland (today Harford County) just west of the Susquehanna River. Their first four or five children were born there between 1753 and 1762. Their firstborn son, John, was born in 1753. He was named for his father's father as was the custom for the first born son. Two sons' births were documented in St. George's Parish Record. The death of son Thomas II about 1761 during a bitterly cold winter supposedly prompted them to move to a warmer climate. Thomas sold the land rights in Sept. of
1762 of £90.10 and the family moved to North Carolina about 1763, when John was 9 years old. They settled on the north side of the Haw River near what is now known as Saxapahaw in Alamance County. Thomas constructed a gristmill there, 3 miles from their homeplace."