Hagar was an African American woman residing in Pasquotank County, North Carolina. Hagar had been enslaved by the Overman family since at least 1769. She may be the same enslaved girl named Hagar that David Bailey bequeathed in his 1745 will to his stepdaughter Miriam Overman. By about 1776, Hagar was owned by a Quaker named Charles Overman, who, due to his religious beliefs, freed Hagar. Later, North Carolina passed a law stating that enslaved people could not be freed without permission of the courts. In 1778 local officials arrested Hagar, arguing that she had violated the law even though she had been emancipated prior to the law, and sold her labor at public auction. Any further information regarding this individual has not been located.