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Rachel Skaggs, the mother of the Longhunters and wife of James Skaggs has been considered by many Skaggs researchers over the years to have ...
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Some Skaggs, Elkins and Bishop researchers believe that the Ruth Bishop who married John Bishop in Montgomery County, Virginia c. 1780 was...
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Many researchers speculate that Zachariah Scaggs was related to Old Peter Scaggs in some way, either his father or his brother. If so, we ...
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Bishop family legend has it that John Bishop was married to a Ruth Skaggs (Scaggs), who was previously captured by Indians, possibly havin...
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I wrote a previous blog entry about the relationship between the orphan Thomas Bailey Christian (TBC) and his adopted father Capt. Thomas ...
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Zachariah Skaggs is one of the more popular suggestions as father of Old Peter Skaggs, however, to my knowledge no-one has proven or even ma...
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The French and Indian War was underway in 1755 with colonial forces attacking the French in Nova Scotia, New York and on the Ohio River. On...
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There are many genealogical records available from the 1700s for James Skaggs, making him appear to have been everywhere at all times. I w...
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The most notorious Skaggs in history was the Missouri bushwacker Larkin Skaggs. He was a Baptist preacher who rode with William Quantrill&#... -
If you followed rock music back in the 1970s you will remember Boz Scaggs , with songs like Lido Shuffle and Lowdown . He was born William ...
My mother is a direct descendant of Peter and Martha Skaggs and she had the same results - no American Indian DNA.
ReplyDeleteI'm a descendant and no indian blood either.
ReplyDeleteI'm related to Peter Skaggs and Martha through his son John. We had always heard the stories the Martha Skaggs was at least half-Cherokee. My test showed no Indian at all.
ReplyDeleteMy Wife is from Alvin, Peter, Peter Jr., "Old Peter"....No Native American blood
ReplyDeleteHello....I am also from all 3 Peter's through Manford...(Alvin Brother)....If possible would appreciate talking with you about all 3 Peter's....
DeleteIt may be that our Native American blood is too diluted to be detected by commercial tests. Check out http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2014/11/24/ask-ancestry-anne-where-is-my-native-american-dna/ .
ReplyDeleteI have two lines back to Old Peter and one to his brother Solomon so I'm anxious to see my autosomal DNA test results.
I don't know, I would expect all these tests would show about 1% Indian DNA if Peter's wife was 1/2 Cherokee. I hope you decide to share your results even if as an anonymous comment.
DeleteMy autosomal DNA test shows no Native American blood. If Martha was 1/2 Cherokee, I would be 1/128 Cherokee or 0.78 %. The test results don't show fractions or decimals, all of the numbers reported are whole numbers.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting your autosomal test result. Did it show up as zero or as <1%?
DeleteHello, I stumbled upon this page while researching this topic. I am, as far as I can tell, a direct descendant of Peter Scaggs. My dad and I have taken DNA tests. His came back with 0.1% Native American (his mother was 2nd generation American, family from Germany, very unlikely it came from her). My test doesn't show any Native American ancestry. My paternal haplogroup is R1a1a* (my dad too of course).
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I have heard that my grandfather's grandmother was half Native American. That would make me 1/32 Native. I wonder if tests of older relatives with closer relationships to them would result different because I have not been tested, but if my info is correct, if I was tested, I should show 3% and my grandfather would show 12% larger than your 1%
ReplyDeleteYou don't know where to look I'm a direct decendent. From martha & old oete skaggs
ReplyDeleteSo, Melvin, did you take an autosomal DNA test? If so, did you find any Native American DNA?
DeleteOld Peter and Martha are my 5th Great Grandparents. Their son, Peter and his wife, Clerinda Prince, are my 4th Great Grandparents. I will be doing the ancestry DNA test (it's what my husband and I are doing for Christmas this year). I will be sure to report my results here. Thank you for posting about this.
ReplyDeletePlease report back with your results. Those results could be very interesting or very confusing. Clarinda Prince was supposed to have been part Cherokee, a great-granddaughter of Chief Big Eagle, according to a published source back in the 1930s. So you may come back with Native American DNA.
DeleteWhat were your results? I've found no proof of Clarinda's Native heritage (but I'd love to see some!)
DeleteI just received my Ancestry DNA results and was very surprised that it shows Native American. Now, it is only <1%, but I truly expected none. I'm one who has always believed that the stories were just that, stories. But, maybe there is some truth somewhere.
ReplyDeleteThat's an interesting result. Actually, that 1% Native American sounds about right. Thanks for posting it. Do you happen to be a descendant of the Prince family? The Prince family has a strong association with the Cherokee. I know Peter Skaggs, Jr. married Clarinda Prince so the Prince family could be another source of Native American DNA for descendants of Peter Skaggs, Jr.
DeleteOld Peter and Martha are my 5th Great Grandparents. Their son, Peter Jr. and his wife, Clerinda Prince, are my 4th Great Grandparents.
DeleteI uploaded my raw DNA to Gedmatch and it gives a 1.64% American Indian. I have no idea how they measure the test in comparison to Ancestry, but thought I'd report it here.
If you are interested in the Prince Family, Google "william prince ted griffin" since Ted Griffin has done a lot of research on the Prince Family of Lawrence County, KY.
DeleteIm not a skaggs and dont have a dog in this fight but just thought i would let you know that two friends of mine who are for the most part full blood Natives and tribal members from very respected Native families took the ancestry test and both showed no Native ancestry at all. Native ancestry doesnt always show on the dna tests. I think many articles have been written about this.
ReplyDeleteI just uploaded my raw Ancestry DNA to Gedmatch and it reveals a .71 American Indian. My line is (4thG) Old Peter/Martha Cothron, (3rdG) Peter Jr./Clarinda Prince, and (2ndG) Peter III/Martha Rigsby.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting your results. Prince descendants seem to be finding Native American DNA. Others, not so much. But we will keep trying.
DeleteGEDmatch just updated my American Indian DNA to .95 of a percent. By the way, what was the published source back in the 1930's concerning Chief Big Eagle ?
ReplyDeleteI think it's at this Facebook page, but I'd take it with a grain of salt. A lot of these Indian stories were just campfire tales.
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I had same result to DNA testing Zero Native American. Martha is my 4th Gen Grandmother through her son Solomon Skaggs. Steven
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You may want to consider posting your results to GEDmatch so you can match relatives testing with other companies.
DeleteMy husband is descended from Old Peter Skaggs and Martha Cothrun. My mother-in-law did the Family Tree DNA test and it didn't show any Native American DNA, so she was disappointed. In her case, you could tell by looking at family photos that she had Native American ancestry on both sides (she has other Native American ancestors in addition to Martha Cothrun). Some Native American DNA shows up on GedMatch, by essentially looking at relatedness to the Clovis baby.
ReplyDeleteIf you upload your raw data to a site such as GedMatch, you can use different geneticists' ethnicity calculators, and you can compare your DNA to other descendants of a given person.
Geneticists are now finding that the founding population of North and South America may have had 1/3 DNA in common with Europeans/West Eurasians. That means that all the DNA calculators are wrong. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6157/409
Do not say, "Oh, I guess I have no Native American ancestry," just because a bunch of geneticists said so. First, all they can look at is which genes you happened to inherit. A person is still your ancestor if you didn't happen to inherit any/many genes from him/her (as may be the case after many generations). I have three daughters, who all look quite different. Siblings inherit different genes. Over many generations, this adds up. Genetics field is still in its infancy and has a long way to go.
We're still testing descendants of Peter and Martha despite a bunch of zeroes. There is enormous value in matching other branches of the Skaggs family even if the ancestors we thought were Cherokee end up being something else.
DeleteI was wondering if anyone has ever found any military service for Peter Skaggs/ Near the end of the war around 1782 - 1783, he would have been old enough to have possibly served.
ReplyDeleteRemember that Corwallis surrendered at Yorktown October 19, 1781. The war was basically over at that point.
DeleteMartha Catron Was A Sister To Peter Catron, Who's son Is John Wasah Catron, Who Married Margaret Hildebrand. My Cousin Comes From John Catron And Margaret. The Catron Were Cherokee Indian Intermarried And Raised With The Kettering/Keasling Family Of Grayson County Virginia. Ancestry Said I Had no Indian DNA But GEDMATCH DOES. I Have Several Cousins With American Indian DNA On Ancestry. I Have Skaggs And Catron Cousins. You should be A DNA Hit to me. Look for me on Ancestry, Gedmatch, FTDNA-Stacey Parks
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting this comment. I'm sure several descendants of Old Peter and Martha Skaggs will be interested in seeing if they can match you on Ancestry, Gedmatch and FTDNA.
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