There are many genealogical records available from the 1700s for James Skaggs, making him appear to have been everywhere at all times. I want to try to take advantage of years of genealogical research by many Skaggs researchers to separate these James from each other:
- James and Rachel Skaggs - the parents of the Long Hunters
- James Jr. and Mary Skaggs - the Longhunter James, son of James and Rachel
- James and Susanna Scaggs - lived side-by-side with the Long Hunters in Virginia, then went west and ended up in Warren County, Kentucky
- James C. Skaggs – Revolutionary War pensioner from South Carolina
- James Scaggs and Catherine Reaser/Mary Brinker - lived with first wife Catherine Reaser in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, then with second wife Mary Brinker in Frederick County, Virginia and the Chew's Folly farm in Prince George's County, Maryland
James C. Skaggs was a Revolutionary War pensioner from South Carolina who is frequently confused with other James Skaggs from that time period. He is considered to be an ancestor of the famous Safeway Skaggs family. The affidavit below the fold for a military pension contains a lot of useful information about James C.’s life, including an interesting statement that “applicant states that he never left his post during all this service unless when in the immediate neighborhood of his father's, when he made a visit of a few days and immediately returned.” This indicates that James C.’s father lived nearby in Laurens District, South Carolina during the War. Also, “at the termination of the war he moved to Spartanburg District South Carolina where he lived 10 or 11 years, when he moved to Jefferson County Tennessee, where he lived one-year when he moved to Knox County Tennessee where he has lived ever since and now lives.”
