This picture was taken about 1914 in Wayne County, West Virginia. Who were these Scaggs? The answer below the fold...
Name that Skaggs: West Virginia Skaggs
The Scaggs family below is descended from Old Peter Skaggs yet they are from West Virginia. The few DNA tests we have had indicate that the West Virginia Skaggs descended from Thomas b. 1728 have a Y-haplotype of R1b while Old Peter Skaggs' descendants look like R1a, so I wouldn't expect a family of West Virginia Skaggs to be descended from Old Peter.
This picture was taken about 1914 in Wayne County, West Virginia. Who were these Scaggs? The answer below the fold...
This picture was taken about 1914 in Wayne County, West Virginia. Who were these Scaggs? The answer below the fold...
Will the real James Skaggs please stand up? James Scaggs and Catherine Reaser/Mary Brinker
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 Scaggs was born c. 1765 in Prince George's County, Maryland to Richard Scaggs and Sarah Selby. After the death of her father, William Selby, Sarah Scaggs inherited about 94 acres called "Chew's Folly." James had the following siblings:
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