Back before there was an Alabama, there were Skaggs pioneers in the area known as the Mississippi Territory. First there were the Skaggs intruders on Indian land, part of the Sims Settlement, who the government ran off the land in 1810. But that wasn't the last of the Skaggs in the Mississippi Territory.
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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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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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