What Ever Happened to Fort Scaggs?

At the outbreak of the Civil War the Confederates threatened Washington, D.C.  The Union Army designed a ring of forts around Washington to defend the city from Confederate attacks initiated from Virginia or Maryland.  Selby Scaggs, a descendant of Richard Scaggs and Sarah Selby, owned land in northeast D.C. that the government used to build a circular earthwork called Fort Scaggs.

Skaggs Y-DNA Testing Update

Since it's a new year I thought I would give an update on where we stand with Skaggs Y-DNA testing. Based on our testing results to date it appears there are two distinct Skaggs families in America:

• Old Peter, the Longhunters, the Safeway Skaggs, James and Susanna, etc. whose descendants test with a Y-haplogroup of some flavor of R-M417.  These Skaggs match the Keig test-takers from the Isle of Man.
• Descendants of the Thomas Skaggs born 1728 in Maryland who migrated to the Greenbrier region of West Virginia.  These Skaggs test with some flavor of R-M269