The Maryland frontier militia during the French and Indian War was commanded by Capt. John Dagworthy. Richard, James and Isaac were three Marylander Scaggs who enlisted in the militia on 9 October 1757. They participated in the Forbes Expedition to capture Fort Duquesne, a French fortress on the site of present-day downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This was the same fort that Gen. Edward Braddock failed to capture in 1755 when his command was annihilated by the French and Indians.
Skaggs researchers working thorough 17th century records may encounter the time-waster Capt. Thomas Stegge (a.k.a. Stagge, Stagg, Stegg). In 1651 he was sent to America by the English Crown to subdue the colonies of Virginia and Maryland. He was lost in an Atlantic storm on his return to England. He left a son, Thomas Stegge Jr., who died c. 1671 without male issue.
I've written a lot about Zachariah Skaggs, about how he was not the father of Old Peter, about how he is frequently confused with a much younger Zachariah, etc. Skaggs family Y-DNA testing has determined that Zachariah was closely related to the William Scaggs of the New River Valley of Virginia who married Esther.
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The Skaggs Y-DNA project has been hard at work testing male volunteers who descend along different Skaggs family lines. Two volunteers have both tested as having the R-FT14580 haplogroup. One of the testers is a documented descendant of the Scaggs who settled the Maryland Eastern Shore in Talbot and Kent Counties. The second tester is a descendant of the Ohio pioneer Skaggs family with known roots in Maryland. These results show that the Ohio pioneer Skaggs are related to the Maryland Eastern Shore Scaggs, with details below the fold.
