Skaggs DNA Testing: The Long Hunters

The Skaggs Y-DNA project has been working diligently testing male volunteers who descend along different Skaggs family lines.  Volunteers have been tested from the branch of the Skaggs family that descends from the children of James and Rachel Skaggs, known as the Long Hunters.

John Skaggs and the Battle of King's Mountain

by General Joseph Graham

Published in The Southern Literary Messenger, September 30, 1845.

"The following account of the battle of King's Mountain is a copy of the original paper, drawn up by the late General Joseph Graham, father of the present governor of North Carolina, of Lincoln county, North Carolina, the county in which the site of the battle is located. The accompanying plan of the battle is a copy by a young lady of Carolina from the original taken by Gen. Graham on the ground. This graphic account, given by an uninterested individual, of the battle that led to the retreat of Cornwallis, then on his advance through Carolina, may afford interesting information to your readers, that love to dwell upon the scenes of the Revolution."

Henry A Skaggs: A Brick Wall back to Maryland

Henry A Skaggs is the brick wall for a West Virginia Skaggs family from the Greenbrier County area.  Many Skaggs researchers have thought he was from the Thomas Scaggs (born 1728) line of Virginia and later West Virginia Skaggs but I'm not so sure.  It's possible he was the Henry Scaggs in the 1800 Frederick County, Maryland census, making him a brick wall back to the 18th century Maryland Skaggs families.