- First, I showed Richard marrying Grace then a second wife Mary Brashear, however, we discovered through DNA testing that those were two different Richards.
- Next, I thought Richard who married Sarah Selby was the Richard born 1724 as youngest son of Richard and Grace Scaggs of Kent County, Maryland but DNA testing proved that wrong also
- Then I thought Richard who married Sarah Selby was son of the Richard who married Mary Brashear since they appear have the same R1b DNA haplogroup, however I'm ready to consider another possibility.
An Update on Richard Scaggs of Prince George's County, Maryland
I've written several posts regarding Richard Scaggs of Prince George's County, Maryland. Each post about Richard is a little better than those that came before since we are learning a lot from the Skaggs Y-DNA project. 
R-BY99605: The Father of Old Peter Skaggs?
The Skaggs Y-DNA project has tested multiple descendants of Old Peter Skaggs and his brother Solomon. All these descendants had the same Y-DNA haplogroup, R-BY99605. So it appears an ancestor of Old Peter and his brother Solomon had this R-BY99605 haplogroup.
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