Current Y-DNA testing points to Richard Skaggs who married Catherine Brockman as the first Skaggs ancestor in the R-FT48276 haplogroup. Richard was the eldest son of Aaron Skaggs and Sarah Lyon and married Catherine "Caty" Brockman in Adair County, Kentucky on 17 September 1804. According to Skaggs historians, Richard tried to lead a pioneer expedition to Texas in the 1830s but must have taken a wrong turn somewhere because he ended up in Illinois.
The Skaggs Y-DNA project has tested multiple descendants of Old Peter Skaggs and the Long Hunters. These testers all descend from a single common ancestor with the R-BY44771 haplogroup. The genealogies of the test participants indicate that this common ancestor lived in the late 1600s to early 1700s.
I don't know much about William Brock Skaggs and that's unfortunate because he was the common ancestor for two testers in the Skaggs Y-DNA project. He was a grandson of the Rev. James "Longman" Skaggs of the Long Hunter group of Skaggs, born about 1796. He married Nancy Warren about 1815 and lived out his life in Green County, Kentucky dying sometime after the 1860 census. William Brock Skaggs had the R-BY114454 haplogroup in the Skaggs genetic lineage, shown below:
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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The R1a Skaggs Family has a family group defined by Y-DNA testers who are living descendants of Peter Skaggs Jr., identified by the Y-haplogroup R-BY114642.
I like to occasionally provide an update about the Skaggs Y-DNA project that is being managed on Family Tree DNA. Usually I blend the DNA test results with the genealogy work that's been done to create several Skaggs family groups. This time I will "follow the science" by using the Family Tree DNA haplogroup chart to create the Skaggs family groups and fill in each family group with the known genealogy of only the test participants involved.
