R-FT48276: Richard Skaggs, Lost Leader

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.

R-FT12801: Charles Scaggs of Sims Settlement

Intruder alert!  Intruder alert!  Our Y-DNA testing project has tested multiple descendants of Charles Scaggs, one of the intruders on Indian land in Mississippi Territory at Sims Settlement in the early 1800s. You can read the history of how the President ordered the Army to beat the stuffing out of these intruders to drive them off Indian land back to Tennessee where they belonged.

R-BY44771: The Grandfather of the Long Hunter Brothers?

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.

R-BY114454: Descendants of William Brock Skaggs

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:

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. 

• 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.