Lord Dunmore's War: Major Robertson's Company

Lord Dunmore's War was a confrontation between colonial Virginia and the Indians of the Ohio Country in 1774.  The war consisted of small skirmishes in present-day Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky culminating with the Battle of Point Pleasant on October 10, 1774 near modern-day Point Pleasant, West Virginia.  You can read more about Lord Dunmore's War here.  Major James Robertson led a company of men from Fincastle County, Virginia consisting of several persons of interest for Skaggs researchers.

Skaggs DNA Testing: The Maryland Eastern Shore Skaggs

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.

Leonard Scaggs: Brick Wall to the Skeggs Family

Leonard Scaggs (a.k.a. Skaggs, Skeggs) was the progenitor of several American families known today mostly as Skeggs.  We currently don't know much about him prior to his appearance in the 1800 U.S. census in Frederick County, Maryland, however, he is the common ancestor of several Skeggs families across the United States and is important to us in understanding how the Skaggs, Scaggs and Skeggs families were structured just after the American Revolution.

Skaggs Family Groups based on DNA Testing

It's time for an update on the Skaggs Y-DNA testing.  We currently have 19 Skaggs who have taken the Big-Y DNA test and are descendants of Viking ancestors from the Isle of Man.  We call these guys R1a Skaggs.  We also have a few other Skaggs who are not part of this Isle of Man family and we call them the R1b Skaggs.  Both are Skaggs, just two completely different families. Both are really interesting, however, in this post I'll discuss the R1a Skaggs and group them into families based on their DNA.

DNA Testing Update: Skaggs and the Isle of Man

It’s time for an update on the Skaggs DNA testing.  Several Skaggs have submitted Y-DNA test results since the last time we checked in and additional autosomal DNA testing results for Skaggs descendants have been posted to GEDMatch.  These new tests have produced some interesting results.

A Family of Early Ohio Scaggs Pioneers

Most Ohio Skaggs settlers moved over from Kentucky sometime in the mid-1800s.  Many of these Ohio Skaggs are descendants of Old Peter.  I was recently shown a Scaggs family with a completely different and somewhat unexpected origin, apparently Maryland in the 1790s.

Will the real James Skaggs please stand up? James Scaggs and Catherine Reaser/Mary Brinker

There are many genealogical records available from the 1700s for James Skaggs, making him appear to have been everywhere at all times.  I want to try to take advantage of years of genealogical research by many Skaggs researchers to separate these James from each other:

1. James and Rachel Skaggs - the parents of the Long Hunters
2. James Jr. and Mary Skaggs - the Longhunter James, son of James and Rachel
   
3. James and Susanna Scaggs - lived side-by-side with the Long Hunters in Virginia, then went west and ended up in Warren County, Kentucky
4. James C. Skaggs – Revolutionary War pensioner from South Carolina
5. James Scaggs and Catherine Reaser/Mary Brinker - lived with first wife Catherine Reaser in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, then with second wife Mary Brinker in Frederick County, Virginia and the Chew's Folly farm in Prince George's County, Maryland

James Scaggs was born c. 1765 in Prince George's County, Maryland to Richard Scaggs and Sarah Selby.  After the death of her father, William Selby, Sarah Scaggs inherited about 94 acres called "Chew's Folly."  James had the following siblings:

Name that Skaggs: The Man in the Middle

A correspondent sent in a picture of a Skaggs family c. 1927.  Can you name the family patriarch in the middle of the picture?

Another clue is he was born in Johnson County, Kentucky, but the family moved to Scioto County, Ohio.  The answer is below the fold.