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-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.

More discussion about the genealogy of R-BY99605 is below the fold.

Zachariah Skaggs was Not the Father of Old Peter

Results are back from a Y-DNA test for a descendant of Zachariah Skaggs.  The Zachariah descendant had a different Y-DNA haplogroup than both Old Peter and Old Solomon Skaggs, meaning Zachariah couldn't have been either the father or brother of Old Peter Skaggs or his brother Old Solomon.  They were likely related, but not from the same immediate family.

Descendants of Old Peter and Old Solomon have the same Y-Haplogroup

There has been an interesting development in the Skaggs Y-DNA project.  Descendants of Old Peter Skaggs and his legendary brother, Old Solomon, have been found to have the same Y-DNA haplogroup, R-BY99605.

James Skaggs: Who was this guy?

Thanks to the internet, there is a transcription of the minutes of the Big Blaine Baptist Church by Lucy G. White out there for us to study.  The Big Blaine Baptist Church still exists on KY-32 near Martha, Kentucky.  These church minutes are from the 1800s back to 1821.  I found a James Skaggs that I cannot account for in the known genealogies for Lawrence County, Kentucky.  I need your help in solving this mystery.

The 1809 Tazewell County Virginia Personal Property Tax List

A reader recently contacted me with some research based on my earlier post about the 1818 lawsuit between Old Peter Skaggs and Richard Damron.  The researchers used the 1809 Personal Property Tax List for Tazewell County, Virginia to confirm the presence in Tazewell County of many of the witnesses involved in the lawsuit.

The 1820 Census and Old Peter Scaggs

The 1820 census has some interesting information for Scaggs family historians.  The relevant county in Kentucky in 1820 is Floyd since, at the time, it included some or all of the future counties of Lawrence, Pike, Morgan, Carter, Johnson, Magoffin, Boyd and Elliott.  The KYKinfolk website has a good transcription of the 1820 Floyd County census.

Children of Peter and Martha

There has been some confusion about who Old Peter Scaggs' children were.  I believe this is because Peter's brother Solomon and Solomon's wife died close together in time and Peter and Martha took charge of his brother's orphaned children.  These orphans get confused with Peter's own children.