Knowledge of colonial roads can help with understanding Skaggs family migrations prior to 1800. Below is a map of the system of roads in colonial America.
If you are interested in how Maryland Skaggs might have ended up in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina just check out the analysis below the fold.
The Skaggs Y-DNA project has been hard at work testing male volunteers who descend along different Skaggs family lines. A branch of the Skaggs family founded the Safeway family of stores, with names like Osco, Albertson's and Long's Drugs. Several descendants of this Safeway Skaggs family have tested with the project and they not only match each other but also closely match the descendants of James and Susanna Scaggs. The famous musician, Boz Scaggs, is also a descendant of this family.
From the vault of hideous medical experimentation: the hanging of John H. Skaggs and the attempt to use electrical current to return him from the dead. This horrible story is a real historical Frankenstein episode from the backwoods country of the Missouri boot-heel of 1870.
William Scaggs married Susannah Brashears in Lawrence County, Tennessee 14 February 1828. Susannah came from the South Carolina Brashears family and was born there about 1805. After his 1828 marriage William disappears from the record. Where did he go? Who was this guy?
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.
The Skaggs family Y-DNA project is looking for descendants of a Skeggs from the Nashville, Tennessee area. Male descendants of Thomas Leonard Skeggs (1810-1880) are needed to take a Y-DNA test to identify how this Skeggs family line fits and where they come from.
“… In the month of March and he thinks in the year 1770, he went as a volunteer under Captain Thomas Mastin upon the expedition against the Cherokee Indians to Tennessee, called the "Chickamaugy Expedition". The point of rendezvous was at Colonel Campbell's in the County of Washington, Virginia. The men were marched to the big Island of Holston, where they were incorporated into the regiment of General Evan Shelby. From thence they marched against the Indian towns, but found upon entering them that they had already been abandoned by the Indians. This declarant was three months in this service having left home in the early part of March and returning after the troops were disbanded sometime in June.”
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