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 Safeway Skaggs

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.

Who was John Stegg of Kent County?

There is evidence in the early historical records of Maryland that a John Stegg lived on Kent Island on the Eastern Shore in 1642 when Kent County was formed.  At this point in time there would have been less than 300 heads of household in the entire Maryland colony.  Past researchers noted that no John Stegg was found in early Virginia immigration records such as Cavaliers and Pioneers or the Virginia Historical Index, yet there he was in 1642 as you can see below the fold.

Maryland Scaggs in the French and Indian War

The Maryland frontier militia during the French and Indian War was commanded by Capt. John Dagworthy.  Richard, James and Isaac were three Marylander Scaggs who enlisted in the militia on 9 October 1757.  They participated in the Forbes Expedition to capture Fort Duquesne, a French fortress on the site of present-day downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  This was the same fort that Gen. Edward Braddock failed to capture in 1755 when his command was annihilated by the French and Indians.

Captain Thomas Stegge

Skaggs researchers working thorough 17th century records may encounter the time-waster Capt. Thomas Stegge (a.k.a. Stagge, Stagg, Stegg).  In 1651 he was sent to America by the English Crown to subdue the colonies of Virginia and Maryland.  He was lost in an Atlantic storm on his return to England.  He left a son, Thomas Stegge Jr., who died c. 1671 without male issue.