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S C A G G S
SCAGG,
SCAGGS, SCAGS, SCEGGS, SKAGGS, SKEGGS
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Into Our Past, A Genealogy of the Parsons, Smith and Associated Families, Vol. 1
�1996, Judy Parsons Smith
James Scaggs
James Scaggs,
immigrant, was in Augusta Co., VA on 28 Nov 1749. He was a
farmer. On 28 May 1751 he purchased 100 acres of land. James
Scaggs m. Rachel (unknown). James & Rachel Scaggs had a
son:
- James, Jr.; property was
conveyed to him on 11 Jan 1754.
The following list of Scaggs
men were in the Pittsylvania Co., VA area around 1767. It is
said that Charles & Richard are brothers of Henry Scaggs,
Long Hunter. Reasoning that the families stayed in the same
area, then John & Zachariah may also be brothers of Henry
Scaggs. It is not known who their parents would have been.
Brothers(?):
Henry Scaggs - Long
Hunter; m. Mary
Richard Scaggs
Charles Scags - Cherokee War, SC; m. Lucy
John Scags, m. Elizabeth. He was wounded in the Battle of
King’s Mountain.
Zachariah Scaggs, m. Anne ‘Nanny’ (unknown)
In 1761, 18 men from
Pittsylvania County & Henry County hunted 18 months in
the Hawkins County, Tennessee area. Henry Scaggs was among
those longhunters in the party. In 1764 & 1765 Henry
Scaggs explored further into Tennesse as a representative of
Henderson & Company, a land company. In 1770, Henry
Scaggs once again passes throught the Cumberland Gap.
Zachariah
Scaggs O
Zachariah
Scaggs the ancestor of this branch of the family first
appears on a tithable list in Pittsylvania County, Virginia
in 1767. He was living in Montgomery County, Virginia prior
to the Revolutionary War. The place and date of Zachariah's
birth are unknown.
Revolutionary War
Service: On 13 Sept 1777, Zachariah Scaggs signed the
oath of allegiance in Captain Daniel Trigg's Company of
Militia, Montgomery County, Virginia.
Zachariah Scaggs made a Deed
of Gift on 1 Mar 1816 conveying 242 acres to John Scaggs
Zachariah Scaggs, d. 2
Jun 1818, Russell Co., VA; m. in either Halifax or
Pittsylvania Co., VA to Anne 'Nanny' (unknown).
Zachariah & Anne Scaggs had only (1) one known son:
1. Jeremiah
Skaggs, b.
Pittsylvania County, VA; m. 1 Nov 1788 to Hannah Lester.
Jeremiah
Skaggs
1. Jeremiah Skaggs,
son of Zachariah & Anne Scaggs, b. Pittsylvania County, VA; d. 1798,
Russell County, VA; m. 1 Nov 1788, Montgomery County, VA to Hannah
Lester, daughter
of Abner & Martha Lester, b. 1772-1773. Jeremiah & Hannah
Skaggs had (5) five children:
A. Nancy, b. Montgomery
County, VA; d. 23 Oct 1868, Tazewell County, VA; m. abt
1806, Tazewell County, VA to James Whitt.
B. Martha, b. abt 1791, Montgomery or Russell County, VA;
m. abt 1808-1810 to 'Griffy' Griffith Whitt.
C. 'Lidia' Lydia Ann, b. 2 Nov 1793,
Russell County, VA; d. 12 Dec 1871, Lee County, VA; m.
bef. 1819, Russell County, VA to John C. Olinger, son of John C. Olinger I, b. 17 Nov 1790. SEE OLINGER
D. John, b. 22 Nov 1795, Russell County, VA; m.
Cynthia Horton.
E. Hannah, b. abt 1797; m. Squire Oney.
After Jeremiah's death Hannah
Lester m.2nd ca. 1801 to Edmund Whitt.
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