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Note: "Henry Skaggs settled on the North Fork of Pitman Creek in what is nowTaylor
Co."
Served in one major campaign, that of Kanawha River. source sameas above, p4.

born on ship to MD, moved family to Va by 1745, lived in Halifax,SC, went to
Boteourt Co., Va. In 1782 entire family to Green Co., Ky. LynneHerron

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Note:

(Research):will-dated-Apr.-1809-probated-Dec.-1810

Lynne Herron has sources: Will Green Co., book 1 p. 48,Warren/d402.htm at end
of will Warren states names of 11 children too, Campbell/03751has assumed
everyone mentioned in will is a son or daughter, also.

Jillson KY Land Grants-Henry Skaggs 400 acres on Pitman Creek,Nelson co.,
March 15, 1791. Pitman Creek begins in present Taylor Co., SWinto Green Co.,
where it empties into the Green River. Lived in NE sector ofpresent day Green Co.

#3-Name: Henry SKAGGS Sex: M Birth: 8 JAN 1723/24 in MarylandDeath: BEF.
4 DEC 1810 in Green Co., KY (and after April 5, 1809) Note:
"Henry, Charles, and Richard SKAGGS and three other brothers weregrandsons of
an Irishman who fled from Ireland of Londonderry in 1688-'89,when so many of
the hardy Scotch-Irish race emigrated to the shores of the NewWorld. We find his
adventurous descendants, natives of Maryland, living on thefrontiers of New River
and sharing largely in the toils and hardships of the LongHunters in 1770-'71. In
June 1775 we find Henry SKAGGS aiding to pilot Col. ThomasSLAUGHTER and
others on an exploratory tour of the Green River country. HenrySKAGGS and
brothers were a noted family of hunters and nothing but hunters;and keeping pace
with the advancing settlements, they pushed forward to ClinchRiver and were
forting in 1777 at Shadrach WHITE's Station in the neighborhoodof the Maiden
Spring Fork of the Clinch. In 1781 one of the family of SKAGGSwho had been
residing in the Cumberland settlements removed to Kentucky. In1779 Henry
SKAGGS, accompanied by upwards of twenty men, started forKentucky, were
attacked by Indians in POWELL's Valley, lost part of theirhorses, when all had
returned, save SKAGGS, his son John, a mere youth, and a mannamed
SINCLAIR. With eleven horses, they went to the Green Rivercountry to hunt, and
during the succeeding hard winter, SINCLAIR got lost, probablydrowned in the
Green River, and young SKAGGS sickened and died, and amidst theseverities of
the season, a hollow log was his burial place. His father wasleft alone to finish the
hunt and return home with the horses, pelts, and furs. He settledon Pitman's Creek
in the Green River country within present Taylor County,Kentucky, in 1789, with
his children and connections around him sharing freely in theIndian difficulties of
the times; and there he died in 1808 or '9, aged upwards ofeighty years. Possessing
a large and bony frame, he was bold, enterprising, and fearless.His brothers,
Charles and Richard, who also settled in that region, lived to agood old age." [note
23, p.277: "MS. statements of Capt. John BARBEE, derived fromThomas and
Moses SKAGGS, son of Charles SKAGGS; MS. notes of conversationswith
Morgan VARDEMAN of Kentucky."] --Lyman C. Draper, The Life ofDaniel
Boone, Ted Franklin Belue, ed. (Mechanicsburg, PA: StackpoleBooks, 1998),
268-69.

"Two other long hunters known to REDD were William PITTMAN andHenry
SKAGS, of whom [note 15] he said, "they were men of high sense ofhonor and
vary great truth." Both probably lived for awhile in this sectionfor PITMAN's
Creek is a branch of Blackwater River, and several members of theSKAGS family,
John, Charles and Zachariah, were given in the first list oftithables for Pittsylvania
County.
"It is very probable that WALDEN and his friends had served inthe recent Indian
campaign and ranging along the frontiers had seen for themselvesthe great
abundance of game that lived undisturbed in the virgin forest ofSouthwest Virginia.
They remained on this hunt eighteen months, ranging oversouthwestern Virginia
and eastern Tennessee and Kentucky, naming the mountains andstreams as they
came to them. POWELL's Mountain . . . [as well as] the adjacentriver and valley.
WALDEN's Ridge was named for WALDEN; SCAG's Ridge and NEWMAN's
Ridge were named for other members of the company. They crossedthe mountains
through Cumberland Gap into the Kentucky country and all agreedthat WALDEN
should name the gap, which he did calling it Cumberland for hisformer home in
Cumberland County, Virginia. . . .
"On their return the following year they crossed the Blue RidgeMountains at
Flower's Gap in Franklin County, and found few settlers west ofthe mountains, the
murderous attacks of the Indians having driven them eastward andsouthward.
"In the year of 1764 the BLEVINs went up into Kentucky and huntednear
Crab-Tree Orchard on Rock Castle Creek, where they found the gameso plentiful
that they continued to hunt there for several years. DanielBOONE, who was living
on the Yadkin, came among the hunters that year, saying that hewas employed by
the Henderson Company to explore the country. Henry SKAGS wasafterwards
employed by the HENDERSONs for the same purpose. Draper [note 19]said of
SKAGGS that he and his brothers Charles and Richard were a familyof noted
hunters, and nothing but hunters, who kept pace with theadvancing wave of
settlements. He described SKAGGS as "possessing a large bonyframe, he was bold,
enterprising and fearless." In the winter of 1771 Henry SKAGGSand a man named
KNOX made a station and hunted in Greene County, Kentucky. Oneday when
absent from the station on a hunt their camp was plundered by ahalf-breed
Cherokee named Will EMERY. When they returned to find the resultof their
winter's labors gone, they carved on a tree, "Fifteen hundredskins gone to
ruination." SKAGGS [note 20] and his brother later settled inthis section of
Kentucky, where they lived to a ripe old age." (Note 15: VirginiaMag. History, v.7,
p.250. Note 19: Draper's Manuscripts. Note 20: Cyclopedia ofBiography, v.5,
p.813, says of the SKAGGS family that they were of Scotch descentand many of
them settled in Maryland.) --Maud Carter Clement, History ofPittsylvania County,
Virginia (Lynchburg, VA: J.P. Bell Co., 1929; transcribed byAncestry.com),
Chapter 7, The Cherokee War--Western Exploration, pp.90-91.

Grantee: SKAGGS, Henry. Acres: 400. Book: 14. Page: 444. DateSurvey:
3-15-1791. County: Nelson. Watercourse: Pitmans Cr. --TheKentucky Land
Grants, Vol. 1, Part 1, Chapter 2, Virginia Grants, 1782-1792.The Counties of
Kentucky, p.116; transcribed by Ancestry.com.

http://www.combs-families.org/~combs/records/ky-green.htm
Green Co., KY, Wills, p.56. Will of Henry SKAGGS dated 5 Apr 1809- probated 4
Dec 1810. My grandson, John, son of James SKAGGS; My sons: Davidand James;
My Daughter Sarah; To Sylvia ROARK and Stephen SKAGGS; MyChildren:
Solomon, Lucy STACY, and Rachel RAY, Nancy D. SPANE, and PollyCOMBS.
Exe?: James my son and Eliaz BARBEE, Larkin DURROTZ/DURRETZ,James
RAFITY [RAFFERTY?], and William BARBEE. (COMBS-STACY researcher
Barbara Stacy Mathews)
From "Historical Madison Co., Missouri," Henry SKAGGS was born in1725; his
daughter, Nancy having married Peter DESPAIN in 1781[1791] inNelson Co, KY,
consent by Henry SKAGGS, witnesses her brothers, James andSolomon SKAGGS.
Polly SKAGGS COMBS' husband was William COMBS. Lucy SKAGGS m.John
STACY ca. 1786, Russell Co., VA.

June 1815 Green Co., KY Circuit Court Case #5389. Green Circuitand County and
Commonwealth of Kentucky to the honorable ___ Judges in chancerysitting Your
orator Peter D. SPAIN and his wife Nancy D. SPAIN and ReubinROARK and
Silvy ROARK his wife and William COMBS and Mary COMBS his wifeand
Thomas RAY and Rachael RAY his wife humbly complaining showeth toyour
honors that Henry SKAGGS departed this life leaving your Oratorsheirs to part of
his estate and that the deceased intended by a will to havedevised his estate in such
a manner as it might be well understood and for that purposeappointed Elias
BARBEE and James SKAGGS in said will to be his Executors and toact for the
benefit of all the legatees named in said will but said willeither being so uninteligible
as that said Executor could not act properly on said will orotherwise they have so
mistaken said will so as to do great injustice to your Oratorsand have acted contrary
to the last will and wish of the tastator and your Orators verylybelieves that the will
is so vague and uncertain that it cannot be acted upon so as todo justice to the
parties according to the true intent and meaning of the testatorwhich will and the
inventory and appraisment of said Estate your Orators prays maybe taken and read
as a part of this bill and that the said Executors Elias BARBEEand James SKAGGS
may be made Defendants to this bill and that your honors <and taxwhat off the
esteat is in there hands or what have with compli__ part ofEstea_> may by a decree
of your honorable Court make nul and void said will or otherwiseif your honors
should be of opinion that the said will can be understood so asto be acted upon
your orators prays your honors to compell the said Defendants todo justice
according to the true intent and meaning of the Deceased andcompell the different
legatees to act according to the justice of the case, to wit,David SKAGGS, Solomon
SKAGGS, Stephen SKAGGS, John STACY and Lucy STACY his wife all of
whom your Orators prays may be made defendants to this bill andyour Orators
farther states that Mary SKAGGS the wife of the deceased was leftin possession of
all the estate real and personal and has so waisted the estatefor want of proper care
and through neglect so as to deprive your orators from thebenefit of their part of
the estate when the said (Nancy is crossed out) Mary SKAGGS whois also made
defendant hereunto was left in full possession of one tract ofland the rents of which
would have more than doubly supported her and also one valuablenegro fellow
named bob whose labour alone with good management would havesupported her
and one other negro man named Ned whose labour was entirelysufficient to have
supported her and your orators farther states that the Deceasedwas none indebted
and left sveral other negroes sufficient to support her and herdaughter Sally
SKAGGS who is also made defendant hereunto all of which land andNegroes are
now and have been in the possession and in the use of saiddefendant (Nancy is
crossed out) Mary SKAGGS and if the will is not revoked the landto remain hers
during her life and then to descend to John SKAGGS son of JamesSKAGGS which
John SKAGGS is also made Defendant hereunto. And your oratorswould farther
state that if the will is not made nul and void that they wereand are entitled to a
large share of the property of the Deceased as will appear fromthe will and
Inventory and the right of the increase of one Negro woman whichat present is
three negroes all of which goods have been sold at publick saleand otherwise made
way with except the three Negroes mentioned as the increase andthey have in no
accounted to your Orators for any part of the estate when it wasthe wish and desire
of the testator that the said defendant (Nancy is crossed out)Mary his wife should
be freely and honourably supported and that proper care shold betaken by the
Executors and the defendant (Nancy is crossed out) Mary and thatafter her support
the balance should be for your orators and that nothing should goto waste, but your
orators state that there is a total neglect and in the defendantMary SKAGGS want
of care which is much to the Damages of your orators. All whichactings and Doings
are contrary to equity and good conscience and tend greatly toinjure your orators in
tender consideration whereof and as your orators are with outremedy at
commonlaw and only relievable at equity before your honors wherefrauds are
detected and hardships relieved against may it please your honorsthe premis
considered to grant the Commonwealths writ of subpoena adresponendum by
which the defendants may be compelled on their corporal oathstrue and perfect
answers to make to all and singular the premises as perfectly andas fully as if they
were again repeated and interogated and that the Honourable Courtmay appoint
Commissioners to adjust and settle the said <So as your honorsmay say what is our
part> estate of said estate and that by a final Decree of theHonourable Court they
may make nul and void the said will as being too vague to beunderstood so as to do
justice or otherwise Decree to your Orators such part of theestate as to them does
justly belong and <staying the defendant Mary SKAGGS from> grantan injunction
all waste <when proper profe is maid by your orator> of saidestate in further
granting to the defendant Mary SKAGGS the wife of the deceased afull and
honourable support out of the estate and such other and fartherrelief as to equity
doth belong and your orators as in duty bound shall ever pray.
John EMERSON
attorney for Complainants
(provided by Barbara Wright to COMBS researcher Karen Gruhala)

http://ccharity.com/contributors/jacob.htm
He had a negro woman of old Henry SKAGGS for a wife.

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Father: James SKAGGS b: 1700 in On Board Ship To America From Ireland
Mother: <Rachel> b: <1700> in <, Fincastle, VA>

Marriage 1 Mary THOMPSON b: 18 Aug 1739 in <MD>

Married: <1756>
Change Date: 16 Nov 2000

Children

1. Solomon SKAGGS b: 30 Jan 1766 in <Green Co., KY>
2. Nancy SKAGGS b: 1764 in <Green Co., KY>
3. David SKAGGS b: 28 Apr 1767 in <Green Co., KY>
4. Lucy SKAGGS b: 5 Dec 1762 in <Green Co., KY>
5. Sylvia "Silvey" SKAGGS b: 18 Feb 1769
6. Rachel SKAGGS b: <1767-1774> in <Green Co., KY>
7. John Thompson SKAGGS b: 4 Dec 1905-1760
8. Mary Polly SKAGGS b: 19 Dec 1771 in <Green Co., KY>
9. Sarah SKAGGS b: <1773> in <Green Co., KY>
10. James SKAGGS b: <1775> in <Green Co., KY>
11. Stephen SKAGGS b: <1777> in <Green Co., KY>

Sources:

1.Abbrev: Wilene Smith
Title: wilenesmth@aol.com
Publication: Rootsweb family file
2.Abbrev: LDS Ordinance Index
Publication: submitted by LDS church member, no add. info on film- maybe on
Ancestral file
Page: family search
Quality: 3
Text: AFN:LRN8-B3
3.Abbrev: KSR-Kentucky Skaggs Records
Author: Juanita Skaggs Luttrell
Publication: copyright 1982
printed by Heritage Printing Co.
R.R.3
Nashville, Indiana 47448
Page: p2
Quality: 3
4.Abbrev: Kentucky Skaggs Records
Author: Juanita Skaggs Luttrell
Publication: copyright 1982
printed by Heritage Printing Co.
R.R.3
Nashville, Indiana 47448
Page: p2
Quality: 3
5.Abbrev: Despain-Log-Chain
Publication: Vol.,-no.3,-Mar-1965
1114-6th-ST
Proesser,Washington
p.11
6.Abbrev: Wilene Smith
Title: wilenesmth@aol.com
Publication: Rootsweb family file
Page: #3
Quality: 3