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Probate: Date: 22 JAN 1816
Place: Green Co., KY
Note: Wills: Charles Skaggs, 1815 Green Co., KY Will

CHARLES SKAGGS
WILL

9 FEBRUARY 1815

GREEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY
Will Book 1 pp. 137-139

In the Name of god amen, I CHARLES SKAGGS Citizen of Green County,
Kentucky considering the Mortality of human Nature and that it was
appointed for all men once to die and after committing my body to the
ground and my soul to god who gave it, I make and constitute this
instrument of writing whereunto my name is subscribed to be my lastwill
and testament, revoking all others. In primis, all my debts of whichthere
is but few, and none of Magnitude, are to be paid, and thenwhatever
there remains I will and bequeath in the following manner that is tosay
first my wish and desire is that my beloved wife LUCY SKAGGS shallhave the
use and profit of my whole estate Real and personal during her Naturallife
except such parts as I shall hereafter mention, that is to say thepart of
the land and plantation whereon I now live, and whereon my son MOSES
SKAGGS Now lives, on the South side of the branch for him to have theuse
and benefit of that previous to the decease of his Mother, and at her
decease to have the hold of the land the reason of my doing this isbecause
he paid a greater part of the price that we gave for the land, thoughthe
deed was made to me. And at the decease of my wife; my desire is tohave
the whole of the land. Item first I will and bequeath to my belovedson
ARCHIBALD SKAGGS a negro girl called SuSanna. Item I will andbequeath to
my beloved daughter RACHEL BLEVEN'S heirs one dollar. Item to mybeloved
daughter NANCY MEREDITH an equal part part of my estate except suchparts
as I have before mentioned and shall hereafter mention. Item I willand
bequeath, to my beloved son FREDERICK SKAGGS I will and bequeath tohim
his equal part, among the other Children except such parts as isbefore and
hereafter shall be mentioned. Item to my beloved daughter POLLYGRAY I
will and bequeath to her heirs one dollar. Item to my beloveddaughter
SALLY ROBERTSON, I will and bequeath an equal part with the othersexcept
the parts before and hereafter will be mentioned. Item to my belovedson
THOMAS SKAGGS I will and bequeath my Negro boy called Bob and an equalpart
with the other Children of the property before mentioned and my saidson
THOMAS SKAGGS I will to be the executor to my whole estate. Item tomy
beloved son MOSES SKAGGS I will bequeath my Negro man called Sepio anda
rifle gun called Sepios gun together with a equal part of theproperty not
mentioned. Item to TEMPY BELCHER, wife to BERRY BELCHER I will and
bequeath to her a filly called the reggie muffin to be hersimmediately
after my death. Item to NATHAN BLEVIN I will and bequeath two [word
crossed out] colts, one called Jolly and the other Tody.
In witness of which I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day ofFebruary
in the year of Christ one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.

CHARLES SKAGGS
Tetes
JAMES AKIN
CHARLES BLEVINS
CHARETY HOWEL
WM. G. OWENS
ZACHERIAH NANCE

At a County Court, held for Green County at the Courthouse inGreensburgh
on the 22nd day of January 1816. The within will of CHARLES SKAGGSDec'd
was produced in Court and proven by the oath of
WILLIAM G. OWENS, ZACHERIAH NANCE and NATHANIEL OWENS subscribingwitnesses
to said will, and that they believed him at the time of executing thesame
to be in his perfect mind and memory and the same was ordered to be
recorded which is done accordingly. Given under my hand this 28th dayof
March 1816.
JOHN BARRET, cfc

Event: Type: Military
Date: Rev. War
Place: VA
Note: Performed public service per DAR records

Occupation: Longhunter

Event: facts
Type: Misc
Note: 1. Sons of James and Rachel listed in the Pioneer Baptist Church
Records of South-Central Kentucky and the Upper Cumberlandof
Tennessee 1799-1899 by C. P. Cawthorn & N. L. Warnellcopyright
1985. Portions received from Brenda Harper 3/15/97.
2. When the gospel was first sent to the Green River sectionof
Kentucky, the land was wild and uncultivated. Alas! for thepoor
Baptists, death at the hands of a lawless savage was an everpresent chill
on the hearts of the living, and who could tell whether itwould continue
to advance with the quiet of a blight, or vet burst uponthem with the
fury of a tempest?
A great number of these first Baptists were among the "LongHunters"
who came from the "Baptist Valley" area of SouthwestVirginia.'
These families were the forerunners of the "foot-washing"Baptists which
subsequently moved into Kentucky and established many of theBaptist
Churches of the frontier land. Among the leaders was theSkaggs family
consisting of Rev. James Skaggs and his brothers Henry,Richard, Jacob,
Charles, Moses, and William. These were the early "LongHunters" of
1761-1775 of which the Kentucky historians have recordedmuch about.
Henry and Richard were particularly prominent. Henry Skaggswas at the
present site of Bowling Green. Kentucky in 1775. A brother,Moses, was
killed by Indians on his second trip into Kentucky.
Richard Skaggs had three sons named Shadrach, Mashack, and
Abednego. It was Mashack who was killed by Indians on thecreek
named after him in present Monroe County, Kentucky.
The men who lived on the frontier took protracted huntingtrips into
Kentucky, hence the name "Long Hunters." Later when DanielBoone
led a group of Yadkin farmers into Kentucky, they used awilderness
track referred to as the "Skaggs Trace." This track became apart of the
Boone Trace and Wilderness Road that led the pioneers intoKentucky
from Virginia.
The first settlement of the Green River Baptists was inGreen County in
1780, and was known as Skaggs Station. It was established byRev.
James Skaggs and was the third station in what is now GreenCounty,
Ky.; Glovers Station having been established in the Fall of1779, and
Pitman's Station in March of 1780.

Father: James Skaggs b: ABT. 1700 in Tazewell, Virginia
Mother: Rachel Moredock? b: ABT. 1700 in Fincastle Cou

Death: 9 FEB 1815 Green Co., KY

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SKAGGS, Lucy {I2516} (b. )

Given Name: Lucy

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: BROCKMAN'S SCRAPBOOK
Title: BROCKMAN'S SCRAPBOOK
Author: William Everett Brockman
Publication: 1952

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SKAGGS, Henry {I2517} (b. 1759, d. ABT 1809)

Given Name: Henry

Occupation: Longhunter

Death: ABT 1809 Green Co., KY

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SKAGGS, James {I2518} (b. 1700, d. 1781)

Given Name: James

Event: Type: Deeds
Place: Montgomery Co., VA
Note: "
(Research):Name: James SKAGGS Sex: M Death: BET. 1776 - 1781 in
Montgomery Co., VA Note:
EARLY SCAGGS / SKAGGS RECORDS:
167?, DE, Duke of York Co.: To Richard SCAGGS a certain tract ofland on the
west side of Delaware River and on the southeast side of thesouthwest branch of St.
George's Creek, adjoining the land of Barnard EGBERT, by head ofa branch of a
swamp called the Doctor's Swamp, 300 acres. --Abstract, Duke ofYork records,
167?, Original Land Titles in Delaware, pp.108-09, Ida Lancastere-mail, Amarillo,
TX, March 16, 1998.

1709, MD, Queen Anne's Parish: Susanna was recorded as the widowof Aaron
SCAGGS, and md. John MOBBARLY, Sr., Feb. 28, 1716. The childrenof Aaron
SCAGGS and Susanna are recorded in Queen Anne's Parish as:Charles (b. Dec. 9,
1709), Moses (b. July 10, 1714), and Susanna (b. Aug. 11, 1716,5-1/2 months after
her mother remarried). --Ida Lancaster e-mail, March 5, 1998.

1720s-1730s, NC, TN, VA: Our own undocumented SKAGGS familytradition,
descending from Henry's grandson, John W., through John'sgrandson, Alvie, says
that three brothers, David, Benjamin, and Henry, came to NC fromnorthern
Scotland in the late 1720s or early 1730s. David went to westernNC or eastern TN,
Henry went into VA, and Benjamin stayed in NC.

The name of James SKAGGS, believed to be the patriarch of theSKAGGS clan in
southwest VA and west-central KY, first appears in the records inAugust 1746
when he and other local residents were appointed to build a newroad from Adam
HARMAN's to the North Branch of the Roanoke River. --Mary B. andF.B. Kegley,
Early Adventurers on the Western Waters, v.1 (Orange, VA: GreenPublishers,
1980), 367; F.B. Kegley, Kegley's Virginia Frontier, v.?(Roanoke, VA: Southwest
Virginia Historical Society, 1938), 117; Ulysses S.A. Heavener,German New River
Settlement--Virginia (by the author, 1928; 1961 printing), 12.

Kegley, Early Adventurers, 367: "James SKAGGS (also SCAGGS,SKEGGS) was
one of the earliest residents on Meadow Creek, appearing first in1749 when he
served as one of the appraisers of John ELSWICK's estate. He hadlands surveyed
as early as 1751 and added other tracts on Meadow Creek andLittle River by deed
(Chalkley, Chronicles, III, 18, 293, 321; Augusta Countysurveys). In 1769 James
SKAGGS and his wife, Rachel, sold part of their lands to HenrySKAGGS and
James SKAGGS, Jr. probably their sons (Chalkley, Chronicles, III,490). Other
tracts were disposed of to Thomas MASTIN and John PLICKINSTARVOR
(Summers, Annals, pp.668, 1671).
"In 1776 the Committee of Safety for Fincastle County recordedthat Captain James
SKAGGS was unable to serve any longer because of his infirm stateof health, and
Thomas INGLES was appointed to succeed him. Presumably this isJames
SKAGGS, Sr. (Harwell, Committee of Safety . . . p.76).
"There is no record of a will or settlement of James SKAGGS'estate in Montgomery
County and so no list of children can be established. OtherSKAGGS mentioned
include James, Henry, Charles, Richard, Moses, and Aaron. In themilitia records
and tithable lists additional names appear including William,Archibald, John Jr., John
(Goard Head), Zachariah, Henry (son of Aaron), James (longman)and Jacob. The
D.A.R. lists Charles, James, John, and William. The 1810Montgomery County
census only lists Joseph. Marriages for Isaac in 1787, Jeremiahand Peter in 1788,
and William in 1825 are recorded in Montgomery County (MontgomeryCounty
marriages; 1810 census; Kegley, Tithables; Kegley, Militia;Kegley, Tax List; D.A.R.
Patriot Index).

Websites with James and Rachel lineage --
http://www.inficad.com/~cingram/warren/d404.htm Calvin LeeIngram, Phoenix, AZ
85037 <cingram@inficad.com>
http://www.combs-families.org/~combs/records/ky-green.htm

Marriage 1 Rachel (UNKNOWN)
Married: BEF. 1723 in Marylan

Death: 1781 MD

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SKAGGS, John {I2519} (b. )

Given Name: John

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