Capt. Rev. James Skaggs

Was born on a ship en route to America

About his sons

The following is taken directly from the book "The life of Daniel Boone", written by Lyman C Draper, LL.D., a noted historian:

Henry, Charles and Richard Skaggs, and three other brothers were grandsons of an Irishman who fled from Ireland of Londonderry in 1688-'89, when so many of the Scotch-Irish race emigrated to the shores of the New World. We find his adventurous descendants, natives of Maryland, living on the frontiers of New River and sharing largely in the toils and hardships of the Long Hunters in 1770-'71.
In June 1775, we find Henry aiding to pilot Col. Thomas Slaughter and others on an exploratory tour of the Green River country. Henry Skaggs and brothers were a noted family of hunters and nothing but hunters, and keeping pace with the advancing settlements, they pushed forward to Clinch River and were forting in 1777 at Shadrach White's Station in the neighborhood of the Maiden Spring Fork of the Clinch. In 1781 one of the family of Skaggs, who had been residing in the Cumberland settlements removed to Kentucky. In 1779, HENRY SKAGGS, accompanied by upwards of twenty men, started for Kentucky, were attacked by Indians in Powells Vally, lost part of their horses, when all had returned save Skaggs, his son John, a mere youth, and a man named Sinclair. With eleven horses, they went to the Green River country to hunt, and during the succeeding winter Sinclair got lost, probably drowned in the Green River and young Skaggs sickened and died, and amidst the severity of the season a hollow log was his burial place. His father was left alone to finish the hunt and return home with the horses, pelts and furs. He settled on Pitmans Creek in the Green River country within present Taylor County, Kentucky, in 1789 with his children and connections around him sharing freely in the Indian difficulties of the times; and there he died in 1808 or '9, aged upwards of eighty 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 a good old age.

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James Skaggs has been rumored to have been born on open sea on a ship bound from Ireland to the New World. Later searches could not establish any population of persons named Skaggs in Ireland. Ireland was not known as a transfer point for immigrants to the Colonies.

Other traditions have the family originating in Scotland.

James Skaggs has been rumored to have been born on open sea on a ship bound from Ireland to the New World. Later searches could not establish any population of persons named Skaggs in Ireland. Ireland was not known as a transfer point for immigrants to the Colonies.

Other traditions have the family originating in Scotland.

James Skaggs, grandfather of Abraham Moredock Skaggs, is given in history as being the second white man to explore the wilds of Kentucky.

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