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About Dr. James Boggs, UEL
James Boggs
- Birth: Jan 22 1740 - New Castle County, Delaware
- Death: July 8 1830 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Parents: Ezekiel Boggs, Elizabeth Baird
- Sister: Rebecca Rish (born Boggs)
- Wife: Mary Boggs (born Morris)
- Children: Robert Morris Boggs, Elizabeth Stewart (born Boggs), James Boggs, Thomas Boggs, Rebecca Boggs, Charles Boggs, Mary Tremaine (born Boggs), Samuel Boggs
Biography
The Boggs family North American genealogy begins with Ezekiel Boggs, a lawyer who emigrated from the north of Ireland in the early 1700s, originally settling in Delaware. Ezekiel and his wife Elizabeth had two children, Rebecca and James.
James Boggs (1740-1830) Mary Morris, (1746-1831) the daughter of Robert Hunter Morris, the Chief Justice of New Jersey and governor of Pennsylvania, and sister of Judge Robert Morris, (d. 1815) who taught law at Rutgers College. James was a doctor and a loyalist who narrowly escaped capture by the Revolutionary forces, fleeing to Sandy Hook where he was taken aboard the Swan, a British sloop-of-war. He often worked as a surgeon in New York, while his family remained in Shrewsbury, where they were able to remain due to Mary's connections to the rebel army through her brother Robert. James surreptitiously visited his family throughout the remainder of the war, but was eventually forced to move with his wife and most of their children to Nova Scotia, thus forming the Canadian branch of the family.
James and Mary's children included Robert, Samuel, Charles, Thomas, James Jr., Rebecca and Elizabeth
References
- "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2CL-8715 : 18 March 2019), James Boggs, 29 Oct 1765, New York, British Colonial America; citing ref. ID , county clerk offices from various counties, New York; FHL microfilm 930,131.
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132023391/james-boggs
- https://hackerscreek.com/norman/BOGGS/JAMES.htm Children of Ezekiel and Elizabeth (Baird) Boggs. ... 48. (2). James b.Jan 22 1740 d. 1830 m.Mary Morris
- https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L8MC-WD5
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Dr. James Boggs, UEL's Timeline
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January 22, 1739
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New Castle County, Delaware, Colonial America
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November 13, 1766
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Tinton Falls, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States
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February 25, 1768
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April 5, 1769
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May 22, 1771
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February 7, 1773
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April 24, 1775
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Shrewsbury, New Jersey, USA
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August 28, 1779
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August 28, 1779
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