Person:Aaron Skaggs (1)

Records in Virginia

1772 - A list of tithables for Botetourt Parish, Fincastle Co., VA, includes ARON SKAGGS (1 W M), Henry SKAGGS (2 W M), and James SKAGGS, Jr. (1 W M).

1772 - Another list of tithables for Montgomery (then Botetourt) Co., VA, includes AARON SKAGGS, Sr., Charles SKAGGS (1 W M), and James SKAGGS, Sr. (2 W M).

1773 - A list of delinquents returned for the year 1773 includes ARON SKEGS, Sr., ARON SKEGS, James SKEGGS (little), and John SKEGGS (little).

1774 - A tithable list for Botetourt Parish, Fincastle Co., VA, includes ARON SCAGGS, Sr. (1), ARON SCAGGS (1), and Henry SCAGGS (2 W M).

1774. AARON, Moses, and Richard SKAGGS, with nine other men, were in Sgt. Henry SKAGGS' detachment during a campaign against the Indians known as Lord Dunmore's War when the Shawnee were defeated at the Battle of Point Pleasant, October 10, 1774.

1774 - Another AARON SKAGGS, plus two John SKAGGS, were under Sgt. Charles SKAGGS during the same campaign, and two more SKAGGS men, Charles and Richard, were in Capt. Joseph CLOYD's Company.

1776 - Robert BELL (b. 1759) was drafted in 1776, and served one month under Sergeant AARON SCAGGS on the Bluestone and McGurie's Stations to guard from the Indians. [Draper's manuscripts are said to state that Aaron was the brother of Moses.

177_ - Sept. 13. - A list of persons sworn to the States in Capt. McCORKLE's Company of Montgomery Co., VA, includes HENRY SCAGGS, son of AARON; James (longman); John (Gourd Head); John, Jr.; John Zachariah; and Moses SCAGGS. (Note: this record has been cited by many Skaggs researchers as the key record to prove that Aaron Skaggs was the father of Henry Skaggs and his brother Aaron Skaggs).

1778 Sept. 25. - A list of fines set by court martial, Montgomery Co., VA, includes ARON, Archibald, Charles, Henry, Moses, and Zachariah SKAGGS.

1780 - Archibald and ARON SCAGGS signed the petition for clear title to their lands in the Loyal Land Co. and Greenbrier Land Co. areas; the Virginia State Library.

1781 Nov. 21 - "The Grand Jury of Washington Co., VA, charged HENRY SKAGGS with adultery with NANCY DAVIS, [and] AARON SKAGGS for same with SARAH LYON." Believed to be Henry, b. 1759, and his brother. The Sarah SKAGGS in Adair Co. and Edmonson Co., KY, censuses, 1800-1820, is said to be Aaron's widow.

Records in Kentucky

1785 Nelson Co., KY, tax list taken by Philip Philips on all the waters easterly of Nolin: Richard and AARON SKEGGS, 1 tithe each

1787 Nelson Co., KY, tax list taken by Charles Ewing for Capt. Barnetts Co. & no side of the Rolling Fork above the Indian licks probably in present SE Marion Co. and parts of Greene & Taylor Cos.: William, Henry, AARON, James SCAGGS / SKAGGS, 1 tithe each

1788 Nelson Co., KY, tax list taken by Robert Hodgen for Will Barnets Co. - Green River on Pitman & Brush Creeks in Green & Taylor Cos.: James, Henry, AARON, William SKAGGS, 1 tithe each

1790 Nelson Co., KY, tax list taken by Robert Hodgen for Wm Skaggs Co. - LaRue & Green Co.: Capt. William, AARON, Henry, James, Jacob, Archabald SKAGGS, 1 tithe each

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