Lydia Boggs, born in 1766, was the daughter of John Boggs, oldest son of William Boggs, Sr., who, with his family moved to what is present day Wheeling, West Virginia, in the early 1770s. He was a Captain in Lord Dunmore’s War and was involved in various skirmishes with the Native American Indians in the Wheeling area. Lydia Boggs married Moses Shepherd, the grandson of the founder of Shepherdstown and, after he died in 1832, married Daniel Cruger, who had fought in the War of 1812 and was a one-term congressman from upstate New York. Lydia Boggs became well known as a forceful advocate of the National Road. In this endeavor, she developed a close friendship with Henry Clay and other well known American historical figures during the first half of the 19th century. Lydia spent a large portion of each year over a long period of time in Washington, DC, and lived until 1867. The building of the National Road opened the west to rapid growth and greatly facilitated the expansion of commerce through the 19th century.
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