General Notes

Revolutionary Pensioners
Henry SKAGGS,  Private  with the Virginia Militia,  born 1758.
(Source:  Kentucky Family Records, Volume X, 1983-1984,   FHL US/CAN 976.9  D2f  pg. 54
Pension Record # S 30 701
Henry SKAGGS, born Spring of 1759, South Carolina.  "When he first began to recollect, he found himself in the State of Virginia in what is now montgomery county, was then probably Botetourt."  "He lived ther until about 20 years of age, (1779).  1779-1780, served with Archibald SKAGSS. "Upon the close of the war, he came to Kentucky, and after a stay of some months, returned to New River, and lived there some time."  Moved to kentucky, about the year 1790, Green County  1809, moved to Grayson County, Kentucky.
(Source:  Kentucky Ancestors  FHL US/CAN  976.9  B2ka  pg. 74  -- Vol. 6 Issue 2  Oct 1970)
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SOURCE:  Pioneer Baptist Church Records of South-Central Kentucky and the Upper Cumberland of Tennessee, 1799-1899.  Book  FHL  976  K2c, Page 358.

     The DOWNS family was closely connected with the SKAGGS family in the Rock Creek Area.
     Rachel DOWNS married Isham SKAGGS of Grayson County.  They are both buried on a farm owned by Russell HACKLEY, near the Rock Creek Church.
     In 1850, Isham SKAGGS lived next door to the old "Long Hunter" Henry SKAGGS.  Two members of the Rock Creek Church.  Rev. Martin UTTERBACK and Charles WORTHAM were listed as "neighbors" to Henry SKAGGS in an 1833 Revolutionary War pension application, which Rev. Martin UTTERBACK and Thomas DORAN signed, stating that they were "well acquanted with Henry SKAGGS" and agree that "he's reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to be a soldier of the Revolutionary...." (Source: Grayson County, KY., Revolutionary War Pension Papers - Henry SKAGGS #30701)
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SOURCE:  Pioneer Baptist Church Records of South-Central Kentucky and the Upper Cumberland of Tennessee, 1799-1899.  Book  FHL  976  K2c, Page 355.

     "Between 1804  and 1809, there was a exodus from the Green County area to this region by the MEREDITH, SKAGGS, and SANDERS families.... About 1809, Martin SKAGGS moved to Grayson County, and about five years later Nathaniel KERR left Green County and located in Grayson County.  These three men, SAUNDERS, SKAGGS, and KERR formed the nucleus of a church called Barton's Run Separate Baptist Church in Grayson County...."  (Source: Joseph MEREDITH, Sr., bought his Rock Creek farm on 15 Jan 1809 (deed at Elizabethtown).  Many of the SKAGGS' came to Grayson County in 1809.  Henry SKAGGS lived in Green County until the year 1809, when he moved to Grayson Co. (See Grayson Co. Rev. War Pension Papers. Henry SKAGGS #30701.)
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SOURCE:  Kentucky Skaggs Records, by Juanita Skaggs Luttrell
                 Page 336 - 337 - Green County, Kentucky
                 Order Book #6,  Page 447 - 25 Oct 1819

Wm. SKAGGS is appointed guardian to the infant heirs of Stephen SKAGGS dec'd and also the infant heirs of James SKAGGS dec'd. it is ordered that Math. OWENS, James SCOTT & Wm. BARNETT be appointed Commissioners to divide the land of James SKAGGS, Senr. dec'd. between the sons and daughters of his three sons Stephen SKAGGS, Henry SKAGGS, & James SKAGGS  which three sons have departed having rec'd a joint deed from their father for said land this life.  It is ordered that the said Commissioners Convey to the sons and daughters of the said Stephen SKAGGS dec'd their proportion of said lands and in like manner convey to the sons and daughters of Henry SKAGGS dec'd. their proportions and in like manner to the sons daughters of James SKAGGS dec'd. their porportion of said land.
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