PATRIOT Major John Boggs

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• Name	John Boggs
  Title	PATRIOT
  Prefix	Major
  Gender	Male
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I19124	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2017

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Johnston,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	Children of Major John Boggs by his Wife Elizabeth Johnston: I. Andrew Boggs, born 1 September, 1773: Married: (1.) Jane Johnston (2.) Sarah Biddle, cousin of Nicholas Biddle of Philadelphia II. Elizabeth Boggs, born 17 January, 1775: Married James McLanahan. III. Johnston Boggs, born 9 June, 1776; died in Natchez, Mississippi. IV. Francis Boggs, born 25 February, 1778; died at twelve years of age. V. Anna Boggs, born 24 October, 1779: Married William Wister Miller. VI. Mary Boggs, born 19 November, 1781: Married James Miller. VII. Jane Boggs, born 13 March, 1784: Married John Royer, and their daughter, Mary Letitia Royer, married the Honorable Cyrus L. Pershing, the late eminent jurist of Schuylkill County. VIII. John Boggs, born 18 August, 1787, became a prominent physician. (See ?Eminent Men of the Cumberland Valley?). IX. James Boggs
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Boggs,   b. 17 Jan 1775, Greencastle, Antrim Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania ,   d. Bef 1827  (Age 51 years)
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2017
  Family ID	F7092	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S100] Internet Source, http://www.pa-roots.org/data/read.php?43,437119. BOGGS?JOHNSTON NOTE TO McLANAHAN LINEAGE Elizabeth Boggs, wife of James McLanahan, was a daughter of Major John Boggs by his wife Elizabeth Johnston. Major John Boggs, was a son of Andrew Boggs, an early and prominent settler in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The father is said to have possessed land in that county as early as 1730. On 21 August, 1738, he received a warrant of survey for 250 acres. In 1748, he was Ensign in Captain David McClure?s Company of the Associated Regiment in the ?West End of Lancaster County,? and was in service in the French and Indian War at the that time pending. (Pennsylvania Archives, Sec. Ser. Ii, 510). He was a member of the famous Donegal Presbyterian Church. He died in April, 1765, leaving widow Ann, and the following children: John, James, Jean, Andrew, Ann, Mary, and Alexander. His wife is said to have been at one time a prisoner with the Indians, and is probably the Mrs. Boggs who is mentioned in Watson?s Annals, ii, 188, as follows: ?Mrs. Boggs, of the same neighborhood, (frontiers of Lancaster County, 1755), while riding to a neighbor, (frontiers of Lancaster County, 1755). While riding to a neighbor?s house, ?was fired upon by Indians, and her horse killed. She had a ?suckling child with her, which they killed and scalped, the ?mother they took away.? Three of the sons of Ensign Andrew Boggs,--John, Andrew and Alexander, were officers in the Revolution. Jean, the eldest daughter, married Colonel James Dunlop, the founder of Belle-Fonte, Pennsylvania. Ann, the second daughter, married Joseph Lowery, brother of Colonel Alexander Lowery, and Mary, probably the youngest daughter, married Captain Zachariah Moore, also a Revolutionary officer. Major John Boggs was born about 1731, and died at Bellfonte in 1796. He resided at Greencastle, that town was part of Cumberland Count. In 1776, he was a captain in the Cumberland County militia, and was commissioned a major in January, 1777. On 21 October of the latter year, he was appointed a commissioner in Cumberland County ?to seize the personal effects of traitors,? and on 8 November, the same year, he was appointed a commissioner ?to collect clothing? for the Revolutionary Army. Major Boggs married, Elizabeth, daughter of James Johnston, one of the early Scotch-Irish settlers in that part of Lancaster County, which, became, in time, Antrim Township, Franklin County. Her brothers were all prominent men, and all held commissions in the Revolutionary service. There were: Colonel Thomas Johnston, Lieutenant-Colonel James Johnston, Dr. Robert Johnston, and Captain John Johnston. Dr. Johnston was a surgeon in the army, and it was at his house that his house that his fellow surgeon, Dr. Barnabas Binney, father of the illustrious Horace Binney, died. Dr. Johnston embalmed the body and sent it to Dr. Binney?s family in Philadelphia.