Richard Skaggs

Abt 1645 - Abt 1725  (80 years)

• Name	Richard Skaggs
  Birth	Abt 1645	Probably Ireland
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1725	Kent County, Maryland
  Person ID	I134818	Ingram-Related
  Last Modified	14 Aug 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Not proven to Bussell or Thomas. Placed here only as place-holder and general proximity to other Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Skaggs families.  Likely related in some fashion. Richard Skegs listed in 4 March 1658 Virginia Colony patent records, as 1 of 6 folks immigrating to Lower Norfolk, Virginia.  Appears to have worked for Thomas Dyer, who had a 300 acre land patent called "Beech Ridge".  Talbot county, Maryland records indicate he finished his obligations in Virginia and had moved by 1666, owning land in Talbot County. To be listed in 1666 records; age estimated to be in early 20's; placing his birth circa  1645.  Richard Scaggs listed on Talbot County records on 21 October 1673. Appears to be paid in tobacco (pounds).  Archives of Maryland Online (volume 54, page 578). Also in 1673, patented 50 acres of land in Talbot County, Maryland called "Sceggs Spring". Appears in some Delaware land records in New Castle County in 1681.  There appears to be a mutual venture; as a William Merritt and Richard apparently invested in improving lands their beginning in 1675.  The land record is significant; as it referenced in 1726 probate records of a Philemon Lloyd of Talbot County, where Richard is mentioned as of Kent County, Maryland; and also mentions the 1675 land transaction in New Castle County, Delaware. Richard is listed in various court records of Kent County, Maryland between 1715-1725. He appears to have died by 1725; which inventory and probate was completed by 16 April 1726.  It does not appear that any of the this Richard Scaggs family remained at this time; which coincides with many families either moving West or South to new lands.