For those of you who requested this info on Boggs/Musgrove. (All of this has been documented) History of the Boggs Family: About 300 years ago, ca 1694, John Boggs, full blooded Cherokee, was born, Paentage unknown. He married (Polly) ca 1713, her parentage unknown. One of their children, a son, John Dave Boggs, born ca 1714. He married, ca 1733 Polly Parrott, a prominent Indian, daughter of Tuskie and Haio, full blooded Creek Indians. They had a son, John Boggs, born ca 1734. He married Mary Musgrove, born ca 1736. They had several children, James L. Boggs, John, Ezekiel and Phoeba, all born in North Carolina. Little information is known prior to James L. Boggs. It is known that he had several brothers and sisters. A brother, John Boggs Jr. (no further record of him). There was a John Boggs born ca 1750 and killed 10-25-1788 in Lee Co., Va. His wife was Eve Springer. He was a private from N.C. . It is said that this John Boggs was a brother to our James L. Boggs Sr. . Indian Rolls, 1835 Henderson Roll, film 2, lists John Boggs, Candy's Creek, Tenn. All 14 family members were full blooded Cherokee. Film # 13 lists L.D. Parrott, Polly's half breed brother. Film # 36 lists Polly, wife? of John Dave Boggs. John Boggs Indian name (Tauchuluna) appears on "a list of The Appraisements of Indian Approvements", $ 28.00 Treaties between the United States of America and several Indian Tribes from 1778 to 1837, John Boggs signed a treaty on Jan. 6, 1817 using his Indian name, (Tauchuluna) War of 1812, John Brown's Company, Colonel Gideon Morgan Jr.'s Regiment of Cherokees, lists Sergeant John Boggs, Suaggy Boggs, and Dick Boggs. John and Mary Musgrove Boggs had 4 children, possibly more. James L. John, Ezekiel, and Phoeba. Their son John Boggs settled on the holston River in present day Scott Co., he was born ca 1752 in N.C. and killed in a barn raising accident. The story goes that a son of James L. Boggs accidentally pushed him off a barn wall, killing him. After the death of John, Eve took her children and went back to N.C. and lived in her parent's home. She never remarried. John Boggs was in the N.C. Militia during the Revolutionary War. He enlisted in Orange County in Goodman's Company of the 4th Regiment as a private, July 15, 1776. (Then it gives the Children of John and Eve, and so on....Edward's own comment) James L. Boggs' father, John Boggs, signed a petition on april 10, 1773 requesting that County Bounds be established for Chowan Co., N.C. James L. Boggs lived out his last years in Lawrence County, Ky. He was buried in the old Nese Rice Cemetery located about 5 miles west of Blaine on the hill above the Ferguson Market o Hwy. 32. His grave is on the upper corner of the cemetery and is marked by a head and shoulders type stone, made from native sandstone and now is so deteriorated no writing is visible. Note from Edward: I have seen the Treaties signed by John Boggs to be found on the web....not fabricated....a cousin gave me all this info that was collected from an authoritated source... I am not here to dispute other Boggs genealogies....let what is here speak for itself....then you decide....Ineffably, Edward G. Boggs