This may only muddy the waters, but it is another document in the family piles (I am not so presumptuous as to say "files") listed as compiled in August 1916, and reproduced here typos and all, to wit: "Captain John Boggs was born in Washington Co.Penn. in 1732, married Jane Irwin and lived on a small stream (Boggs Run) in Virginia. The names of his children are as follows: William born in 1763 (a prisoner with the Indians for years) Lydia (married Moses Shepard, and after his death--Cruger) Martha (married Jacob Johnson) Jane (Married John Barr) Nancy (married B McMicken) John, born May 10, 1775 at Wheeling, Va. Major John was quite a small boy when the Indians attacked their home, and he escaped to the Fort and brought help. Major John with his father Capt. John emigrated to Ohio about 1800, pre-emptied (sic) 640 acres of land in Pickaway Co. Major John married Sarah McMicken in Wheeling and brought his bride of 19 to his new home under the Logan Elm in Ohio. He received the title of Major in the War of 1812. He died Feb 3, 1831 at the home of his son, Moses, on the same day of the month that his father, Captain John (Feb 3, 1829 [the 2 in 1829 is marked over with a penciled-in 1, making it 1819 by someone --RSP]), and had each lived until his next birthday, he would have been 87 years old.. Major John's children are as follows [and the list is the same that I supplied in a message just previously -RSP] Major John married for his second wife Jane McMicken Taylor, a sister of his first wife Sarah. In War Department, Washington, D.C. adjutant general's office, there is a record of Captain John's service in the Revolutionary War, as a Captain in a Company designated, Capt. John Boggs Co. 2nd Battalion, Delaware Militia, commanded by Col. Couch. There is a sketch of Dr. William Ellison Boggs in American Biography of Prominent Men (University of Virginia) which states that the Boggs family is of Scotch Irish descent, emigrating to America in 1704. They settled in maryland and scattered to Virginia and the colonies. A daughter of Major John, Lydia, married for her second husband Evan Stevenson, and a great-grand daughter of his, Sara Stevenson Pack, licving in Georgetown, Ky (1913) has come across the following bit of history . . ." [The last paragraph reprints that continuing rumor about attachment to the Livingstons, who were among those loyal to the Stuarts having to flee and change the name to Boggs. Persistence doesn't make it true, but does make it curious. --RSP] Then it concludes: "See Delaware Archives Vol. 2, Military and Naval, p. 852, 859. Vol. 1 P. 13 French and Indian War Rolls 1754, 1763." R. Scott Perry