Zeta: Do you know Marjorie Taylor in Lafayette, IN? She may have come into the family through the Boston Taylor line. The info in my notes is from family records, some of which is purported to be from hard sources, e.g., military records. But it all would have to be confirmed. I have eight children born to Capt. John and Jane: William (1763) James Mary (married a Johnson) Lydia (married Moses Shepard, then somebody Cruger--there are lots of stories about Lydia Martha (married Jacob Johnson) Jane (married John Barr or Barn) Nancy (married B. McMicken) John Boggs, known as the major, born 5/10/1775 in Wheeling, married Jane McMicken Taylor, later Sarah McMicken (known also as either Sally or Sallie) Capt. John . . . Served in the Revolutionary War. Settled in Virginia, where Boggs Run (a creek) still exists. Another family note says born in 1732 (document compiled in August 1916). The key is that both he and his son died at age 87; If born in 1732, then 1819 is a good date for death; but if born in 1740, then the date has to be 1827. And now a possibility of 1738, from the Boggs group on the Internet. "Capt. John Boggs was born in Western, PA in 1738." >From that same source, " John Boggs was in Ohio in 1789 and died in 1820." I wonder about this date. The source is quoted as Vol. 1, p. 23 of Genealogy, 1912. February 6, 1827 for a date of death, from a document headed "Births" In the War Department, Washington D.C., Adjutant General's Office, there is a record of Capt. 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. See also Delaware Archives, Vol. 2, Military and Naval, p. 852, 859; Vol. 1, p. 13, French and Indian War Rolls 1754, 1763 "There is a sketch of Dr. William Ellison Boggs in American Biography of Prominent Men (Univ. 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." >From Histories of the Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church, Kingston, Ohio: "The old meeting house was never intirely (sic) finished, and soon became uncomfortable. In a few years a school house was erected near it, in which preaching and prayer meetings were often held. Meetings were often in a grove near this house, and in families. On the Plains those meetings were usually held at the house of John Ball or John Boggs, and when near the old church, in William McCoy's house or barn. [The dates of this period are in the 1802-1806 range, so it could be "the Captain," or it could be "the Major."] R. Scott Perry