BOGGS FAMILY of Wheeling. One of Wheeling's most active early citizens was Captain John Boggs (1738/9-1826). A French and Indian War veteran from Frederick County, John Boggs remained in the active Virginia Militia as a Captain, commanding several posts in frontier Virginia before he secured leave in 1 774 to claim riverfront land in Wheeling at Boggs Run. Soon afterward, however, he was called back to active service and was stationed at Catfish Camp (Washington, Pa.) when Indians attacked Fort Henry on September 1, 1777. Leading forty men from Catfish Camp, he rode to the assistance of his boyhood friend Colonel David Shepherd, who was then in command of Fort Henry, and arrived on September 2 in time to help bury the dead and prepare for further defense. He became commandant of Rice's @ Fort (Bethany, W.Va.) and in 1779 of Wolfe's Fort on Buffalo Creek. When repeated Indian attacks forced evacuation of Wolfe's Fort in 1781, Captain Boggs moved his family to Fort Henry in Wheeling where he became: Express Messenger. At the onset of the 1782 siege of Fort Henry, he went to Fort Pitt in an attempt to secure military aid. Soon after the Revolution Captain Boggs resettled Boggs Run, becoming Ohio County magistrate in 1785 and sheriff from 1790-1797. In 1798 lie sold his property to Moses Chapline and moved to Pickaway County, Ohio. All of his family accompanied him to Ohio with the exception of one son William (1765- ), who developed another part of Wheeling that is now referred to as the Boggs Hill Road section, and one daughter Lydia (1766-1867), who married (1) Colonel Moses Shepherd and (2) General Daniel Cruger and is famed for her role in the routing of the National Road to Wheeling.(for more see Wheeling Bicentennial Album p. 10). See sup. Vol. 3, p. 241 Reference The West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, HCPD Library Volume 3, Ed. Pub. Jim Comstock, Richwood, WV 1976