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Jacob "Thear" Skaggs 1741–1830 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 1741

Birth Location: Fincastle, Botetourt, Virginia, USA

Death Date: Oct 1830

Death Location: Weakley County, Tennessee, USA

Father: Richard Captain

Mother: Mary 8gg

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Jacob "Thear" Skaggs was born in 1741 in Fincastle, Botetourt, Virginia, USA, the child of Richard Thomas Wollard Long Hunter Skaggs Captain And Mary Thayer Thear 8Gg. Jacob "Thear" Skaggs passed away in 1830 in Weakley County, Tennessee, USA.

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Biography

  • Jacob "Thear" Skaggs was born in 1741 in Fincastle, Botetourt, Virginia, USA, the child of Richard Thomas Wollard Long Hunter Skaggs Captain And Mary Thayer Thear 8Gg.
  • Jacob "Thear" Skaggs passed away in 1830 in Weakley County, Tennessee, USA.

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Jacob Skaggs's Ancestors

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Jacob Skaggs
1741–1830
Birth Place: Fincastle, Botetourt, Virginia, USA
Parents
Richard Thomas "Wollard" "Long Hunter" Skaggs Captain
1674–1766
Derry, Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Mary (Thayer Thear) 8gg
1678–1766
Ireland
Grandparents
Thomas (Bussell "Hatch") Skaggs
1640–1740
Derry, Ulster, Ireland
Ann Wollard
1640–1740
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Isaac Thompson
1669–1725
Penrith, Cumberland, England
Hannah Lawson
1669–1713
Penrith, Cumberland, England
Great-Grandparents
Thomas Lawson
1630–1691
Frances Wilkinson
1637–1693
2nd-Great-Grandparents
William Wilkinson
1597–1651

Jacob Skaggs's Timeline

2 Records

1741
1741
Birth of Jacob "Thear" Skaggs in Fincastle, Botetourt, Virginia, USA
Fincastle, Botetourt, Virginia, USA
1830
Oct 1830
Age 89
Death of Jacob "Thear" Skaggs in Weakley County, Tennessee, USA
Weakley County, Tennessee, USA

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    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 1741
    Event Place: Fincastle, Botetourt, Virginia, USA

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: Oct 1830
    Event Place: Weakley County, Tennessee, USA

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