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Thomas Scruggs

Male 1694 - 1788  (94 years)


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  1. 1.  Thomas Scruggs was born in 1694 in Saint Peter and Paul Parish, New Kent, Virginia, USA; died on 26 Apr 1788 in , Buckingham, Virginia, USA.

    Thomas married Elizabeth Mitchell in 1716 in Saint Peter and Paul Parish, New Kent, Virginia, USA. Elizabeth was born on 22 Sep 1697 in Saint Peter and Paul Parish, New Kent, Virginia, USA; died in 1776 in , New Kent, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Thomas Mitchell Scruggs  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1725 in , Bedford, Virginia, USA; died in 1829 in , Bedford, Virginia, USA.
    2. 3. Valentine Scruggs  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1735; died on 17 May 1785 in , Buckingham, Virginia, USA.
    3. 4. Gross Scruggs  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1736 in , , Virginia, USA; died in 1788 in , Bedford, Virginia, USA.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Thomas Mitchell Scruggs Descendancy chart to this point (1.Thomas1) was born in 1725 in , Bedford, Virginia, USA; died in 1829 in , Bedford, Virginia, USA.

  2. 3.  Valentine Scruggs Descendancy chart to this point (1.Thomas1) was born in 1735; died on 17 May 1785 in , Buckingham, Virginia, USA.

  3. 4.  Gross Scruggs Descendancy chart to this point (1.Thomas1) was born in 1736 in , , Virginia, USA; died in 1788 in , Bedford, Virginia, USA.

    Notes:

    Gross Scruggs a Gentleman of Bedford County, Virginia was the son of Thomas Scruggs. He was born in Virginia in 1736. He was Sargeant in Colonial Militia in 1758, Gentleman Justice of the Court of Bedford County, June 25, 1771 and qualified as Justice of the Peace March 26, 1771. He was appointed trustee to regulate the making of slopes for the passage of fish in the mill dams on Black Water River, February 1772. He was chosen County Committeeman May 25, 1775 and was commissioned as captain of the Fifth Virginia Regiment February 26, 1776 (commanded by Colonel Charles Scott) and served as late as March 1778 and was major prior to November 1781, in the Continental line with George Washington, Commander-in-Chief. He qualified as Sheriff of Bedford County, November, 1783, under commission from the Governor of Virginia dated October 6, 1783, to act during pleasure. He married Elizabeth Arthur on October 4, 1768.

    Gross Scruggs will was dated July 12, 1787, and probated in Bedford County, July 28, 1788 in which he leaves all his estate both real and personal to his wife Elizabeth and at her death to her nephew William Scruggs, son of Thomas Scruggs, of fifty pounds current money. He makes his wife executrix, and his brother Thomas Scruggs with Edmund Winston, executors. The will was sealed in the presence of Thomas Arthur, Anne Brown and Boyce Edison.

    Mary_Farrer_Baker Note correction to last paragraph: In the will it states: "First of all I give to my Loveing Wife Elizabeth Scruggs (during her widowhood all my estate both real & personal & if it shall not appear to my Executors that my wife (by Consequence of a Second Marriage) is wasteing the Estate it is my desire that she shall enjoy the whole of my Estate During her life.
    I give to my Wifes Nephew William Arthur son of Benjamin Arthur all my estate Real & personal (after my Wifes Decease) except the Legacie hereafter Mentioned with this Reserve, that my Executrix & Executorsw shall have a Reasonable time to pay all my Just Debts and then to have a Reasonable time to pay the said Legecie.
    I give to Gross Scruggs son of Thomas Scruggs fifty pounds Currant Money."
    [The will is on page 133 & 134 in the Scruggs Genealogy.]

    Gross married Elizabeth Arthur on 4 Oct 1768 in , Bedford, Virginia, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of William A Arthur and Ann Murray) was born in 1738 in , Brunswick, Virginia, USA; died on 29 Dec 1799 in Lynchburg, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. Gross Scruggs, II  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1773 in , Bedford, Virginia, USA; died in Jan 1834 in , Buckingham, Virginia, USA.


Generation: 3

  1. 5.  Gross Scruggs, II Descendancy chart to this point (4.Gross2, 1.Thomas1) was born in 1773 in , Bedford, Virginia, USA; died in Jan 1834 in , Buckingham, Virginia, USA.


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