John Scroggs

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Husband John Scroggs ¹

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1 M John Scroggs ²

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2 M Allen Scroggs ³

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3 M Alexander Scroggs ^{3 4 5}

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           Born: 1704 or 2 Oct 1708 - Scotland 3 4
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           Died: 1788 - Cumberland Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: Rachel Leith (      -      ) 4

         Spouse: Rachel Ireland (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 1768 4

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General Notes: Husband - John Scroggs

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The Scroggs family in Scotland was of wealth and distinction being in olden time descended from the nobility and being a branch of the Scottish clan of the Murrays. From this stock a younger son went to England and rose in his profession of the law until in 1676 he was knighted by King Charles the Second and afterwards became Chief Justice of the King's Bench. This was Sir William Scroggs, Sr. He died leaving four children: William, afterwards Sir William, who wed Mary, daughter of Sir John Churchill, who died without issue, and for his second wife he wed in 1684, Ann, daughter of Matthew Buck, and had children. The three daughters of Sir William, Sr., were: Mary, died unwed. Ann, married Sir Robert Wright, Chief Justice in the reign of King James 2nd. Jane, wed Anthony Gilby, and second, Hon. Charles Hallon.
About 1876 the main stock of Scroggs in Scotland died out leaving quite a large fortune to which the descendants of the three brothers who came to America would be heirs. It proved impossible to secure united action from the large and scattered relationship and consequently all effort toward asserting a claim was abandoned and the property escheated to the government.

The history of the Scroggs family in America dates from 1745, when three brothers, sons of John Scroggs left their ancestral home in the neighborhood of Edinburgh, Scotland, and came to Pennsylvania, settling in that part of Cumberland County now comprised in the townships of Newton and West Pennsborough. Alexander and John settling in Newton and Allen in Pennsborough.

1 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 39.

2 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 40.

3 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 41.

4 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 458.

5 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 980.