Gross SCRUGGS

Abt 1736 - Abt 1788  (~ 52 years)

• Name	Gross SCRUGGS  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Abt 1736	Virginia, USA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	262
  Death	Abt 1788	Bedford, Virginia, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I262	scruggshovis
  Last Modified	21 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Thomas SCRUGGS,   b. 1694, New Kent, Virginia, USA d. 1788, Cumberland County, Virginia, USA (Age 94 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth MITCHELL,   b. 20 Feb 1702, New Kent, St. Peter's Parish, Virginia, USA
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Abt 1716	New Kent, St. Peter's Parish, Virginia, USA   [4]
  Family ID	F92	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth ARTHUR
  Marriage	4 Oct 1768  [3]
  Family ID	F103	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Sep 2020

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1736 - Virginia, USA Death - Abt 1788 - Bedford, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Dunkin says " GROSS SCRUGGS, Gentleman, of Bedford County, Virginia, son of Thomas Scruggs, was born in X'irginia about 1736. He was sergeant in the Colonial ]\Iilitia in 1758; Gentleman Justice of the Court of Bedford County, June 25, 1771 ; qualified as Justice of the Peace, March 26, 1771 ; appointed trustee to regulate the making of slopes for the passage of fish in the mill dams on Black Water River, February, 1772; was chosen County Committeeman, May 25, 1775. He was commissioned as captain of the Fifth \irginia Regiment, February 26, 1776 (commanded by Colonel Charles Scott), and served as late as March, 1778; he was a major prior to November, 1781, in the Continental line with George Washington, Commander-in-Chief, He qualified as sheriff of Bedford County, November 24, 1783, under commission from the Governor of Virginia, dated October 6, 1783, to act during pleasure. He married (bachelor) October 4, 1768, Elizabeth Arthur, of Bedford County, sister to Benjamin Arthur. He had no issue. Gross Scruggs' will was dated July 12, 1787, and probated in Bedford County, July 28, 1788, in which he leaves all of his estate, both real and personal, to his wife Elizabeth, and at her death to her nephew William Arthur, son of Benjamin Arthur, with a legacy to Gross 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, Boyce Edison." (p. 30-31)

  
  

• Sources

  [S64] Dunklin, Ethel Hastings Scruggs. Scruggs Genealogy (New York, LaPlante & Dunklin Printing Company, 1912), p.26. [S64] Dunklin, Ethel Hastings Scruggs. Scruggs Genealogy (New York, LaPlante & Dunklin Printing Company, 1912), p.30. [S64] Dunklin, Ethel Hastings Scruggs. Scruggs Genealogy (New York, LaPlante & Dunklin Printing Company, 1912), p.31. [S55] U.S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, Source number: 774.002; Source type: Pedigree chart; Number of Pages: 4.