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Richard SCRUGGS

Male 1625 - UNKNOWN


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  • Name Richard SCRUGGS  [1, 2
    Birth 1625  Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Reference Number 422 
    Death UNKNOWN  New Kent, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    • Buried in Jamestown Original Burial Ground, Jamestown, Virginia, USA. Findagrave Memorial #75581906.
    Person ID I422  scruggshovis
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

    Children 
     1. Henery SCRUGGS,   b. Abt 1659, New Kent, St. Peter's Parish, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Sep 1738, New Kent, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 79 years)  [natural]
     2. Richard SCRUGGS,   b. UNKNOWN  [natural]
    Family ID F149  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1625 - Bedfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - UNKNOWN - New Kent, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • HISTORY: Dunklin, p.22 says " RICHARD SCRUGGS. Gentleman, an Englishman of Bedfordshire, came to America in 1655, being transported by John Linge, of James City County, and Henry Barlow. He settled in the Province of Virginia, where he became a large land owner, receiving Crown Grants from King George II, in James City and New Kent Counties, aggregating several thousand acres, some patents being granted him for the transportation of persons to assist in colonizing the Province. He was closely associated, in these grants, with Charles W'oodington, George Morris, George Gilbert and Thomas Mitchell, whose plantation was adjoining. He had issue: I.-HENERY. II.-RICHARD."

      BURIAL unknown: Richard "Gentleman" Scruggs d unknown date. Buried in Jamestown Original Burial Ground, Jamestown, Virginia, USA. Findagrave Memorial #75581906.

      HISTORY: Ancestry family tree (Hay/Hedlund FT) lists Richard also married to Anne Gross (1625-unkn), son of Alexander Sruggs (1600-unkn)

  • Sources 
    1. [S64] Dunklin, Ethel Hastings Scruggs. Scruggs Genealogy (New York, LaPlante & Dunklin Printing Company, 1912), p.22.

    2. [S32] Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current.

    3. [S106] Family Trees on Ancestry.com.


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