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From: "John M. Scroggins" <>
Subject: Surname SCROGGINS
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 19:07:39 -0500


I am looking for documentary evidence of Barton Scroggins and family,
who were probably in Dickson County ca. 1805-1817. Other spellings
include Bartin and Scroggin, Scrogin, and Scrogins. I do have a copy of
one reference to Barton in a Dickson County minute book.

This is likely, but not proven, the same Barton Scroggins who was in the
Indian wars from the Knoxville area in the mid 1790's, and the one who
married Dicey Russell in Grainger County at the end of 1797. The
family, except for Barton, probably moved on to IL beginning ca.
1817-1818.

Several publications and correspondence I've received over the years,
all lacking detailed documentary support, give his children, all born in
TN, as:

Prior, b. ca. 1798-1800
Anderson, b. ca. 1802
Jane, b. 22 Mar 1805
John, b. ca. 1807
Elizabeth, b. ca. 1811
Nancy, b. 17 May 1814
Minerva, b. 5 Sep 1816

Scroggins with the same names as the seven children were in Madison,
later Macoupin, County, IL, as early as 1818. All seven were married in
Madison or Macoupin Counties between 1821 and 1829. Accounts in various
late 19th century histories of those two counties suggest that they came
from TN, the three brothers arriving first. One county history says
Minerva was born in Dickson County and came to IL with her mother.

Over 30 years ago, my grandfather told me that many years earlier
(probably just after WWI) one of his relatives, a grandson of Minerva,
had said that there was "some question about Minerva's antecedents", but
she was always accepted as a member of the family.

I would like to figure out where Barton came from originally. Scroggins
was not a particularly common name in colonial days. A number of
reseachers have worked on and published information about Scroggins
lines that originated in MD, ca. 1660, and branched out from MD and VA
at the end of the Revolutionary War. That work accounts for most of the
Scroggins who are found in various KY, SC, and GA records around
1790-1800, but Barton does not seem to have any documented link to any
of those families.

I'd be glad to help anyone with what I know about Scroggins, but this is
the only link I have to Dickson County, so I probably can't be of much
help to others researching in the county.

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