Andrew Boggs and Margery Harris

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Husband Andrew Boggs ¹

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           Died: 1776 1
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Wife Margery Harris ¹

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           Died: 1809 1
         Buried:  - Milesburg, Centre Co, PA

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Children

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1 M Andrew Boggs ¹

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         Spouse: [Unk] Little (      -      ) 1

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2 M Judge Robert Boggs ¹

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           Born: Abt 1760
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           Died: 12 Sep 1806 1
         Buried:  - Milesburg, Centre Co, PA

         Spouse: Esther "Hetty" Swanzey (1776-1852) 2
           Marr: 1798 1

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3 M Joseph Boggs ¹

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         Spouse: Catherine Malone (      -      ) 1

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4 M John Boggs ¹

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5 M William Boggs ¹

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           Died:  - near Milesburg, Centre Co, PA
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6 F Nancy Boggs ¹

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         Spouse: John Gilmore (      -      ) 1

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7 F Jane Boggs ¹

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         Spouse: David Elder (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Andrew Boggs

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The first settler, he died leaving a widow and seven children: five sons and two daughters.

The first emigrant to Centre County, Pennsylvania, was Andrew Boggs. His settlement was on the Joseph Poultney warrantee. Poultney, in his application, No. 29, April 3, 1769, describes the land he applies for as on the north side of Bald Eagle Creek, near the fording, including his improvement, marked on a white-oak "J. P." Poultney's improvement amounted to nothing more than marking his claim, and he sold his right to Matthias Slough, a land speculator of Lancaster.
Andrew Boggs settled on that part of the Poultney later owned by John M. Wagoner, and his house stood on the creek bank just east of the road where it turns northerly, where remains of it were visible in the 1880s. The site was about a hundred rods from the mouth of Spring Creek, on the north side of Bald Eagle.
The deposition of Margery Boggs, widow of Andrew Boggs, was taken Nov. 15, 1806, before William Petrikin, Esq., at the late dwelling-house of Robert Boggs, Esq., deceased, in the presence of James Harris and John Dunlop, who were present for Wallis' heirs and John Holt, in an ejectment to April term, 1800, in Mifflin County, between Wallis' heirs and John Holt.
Mrs. Boggs states they came the year the office was opened: "I believe it was in 1769." She was asked whether she ever noticed a tree on this place where you now live marked "J. P." She answered, "No. I never saw the tree; but Joseph Poultuey told me that he had drawn this place at the lottery, and that he had put his name on a tree, pointing there with his finger to where the tree stood, and where there was then a hog-pen, but the tree was cut down. He told me at the same time if he could be any use to me in helping me to the place he would do it."
She then goes on to state her knowledge of Christopher Cottenton, who, she says, lived on the same tract "where John Holt now lives" (1806), but in a house above his (towards Milesburg). "I was many a time at Cottenton's house; his wife died there, and I was there often during her sickness, when she died, and when she was buried. I do not know how much clear land he had, but myself and two or three neighbor women went there one day and asked his wife where he was; she said he was down on the bottom clearing some land. The bottom lies below where John Holt now lives. On the island he had cleared land and raised hemp, the largest stock I ever saw, and had it snugly put up when we were driven away. He was a very industrious man, in good circumstances, and had a parcel of good working boys. He remained until he was driven away by the Indians; he went away before us, but they were all gone away before us except three families. He told my husband often he was to buy the land of Wallis. He had horses, cows, and oxen, farming utensils. He lived on the place three years or more, and, as I heard, died on the road. John Kerr lived near Cottenton's. I cannot recollect when Cottenton and Kerr came, or which was first, but Kerr was gone before Cottenton was driven away. None of Cottenton's heirs ever returned to look after the place. John Kerr had no character for sobriety, industry, or anything. I have seen him walk arm and arm with the Indians, drunk frequently; he was always with the Indians if they had any liquor among them. He had neither horse nor cow nor anything I recollect of but his wife and children; his wife was a smart, active woman. He went off, I guess, of his own accord; there was nobody driven off by the Indians for a great while after that. Kerr went to the Big Island, and lived on Capt. Parr's land there; after he was there awhile he enlisted and went off, and I believe he never came back again.
"John Turner came to Cottenton's place after the war. John Turner had lived before the war, and before he was driven away by the Indians, where Joe Boggs lived, on top of the hill on the tract Richard Malone bought of Samuel Wallis."
Cross-examined by John Holt.
Do you remember to see my father and Capt. Callender out here?
I remember to see Capt. Callender here and several men with him, but do not know whether your father was one or not. I remember to see your father here with yourself; you was then a little boy.
Do you remember that I came out here after the war and shot a turkey?
I do; you came out on the 27th of March, the year after Turner came.
Was it the same house Cottenton lived in before the war that I came to when I moved up after the war?
It was the very same house that Turner lived in; but you never lived in that house, except a little while before your wife came out; there was no other house then in the place but one.

The following is from a letter of John O. Henning, of Hudson, Wis., dated Feb. 25, 1880:
"I have it by tradition that my great-grandfather, Boggs, settled in the Bald Eagle Valley previous to the Revolution. My grandfather, Robert Boggs, was born a short distance below Milesburg, and my mother and myself were born on the same farm. There was an old hollow buttonwood-tree near the Bald Eagle Creek, on the Boggs farm, called the Eagle's Nest, from the fact that the old Indian chief, Bald Eagle, had occupied it for his wigwam. The story of my grandfather shooting an Indian who attempted to decoy him into ambush, by imitating a wild turkey, may still be remembered by some of your oldest citizens."
Rev. John Harris Boggs, of Boone, Boone County, Iowa (Sept. 18, 1882), says his grandfather, Andrew Boggs, and the first settlers crossed Muncy, Nittany, and the Seven Mountains to a mill on the Juniata for flour, and carried their wheat to market at Northumberland in canoes, returning home with their year's supply of necessaries, encamping on the bank of the river or creek every night.

1 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 180.

2 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 180, 227.