Capt Patrick Henry Boggan

• General Notes
  • Following found in "Descendants of Sir Walter Boggan of Ireland," compiled by a Mrs. Pettigrew of Pine Bluff, Ark.," which work can be found in the Vertical Files in the Genealogy Library, Raleigh, NC.
    
         "Patrick Boggan . . . 1750-1822? may have been born earlier, came to America, and settled in North Carolina. He joined the Continental Army, and was made Captain of one of the first companies that was made up in Salisbury District of North Carolina. He was an Irish Patriot, and was one of the first to oppose the vindictive ruling of Governor Tryon. Capt. Patrick Boggan was a Regulator, and commanded Minutemen, authorized by the Legislature of North Carolina. He also took part in the Battle of Alamance, and had many encounters with the notorious David Fanning, and in one of them at Drowning Creek, he was wounded, when with one hundred men, he fought five hundred Tories.*
    
         Patrick Boggan became a great friend of Col. Wade (Thomas), of Anson County, NC, who afterward married his (Patrick's) sister Sarah Jane Boggan.
    
         Captain "Paddy" as he was called by those who knew him best, owned vast estates in and around Anson County, no doubt having entered much of it, all along Jones Creek (Gould's Fork, Flat Rock, etc.). As his children or negroes married off he richly endowed them with land.
    
    Foot Notes -- *North Carolina Booklet, NC State and Colonial Records,  Vols. 1, 4, 18, 14, 20."
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    "Patrick Boggan emigrated with his brothers and sisters to Anson County, North Carolina when he was about 25 years old, landing at one of the Northern ports. He came to Anson by way of Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina. He had a large track of land on Gouldfork creek including where the present town of Wadesboro is today and for miles around. Captain Boggan was very active in the Whig and Tory conflict and was an avowed Tory hater. He was an athletic, sandy haired, courageous fighter. Boggan led men all the way to Fayetteville to fight the Tories. Capt. Boggan, who had purchased land from William Best, told Colonel Wade to take any of his land that was needed or wanted for a new town. Seventy acres of that land was originally used to establish the town. In 1783 an act was passed to establish a town on Boggan’s land at the place where the road leading from Salisbury to the Cheraws crossed the road leading from Mask’s Ferry to Camden. The town was to be called New Town, then later was named Wadesboro. Capt. Boggan gave each of his seven daughters a house and land at the time of their marriages and some of those houses are still standing. “New Town” was the first chartered town in the county.
    
    Patrick Boggan was buried in Anson County, North Carolina. He is described as having blonde hair. His death occurred when he had gone out into the woods near the cemetery, to feed his hogs and was found dead with a basket of corn in his arm. His occupation was a farmer.
    
    Patrick went to what was then Wake County, North Carolina and married Mary Dabbs, age 15 and born in 1743. Reportedly from a wealthy family, but an orphan, her Will was signed by her Mark X. Mary inherited 40 slaves but guardian sold them and appropriated the money. Another story is that Mary’s parents were Richard and Mary Dabbs and when they died, her Uncle (Richard’s brother) took control of her estate. Another story says that while Patrick and Mary were visiting and staying overnite at some plantation, Mary had some sort of foot problem and was sent to the old Mammy at the slave quarters. She found out that the Mammy was her old Mammy that her Uncle? had sold or otherwise dispersed when he depleted Mary’s inheritance."  --- Carolyn M. Wright
    

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