James Boggs (surgeon)
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Dr. James Boggs (22 January 1740, New Castle, Delaware County, Pennsylvania – 8 July 1830, Halifax, Nova Scotia) was surgeon who migrated from New York to Nova Scotia during the American Revolution.[1][2][self-published source][3]
Boggs married Mary Morris in New York (1765) and they had eight children. (Mary's father was the former Governor of Pennsylvania and the Chief Justice of New Jersey, Robert Hunter Morris.) He practiced medicine in Shrewsbury Township, New Jersey until the start of the American Revolution (1764-1777). He was the president of the New Jersey Medical Society. He left his family to escape being captured by Patriot forces in 1776 and went to New York. In New York he worked as the assistant surgeon at the General Hospital (1777-1783). He served as the surgeon for the 2nd Battalion of Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner.[2]
Throughout the war, Boggs would secretly visit his family. On one occasion, the Patriot forces searched the home, did not find him and ransacked it, carrying off most of the silver.
In 1783, Boggs evacuated New York with his family and settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The British government awarded him 630 pounds for his losses. On 3 March, he was located at Port Matoon, where he was surgeon a detachment of troops. He then was posted to Halifax. He worked as a surgeon to the garrison until 1810. In 1802, he served the 29th Regiment. During that time he also served as surgeon to Prince Edward, residing at the Prince's Lodge.[2] In 1824, James Boggs purchased the Lawrence Hartshorne small house lot in Halifax on the north east corner of Granville and Sackville Streets. His son Thomas would later purchase the Hartshoren home in Dartmouth.[2]
Boggs died in Halifax in 1830 and as interred in the Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia).
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[edit]- ^ http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Info/extras/BOGGS-James/BOGGS-James-Family-Story-from-Robert-Rogers.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ a b c d Broo, Barbara Broome Semans; Letitia (26 February 2009). John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd: Their Descendants and Related Families 18th to 21st Centuries. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 9781462811137 – via Google Books.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "The genealogical record of the Boggs family, the descendants of Ezekiel Boggs". familysearch.org.
Guysborough Historical Society, Mark Haynes researcher
Dr. James Boggs first moved to Guysborough, NS in 1784 and received a large lot of land on the Milford Haven River in 1785, lot 85, 216 acres. He built a house there which still stands today, maybe the oldest house in Guysborough County. His neighbour to the east was one James Bowie, blacksmith. Records indicate Dr. Boggs moved to Halifax by 1798, perhaps earlier. A son and daughter remained behind who continued to live in the house. His property along the Milford Haven R. was sold to Charles Nickerson in 1811. There is further information on Dr. Boggs in the book Guysborough Sketches and Other Essays by A.C. Jost (available through the Guysborough Historical Society)