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Henry Skaggs (January 8, 1724 — 1810?) was an American hunter, explorer and pioneer, active primarily on the frontiers of Tennessee and Kentucky during the latter half of the 18th century. His career as an explorer began as early as 1761 as one of the so-called long hunters— men who undertook lengthy hunting expeditions into the Trans-Allegheny wilderness. In subsequent years, working as a land agent with Richard Henderson and Daniel Boone, he explored large parts of Middle Tennessee and Central Kentucky. Scaggs is credited with the rescue of noted kidnap victim Jenny Wiley in 1790, and led a failed attempt to apprehend the Harpe Brothers in 1799. ==Long hunter== Skaggs was born in Maryland in 1724 to James Skaggs, a Scots-Irish immigrant, and Rachel Moredock, a native of Fincastle County, Virginia. James Skaggs and his sons were noted hunters and fur traders.〔Lyman C. Draper, Ted Belue (ed.), ''(The Life of Daniel Boone )''. Cited at ''AppalachianAristocracy.com''. Retrieved: 5 February 2011.〕 In 1761, Skaggs joined an expedition led by Elisha Walden into Carter's Valley in present-day Hawkins County, Tennessee. This was followed by a 1763 trip deeper into Cumberland territory.〔Alderman, Pat (1986). ''The Overmountain Men''. Overmountain Press. p. 12.〕 In 1764, Skaggs led his first expedition through the Cumberland Gap, a mountain pass at the junction of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. These early trips westward attracted the interest of famed explorer Daniel Boone. Boone used his existing relationship with North Carolina land speculator Richard Henderson to recruit Scaggs as an agent for Henderson's land company, Richard Henderson and Company. In 1765, Skaggs explored the lower Cumberland River region (upper Middle Tennessee) as an agent of Henderson and established his station near the present day Goodlettsville, Tennessee.〔Henderson, Archibald (1918). ''Isaac Shelby: Revolutionary Patriot and Border Hero''. Vol. 1. North Carolina Society. Raleigh, North Carolina. p. 125.〕 In the Fall of 1769, Skaggs returned to the Cumberland with Kasper Mansker, Joseph Drake and Colonel James Knox. This expedition reached the Dix River in Kentucky, and pressed on to the Green River country. One day on this expedition, the group heard an eerie sound unlike anything they had ever heard before. Mansker pressed forward to investigate only to find the source of the mysterious noise to be Daniel Boone, sprawled on a deerskin singing. The Boones, Daniel and Squire, stayed with the expedition for a week or two, harvesting wild meat and rendering tallow.〔Belue, Ted Franklin (2003). ''The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America's First Far West, 1750-1792''. Stackpole Books. Mechanicsville, Pennsylvania. p. 71.〕 Part of the Wilderness Road, crossing Rockcastle County, Kentucky from Hazel Patch to Crab Orchard, was known as "Skaggs Trace," named after Henry Skaggs. In June 1775, Skaggs, along with Valentine Harman, a member of the Transylvania Convention at Boonesborough in May, led Colonel Thomas Slaughter to the Green River country of Kentucky to explore that land on behalf of Richard Henderson's Transylvania Company, which had recently purchased the area along with a large portion of Central Kentucky.〔Draper, Lyman Copeland (1998). ''The Life on Daniel Boone''. Stackpole Books. Mechanicsville, Pennsylvania. pp. 269-271.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Scaggs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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