Robert Morris Boggs was the son of James Boggs (1740 (New Castle County, Delaware) - 1830 (Halifax, Nova Scotia)) and Mary Hunter Morris (1746 (Monmouth County, New Jersey) - 1831 (Halifax, Nova Scotia)).
Robert Morris Boggs married first, Mary Morris (1775-1799) on May 28, 1795
He married second, Mary Lawrence (1768-1815) on August 7, 1802 in Gloucester County, New Jersey. They had a child, James Lawrence Boggs.
He married third, Maria Elizabeth Brenton (1784-1864) on June 17, 1817. They had a child, the Reverend Edward Brenton Boggs (1820-1895).
New York, Death Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1890 (Barber Collection) for Robert Boggs contains the following:
Newspaper publication date: Wednesday, January 12, 1831; Entry: "Yesterday morning New Brunswick, N.J. ROBERT BOGGS, ae. 64."
Newspaper publication date: Saturday, January 15, 1831; Entry: "11th inst. New Brunswick, N.J. 64 years, ROBERT BOGGS, upwards of 40 years a highly respectable member of the Bar in that State."
The following is taken verbatim from Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey: A Book of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, compiled under the editorial supervision of Francis Bazley Lee, Volume I (New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910), pages 441-442 (edited only with addition carriage returns for ease of reading):
BOGGS
The Boggs family of New Jersey belong to that group of Irish patriots who came over to this country in the early part of the eighteenth century, making homes for themselves at first in Delaware and Pennsylvania and thence spreading out into New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia and giving to the new nation some of the best blood and brawn that have gone towards making up its special characteristics and genius.
(I) Ezekiel Boggs, founder of the family under consideration, came from Ireland and settled in Delaware, where he left behind him one son James, who is referred to below, and one daughter, Rebecca, who married a Mr. Rish, of Philadelphia.
(II) James, son of Ezekiel Boggs, was born January 22, 1740, but whether in this country or in Ireland is uncertain. Coming from Delaware to Philadelphia, he studied medicine, and then settled in Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, New Jersey, where he remained until the breaking out of the revolution when he joined the British army as a surgeon, and continued with it until the close of the war, when he went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he lived until his death at a very advanced age.
He was highly esteemed as a physician, and manifested great interest in the promotion of the science of medicine. He became a member of the Medical Society of New Jersey the year after its organization and was an influential member until breaking out of the war.
His manners were pleasant and gentlemanly and he took great delight in his old age in relating incidents and adventures which occurred in his personal history, more particularly when the British were in possession of New York and his family living for the time near Perth Amboy, whom he could only visit by stealth.
Dr. James Boggs married Mary, daughter of Robert Hunter Morris, of New Jersey, and left a large family behind him, many of his descendants being now found in Halifax, Prince Edward Island, and the provinces of Lower Canada. He left, however, five children, three sons and two daughters in this country, from whom have come the New Jersey branch of the family. Among their children were:
1. Robert, referred to below.
2. James, who went into business in New York City, where he became the senior member of the old firm of Boggs, Thompson & Company; his children were: Mary, married a Mr. Ray; Julia, married Lewis Livingston.
3. A son who died young in Wilmington, Delaware.
(III) Robert, eldest child of Dr. James and Mary (Morris) Boggs, was brought up together with his other brothers and sisters whom his father had left behind him in New Jersey, in the home of his uncle, Judge Morris, of New Brunswick, with whom he studied and practiced law, spending his life in that city where he was at one time clerk of the United States district court.
He died in New Brunswick, in 1831.
He married (first) his cousin, Mary Morris, by whom he had one child, Robert, who married Jane Dunham, and had three children.
He married (second) Mary, the sister of James Lawrence, United States navy, who commanded the frigate "Chesapeake" in her engagement with the "Shannon." She bore him three children: 1. Brenton of the United States navy. 2. Mary, married J. S. Blauvelt, of New Brunswick. 3. Charles Stuart, referred to below.
He married (third) Maria Brenton, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1780, died in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1866. They had one child: Edward Brenton, referred to below.
The following biographical note is taken verbatim from the Guide to the Boggs Family Collection (1737-1942), Manuscript Group 27, Boggs Family Collection, The New Jersey Historical Society. consisting of letters, financial statements, legal papers, and musical scores of the Boggs family in New Jersey and New York, and also of the allied Blauvelt, Kearny, and Lawrence families.
The Boggs family North American genealogy begins with Ezekiel Boggs, a lawyer who emigrated from the north of Ireland in the early 1700s, originally settling in Delaware. Ezekiel and his wife Elizabeth had two children, Rebecca and James.
James Boggs (1740-1830) married Mary Morris, (1746-1831) the daughter of Robert Hunter Morris, the Chief Justice of New Jersey and governor of Pennsylvania, and sister of Judge Robert Morris, (d. 1815) who taught law at Rutgers College. James was a doctor and a loyalist who narrowly escaped capture by the Revolutionary forces, fleeing to Sandy Hook where he was taken aboard the Swan, a British sloop-of-war. He ten [sic] worked as a surgeon in New York, while his family remained in Shrewsbury, where they were able to remain due to Mary's connections to the rebel army through her brother Robert. James surreptitiously visited his family throughout the remainder of the war, but was eventually forced to move with his wife and most of their children to Nova Scotia, thus forming the Canadian branch of the family.
James and Mary's children included Robert, Samuel, Charles, Thomas, James Jr., Rebecca and Elizabeth. Robert Boggs, (1766-1831) one of the three children who remained in the United States, married three times: Mary Morris, Mary Lawrence and Maria Stewart. His first wife was his cousin Mary Morris, daughter of his uncle Robert Morris. They had two children.
Robert had studied law in the Rutgers College office of his uncle Robert Morris (who served with the Revolutionary troops) and practiced law in New Brunswick. Robert Boggs served as the Judge Advocate General of the New Jersey Militia from 1794-1795, then a clerk of the U.S. District Court from 1790-1815, and became a Rutgers trustee in 1800. He was one of the executors of his uncle Robert Morris's will.
After the death of Mary Boggs (nee Morris) Robert married the second of his three wives, Mary Lawrence. Mary Lawrence was the daughter of John Lawrence and sister of Captain James Lawrence, (1781-1813) the heroic commander of the Chesapeake whose famous last words were, "Don't give up the ship!" It is through this Mary that the Lawrence family came to be attached to the Boggs.
Robert and Mary's children included John, James, Lucy, James Lawrence, Mary Rebecca, (who married John Scott Blauvelt, allying the Blauvelts with the Boggs) William Brenton, Charles Stewart and John Lawrence. Their son Charles S. Boggs served as a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War.
Robert Morris Boggs married first, Mary Morris (1775-1799) on May 28, 1795
He married second, Mary Lawrence (1768-1815) on August 7, 1802 in Gloucester County, New Jersey. They had a child, James Lawrence Boggs.
He married third, Maria Elizabeth Brenton (1784-1864) on June 17, 1817. They had a child, the Reverend Edward Brenton Boggs (1820-1895).
New York, Death Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1890 (Barber Collection) for Robert Boggs contains the following:
Newspaper publication date: Wednesday, January 12, 1831; Entry: "Yesterday morning New Brunswick, N.J. ROBERT BOGGS, ae. 64."
Newspaper publication date: Saturday, January 15, 1831; Entry: "11th inst. New Brunswick, N.J. 64 years, ROBERT BOGGS, upwards of 40 years a highly respectable member of the Bar in that State."
The following is taken verbatim from Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey: A Book of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, compiled under the editorial supervision of Francis Bazley Lee, Volume I (New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910), pages 441-442 (edited only with addition carriage returns for ease of reading):
BOGGS
The Boggs family of New Jersey belong to that group of Irish patriots who came over to this country in the early part of the eighteenth century, making homes for themselves at first in Delaware and Pennsylvania and thence spreading out into New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia and giving to the new nation some of the best blood and brawn that have gone towards making up its special characteristics and genius.
(I) Ezekiel Boggs, founder of the family under consideration, came from Ireland and settled in Delaware, where he left behind him one son James, who is referred to below, and one daughter, Rebecca, who married a Mr. Rish, of Philadelphia.
(II) James, son of Ezekiel Boggs, was born January 22, 1740, but whether in this country or in Ireland is uncertain. Coming from Delaware to Philadelphia, he studied medicine, and then settled in Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, New Jersey, where he remained until the breaking out of the revolution when he joined the British army as a surgeon, and continued with it until the close of the war, when he went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he lived until his death at a very advanced age.
He was highly esteemed as a physician, and manifested great interest in the promotion of the science of medicine. He became a member of the Medical Society of New Jersey the year after its organization and was an influential member until breaking out of the war.
His manners were pleasant and gentlemanly and he took great delight in his old age in relating incidents and adventures which occurred in his personal history, more particularly when the British were in possession of New York and his family living for the time near Perth Amboy, whom he could only visit by stealth.
Dr. James Boggs married Mary, daughter of Robert Hunter Morris, of New Jersey, and left a large family behind him, many of his descendants being now found in Halifax, Prince Edward Island, and the provinces of Lower Canada. He left, however, five children, three sons and two daughters in this country, from whom have come the New Jersey branch of the family. Among their children were:
1. Robert, referred to below.
2. James, who went into business in New York City, where he became the senior member of the old firm of Boggs, Thompson & Company; his children were: Mary, married a Mr. Ray; Julia, married Lewis Livingston.
3. A son who died young in Wilmington, Delaware.
(III) Robert, eldest child of Dr. James and Mary (Morris) Boggs, was brought up together with his other brothers and sisters whom his father had left behind him in New Jersey, in the home of his uncle, Judge Morris, of New Brunswick, with whom he studied and practiced law, spending his life in that city where he was at one time clerk of the United States district court.
He died in New Brunswick, in 1831.
He married (first) his cousin, Mary Morris, by whom he had one child, Robert, who married Jane Dunham, and had three children.
He married (second) Mary, the sister of James Lawrence, United States navy, who commanded the frigate "Chesapeake" in her engagement with the "Shannon." She bore him three children: 1. Brenton of the United States navy. 2. Mary, married J. S. Blauvelt, of New Brunswick. 3. Charles Stuart, referred to below.
He married (third) Maria Brenton, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1780, died in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1866. They had one child: Edward Brenton, referred to below.
The following biographical note is taken verbatim from the Guide to the Boggs Family Collection (1737-1942), Manuscript Group 27, Boggs Family Collection, The New Jersey Historical Society. consisting of letters, financial statements, legal papers, and musical scores of the Boggs family in New Jersey and New York, and also of the allied Blauvelt, Kearny, and Lawrence families.
The Boggs family North American genealogy begins with Ezekiel Boggs, a lawyer who emigrated from the north of Ireland in the early 1700s, originally settling in Delaware. Ezekiel and his wife Elizabeth had two children, Rebecca and James.
James Boggs (1740-1830) married Mary Morris, (1746-1831) the daughter of Robert Hunter Morris, the Chief Justice of New Jersey and governor of Pennsylvania, and sister of Judge Robert Morris, (d. 1815) who taught law at Rutgers College. James was a doctor and a loyalist who narrowly escaped capture by the Revolutionary forces, fleeing to Sandy Hook where he was taken aboard the Swan, a British sloop-of-war. He ten [sic] worked as a surgeon in New York, while his family remained in Shrewsbury, where they were able to remain due to Mary's connections to the rebel army through her brother Robert. James surreptitiously visited his family throughout the remainder of the war, but was eventually forced to move with his wife and most of their children to Nova Scotia, thus forming the Canadian branch of the family.
James and Mary's children included Robert, Samuel, Charles, Thomas, James Jr., Rebecca and Elizabeth. Robert Boggs, (1766-1831) one of the three children who remained in the United States, married three times: Mary Morris, Mary Lawrence and Maria Stewart. His first wife was his cousin Mary Morris, daughter of his uncle Robert Morris. They had two children.
Robert had studied law in the Rutgers College office of his uncle Robert Morris (who served with the Revolutionary troops) and practiced law in New Brunswick. Robert Boggs served as the Judge Advocate General of the New Jersey Militia from 1794-1795, then a clerk of the U.S. District Court from 1790-1815, and became a Rutgers trustee in 1800. He was one of the executors of his uncle Robert Morris's will.
After the death of Mary Boggs (nee Morris) Robert married the second of his three wives, Mary Lawrence. Mary Lawrence was the daughter of John Lawrence and sister of Captain James Lawrence, (1781-1813) the heroic commander of the Chesapeake whose famous last words were, "Don't give up the ship!" It is through this Mary that the Lawrence family came to be attached to the Boggs.
Robert and Mary's children included John, James, Lucy, James Lawrence, Mary Rebecca, (who married John Scott Blauvelt, allying the Blauvelts with the Boggs) William Brenton, Charles Stewart and John Lawrence. Their son Charles S. Boggs served as a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War.
Robert Morris Boggs was the son of James Boggs (1740 (New Castle County, Delaware) - 1830 (Halifax, Nova Scotia)) and Mary Hunter Morris (1746 (Monmouth County, New Jersey) - 1831 (Halifax, Nova Scotia)).
Robert Morris Boggs married first, Mary Morris (1775-1799) on May 28, 1795
He married second, Mary Lawrence (1768-1815) on August 7, 1802 in Gloucester County, New Jersey. They had a child, James Lawrence Boggs.
He married third, Maria Elizabeth Brenton (1784-1864) on June 17, 1817. They had a child, the Reverend Edward Brenton Boggs (1820-1895).
New York, Death Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1890 (Barber Collection) for Robert Boggs contains the following:
Newspaper publication date: Wednesday, January 12, 1831; Entry: "Yesterday morning New Brunswick, N.J. ROBERT BOGGS, ae. 64."
Newspaper publication date: Saturday, January 15, 1831; Entry: "11th inst. New Brunswick, N.J. 64 years, ROBERT BOGGS, upwards of 40 years a highly respectable member of the Bar in that State."
The following is taken verbatim from Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey: A Book of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, compiled under the editorial supervision of Francis Bazley Lee, Volume I (New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910), pages 441-442 (edited only with addition carriage returns for ease of reading):
BOGGS
The Boggs family of New Jersey belong to that group of Irish patriots who came over to this country in the early part of the eighteenth century, making homes for themselves at first in Delaware and Pennsylvania and thence spreading out into New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia and giving to the new nation some of the best blood and brawn that have gone towards making up its special characteristics and genius.
(I) Ezekiel Boggs, founder of the family under consideration, came from Ireland and settled in Delaware, where he left behind him one son James, who is referred to below, and one daughter, Rebecca, who married a Mr. Rish, of Philadelphia.
(II) James, son of Ezekiel Boggs, was born January 22, 1740, but whether in this country or in Ireland is uncertain. Coming from Delaware to Philadelphia, he studied medicine, and then settled in Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, New Jersey, where he remained until the breaking out of the revolution when he joined the British army as a surgeon, and continued with it until the close of the war, when he went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he lived until his death at a very advanced age.
He was highly esteemed as a physician, and manifested great interest in the promotion of the science of medicine. He became a member of the Medical Society of New Jersey the year after its organization and was an influential member until breaking out of the war.
His manners were pleasant and gentlemanly and he took great delight in his old age in relating incidents and adventures which occurred in his personal history, more particularly when the British were in possession of New York and his family living for the time near Perth Amboy, whom he could only visit by stealth.
Dr. James Boggs married Mary, daughter of Robert Hunter Morris, of New Jersey, and left a large family behind him, many of his descendants being now found in Halifax, Prince Edward Island, and the provinces of Lower Canada. He left, however, five children, three sons and two daughters in this country, from whom have come the New Jersey branch of the family. Among their children were:
1. Robert, referred to below.
2. James, who went into business in New York City, where he became the senior member of the old firm of Boggs, Thompson & Company; his children were: Mary, married a Mr. Ray; Julia, married Lewis Livingston.
3. A son who died young in Wilmington, Delaware.
(III) Robert, eldest child of Dr. James and Mary (Morris) Boggs, was brought up together with his other brothers and sisters whom his father had left behind him in New Jersey, in the home of his uncle, Judge Morris, of New Brunswick, with whom he studied and practiced law, spending his life in that city where he was at one time clerk of the United States district court.
He died in New Brunswick, in 1831.
He married (first) his cousin, Mary Morris, by whom he had one child, Robert, who married Jane Dunham, and had three children.
He married (second) Mary, the sister of James Lawrence, United States navy, who commanded the frigate "Chesapeake" in her engagement with the "Shannon." She bore him three children: 1. Brenton of the United States navy. 2. Mary, married J. S. Blauvelt, of New Brunswick. 3. Charles Stuart, referred to below.
He married (third) Maria Brenton, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1780, died in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1866. They had one child: Edward Brenton, referred to below.
The following biographical note is taken verbatim from the Guide to the Boggs Family Collection (1737-1942), Manuscript Group 27, Boggs Family Collection, The New Jersey Historical Society. consisting of letters, financial statements, legal papers, and musical scores of the Boggs family in New Jersey and New York, and also of the allied Blauvelt, Kearny, and Lawrence families.
The Boggs family North American genealogy begins with Ezekiel Boggs, a lawyer who emigrated from the north of Ireland in the early 1700s, originally settling in Delaware. Ezekiel and his wife Elizabeth had two children, Rebecca and James.
James Boggs (1740-1830) married Mary Morris, (1746-1831) the daughter of Robert Hunter Morris, the Chief Justice of New Jersey and governor of Pennsylvania, and sister of Judge Robert Morris, (d. 1815) who taught law at Rutgers College. James was a doctor and a loyalist who narrowly escaped capture by the Revolutionary forces, fleeing to Sandy Hook where he was taken aboard the Swan, a British sloop-of-war. He ten [sic] worked as a surgeon in New York, while his family remained in Shrewsbury, where they were able to remain due to Mary's connections to the rebel army through her brother Robert. James surreptitiously visited his family throughout the remainder of the war, but was eventually forced to move with his wife and most of their children to Nova Scotia, thus forming the Canadian branch of the family.
James and Mary's children included Robert, Samuel, Charles, Thomas, James Jr., Rebecca and Elizabeth. Robert Boggs, (1766-1831) one of the three children who remained in the United States, married three times: Mary Morris, Mary Lawrence and Maria Stewart. His first wife was his cousin Mary Morris, daughter of his uncle Robert Morris. They had two children.
Robert had studied law in the Rutgers College office of his uncle Robert Morris (who served with the Revolutionary troops) and practiced law in New Brunswick. Robert Boggs served as the Judge Advocate General of the New Jersey Militia from 1794-1795, then a clerk of the U.S. District Court from 1790-1815, and became a Rutgers trustee in 1800. He was one of the executors of his uncle Robert Morris's will.
After the death of Mary Boggs (nee Morris) Robert married the second of his three wives, Mary Lawrence. Mary Lawrence was the daughter of John Lawrence and sister of Captain James Lawrence, (1781-1813) the heroic commander of the Chesapeake whose famous last words were, "Don't give up the ship!" It is through this Mary that the Lawrence family came to be attached to the Boggs.
Robert and Mary's children included John, James, Lucy, James Lawrence, Mary Rebecca, (who married John Scott Blauvelt, allying the Blauvelts with the Boggs) William Brenton, Charles Stewart and John Lawrence. Their son Charles S. Boggs served as a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War.
Robert Morris Boggs married first, Mary Morris (1775-1799) on May 28, 1795
He married second, Mary Lawrence (1768-1815) on August 7, 1802 in Gloucester County, New Jersey. They had a child, James Lawrence Boggs.
He married third, Maria Elizabeth Brenton (1784-1864) on June 17, 1817. They had a child, the Reverend Edward Brenton Boggs (1820-1895).
New York, Death Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1890 (Barber Collection) for Robert Boggs contains the following:
Newspaper publication date: Wednesday, January 12, 1831; Entry: "Yesterday morning New Brunswick, N.J. ROBERT BOGGS, ae. 64."
Newspaper publication date: Saturday, January 15, 1831; Entry: "11th inst. New Brunswick, N.J. 64 years, ROBERT BOGGS, upwards of 40 years a highly respectable member of the Bar in that State."
The following is taken verbatim from Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey: A Book of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, compiled under the editorial supervision of Francis Bazley Lee, Volume I (New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910), pages 441-442 (edited only with addition carriage returns for ease of reading):
BOGGS
The Boggs family of New Jersey belong to that group of Irish patriots who came over to this country in the early part of the eighteenth century, making homes for themselves at first in Delaware and Pennsylvania and thence spreading out into New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia and giving to the new nation some of the best blood and brawn that have gone towards making up its special characteristics and genius.
(I) Ezekiel Boggs, founder of the family under consideration, came from Ireland and settled in Delaware, where he left behind him one son James, who is referred to below, and one daughter, Rebecca, who married a Mr. Rish, of Philadelphia.
(II) James, son of Ezekiel Boggs, was born January 22, 1740, but whether in this country or in Ireland is uncertain. Coming from Delaware to Philadelphia, he studied medicine, and then settled in Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, New Jersey, where he remained until the breaking out of the revolution when he joined the British army as a surgeon, and continued with it until the close of the war, when he went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he lived until his death at a very advanced age.
He was highly esteemed as a physician, and manifested great interest in the promotion of the science of medicine. He became a member of the Medical Society of New Jersey the year after its organization and was an influential member until breaking out of the war.
His manners were pleasant and gentlemanly and he took great delight in his old age in relating incidents and adventures which occurred in his personal history, more particularly when the British were in possession of New York and his family living for the time near Perth Amboy, whom he could only visit by stealth.
Dr. James Boggs married Mary, daughter of Robert Hunter Morris, of New Jersey, and left a large family behind him, many of his descendants being now found in Halifax, Prince Edward Island, and the provinces of Lower Canada. He left, however, five children, three sons and two daughters in this country, from whom have come the New Jersey branch of the family. Among their children were:
1. Robert, referred to below.
2. James, who went into business in New York City, where he became the senior member of the old firm of Boggs, Thompson & Company; his children were: Mary, married a Mr. Ray; Julia, married Lewis Livingston.
3. A son who died young in Wilmington, Delaware.
(III) Robert, eldest child of Dr. James and Mary (Morris) Boggs, was brought up together with his other brothers and sisters whom his father had left behind him in New Jersey, in the home of his uncle, Judge Morris, of New Brunswick, with whom he studied and practiced law, spending his life in that city where he was at one time clerk of the United States district court.
He died in New Brunswick, in 1831.
He married (first) his cousin, Mary Morris, by whom he had one child, Robert, who married Jane Dunham, and had three children.
He married (second) Mary, the sister of James Lawrence, United States navy, who commanded the frigate "Chesapeake" in her engagement with the "Shannon." She bore him three children: 1. Brenton of the United States navy. 2. Mary, married J. S. Blauvelt, of New Brunswick. 3. Charles Stuart, referred to below.
He married (third) Maria Brenton, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1780, died in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1866. They had one child: Edward Brenton, referred to below.
The following biographical note is taken verbatim from the Guide to the Boggs Family Collection (1737-1942), Manuscript Group 27, Boggs Family Collection, The New Jersey Historical Society. consisting of letters, financial statements, legal papers, and musical scores of the Boggs family in New Jersey and New York, and also of the allied Blauvelt, Kearny, and Lawrence families.
The Boggs family North American genealogy begins with Ezekiel Boggs, a lawyer who emigrated from the north of Ireland in the early 1700s, originally settling in Delaware. Ezekiel and his wife Elizabeth had two children, Rebecca and James.
James Boggs (1740-1830) married Mary Morris, (1746-1831) the daughter of Robert Hunter Morris, the Chief Justice of New Jersey and governor of Pennsylvania, and sister of Judge Robert Morris, (d. 1815) who taught law at Rutgers College. James was a doctor and a loyalist who narrowly escaped capture by the Revolutionary forces, fleeing to Sandy Hook where he was taken aboard the Swan, a British sloop-of-war. He ten [sic] worked as a surgeon in New York, while his family remained in Shrewsbury, where they were able to remain due to Mary's connections to the rebel army through her brother Robert. James surreptitiously visited his family throughout the remainder of the war, but was eventually forced to move with his wife and most of their children to Nova Scotia, thus forming the Canadian branch of the family.
James and Mary's children included Robert, Samuel, Charles, Thomas, James Jr., Rebecca and Elizabeth. Robert Boggs, (1766-1831) one of the three children who remained in the United States, married three times: Mary Morris, Mary Lawrence and Maria Stewart. His first wife was his cousin Mary Morris, daughter of his uncle Robert Morris. They had two children.
Robert had studied law in the Rutgers College office of his uncle Robert Morris (who served with the Revolutionary troops) and practiced law in New Brunswick. Robert Boggs served as the Judge Advocate General of the New Jersey Militia from 1794-1795, then a clerk of the U.S. District Court from 1790-1815, and became a Rutgers trustee in 1800. He was one of the executors of his uncle Robert Morris's will.
After the death of Mary Boggs (nee Morris) Robert married the second of his three wives, Mary Lawrence. Mary Lawrence was the daughter of John Lawrence and sister of Captain James Lawrence, (1781-1813) the heroic commander of the Chesapeake whose famous last words were, "Don't give up the ship!" It is through this Mary that the Lawrence family came to be attached to the Boggs.
Robert and Mary's children included John, James, Lucy, James Lawrence, Mary Rebecca, (who married John Scott Blauvelt, allying the Blauvelts with the Boggs) William Brenton, Charles Stewart and John Lawrence. Their son Charles S. Boggs served as a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War.
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ROBERT BOGGS
BORN NOVEMBER 13TH
1765
DIED JANUARY 24TH
1831.
This mortal shall ... immortal ...
For the ... and the
dead shall be raised.
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