James Boggs (surgeon)

[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.)

On one occasion, the Patriot forces searched the home, did not find him and ransacked it, carrying off most of the silver.

[2] In 1824, James Boggs purchased the Lawrence Hartshorne small house lot in Halifax on the north east corner of Granville and Sackville Streets.

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.