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Robert,
This is a copy of a write up that I recall that I found while on ancestry.com. I am thinking that the WV BIGGS are descended from this BIGGS.
Frederick County Districts and Villages Page 583
The first member of the BIGGS family in Maryland came from England and settled in New Jersey. He afterwards removed to Frederick County, about 1750, and settled where Biggs' Ford on the Monocacy now is. After some time he sold his farm and settled on the Monocacy, between the mouths of Pipe Creek and Tom's Creek, where he bought fifteen hundred acres of land, extending from Pipe Creek to the mouth of Tom's Creek. He lived here with two of his sons,
William and Benjamin BIGGS. Benjamin sold his interest to his brother William and moved to Western Virginia, where he raised a large family. His eldest son Benjamin, resided near West Liberty. He became a general, and with his brothers was engaged in the Indian wars. His brother Zachariah Biggs, laid off Ohio into sections, and kept the land office in Steubenville, Ohio. Frederick, the seventh son of William Biggs, and grandson of the emigrant, bought the farm called Rich Revel, owned by William on the Monocacy, opposite the mouth of Stony Branch, of Lieut. George Need, an officer in the Revolution in the company of Capt. Benjamin Ogle.
Frederick BIGGS married Mary WILSON, daughter of Joseph WILSON, and died in 1840, aged seventy-one years and nine months. He was the father of William BIGGS, the great grandson of the emigrant.
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