Reportedly from a wealthy family, but an orphan, her Will was signed by her Mark X. Patrick went to what was then Wake County, North Carolina and married Mary Dabbs, age 15 and born in 1743.

His death occurred when he had gone out into the woods near the cemetery, to feed his hogs and was found dead with a basket of corn in his arm. Patrick Boggan was buried in Anson County, North Carolina. “New Town” was the first chartered town in the county. Boggan gave each of his seven daughters a house and land at the time of their marriages and some of those houses are still standing. The town was to be called New Town, then later was named Wadesboro.

In 1783 an act was passed to establish a town on Boggan’s land at the place where the road leading from Salisbury to the Cheraws crossed the road leading from Mask’s Ferry to Camden. Seventy acres of that land was originally used to establish the town. Boggan, who had purchased land from William Best, told Colonel Wade to take any of his land that was needed or wanted for a new town. Boggan led men all the way to Fayetteville to fight the Tories. He was an athletic, sandy haired, courageous fighter.

Captain Boggan was very active in the Whig and Tory conflict and was an avowed Tory hater. He had a large track of land on Gouldfork creek including where the present town of Wadesboro is today and for miles around. He came to Anson by way of Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina. Patrick Boggan emigrated with his brothers and sisters to Anson County, North Carolina when he was about 25 years old, landing at one of the Northern ports. (88) “Keeping an ordinary” meant operating a tavern, often in the owner’s home, if large enough. Boggan was the nephew of another Patrick Boggan who ran an Ordinary on the Trading Path between current Oxford and Durham, North Carolina, and it is possible that Mary and Patrick met there as the Dabbs/Webb family was travelling south. James Webb and Nanny Hoggatt Dabbs Webb, along with Webb’s sons and Nanny and Joseph’s daughter Mary, moved to North Carolina, settling in Anson County where Mary married Captain Patrick Boggan. Mary’s mother, Nanny Hoggatt, married James Webb after Joseph Dabbs died. Note that Wake County was not formed until 1771 (after Mary’s birth and marriage), Anson was formed in 1750. It is not known if any the children listed below were from Patrick’s first marriage. 87 Patrick was born circa 1725 in Ireland and died in 1817. Mary married Patrick Henry Boggan in 1758 in Wake County, North Carolina. Mary Dabbs (Joseph1) was born about 1739 and died in 1831 in Anson County, North Carolina.

William and Mary by Penelope Farmer