Article about the Boggs family of Missouri, headed by Joseph Boggs, Sr. (1749-1843, the son of William Boggs, born in Ireland in 1704), a "Revolutionary War veteran from Pennsylvania by way of Kentucky," and "listed in the first United States Census in 1790." Description of Joseph's ferry business with his son David Boggs, together owning "the first license in Clay County to operate a ferry across the Missouri" River, issued in 1825.
