some people called Scroggs or Scruggs in early New England ...
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/wit ... ex002.html
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/wit ... ex005.html
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/wit ... ex091.html
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/wit ... ex359.html
Did the above Sara SIMS marry Jonas MAN? Or was she the Sarah SYMES
who >travelled to New England in 1635 as a servant to Roger
HARLAKENDEN? The 1641 >will of Ann SCROGGS does mention her cousin
Sara SIMMES who was in New England.
LThis Sarah SIMES died in Cambridge, Middlesex Co. MA in 1653. Her
will >mentions "brother William FRENCH" and "brother John STEDMAN."
This has led >FRENCH researchers to believe that William's wife
Elizabeth was a SIMES, but >definitive proof is still lacking. William
FRENCH age 30 and his wife Elizabeth >age 32 were also servants to
Roger HARLAKENDEN and accompanied him to America. >This William was
born ca 1606 in Halstead, Essex. This is very near to Earl's >Colne
(he's often confused with the William FRENCH born in Halstead in 1603,
son >of Thomas FRENCH, but that William died in London in 1621 [NEHGR
65:285-286]).