East Haddam Revolutionary Heroes

John Booge was a native of Scotland; born and raised in Glasgow, a tobacconist by trade.  He came to this country about the year 1681.  His final place of settlement was East Haddam.  He was the fifth man to settle in the town; the first to own a team of oxen. 

The spelling of the name in Scotland was Booge.  Later, about 1825, the descendants in Connecticut changed the spelling back to Bogue, the original French spelling.