Introduction

Revised  3/24/2013

If you are new to this Blog you should start by reading these Posts:
My Starting Point
http://ulster2texas.blogspot.com/2013/01/starting-point.html
and
The American Revolution
http://ulster2texas.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-american-revolution.html

Many of the Posts are listings of Genealogical and Historical data which may or may not interest you, but some of the narrative posts will put things in context.

New Post:  Beverly Scott’s Family Story.  Beverly and I met through a Scott DNA Project. Our 67 Marker DNA differs by 4 steps, which indicates that we are cousins who share a common male ancestor sometime in the last few hundred years.

Since posting this Blog and by being active in the Scott Surname DNA Group on Facebook I have made contact with several other Scott researchers whose ancestors were in the Mercer County area of Kentucky in the late 1700's and who were in the Trigg/Christian County area of Southern Kentucky and adjacent northern Tennessee, around the Land Between the Lakes, during the early 1800's. Through shared letters, Bible records, wills and Probate records, and published local histories, we know they were related.  Some of the related families are Carr, Bibb, Shelton, Tinsley, and Futrell.  Some of these families have been associated and related by marriage since the early 1700's in York County, Pennsylvania.  

There are several purposes for this Blog:
First is to document my own Scott family history.
Second to document the histories of other families; Scotts, related families, and pioneer families who were their neighbors and friends.  We can use these parallel family histories to break through the brick walls we all encounter.
Third to explore the insight which current DNA testing brings to tracing family history.  This Blog will trace the histories of Scott families which went their separate ways three or four hundred years ago, but which carry identical or almost identical DNA. 

Along the way we hope to find common treasures; Bibles, letters, wills, contracts, family stories, which will serve to enlighten all of the researchers participating.

Samuel Scott's Will

Samuel Scott came into Kentucky County, Virginia with Harrod's second party in 1775. He may have been a member of the first party in 1774, but all of the names in that party are not known.

Samuel, George, and William Scott all claimed land on or near Dicks River in Mercer County.  In 1796 part of Mercer County became a part of the newly formed Garrard County, so it is a good guess that Samuel's home was in that part of Mercer which became Garrard.

This is an excerpt from the will of Samuel Scott.

Samuel Scott of Mercer County Kentucky probably died in 1803.

Will from Will Book of Garrard County, Ky, Will Book A, page 147

The will was written May 20, 1796 and probated at Jan. Court 1804.

Witnesses: Ambrose Garrott, Enoch Kamper, John Stephens, Richard Roser.

The Executors were Samuel's Son John Scott of Fayette Co, Ky and his Son-in-law William Brown of Mercer Co, Ky

The will leaves land in YORK Co, Pa, lying by the land of Wm READ and Thomas SHANNON and also money coming from Thomas PATTERSON of YORK Co, Pa. to son John Scott of Fayette Co, Ky and John Scott's children by his first wife, viz: Samuel, Thomas, Brown, and Sarah; and to son Robert Scott's children of York Co, Pa, and to the widow of Robert, and to Jane Scott who was the widow of son William Scott, deceased and to his children. 

            

The following evidently inherited property in Kentucky:

son Joseph Scott and Joseph Scott's children

daughter Isabella Brown, deceased

son-in-law William Brown of Mercer County, Ky

daughter Mary Craig's children 

son-in-law Robert Craig (Craigs were in Garrard Co) 

daughter Jane Rarity's children

son-in-law Timothy Rarity 

In York County, PA tax records for 1762 to 1800 I found SCOTTs, SHANNONs, PATTERSONs, and CARRs in Hamilton's Bann or Hamiltonban, York County, PA. (York County until 1800, Adams County after 1800) 

I found Reed/Read in York Co, but not in this township. 

      1762  SCOTT      Hugh          

                       Joseph   

                       Samuel

            SHANNON    Hugh

                       Thomas

            CARR       John  (2) 

                       William 

      1767  SCOTT      Hugh        In 1767 Hamilton's Bann Township

                       Joseph      listed 162 persons on tax rolls.

                       Samuel

            SHANNON    Thomas

            CARR       John  (3)

                       George

                       William (2)

      1780  SCOTT      John      

                       Joseph

                       Robert 

                       Samuel 

                       William

            SHANNON    Patrick 

                       Thomas

            PATTERSON  Thomas

The 1800 Census shows these Scotts in Hamilton's Bann.

                             3-10 10-16 16-26 26-45 45+

SCOTT      Abram     Male     3           1     1          

                     Female   1     1     1     1

           Robert    Male     1           1          1   

                     Female   3     2                1     

            William   Male     2           1          2

                     Female   1           1          1

Mercer County KY Marriages 1788-1828

             MARRIAGE BONDS & CONSENTS 

                 MERCER COUNTY KY

                   1788 - 1828         

Compiled at Clayton Library, Houston    

Aug 29, 1992 by Tom Scott

This list includes all marriages where a Scott or Hamilton was involved.

1788  19 Apr   Groom            Jacob SCOTT 

               Bride            Margaret McBRIDE   

               Bond             John SMITH 

               Brides Mother    Martha McBRIDE

1792  21 Jan   Groom            Charles HAMBLETON  

               Bride            Eliza NORRIS 

               Bond             Mark HOWARD  

1795  24 Feb   Groom            Benjamin VANDERSLICE  

               Bride            Margaret SCOTT 

               Bond             Thomas SCOTT (Margaret’s Brother)

      

1792  15 May   Groom            Daniel JEFFERIES 

               Bride            Patty SMITH 

               Bond             William SMITH 

               Brides Father    James SMITH 

               Teste            William JEFFERIES 

               Teste            James SCOTT 

1797  24 Feb   Groom            William BROWN 

               Bride            Margaret STEVENSON 

               Bond             Samuel SCOTT

1797   4 Oct   Groom            James HAMBLETON  

               Bride            Sally JONES  

               Bond             John HUNGATE  

               Bride's Father   Richard JONES Sr

               Teste            Elisa JONES 

               Teste            Samuel JONES 

1798  29 Sep   Groom            Thomas SCOTT  

               Bride            Sarah HAMILTON  

               Teste            John CATHEY  

               Bond             John HAMILTON  

1799   6 FEb   Groom            John SCOTT 

               Bride            Nancy SUTTERFIELD 

               Bond             James SUTTERFIELD 

               Bride's Father   Benjamin SUTTERFIELD 

               Teste            David WILLIAMS 

1799  17 Dec   Groom            Samuel BUNNEL 

               Bride            Elizabeth SUTTERFIELD 

               Bond             James SUTTERFIELD  

               Bride's Father   Benjamin SUTTERFIELD 

               Teste            Jonathan BUNNEL 

               Teste            John SCOTT  

1801  28 Sep   Groom            Mark COULTER  

               Bride            Ruthey SCOTT  

               Bond             Joseph SCOTT 

1801  30 Dec   Groom            James SUTTERFIELD 

               Bride            Polly DEAN 

               Bond             John SCOTT 

              

1803  29 Sep   Groom            Joseph SCOTT  

               Bride            Rody HALE  

               Bond             John HALE  

              

1807  20 Apr   Groom            Robert SCOTT 

               Bride            Jane BODY  

               Bond             Thomas BODY                 

  

1810  31 Mar   Groom            Robert HAMILTON  

               Bride            Polly GRAHAM  

               Bond             Peyton GRAHAM  

1816  21 Oct   Groom            Cyrus SCOTT 

               Bride            Elizabeth WESTERFIELD 

1821  30 Apr   Groom            Samuel SCOTT  

               Bride            Betsy NEFF  

         

1825  18 Jan   Groom            Robert SCOTT 

               Bride            Isabella CRAIG

               Teste            Joseph SCOTT  

               Grooms Mother    Margaret SCOTT 

Is Robert possibly the son of Jacob Scott who married Maragret McBride in 1788.

1828  23 Sep   Groom            David SCOTT  

               Bride            Eleanor BESS 

  

Beverly Scott’s Family Story

My grandfather, John Howard Scott, was born in 1840 in Vermillion County, Indiana to Paul Scott and Rebecca Swan Scott, (married in 1836, Vermillion County Indiana).  His sister Harriett Scott was two years older.  His father, Paul Scott, died when he about 4 years old.  Rebecca died in the poor house in 1885.  Sister Harriett married William Kimberly and moved to Illinois.   She died in 1868. 

John Howard has stated that he was raised by his uncle, William Swan, a well-known river boat captain.  He is listed as a farm laborer working for Bill Swan in the 1860 census.  He married Harriet Foncannon in January 1864 and enlisted in the Union army in February that same year.  He was discharged in September and re-enlisted the following February.  He was mustered out in September of 1865.

He and Harriet moved to Illinois in 1870 and then on to Texas.  In November of 1878 he deserted Harriet with 5 children and a 6^th on the way.  We think he worked cattle drives, on a ranch and in a mine.  He shows up in Wyoming by 1890 under a different name, Harvey Depew Scott.  In 1892, he married by grandmother, Eva Ellen Russell, 30 years younger than he and had another 5 children, Harold, Homer, Harvey, Henry Clay and Lydia.  His fourth son was my father.  Harvey Depew (John Howard) died in 1911 in Tucumcari, NM

I have been unable to find documented information about Paul Scott, John Howard’s father.  However, The Clover family history on Ancestry.com reports the will of John Scott, Sr. dated 13, August, 1847 lists Paul Scott as one of his heirs.  Also listed is Rebecca Scott as the widow of Paul Scott.  This information connects Paul to John Scott Sr but we do not know exactly what the relationship is.  I have not yet found any connection between John Scott Sr, born in Lycoming, PA about 1780 and Paul Scott. 

The Clover page also states that the relationship between this Indiana John Scott is not a proven relation to John Scott the husband of Mary Clover from Lycoming, PA.  This information suggests that a John Scott came to Lycoming County Pennsylvania in 1802 and married a daughter of Paul Clover.

In looking at the Scott Warwick Family Tree I have also identified Samuel Scott, born about 1775 in Pennsylvania as a brother of the above John Scott born about 1780 in PA.  This family tree identifies the father of John and Samuel as John Scott.  Samuel is also mentioned in the estate records mentioned above. But I can find no evidence that ties this John and Samuel Scott to Indiana.  

NOTE:  Beverly Scott and I (Tom Scott) have no proven family connection.  Our 37 marker DNA differs by only 2 steps, which means that we share a direct male ancestor in the last few hundred years.