Scott Family News --Thriller Thursday

Having just received a notice from FT Dna, with  data on SCOTT.

We have found another family. This is so exciting.

Thanks to all the work that Kenneth Scott did in the 50's and 60's we have names of many members of the different children of Thomas Scott.   His book is at least 2  inches thick. I am not sure how many Scott descendants have a copy of it.

A side note is, this family married into the ASHLOCK Family, a brother and a sister of Scott mar a bro and a sister of SCOTT. Not my line but family.

Thanks to Murphey Dare.  I have even more information.  Thanks to many other Scott researchers, we are getting our family put together.

Murphey thought Thomas Scott was born in Orange Co. VA about 1730. Children born in Halifax Co.,

1. Isaac Scott

2. Anne
          m Jessie Ashlock m 9-06-1785 Pittsylvania Co. VA

3. Nimrod (Sr) b abt 1760  mate Wilmoth Walters  b 1750 Halifax Co. VA  DAR d ? Cumberland Co. KY??

4. Jacob Scott b 1761 -1770 d 1835

Will there of:

JACOB SCOTT

Know all men by these presents that I Jacob SCOTT of Cumberland County and State of Kentucky being poorly in health of body but of sound mind and memory do make this my last will and testament in way and manner following First I five to my son Martin SCOTT one roan mare and coalt [sic] to him and his heirs forever Secondly I give to my daughter Fereby SCOTT one bed and furniture which is at my son's Wileby SCOTT token and her heirs forever. Thirdly, I give to my daughter Leurany SCOTT one bed and furniture and bed stead [sic] to her and her heirs forever. Fourthly, my wish and desire is aft my death that my land and all my stock of hogs and cattle and farming tools and household furniture be sold at a credit of twelve months and after the money is collected and all my just debts paid forty dollars be reserved for my son Ephaim to buy him a horse beast and the remainder of the money arising from the sail [sic] to be equally divided amongst all my children Polly MCCALLEY and Solomon SCOTT and Nancy SCOTT and Wiley SCOTT, Martin SCOTT, Fereby SCOTT, Leurney SCOTT to them and their heirs forever. Fiftly, I give to my daughter Nancy SCOTT all my sheep and all my fowls to her and her heirs for ever [sic]. Sixthly my present crop of corn to be sold and equally divided as my other stock. I nominate and appoint my naibors [sic] Philip LAWSON and Clemant SCOTT to be administrators of this my last will and testament and all wills that may have been made by me heretofore revoked and this stand as my last will and testament. This 17th of Ocy 1834.

Signed and delivered in presence of 

Phillip LAWSON

his

Ephraim Prewit

Jacob X Scott

Solomon Prewit

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Kentucky Cumberland County

I James HAGGARD deputy Clerk of the Cumberland County Court do certify that the within last will and testament of Jacob SCOTT deceased was proved in open court in the January Term 1835 examined approved of and ordered to record and proved by Philip LAWSON and Ephraim PREWIT and ordered to record and the same is entered of record in Will Book "C" p 138

Given under my hand this 10th of February 1835

James HAGGARD

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kycumber/willtransc.html

5. John Scott* b 1761 d 3-24-1843 Cumberland Co. area Kentucky m Sophia Murry m 11/18/1782***
                   

Milit   abt 1778  5th Regiment of the Virginia Continental Line; Capt James Williams Company  LIsted in DAR Records     Military discharged from the Miltary 1782

John Scott's Rev. War pension file has a Charles Thurman who makes oath to the service of John Scott in the Rev. War. 17 Jan. 1832 in Cumberland Co. File states that John Scott in 1832 living in Burkesville.  William Scott son of John Scott testifies as to the death of his father and that his mother has not remarried. 23 Sep. 1843 William also states that he was borned 1783.   Washington Watson a  justice of the peace is with William on behalf of John Scott. Nancy Murray, sister to Sophia Murray (widow), was married to Joshua Watson in 21 Nov. 1799.   There are three daughters unnamed

Source: History of John Scott 1761-1843, by Kenneth Scott and Rev War File Claim Number: W.3046

When John Scott resided in Pittsylvania County, VA, he enlisted in 1779. He served until 1783 as a private in Captain James Williams' company, in Colonel Josiah Parker's Virginia regiment. John fought in the Siege of York. He applied for pension on May 13th, 1829. At this time he lived in Cumberland County, Kentucky. His claim was allowed. After John died, his widow received benefits on this claim. John Scott's pension claim number is W.3046.

1810 Cumberland Co, KY census; next to each other on the same page; Solomon Pruitt, Thomas Ashlock, Jacob Scott, and John Scott. Thomas Ashlock states that he and Nancy Elizabeth Pruitt married 1810 in the home of John Scott. John and Jacob Scott brothers to Anne and uncles to Thomas Ashlock, son of Jesse Ashlock and Anne Scott Ashlock.   1820 Cumberland Co, KY census; next to each other on the same page; John and Jacob Scott, Solomon Pruitt, several rows down, Shadrach and Nathaniel Scott next to each other, sons of John Scott.

 "An Act for the benefit of Allen C. Scott"  Added by JGSwallow on 20 Nov 2008  CHAPTER I60  AN ACT for the benefit of Allen C. Scott.  Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the register of the land office of the state of Kentucky be and he is hereby authorized and directed to alter and change a patent, which issued from his office on the 28th day of December, 1848, in the name of Allen W. Scott, assignee of Gabriel Scott, assignee of John Scott, sr., for two hundred acres of land, lying in the county of Cumberland, on the waters of Sulphur Lick creek, No. 10,520, so as to read "Allen C. Scott, assignee  of Nathaniel Scott, assignee of John Scott, sr.;" and, also, to make the records of his office conform to said alteration; and that said register issue a patent to said Allen C. Scott, assignee, in pursuance of said alteration; and that said patent, which issued as aforesaid, on the 28th day of December, 1848, be and the same is hereby declared null and void.  Approved January 23, 1851 Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed By Kentucky Published by , 1851 Item notes: 1850-51 v.2 Original from the University of California 

From the History of John Scott 1761-1843 by Kenneth Scott.......John, Jacob and nephew Allen Clement Scott (son of Nimrod,Sr.) along w/wife and his sister, Sallie married to William Scott, came in the same wagon train to their new home in Kentucky. Nimrod, Sr. followed 1817-1820. This group of Scotts were in the south central section of the county and were spread early north from the state line along Kettle Creek and on Pearidge up to at least Galloway Creek. This group of Scotts by far have the largest number of descendants in the Cumberland County, Kentucky area. 

I would also add that John and Jacob's immediate family members were included in this wagon train, since all records indicate such.

John Scott's Rev. War pension file has a Charles Thurman who makes oath to the service of John Scott in the Rev. War. 17 Jan. 1832 in Cumberland Co. File states that John Scott in 1832 living in Burkesville.  William Scott son of John Scott testifies as to the death of his father and that his mother has not remarried. 23 Sep. 1843 William also states that he was borned 1783.   Washington Watson a  justice of the peace is with William on behalf of John Scott. Nancy Murray, sister to Sophia Murray (widow), was married to Joshua Watson in 21 Nov. 1799.   There are three daughters unnamed

Source: History of John Scott 1761-1843, by Kenneth Scott and Rev War File Claim Number: W.3046

***military record and court records are different dates.


6. William (need to pull his data from my files.) If I recall correctly he went to NC and then over to Ky about 5-10 years later than other members. I have to find papers but I believe his wife was the other Ashlock. I did this so long ago it on non working computer.


My questions are: who were the Scott's in the community mentioned in Thomas's Will and
other papers. No one has any data on whom they are.  I still looking for his father. THOMAS SCOTT

 I have census records, records compiled by Kenneth Scott, and many other Scott and Ashlock researcher. Data given us by my Grandmother and other family members also.

I can be reached at SusiCP@cox.net