Thomas Scott
Husband Thomas Scott 1
Born: Abt 1738 - Chester Co, PA Christened: Died: 2 Mar 1796 2 Buried:Marriage:
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1 M Arthur Scott 2
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2 M Alexander Scott 2
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3 M Thomas Scott 2
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4 F Agnes Scott 2
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Samuel McKinley ( - ) 2 3 4Spouse: Henry Woods ( - ) 5
5 F Elizabeth Scott 6 7
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Alexander Cunningham ( -1806) 7 8
6 F Margaret Scott 2
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: David Cook ( - ) 2
7 F Mary Scott 2
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Joseph Pentecost ( - ) 9
8 F Jane Scott 10
AKA: Jean Scott 2 Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: David Hoge, Jr. ( - ) 1
9 F Sarah Scott 2
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Thomas Thompson ( - ) 11
10 F Mabel Scott 2
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Sampson S. King ( - ) 2
11 F Rebecca Scott 2
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Shephard Conwell ( - ) 2
General Notes: Husband - Thomas Scott
He was prothonotary of Washington County, Pennsylvania, till March 28, 1789, when, having been elected to the First Congress under the Constitution of 1787, he was succeeded by his son, Alexander Scott.
On Nov. 21, 1786 (XV. Col. Records, 120), he was commissioned a justice of Washington County (though still prothonotary).
The following is an obituary notice taken from the Western Telegraphe of March 6, 1796:
In the night of Wednesday last, March 2, 1796, a few days after he had completed his fifty seventh year, died Thomas Scott. He was born in Chester County, but from a child lived in Lancaster County till the year 1770, when he removed with his family and settled on Dunlap's Creek, near the Monongahela. When Westmoreland County was erected in 1773, he was appointed a justice of the peace from that county. In this capacity he was a warm and able supporter of the Pennsylvania jurisdiction, and drew on himself the particular resentment of the partisans of Virginia. When this contest sunk in the great cause of the Revolution, he was elected a member of the first Pennsylvania Assembly under the republican government, and in the year following he was elected a member of the Supreme Council. After his period of appointment in the Council expired, and this county of Washington was erected in 1781, the office of clerk of the courts here was given to him. This occasioned the removal of his residence to this town. In 1787 he was chosen a member of the State Convention for ratifying the Constitution of the United States, and in 1788 a member of the First Congress under this Constitution. As the change of the Constitution of Pennsylvania occasioned a new appointment of State officers in 1791, he declined being considered as a candidate for a seat in the Second Congress, with a view to retain his office of clerk of the courts of this county. But the Governor thought proper to supersede him. The chagrin arising from this appointment preyed upon his mind. At the election a few weeks after he was chosen a member of Assembly from this county, and in 1792 a member of the Third Congress.
"With but such opportunities for the study of the law as his residence in Philadelphia afforded him, and unaided by a liberal or professional education, he was early adulated to the bar in the western counties, and was a successful advocate. His arguments were natural and judicious, his language nervous, and his elocution remarkably emphatic.
"His person was manly and respectable, his mental faculties strong and decisive, his manners kind and sociable, and with an extent of knowledge, and with that correctness of mind, which hardly anything but education can give, he would have been every way a great man.
"He was liberal and did not study economy. Before he was appointed clerk of the courts here his estate and his practice at the bar afforded him a competency. The appointment to that office offered him a permanent prospect of competence for life. From his early residence in this country, and from his advantages of mind and station, he might have accumulated great wealth, but he did not, and he died but in moderate circumstances. He has left behind him a widow and eleven children, of whom three are sons and eight are daughters. One of his sons and three of his daughters are married. The rest are in their mother's family."
His will, in his own hand, is filed in the register's office, and is recorded in Book I., p. 283.
1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 224, 478.
2 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 224.
3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 980.
4 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1128.
5 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 224, 797.
6 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 224, 484.
7 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 258.
8 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 224, 483.
9 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 224, 489.
10 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 478.
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Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 490.
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