SCOTT, Sgt John

Abt 1735 - Abt 1798  (63 years)

• Name	SCOTT, John
  Prefix	Sgt
  Birth	Abt 1735
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1798	New York, New York, United States
  Person ID	I2246	Ward and Related Families of Nova Scotia and North Yorkshire
  Last Modified	11 Jun 2025

  
  

  Father	SCOTT, Robert
  Mother	UNKNOWN, Agnietie Williams
  Family ID	F2119	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	GILMORE, Mary,   b. Abt 1735   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Abt 1760
  Children	1. SCOTT, Frances Elizabeth,   b. 1760   d. 18 Oct 1845, New York, New York, United States (Age 85 years)   2. SCOTT, Mary,   b. Abt 1762   d. Yes, date unknown   3. SCOTT, James Gilmore,   b. Abt 1768, Ireland d. Between 1841 and 1843, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada (Age 73 years)   4. SCOTT, Robert Hamilton,   b. 1 Feb 1770   d. 18 Jun 1818, New York, New York, United States (Age 48 years)   5. SCOTT, Rebecca,   b. Abt 1772, North Carolina, United States d. 29 Jul 1842, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States (Age 70 years)   6. SCOTT, John Gilmore,   b. 14 Jun 1773   d. Yes, date unknown   7. SCOTT, Martha,   b. 23 Jan 1776, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 14 Jul 1856, New York, New York, United States (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F626	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jul 2025

  
  

• Photos

  Typical outfit worn by Loyal American Fencibles

  
  

  Histories

  The Scott Bible

  
  

• Notes

  This John Scott is the one in the 'Scott Bible'. He was a sargeant in the Royal Fencible Americans sent to Fort Cumberland to defend it during the 'Eddy Rebellion' of 1776. This is why he would not have appeared in the Amherst 1770 census. The Royal Fencibles stayed on at Fort Cumberland for the duration of the war and in the winter of 1780 were recalled back to Halifax. They made the march on snowshoes and on Oct 10th, 1783 they were disbanded. There was also a Robert Scott, also in the Royal Fencibles, who also owned land right next to John Scott. I am going to speculate that they were brothers. I believe John Scott was also the 'Captain John Scott' in the Albany County Militia, as per this page: http://dunhamwilcox.net/ny/ny_rev_bounty_lands_albany.htm _________________________________ Deeds Peter Campbell to John Scott (Peter Campbell is a 1768 Amherst Township Grantee) Book C 170, 10 SEP 1782 ``Know all me by these present, I Peter Campbell of Amherst Township in the county of Cumberland… Yeoman for and in consideration of eleven pounds Halifax currency to me in hand paid by John Scott, Sergeant in the Royal Fencible American Regiment … three certain lotts or Rights of lands situated in the Town of Cumberland and known by the name of the Hutt lotts Number Nine, Ten, and Eleven containing in the whole six acres more or less by the plan of the said township which was purchased by me from Mehetable Bearste as by her deed Registered in the Registers office and bearing the date of the Eleventh day of July 1799 (sic, must have meant 1779) … . Signed Peter Campbell witnessed by Martin Gay and Mark Patten ____________________________ John Scott to Josiah Smith Book C 212 Nov 1783 (note this is the month after the disbanding of the Loyal Fencible American regiment. … John Scott of Cumberland in the County of Cumberland … in consideration of the sum of 100 pounds… paid by Josiah Smith of Cumberland… Viz. one lott containing nine acres more or less bounded westerly by a certain Ditch running from the road which … to the marsh… joins the Hutt lott so called Northerly on line of the Hutt lott Easterly upon the Burying ground lands granted to Capt. McKenzie and on the --- --- Southerly by the Road which lead to the Marsh containing the whole one acres more or less as aforesaid formerly purchased by John Scott from Mary Sherman and Young Sherman and also one Hutt lott purchased by john Scott from Isaac Danks … containing two acres more or less as by Dec 21 of the same bearing date the eleventh day of June 1781 (?) and the seventeenth day of May 1783 blah blah blah signed John Scott witnessed by Charles Barnes and ( unreadable) ___________________________________ Excerpt from the 'Scott Bible': "John Scott of Amherst Point, County of Cumberland was probably the first of the Scotts to settle in Nova Scotia. He is believed to have died in New York City of yellow fever in 1798. His wife is said to have been Mary Gilmore, daughter of John Gilmore by his wife Mary Stewart (or Stuart). It is possible that he was twice married, and that Mary Gilmore was not the mother of all his children, who were: order of births uncertain..."