Notes for MOSES SCOTT:
The following information was provided by Renee Kerr from the Washington County, PA, USGenWeb site.
"Bio sketches of Washington County, PA 1893.
Moses Scott
Moses Scott (deceased) was a native of Washington county, Penn., born in Union township, October 12, 1809. He was of Irish descent, his father, Thomas Scott, having emigrated from Ireland to America in 1796, being then a young man of some twenty-two summers.
After landing, Thomas Scott proceeded to this county, making a settlement on Mingo creed in Union township, where he cleared the land and followed farming and milling until 1850, in which year he moved into Monongahela City, and there ended his useful life, dying February 19, 1856. In politics he was a Whig, in religion a member of the Mingo Creek Presbyterian Church. In 1802 he had married Margaret Turner, a resident of the county, and the children born to them were Rebecca (Mrs. Franklin Goldthrop), William, Joseph, Alexander, Moses, Mary, John, James, Matilda (Mrs. James Rogers), Elizabeth and Jane. The mother was called to her long home December 24, 1849.
Moses Scott, of whom this memoir is written, received a rudimentary education in the schools of the neighborhood, afterward attending Marshall's academy and a school in Monongahela City. He learned the milling business which he followed in his native township until 1850, when he came to Monongahela City. Here, in 1856, he opened a general grocery store, which he conducted several years, and then, selling out the business, moved to Beaver, same State, where he remained some three years, at the end of which time he returned to Monongahela City, and there passed the rest of his life, dying March 5, 1891. Moses Scott was married in 1855 to Miss Rowanna A. McFarland, of Franklin county, Penn. In his political affiliations he was for some time a Republican, but in the later years of his life he voted the Independent ticket. For five years he served as alderman of his adopted city. In early life he identified himself with the Presbyterian Church, but afterward enlisted under the banner of the Baptist faith. His widow is still a resident of Monongahela.
James Scott, M.D., brother of Moses, was born in Union township, April 15, 1815. In the subscription schools and at Marshall's academy he received a liberal education He studied medicine, and at Ohio Medical College took his degree, after which he commenced practice at Lebanon, Warren Co. Ohio. He was a very prominent and influential man, and for some time represented his State in the Legislature on the Republican ticket. He married Hannah Fowler, of Cincinnati, and by her had one child that died young. In church connection the Doctor is a Presbyterian."
It is not the Moses Scott of my lineage but is probably somehow related.
Moses Scott was found on the census of Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1800 along with a number of other Scott families. He was found in Bucks county in 1810. The Scott families in Washington county, Pennsylvania came there from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Books of Lancaster County state that the Scotts there were all descendants of Joseph Scott from northern Ireland. Joseph was the son of William Scott, who fled Scotland in the late 1600's due to his dislike of "popery". He was a supporter of the Covenanter Church and their religious beliefs.
Moses Scott served as the Sheriff of Darke County, Ohio, for at least the first term. The records are unclear as to whether Moses served the first and second terms, with his son, William, serving the third term or that Moses served the first and William served the second and third terms. Regardless, father and son served the first three terms in the position of Sheriff of Darke County, Ohio. Sometime afterwards, Moses and his remaining family moved from that location to Fort Wayne in Allen county, Indiana, and settled there for the rest of his days.
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Census 1: 1800, Washington County, Pennsylvania
Census 2: 1810, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
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