PATRIOT Captain John Scott

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State of Kentucky Logan County SS September 12 1833
This day Susan Clark late Susan Scott aged seventy years personally appeared before me Philip C Slaughter a Justice of the Peace in & for the County & state aforesaid and made oath in due form of law that shortly after John Scott as she understood from him & from others became a supernumerary officer in the Army of the Revolutionary war in 1781 she intermarried with him, that the said John Scott was a Lieutenant in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Marshall of the Virginia State line of Artillery as she understood and believes having frequently seen his commission & previous to their intermarriage made a case for it. That after his term of service expired he was called Captain Scott. That she had by said Scott the following children, William B. Scott, Mildred S Scott, Lucy Scott and John W Scott, Lucy Scott, intermarried with Branch Bibb, Mildred Scott intermarried with Ballard Davenport and had the 3 following children viz. Doratha, Richard James & Mary Ballard who are still living but their mother Mildred is dead, William B Scott is dead, but has two children only viz. George B Scott & John James Scott who are now the legal representatives of said Captain John Scott deceased who departed this life on the __ day of June 1790.
S/ Susan E. Clarke

p. 16: copy of the last will and testament of John Scott of Prince Edward County in which he names his wife Susanna Elizabeth Scott; his children William Scott, Mildred Smith Scott, Lucy Scott and John Scott; his mother Mildred Scott; slaves Betty and her 3 children, Sall, Peter & James; his will is dated May 1, 1790 & was probated July 18, 1791 and further proved August 16th, 1791 in Prince Edward County Virginia.]

John married Susannah 'Elizabeth' Bibb 1781, Glouchester Co., VA. Susannah (daughter of Captain William Crawford Bibb and Hannah Clark/Clarke) was born Abt. 1763, Prince Edward County, Virginia Colony; died Yes, date unknown, Prob. Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

1. William Bibb Scott was born Est 1783, Prince Edward County, Virginia; died Bef 1833, Halifax Co., Virginia.
2. John W. Scott was born Est 1788, Prince Edward County, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown.
3. Lucy Scott was born 1785, Prince Edward County, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown, Todd Co., Kentucky.
4. Mildred Smith Scott was born Est 1780, Virginia Colony; died Yes, date unknown.