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]

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Elizabeth Bibb m. Captain John Scott and moved to Franklin, Tennessee

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12: On July 8, 1833 in Todd County Kentucky, Mary Davenport, 14, and orphans of Ballard Davenport appeared in court and with the consent of the court shows Richard J Davenport as her Guardian.]
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The affidavit of Susanna E Clarke given at Russellville in Logan County Kentucky on Monday the 5th day of August 1833
This affiant now in the 70th year of her age saith that she intermarried with Captain John Scott of Gloucester County in the State of Virginia in the year 1781, she further saith that she had four children by said Captain Scott to wit William B Scott; Mildred S Scott, Lucy Scott who intermarried with one Branch Bibb, and John W Scott, said Mildred Scott intermarried with one Ballard Davenport, by whom she had three children, who are still alive to wit Doritha, Richard, James and Mary Ballard she herself having departed this life, and said William B Scott is also dead, but left two sons, who are still living, George B Scott, and John James Scott. This affiant knew Captain Scott whilst in the Army of the United States before she married him, she frequently afterwards heard him say that he served as an officer in the Virginia State line indeed she saw him repeatedly his commission as Lieutenant of Artillery she made him a case for his Commission before their marriage to the best of her recollection her former husband the said Captain Scott belonged during his service in the United States as before stated to Colonel Marshall's Regiment at least for a part of the time, this affiant's maiden name was Bibb, after the death of Captain Scott, she married one Richard Clarke who is also dead; she is now a widow living in Todd County in the State of Kentucky.
S/ Susan E. Clarke
[f p. 52: copy of a certificate dated June 22, 1783 signed by Colonel Thomas Marshall in which he certifies that "?Captain Lieutenant John Scott was received by me as a Cadet in the Regiment of State artillery about April or May 1778, that he was appointed an officer in the same Regiment about the 3rd of December 1778 and continued in service till the 6 February 1782
1 Va.

Hon. [?] M. Bibb
Yellow Bank Kentucky
[f p. 31: On August 20, 1851 in Logan County Kentucky, John W Scott, a resident of Butler County Kentucky, 55, and Lucy Bibb, 63, formerly Lucy Scott, and Branch H. Bibb, 70, her husband, filed a claim under the 1836 act stating that John W Scott and Lucy Bibb are the only surviving children and heirs at law of Elizabeth Clarke, formerly Elizabeth Scott, widow of their father Captain John Scott; that their mother's full name was Susan or Susanna Elizabeth but was more frequently called Elizabeth; that their father John Scott was a Captain or Captain Lieutenant in the Revolution; that their mother was a widow and July 1836; that she died in Todd County Kentucky on the last day of July 1836.

Lucy married Branch Holcomb Bibb 9 Aug 1805, Charlotte County, Virginia. Branch (son of Major John Bibb, Jr. and Elizabeth 'Betsy' Holcomb) was born Abt 1774, Charlotte County, Virginia; died 1860. [Group Sheet]

Mildred married Ballard Davenport 7 Dec 1803, Charlotte County, Virginia. Ballard was born Est 1777; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]