CAPTAIN JAMES SCOTT
Submmitted by Gladys Stovall Armstrong
Complied by Abbie Ann Cathcart Adam



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			"D I E D"
	On Monday Sept.  5th.  1859 at 7 P.  M. of a severe attack
of paralysis, at his residence at Scottville S. W. Pass, La.
          		CAPTAIN JAMES SCOTT
a Branch Pilot for the port of New Orleans
	Deceased was born in Marblehead, Mass. , August,  1791.
The  late war with Great  Britain he was  forcibly taken
out of an American brig  in  the Mediterranean and  served  in
the British Navy to the  fall  of Napoleon BONAPARTE when he
was  discharged  and  returned  to  his  native  land.    He  was
present  at  the  siege  of  Tarrogona where  the  British  fleet
undertook  to  succor  the  garrison  by  the  landing  men  and
munition  of  war,  and  when  the  troops  of  Marshall  PUCHLET
drove them to their ships again, he was one of the party who
helped to destroy the munition which was landed.
	Deceased held a commission as a Branch Pilot of the port
of New Orleans for over thirty years.
	He  leaves  a  numerous  family  to mourn his  loss,  and a
large number of friends and acquaintances who will regret his
call from earth.
	Boston and Cape Code pnpers please copy.