CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
			Family  Sketches - Scott
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                   CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES

              Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
                                  1782-1926
                                By R. H. EARLY
                              With Illustrations
                              J. P. BELL COMPANY
                           LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927


Scott

  A Scott family of Scotch ancestry settled near Brookneal, where descendants
are still living and are prominently associated with the business of the town.
Joseph Scott, Sr., married Sarah, dau. of William Mayo, of Powhatan county, who
helped Colonel Byrd run the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina.
Mayo had married Frances, the dau. of Enoch Gould, a leading merchant of the
Barbadoes, where he had been banished for participating in the Monmouth
Rebellion in 1685.

  Joseph Scott served in the Revolution, beginning as a 2nd lieutenant in 1775
and passing through the intermediate grades to major under General Muhlenburg;
was wounded at German-town in 1777, and transferred to the 5th Virginia Regiment
in 1781. His son, Joseph, Jr., was also an officer in the war waged for
independence, having received the commission of second lieutenant under Captain
Thomas Nelson in 1777, later made first lieutenant and 178O became captain. The
younger Scott left Hampden-Sidney College to enter the army and equipped a
company at his own expense.

  Major Scott was living in Amelia, before moving to Campbell and there his son,
Captain Joseph Scott, born in 1752, married in 1778 Elizabeth, the daughter of
Edward and Henrica Booker: children of this marriage were, daughters, Elizabeth,
Judith, Sarah and Nancy; and sons, Edward Booker, Joseph, 3rd, and Jack; the
latter married Sarah Munroe, and moved to Halifax near Br<3okneal: his children
were:— 

—Charles m. Sallie A., dau. of James and Nancy Clark-Adams; 

—Alex married Margaret, dau. of Nathan Hancock;

—Elizabeth m. John E. Fore, Sr.;

—Tom, John and Polly unmarried;

—Kitty m. Richard E. Adams, Sr., brother of Mrs. Charles Scott.

  Charles Scott was a railroad contractor; owned 100O acres on Cottontown road;
iron works in Southwest Virginia; a flour mill in Lynchburg (where he settled);
and acquired a nitrate plant at Saltville. He furnished the Confederate
government 'with flour and nitrate from his mills. The wife of Charles Scott was
descended from John Adams, whose people came from Massachusetts, and he had
moved from Fairfax county, settling about 4 miles from Brookneal, where he built
a home still standing and occupied by his descendants. Children of Charles and
Sally Adams-Scott:—James m. Lucy Mullens;— August W. m. Maggie Seay;—Charles,
Jr., m. Kate duVal;— Susan m. Richard H. T. Adams;—Robert C. m. Mary C.
Terrell:—Ella m. Cleland K. Nelson;—Henry m. Lizzie O. Hatcher.

  Children of Alex, and Margaret Hancock-Scott:—Ida m. W. J. Poindexter;—Ora B.
m. John T. Jennings;—Charles m. Nannie Tanner;—Annie m. Rev. W. L.
Fisher;—Hallie m. Philip Withers, of Danville;—Wm. W. m. Eloise _____, of Detroit.

  Children of Elizabeth Scott and John Fore:—Wm. m. Maria Johnson;—John E.
-Sallie m. John Hines and moved to Bowling Green, Ky.

  Children of Richard, Sr., and Kitty Scott-Adams:—John J. m. Nannie
Callaway;—Mary E. m. Capt. Wm. P. Graham, of Del Rey, Calif.;—Nannie m. James
Clark.:—Richard E. m. Mattie Cook, of Brookneal;—Emma W. m. G. B. J. duVal, she
died and duVal married, 2ndly, her sister, Jennie;—Jesse, T. m. Lou. E., dau. of
Rev. Rd. E. Booker, and lives at the old home built by John Adams, the first of
his name to settle there.


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