When Joseph Scott was born on 5 November 1716, in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Thomas Scott, was 34 and his mother, Hannah Prior, was 29. He married Mary Edmunds on 27 December 1738, in Dudley, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 23 January 1761, in Three Fathom Harbour, Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America, at the age of 44, and was buried in Nova Scotia, British North America.
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The siege of Louisbourg in present day Cape Breton Island started on May 11, 1745. There was already 1500 British troops there soon 200 French arrived to fight them. Many of the fisheries in the area were destroyed which hurt the province. The battle lasted until June 28, 1745, when the French surrendered.
October 2, 1758, the Nova Scotia legislature was established. They met in a wooden building and consisted of 22 men.
English, Scottish, and Irish (Down): habitational and ethnic name from Middle English Scot ‘man from Scotland’. There is no evidence that the surname denoted either of the earlier senses of Scot as ‘(Gaelic-speaking) Irishman’ or ‘man from Alba’, the Gaelic-speaking region of Scotland north of the river Forth. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
English and Scottish: from the rare Middle English personal name Scot (Old English Scott, possibly also Old Norse Skotr), only certainly attested in northern England.
English: variant of Scutt .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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