Sarah Scott

Brief Life History of Sarah

When Sarah Scott was born on 9 March 1785, in Williamstown, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Stephen Scott, was 23 and her mother, Elizabeth Cook, was 21. She married Philander Barrett Stewart on 28 May 1801, in Washington, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Utah, Utah, United States in 1851 and Provo, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 21 May 1861, in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Payson City Cemetery, Payson, Utah, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Philander Barrett Stewart
1776–1824
Sarah Scott
1785–1861
Marriage: 28 May 1801
Samuel Stewart
1802–1822
Mary Stewart
1804–1821
Elizabeth Stewart
1806–1822
Minerva Stewart
1807–1819
Lucinda Stewart
1809–1889
Rufus Putnam Stewart Sr
1811–1852
Marinda Stewart
1813–1894
Salome Stewart
1815–1890
Benjamin Franklin Stewart
1817–1885
Andrew Jackson Stewart
1819–1911
Minerva Stewart
1821–1822
Lavina Stewart
1824–1852

Sources (49)

  • Sally Steward, "United States Census, 1830"
  • Salley Sott, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Sarah Scott, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"

World Events (8)

1786 · Shays' Rebellion

Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.

1803

Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

Name Meaning

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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Biography of Philander Barrett and Sarah Scott Stewart

Biography of Philander Barrett and Sarah Scott Stewart By Benjamin F. Stewart [son] Philander B. Stewart, son of Samuel Stewart, was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, the 10th day of January 1776 …

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