Amos L. Hamm part 3, 1850s

• 1850 Census age 16, Sheffield Vermont
• 1855 Marriage Amelia Hart

1850 Census

age 15, Sheffield, Caledonia Vermont, living with 33 year old Farmer and his wife, David and Clarissa Jenness, and their children Amos age 6, Chas age 4, Hiram D. age 1.  Is he an orphan by this time?  Or is Clarissa his sister?

Hmmm.  Where is that census image?  Why did I not include it here, and I cannot find it in my computer file?

Here it is.  I accessed the information, but failed to include the image.  Silly me!

Amos Ham age 15
1850 Census, Sheffield VT

1855 Marriage Amelia Hart

Amos Ham 1855 marriage Amelia Hart

Amos is 20 years old when he married Miss Amelia Hart in Manchester NH.  Again, notice the dearth of information.  No parents' names, no places of birth, no residences.  AHHHHHch!  That, dear readers, is the sound of frustration.  Ok.  Move it along.

How did they meet?  Why is Amos in New Hampshire?

Mary Jane Bacon Scott Hamm part 2 -- 1850s, young adult and marriage

• 1850 Census Boscawen NH
• Glasworks in NH
• 1855 Marriage to Harvey Scott, Boscawen NH
• 1856 son Marshall Scott born Salisbury NH
• 1860 daughter Adella born Salisbury NH
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1850 

Census, Boscawen, Merrimack, New Hampshire

Mary Jane Bacon
1850 Census
Boscawen, Merrimack, New Hampshire

Starting with line 12, Henry and Dorcas Bacon, both age 46 are living on the farm with their children David, Charles and Jane Bacon.  Dorcas' parents John and Rachel Carter also live with them.  Here, she seems to go by the name of "Jane."

Boscawen within the county of Merrimack
and the county within New Hampshire
from Wikipedia

Glassworks in New Hampshire

1850 Glassworks in New Hampshire
Historical Insight from Ancestry.com
Credit: Hulton Archive/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

In New Hampshire, the glass industry began to take shape during the American Revolution, [and] became the heart of the state’s industry. 

1855 

Marriage

Harvey and Mary Jane Bacon Scott Marriage Record

Married Harvey Scott on 2 January 1855 in Boscawen, Merrimack, New Hampshire.  Not much to see in this record.  So much information not written down by what I think of as a lazy clerk.  It must have been a cold wintery wedding.  Again, I wonder how did they meet?  By the way, in the Ancestry.com index, her husband is indexed as "Hanry" Scott.

1856 and 1860

First child, Marshal Winfield Scott born 11 October 1856 in Salisbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire
Second child, first daughter Adella Grace (aka Della) Scott was born 4 February 1860 in Salisbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire

Mary Bacon Scott Hamm mini pedigree
from Ancestry.com

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Resources

"New Hampshire Marriage Records 1637–1947." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2011. “New Hampshire Statewide Marriage Records 1637–1947,” database, FamilySearch, 2009. New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records. “Marriage Records.” New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord.  Ancestry.com

• Boscawen, Merrimack, New Hampshire
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boscawen,_New_Hampshire
• Findagrave.com memorial
• https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=77431876&ref=acom
• Salisbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury,_New_Hampshire
• Shaw Corner Cemetery, from MapCarta
• https://mapcarta.com/22530846
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Harvey Scott Part 4 Census 1860

• 1860 Birth of daughter Adella 
• 1860  Census in Salisbury, Merrimack NH
• Southern Life in the Civil War

4 February 1860, age 34

Birth of daughter Adella Grace "Della" Scott, Salisbury, Merrimack NH

Vintage Baby Scale from Graphics Fairy

1860 Census age 34

Harvey Scott 1860 NH Census part 1

This is one of those documents that split the family up.  The first part, you find Harvey on the very last line.  The numbers preceding his name are Dwelling number and Family number.  Sometimes separate families live in the same house, so the census takers make that distinction.  He is 33 years old, and a farm labourer who actually has some monetary worth.  He has land valued at 200$ and personal property valued at 150$.  His land would have been worth over $5,400 as of 2014, and his personal property worth over $4,000.  That's not too bad!  It indicates he was born in Vermont.

Harvey Scott family 1860 Census Part 2

On the next census page for Salisbury, Merrimack County, NH, we find the rest of the family on the first four lines. Mary J. Scott is 28 years old; Marshall W. Scott is 3, and Adela G. is less than one year.  Lucretia M. Scott is Harvey's 31 year old sister.  I don't have much information about her other than this census.

[UPDATE] Because I added her onto my Ancestry tree, I found the 1850 census for her, including her brother.  The index had him as "Henry" rather than Harvey.  You can't always trust the index, you have to lay eyeballs on the documents themselves.  Lucretia and Harvey were born in Vermont, while Mary Jane and the kids were born in New Hampshire.

Harvey Scott mini pedigree
from Ancestry.com

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Below is infromation from Ancestry.com's Historical Insights: Southern Life in the Civil War

Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty ImagesHarvey Scott

HISTORICAL INSIGHTSSouthern Life in the Civil War

Southern Life in the Civil War

Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty Images

For American Southerners, 1861 to 1865 were long and difficult years that saw families uprooted and women forced to head households as more than a million men marched off to fight in the Civil War.

Sarah Morgan Dawson, a child of the Confederacy, recounted the nights during the Civil War as “faint with hunger, dizzy with sleeplessness.” For all Southerners, 1861 to 1865 were long and difficult years—families were uprooted and women forced to head many households as more than a million men marched off to fight. Primarily on Southern soil, the battles left behind a wake of destruction: barren cupboards and entire cities burned to the ground. In a decisive move, the factory-heavy North withheld vital goods like clothing and munitions. Simultaneously, Union forces blocked Southern ports from exporting cotton, virtually shutting down the already crumbling Confederate economy. The home front and battlefront became one and the same: civilians, like soldiers, faced hunger, violence, and an overwhelming sense of uncertainty. When the war finally came to a close, Southerners struggled to adapt to a new way of life as they rebuilt their devastated hometowns.

Media Gallery

Women waved to Confederate troops as they recapture Jackson, Mississippi, in August of 1863. August 8, 1863, Jackson, Mississippi. Credit: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

 

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This photograph, taken by the famous Civil War photographer Matthew Brady, shows Rose O'Neal Greenhow and her daughter, who were imprisoned for espionage for almost five months in Washington, D.C. 1862, Washington, D.C.. Credit: Library of Congress Photo Collection, 1840-2000/Ancestry.com

 

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Most of Charleston, South Carolina, was decimated following a Union attack. 1865, Charleston, South Carolina. Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty Images

 

Harvey Scott part 3 First Comes Marriage, then Comes Carriage 1855-1856

• 1855 Harvey and Mary Jane Bacon Scott married
• 1856 First child, Marshal Winfield Scott is born
• 1857 James Buchanan becomes President

2 January 1855 age 29

Harvey and Mary Jane Bacon Scott Marriage Certificate
2 January 1855

You've heard of WYSIWIG?  It is an acronym that means What You See Is What You Get.  It usually is used when talking about computerized fonts.  Sometimes fonts are "translated" by the printer and don't print exactly as they appeared on the computer.  Others are printed exactly the same.

In this case, it applies to the paucity of information found on this marriage document.  Names of bride and groom, they lived in Franklin NH, date of marriage and officiant.  Nothing about the family on the back (so I didn't even include that side).  No information on the front.  It is very disappointing, to say the least.  You can't get any new information other than the day and month of the wedding, and proof that they were, indeed, married.

11 October 1856, age 30

Birth of son Marshal Winfield Scott, Salisbury, Merrimack NH

Ad from The Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois)
6 April 1883, page 4
downloaded 21 March 2017 from Newspapers.com

1857 -- James Buchanan becomes the fifteenth President of the United States

James Buchanan
from Wikipedia

Harvey Scott mini pedigree
from Ancestry.com

This is a screenshot of Harvey Scott's Family Group Sheet, using Legacy's software

Generated using Legacy.com's Software

Harvey Scott's Descendants found on RootsWeb

Harvey Scott Part 2 Census 1850-1853

Harvey Scott Census Salisbury, Merrimack NH

• 1850 Census, Salisbury, Merrimack NH
• 1853 Franklin Pierce becomes President

1850 Census age 24

Harvey Scott in 1850 NH Census
with Lucretia Scott

Here is a new document for me, I just found because I was researching for this particular blog.  I have to be careful with my assumptions.  Harvey is indexed as Henry age 24, born about 1826.  He works as a Mason with three other men, David Scott who might be his father, age 52; Marshall Scott age 18; Philo Scott age 26; then Lucretia age 22, all are born in Vermont.  They apparently share a house with a Tailor Alvin Quinly and his wife Ednah A.  You can tell by the numbers preceding their names.  They all live in dwelling 104, and the separate families are enumerated.

So, the question I must research is, is this David his father?  The age is correct.  I don't recall seeing the occupation of Mason in Harvey's repertoire before, but that isn't unheard of.  Why did Lucretia move in with Harvey 10 years later?

Although this is about Harvey, I have to include here that I searched for Lucretia and found a tantalizing death certificate. I was very close to loving it until I compared the birth date.  It was about 10 years off.  Must always compare everything, because a wrong document in one place can screw things up in a lot of other places.  ESPECIALLY when searching for common names.  

1853 -- Franklin Pierce becomes the fourteenth President of the United States

Franklin Pierce
from Famous Kin

Harvey Scott mini pedigree
from Ancestry.com