Lucretia Scott

• 1828-1829 -- Lucretia M. Scott born in Vermont
• 1850 -- Census, Boscawen, Merrimack NH
• 1860 -- Census, Salisbury, Merrimack NH
• 1870 -- Census, Franklin, Merrimack NH

Lucretia Scott mini-pedigree from Ancestry.com

1828

I don't have primary source for her birth, but census records point to this approximate birth year, probably between July 1828 and July 1829.

1850

Census, Boscawen, Merrimack NH

Lucretia Scott 1850 Census
Boscawen, Merrimack, New Hampshire

• Line 5, Lucrectia Scott is age 22, and is living with David Scott age 52 who worked as a Mason.  Living with him is Lucretia's brothers Harvey age 24, Marshall age 18, and Phila age 26, all three of whom are listed as working as Masons.  I think this would be stone masons.  Here, Phila is listed as a male, yet in 1870 there is a housekeeper Phila who is a female.  Is this the same person?
• Is it possible that David Scott is the father of Lucretia and Harvey?  I suspect he is, but until I have the proof, I dare not include this information.  
• In the same house is another family, Alvin and Ednah Quimly, a tailor and his wife.  It is possible that the Quimly family were borders.

1860

Census, Salisbury, Merrimack NH

Lucretia Scott 1860 Census Part 1
Salisbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire

• This is the beginning of the Scott family entry.  See the next image

Lucretia Scott 1860 Census part 2
Salisbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire

• Line 4, Lucretia M. Scott, age 31, born in Vermont, no occupation.  
• She lives with Harvey and Mary Jane Scott and their two children, Marshall W. and Adela G. Scott.  

1870

Census, Franklin, Merrimack NH

Lucretia Scott, 1870 census
Franklin, Merrimack, New Hampshire

• Line 9. Lucretia Scott, age 41 living with a retired farmer, Daniel Perriman/Penniman.  She has no occupation listed, she was born in Vermont.  Others living in the same household include the 46-year-old housekeeper Phila, David Pierce, the 22 year old druggist, Charles Perriman, the 26 year old house painter, Eliza Perriman age 20, and Isabel Perriman age 1.  These last three are, I think, a family unit with Isabel being the granddaughter.  Also in the same household is Charles Tyler age 30 who works in some sort of mill; Ellen Wise age 30 and Ellen Ham age 13 both of whom work in a woolen mill.  It is possible these last three are borders.  

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Subject: Scott family of Merrimack NH
Author: dayspringacres
Date: Sunday, January 07, 2018
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Surnames: Scott, Penniman/Perriman 

Lucretia Scott born in Vermont about 1829, is age 22 in the 1850 census, living in Boscawen with David Scott age 52, and brothers Harvey age 24, Marshall age 18, Phila age 26, all the males working as Masons. I suspect David Scott is the father of this family.

in 1860, she is 31, living with brother Harvey and his wife Mary Jane and their two children Marshall W. and Adela G.

in 1870, she 41 years old and is living in the same household as David Penniman, a retired farmer. Other members include Phila age 46, housekeeper; David Pierce age 20, druggist; Charles Perriman, age 26, house painter; Eliza Perriman, age 20, Isabel Perriman age 1.

I suspect the 1870 Phila is the same person as the 1850 Phila, although one is listed as male and the other is female. The ages are about the same.

I'm actually interested in Harvey's line, but hit a dead end. I wonder if Lucretia had a mental problem, since she is always living with other family members?

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.

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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 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

Census Sunday -- Norman Scott Sr 1940 Census

This is the 1940 census for Norman Frederick Scott.  You'll find him on line 71.  He is 11 years old, and living in St Peter's Orphanage on the corner of Alsace and Kelley streets in Manchester NH. The truly sad part about this is that he was not really an orphan.  The story is that he was put in and out of the orphanage when things got tight for the Scott family.  At one time he lived with his Uncle Fred Adams in Franklin.  That will be another story to tell in another post.

Nope, his parents are still alive at this point in time.  Where are they?  I have yet to find his mother Cecelia in 1940, nor his father Chester.  I have scanned the census for the entire orphanage and found no other Scott children.  So, where did the girls go?  Did they stay with their parents?  Were they farmed out to relatives?  I can find neither hide nor hair of his little sisters Dorothy and Yvonne.

1940 census for Norman Scott, age 11
St Peter's Orphanage, Franklin NH

This census really makes me both sad and mad.  Mad because his family couldn't keep him, and sad because of the same reason.  What does that do to a child's psyche to be put away when they couldn't afford to keep him?  And, again, were his extended family also in a tight bind where they couldn't band together to keep the family together?

I got the impression NFS Sr did not like to talk about his childhood.

Census Sunday --- NFS Sr 1930 Census

Little Norman in his first Census.  He was about 2 years old, and his little sister Dorothy was just a few months old.  I wonder what happened to that first child.  I wrote in the last blog about NFS birth certificate, and that he is the second child born to Cecelia.

He lives with parents Chester and Cecelia at 538 Central Street, Franklin NH.  This is a rented house.  I looked through the neighbors on this sheet, and I don't see anybody who may be related.  It seems they were on their own, here.

1930 Census, Franklin, Merrimack NH

Scott Family on the map, 1930 census
538 Central Street, Franklin NH

Above and below are the map view, from Google Maps 2017, and of the streetview image captured November 2015 from Google Maps.  You can see where the house might have been, but it doesn't look like it is there anymore.  Point of research -- see if there are historical photos of this house, and any record of when it was torn down and why.

Google Maps streetview 2017
538 Central Street, Franklin NH

That's about par for the course as far as the Scott family goes.  It seems as if all record gets wiped off the face of the earth.  If we are related, please feel free to contact me, I'd love to chat.  Subscribe to catch every morsel posted.