Scott Family Research: Lucretia

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Sunday, November 24, 2019

Adella Grace Scott Scribner Part 1 of 8 -- 1860s

Adella Grace Scott Scribner 1860-1944

daughter of Harvey and Mary Jane Bacon Scott

1860s

Adella Grace Scott Scribner LifeStory from Ancestry

4 February 1860

Birth

Adella Grace Scott was born in Salisbury, Merrimack County NH. Below is her birth certificate. The frustrating thing about New Hampshire vital records is that they rarely filled in anything more than the absolute necessities. But at least it provides evidence of her date and place of birth, her father's name and place of birth, and her mother's maiden name.

Adella Grace Scott 1860 birth certificate

1860 Census

19 July 1860, age 4 months, living with her parents, older brother Marshall, and her father's sister, Aunt Lucretia M. Scott. They all lived in Salisbury NH. This image is the second part, since Harvey's name starts on the previous page. You can find the entire thing in a previous post.

Adella Grace Scott 1860 census

Screen shot from Google Maps showing Salisbury NH in relation to some other major areas, including Vermont, New York, Ontario.

Salisbury NH from Google Maps 2019

1861 age 1

Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States

1861 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President

(Wikipedia -- Lincoln, 2018)

“Lincoln led the nation through the Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis.” In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the Federal government and modernized the economy (Wikipedia -- Lincoln, 2018).

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." -- Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln, 2018)

Historical Insight -- Northern Life in the Civil War

Adella Grace Scott was in the North as the United States was torn apart by the American Civil War.

1862. Credit: Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images – Ancestry.com Historical Insight

"More than 360,000 Union soldiers lost their lives during the Civil War; a notification of death was usually delivered to families by telegram or a fellow soldier." – Ancestry.com Historical Insight

1862, age 1

sister Silia was born -- it is difficult to find anything about her. I'll have to blog about her later, if I can find anything.

(Newspapers.com -- A Mormon's Opinion, 1866)

1864

Lincoln runs for President with Johnson

1864 Lincoln Johnson campaign poster
(Wikipedia -- Lincoln, 2018)

1865 age 4

Father Harvey Scott died, 30 January 1865 in Hampton Virginia at the age of 39. You can find my research on his death here. She was only 4 years old, but her father was gone fighting in the Civil War for much of her life. How much did she know about him, or remember about him? What was life like before he died, and how much did their life change afterwards? She had an older brother and a younger sister. Harvey had purchased a couple pieces of land before he died, I think the family lived and farmed there.

(Newspapers.com -- clip art, millstones, 1866)

President Lincoln was assasinated.

1865

Andrew Johnson becomes President of the United States

1865 - 1869 Andrew Johnson

(Wikipedia -- Andrew Johnson, 2018)

"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North" -- Andrew Johnson (Johnson, 2018).

1866

Mitchell Walker was elected as the First Black US official in Massacheusetts.

1868 age 6

Mother marries second husband Amos L. Hamm II on 1 May 1868 at Franklin NH. You can find my blog on this event here. I still don't have much primary evidence on this event, and I still wonder how they met? I surmise that, since Amos also fought in the Civil War, that Amos knew this family from that connection. Or, perhaps it was because they lived in the same geographical area. Amos had lost his wife, and had a daughter a couple of years older than Adella, so perhaps it was a marriage of convenience? Hard to say. You can find the first of my blogs on Amos Hamm here. His life was pretty amazing.

(Newspapers.com -- clip art, politcal advertisements, 1866)

1869

Ulysses S. Grant becomes President of the United States

1869 Ulysses S. Grant

(Wikipedia -- Grant, 2018)

"In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins" – Ulysses S. Grant (Grant, 2018).

In other news -- this is the decade in which South Carolina cecedes from the Union, Kansas enters the Union as the 34th state, and Colorado, Nevada, and both Dakotas become territories; Ku Klux Klan was founded by those who hated the idea of blacks living free in 1865; Lister invents Disinfection (OurTimelines.com, 2018).

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Resources

Ancestry -- Adella Grace Scott Scribner. (2019, November 6). Adella Grace Scott Scribner 1860-1944. Retrieved from Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/14582634/person/145967463/story

Ancestry Historical Insight. (2019). Northern Life in the Civil War. Retrieved from Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/contextux/historicalinsights/civil-war-life-in-the-north/persons/145967463:1030:14582634

Google Maps. (2019). Salisbury New Hampshire. Retrieved from Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Salisbury,+NH/@43.4694958,-74.9050557,7.31z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e20fe5e7b2da11:0x31fdd52843021743!8m2!3d43.3800768!4d-71.7170222

Grant, U. S. (2018, December 12). Ulysses S. Grant Quotes. Retrieved from BrainyQuotes: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/ulysses_s_grant

Johnson, A. (2018, December 13). Andrew Johnson Quotes. Retrieved from BrainyQuote: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/andrew_johnson

Lincoln, A. (2018). Abraham Lincoln Quotes. Retrieved from BrainyQuotes: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/abraham_lincoln

Newspapers.com -- A Mormon's Opinion. (1866, January 6). The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) · Sat, Jan 6, 1866 · Page 1. Retrieved March 18, 2017, from Newspapers.com: Newspapers.com

Newspapers.com -- clip art, millstones. (1866, June 29). The Courier-Journal. Retrieved from Newspapers.com: Newspapers.com

Newspapers.com -- clip art, politcal advertisements. (1866, April 7). The Louisville Daily Courier. Retrieved from Newspapers.com: Newspapers.com

OurTimelines.com. (2018). TimeLines. (Timelines courtesy of www.ourtimelines.com. Timeline formatting and technology copyright © 2000-2018 ourtimelines.com, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED under the Pan-American Conventions.) Retrieved from OurTimeLines.com: http://ourtimelines.com/

Scott, J. (2017, November 17). 1860s Mary Jane Bacon Scott Hamm part 3. Retrieved from Scott Family Research: https://scottfamilyresearch.blogspot.com/2017/11/1860s-mary-jane-bacon-scott-hamm-part-3.html

Scott, J. (2017, October 20). Harvey Scott Part 8 Death and Burial. Retrieved from Scott Family Research: https://scottfamilyresearch.blogspot.com/2017/10/harvey-scott-part-8-death-and-burial.html

Scott, J. (2018, February 11). Amos L. Hamm part 1. Retrieved from Scott Family Research: https://scottfamilyresearch.blogspot.com/2018/02/amos-l-hamm-part-1-husband-of-mary-jane.html

Wikipedia -- Andrew Johnson. (2018, December 13). Andrew Johnson. Retrieved from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson

Wikipedia -- Lincoln. (2018). Abraham Lincoln, 16th President. Retrieved from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States

Wikipedia -- Grant. (2018, December 12). Ulysses S. Grant. Retrieved from Wikipedia.com: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant

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Friday, January 26, 2018

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
Classification: Census
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?

Friday, September 22, 2017

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

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

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

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

Friday, September 8, 2017

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

Friday, September 1, 2017

Harvey Scott 1826-1865 Part 1, the early years

Harvey Scott 1826-1865, is Norm's Great, Great Grandfather. He lived through the Civil War, died just before it ended that same year. He fought for the Union, which does NOT automatically make him a racist.

Harvey Scott mini pedigree
from Ancestry.com

1826, Harvey Scott is born

I've not been able to find out anything about his parents, so as far as I can tell, this is as far back as his pedigree goes.

The first photographs, Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce succeeded in recording a light-sensitive image with silver chloride. His partial success was strengthened by his ongoing research into fixing the picture with a kind of asphalt. It was in 1826 that he was able to put a view of his workshop onto a pewter plate. -- The People History

1828, sister Lucretia Scott is born

Vintage Image, Baby Girl with Cap
from AntiqueClipArt.com

While I know she is born in this year, it is only because of the census records so far. I still know nothing about her parents.

Democratic Party Created, A faction breaks off from the older established Democratic-Republican Party to become the Democratic Party. In the 1828 Presidential Elections opponents of Andrew Jackson told all who would listen that Andrew Jackson was a "Stubborn Jackass" Jackson was proud of his reputation for stubbornness and even wanted to use it as a good quality, so started using a donkey on his campaign posters . Democrats have been using the symbol of the Donkey ever since. -- The People History

1829 Andrew Jackson is elected the seventh President of the United States

Andrew Jackson from
The Jacksonian Era

1830 - 1849 ages 2-23

I don't [yet] have any record of his childhood and young adult life. I can make some assumptions. If David is his father, he taught him how to be a mason, to lay bricks. Some things that happened in these two decades are as follows:

Michigan Became the 26th state, Michigan became the 26th state in The United States on January 26th , 1837. -- The People History

Wagon Trains Start The Journey To California, Covered Wagon Trains took immigrants on a journey from Missouri River towns to what is now the state of California. The trip was about 2,000 miles and each night the Covered Wagon Train would form a circle for shelter from wind and extreme weather, they would put all the animals in the center to prevent them from running away or being stolen by Native Americans. -- The People History

Massachusetts Child Employment Laws, Massachusetts became the first state to pass laws limiting how many hours a child laborer could be forced to work. The new laws limited a child under the age of twelve's workday to a maximum of 10 hrs. -- The People History

In this time, six men became President of the United States: Martin Van Buren; William Henry Harrison; John Tyler; James Knox Polk; Zachary Taylor; Millard Fillmore.

Next up: Harvey Scott, 1850s or so, I may change my mind about the title.

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Below is information from Ancestry.com's Historical Insights: Establishment of County Poorhouses
I thought it was relevant because I think several of the Scott people were in either poor houses, or placed their children in orphanages because they were unable to properly care for them.

One observer noted that many people, “sought to die in starvation rather than
submit to what they regarded as the shame attending
their admission into almshouses.” 1876, Binghamton, New York.
Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty Images

Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty Images
Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Public DomainCredit: Wikimedia Commons/Public DomainHarvey Scott

Establishment of County Poorhouses

“Going to the poorhouse” was not just a fear for many 19th-century Americans, it was a reality.

America was not the land of milk and honey for everyone during the Industrial Revolution. Countless thousands of people were forced into poverty and homelessness. Such unfortunates could even be sold at public auction to provide labor in exchange for room and board, a system called “outdoor relief.” Often, homeless Americans suffered from mental illnesses or disabilities that prevented them from working. With no public support, they relied on charity. Officials hoped that the creation of a tax-supported poorhouse, also known as almshouses or “poor farms,” would be a more humane—and cheaper—alternative. Most New England towns had at least one poorhouse, while cities such as Boston had several. The Massachusetts state almshouse sheltered almost one thousand people. One report found that the residences “are not at present well adapted to modern ideas of comfort and convenience,” and reports of meager food and conditions were not uncommon.

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Some workers took advantage of the poorhouse system to secure housing when their industries were in the offseason or did not have work. About 1800, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Credit: W. Birch & Son/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain

Josephine Shaw Lowell, sister of Civil War hero Robert Gould Shaw, was a reformer who reported on conditions at poorhouses. 1863. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain

Competition for jobs among immigrants, housing shortages, and the unstable nature of industrial work contributed to homelessness in urban areas. About 1872, Five Points, New York, New York. Credit: Interim Archives/Archive Photos/Getty Images

Approximately 12 percent of all school-age children were homeless in New York City during the 1870s. About 1881, New York, New York. Credit: Stock Montage/Archive Photos/Getty Images