John Scott

  Noted events in his life were:

• Family Origin. From Pam Wood Waugh's web page:

3. John2 SCOTT (Walter1) was born before 1760. John died October 1796 in PQ, at 36 years of age. He married on 28 August 1784, Dorcus FREEMAN in Montreal, Montreal Co, PQ . Dorcus was the daughterof John FREEMAN. She married on 21 February 1799, Joseph HIGGINS in Montreal, Montreal Co, PQ. Dorcus and her second husband, Joseph Higgins, petitioned the court regarding land previously owned by the late John Scott in 1801. These three tracts of land were all about four acres wide by 28 acres deep in the second concession of the seigniory of Noyan [Lots 1, 5 and 7]. There were about 60 acres cleared and fenced and a wooden house and barn situated on Lot #1. Joseph and Dorcus Higgins "find the rent of the said land so high as they pay at the rate of nine dollars and a half per hundred acres and the expenses of clearing, cultivating and keeping in repair the fences and buildings thereon so heavy that they greatly exceed the revenue therefrom". The petitioners stated that it was beyond them to hold the land any longer and in the best interest of Dorcus's minor children to sell this land. After friends and relatives deliberated over the situation they agreed it would be best to sell the land and the court granted permission to Dorcus as tutrix of her minor children. Among those who agreed were Calvin May subguardian to the children and Thomas Scott, their paternal uncle.

John SCOTT and Dorcus FREEMAN had the following children: + 10 i. Jane3 SCOTT was born circa 1788. + 11 ii. John SCOTT was born 1790. + 12 iii. Richard SCOTT was born circa 1794.

John married Dorcas Freeman, daughter of John Freeman and Effelanah Unknown, on 28 Aug 1784 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Dorcas Freeman was born in 1765 in Saratoga, Dutness County, New York and died in 1817 in Quebec, Canada.)