Gen. Scott was a brigadier general in the War of 1812. He was a commissioner, legislator and justice of peace in Jefferson County, and was the contractor when a new statehouse was built in Milledgeville.

The Gen. John Baytop Scott Chapter of the National Society United States Daughters of 1812 was organized in Gainesville's Dixie Hunt Hotel ballroom in 1938 under president Mattie Thompson Hulsey (Mrs. John McAfee).

Notes

This is not John 1761 Baytop Scott who is described at: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=94136041'''

Yes, there are two of them. This is the one who married Elizabeth Coleman

Links

• http://records.ancestry.com/John_Baytop_Scott_records.ashx?pid=6405098
• http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Scott-821
• http://www.woodvorwerk.com/wood/p6080.htm