Hon Gustavus Scott

According to Pennsylvania Founding Families, 1681- 1911 : They had 8 Children 2. Taken from Pennsylvania Founding Families 1681-1911 pg 209 "The Hon. Gustavus Scott, youngest child of the Rev. James and Sarah (Brown) Scott, was born at Westwood , Prince William county, Virginia, in 1753. He went with his elder brother , John Scott, to Scotland in 1765, and studied at King's college, Aberdeen, and in 1767 Began his legal studies at the Middle Temple, London, England, and completed them in 1771. Returning to America, he located in Somerset county;, Maryland, where he practiced law with eminent success. When the struggle began between the colonies and the mother county he became an ardent supporter of the patriot cause. He was elected a deputy to the Maryland convention of June 22, 1774, from Sommerset county and again to that of December 7, 1775. He was a member of the Association of Freemen." July 26 1775, and was made one the commitee to draught instructions to deputies representing Maryland in the Continental congress. He was elected one of the four delegates from Somerset county to the Maryland convention of August 1776, which framed the first State Constitution. He was also a delegate to the Provincial conventions of May 8 and June 21 1776, and a member of the Somerset County Committee to Safety in 1776--77. Soon after the adoption of the State Constitution he removed to Dorchester County, Maryland, which he represented in the State Assembly, 1780 to 1784. In the later year he was elected to the Continental Congress, and served for two years. He was one of the conferees appointed with a like number from Virginia, in 1784, to consider the matter of the improvement of the navigation of the Potomac River. He removed to Annapolis about 1785, and from there to Montgomery county, near Georgetown, District of Columbia. In 1794 he erected in Georgetown the "Rockhill" mansion in which the remainder of his life was spent. In 1795 he was on of the commissioners to superintend the erection of the capitol and other public buildings at the national capital but resigned on account of failing health in 1796. He died in 1801. The Hon. Gustavus Scott married in 1777, Margaret Hail Caile, a daughter of Hail Caile of Annapolis Maryland. They had eight children.

Scott was born at “Westwood” in Prince William County, Virginia. He went with his brother to Scotland in 1765 and studied at King’s College in Aberdeen. He entered the Middle Temple in London, England, in 1767, and completed his law studies in 1771. He returned to Maryland in the latter year and settled in Somerset County, where he practiced law. He was a delegate to the Annapolis Convention in 1774 and 1775, and subsequently a member of the Association of the Freemen of Maryland. He was a member of the first state constitutional convention in 1776. He moved to Dorchester County, Maryland, and was member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1780.

Scott was elected to the Confederation Congress in 1784, but did not attend. He resumed the practice of law and moved to Montgomery County, Maryland, in 1794. He was one of the commissioners to superintend the erection of the public buildings in Washington, D.C., from 1794 to 1800. He died in Washington, D.C., and was buried on his farm in Virginia. His grandson was Congressman William Lawrence Scott.

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavus_Scott

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