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Nehemiah Scott

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Duplin County, North Carolina, United States
Death: before February 10, 1801
Sampson County, North Carolina, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Joseph Scott, Sr. and Mary Scott
Husband of Elizabeth Scott
Father of Elizabeth Jane Cooper; Sarah Cooper; Mary Magee (Scott); Bethany Cordelia Scott; Dicey Scott and 4 others
Brother of Jane Jenny Chesnutt; Ada Scott; Mary Elizabeth Murphrey; Adea Magee; Joseph Scott, III and 1 other
Half brother of Arden Scott; Jonathan Scott; Asha Scott; Peggy Scott and Mary Scott

Managed by: Donna Kay Mowen
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About Nehemiah Scott

DAR Ancestor #: A134145

Children

1. Sarah Scott b: ABT 1750 in Duplin County, North Carolina

2. Mary Scott b: in Sampson, NC

3. Bethany Cordelia Scott b: ABT 1766 in Sampson Co, NC

4. Elizabeth Scott b: ABT 1750

Sources:

1.Title: Hofmann, Margaret M., Colony of North Carolina 1765-1775 Abstracts of Land Patents

Text: Patent Book 20 "Fleet Cooper, Nehemiah Scott, Simon Parker a branch .....great Cohera Swamp. 2.Title: Revolutionary War Patriot

Text: Ancestor Ancestor #: A134145

Furnished Supplies 3.Title: Patti Smith

Text: According to my records, Bethany Cordelia was a daughter of Jacob Magee and Mary Scott who came from Sampson Co., North Carolina and settled on the Amite River in the Mississippi territory about 1810. Jacob was a son of John Magee Sr. and Sarah Ann Moore. Mary was a daughter of Nehemiah Scott and Elizabeth Atkinson.

Mary Scott’s sister, Bethany Scott, married John Magee Jr., brother of Jacob Magee.



Nehemiah Scott was born ca. 1720-1725. He appears on the Sampson County, NC tax list in 1784 with 1280 acres, 1 poll, 5 slaves. He arrived in the Sampson County area by 1759, settling on the Great Coharie Creek. He died 1801 in Sampson County. He married Elizabeth ______ and they had at least 9 children. ( in no particular order)

1. Bethany Scott mrd. John Magee son of John Magee and Sarah ______ of Sampson County, NC.

2. Mary Scott mrd. Jacob Magee son of John Magee and Sarah ______.

3. Joseph Scott.

4. Jane Scott mrd. ______Butler.

5. Sarah Scott mrd Rev. Fleet Cooper.

6. Ann Scott mrd. ______ Cooper.

7. Elizabeth Scott mrd. Rev. William Cooper.

8. Dicey Scott mrd. Stephen Herring.

9. Nehemiah Scott Jr.

  • Information from "Magee Histories: The Progenitors and Descendants of Jacob Magee and Mary Scott" by Bevin J. Creel

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Scott-7596

Biography Nehemiah Scott (Joseph Scott1) was born 1730 in Duplin, NC, USA, and died 1781 in Sampson, NC. [1]

He married Elizabeth Atkinson. She was born 24 NOV 1734, and died UNKNOWN.

Children of Nehemiah Scott and Elizabeth Atkinson

Children

1. Sarah Scott b: ABT 1757 in North Carolina

2.Mary Scott b: ABT 1760 in Sampson, NC

3.Bethena Scott b: ABT 1766 in Sampson Co, NC

4.Elizabeth Scott b: ABT 1750

5.Jean Scott

6.Ann Scott

7.Dicey Scott

8.Nehemiah Scott , Jr.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=shannon50...

deed of gift was recorded in Sampson/Duplin Co.: Nehemiah Scott to Sarah Cooper (his daughter), "my negro Judith with her increas and Cupid and 20 pounds in money," dated 15 Aug 1797, witnessed by Jacob Cooper and Elihu Wiggins. That same date, with the same witnesses, Nehemiah also made similar deeds of gifts to daughters Jane/Jean Butler, Ann Cooper, Bethany/Bethana Magee, Elizabeth Cooper, and Disa/Dica/Dicy Scott. Later, Nehemiah made deeds of gift to his son Nehemiah Scott Jr. and to daughter Mary Magee. Nehemiah Scott's deed of gift to son Nehemiah Jr. (dated 23 Sept. 1797), the witnesses were Fleet Cooper and Scott Cooper; and on the deed of gift from Nehemiah Scott to daughter Mary Magee (dated 8 March 1801), the witnesses were Nehemiah Scott Jr. and Fleet Cooper.

Sources

↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 22 February 2022), memorial page for Rev Nehemiah Scott (1730–1801), Find A Grave: Memorial #195729148; maintained by V. Andrew Burch (contributor 48671296), Burial Details Unknown.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=shannon50...

http://02ec0a3.netsolhost.com/getperson.php?personID=I2655&tree=ncs...

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Estate files
"North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KLYF-JKP : 8 March 2021), Nehemiah Scott, 1801; citing Sampson, North Carolina, United States, State Archives, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 2,194,858.

GEDCOM Source

Year: 1800; Census Place: Fayetteville, Sampson, North Carolina; Series: M32; Roll: 32; Page: 518; Image: 528; Family History Library Film: 337908 1,7590::338792

GEDCOM Source

@R-2142334084@ North Carolina Census, 1790-1890 Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp. Ancestry.com Operations Inc 1,3566::0

GEDCOM Source

1,3566::17280204

GEDCOM Source

@R-2142334084@ North Carolina, Land Grant Files, 1693-1960 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,60621::0

GEDCOM Source

Year: 1790; Census Place: Sampson, North Carolina; Series: M637; Roll: 7; Page: 121; Image: 416; Family History Library Film: 0568147 1,5058::198067


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Nehemiah Scott's Timeline

1720
1720
Duplin County, North Carolina, United States
1750
1750
Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States
1754
1754
Fayette, Sampson County, Mississippi, United States
1756
1756
North Carolina, United States
1759
1759
Duplin County, North Carolina
1760
1760
1766
1766
Samson, Virginia, United States
1773
1773
Duplin County, North Carolina, United States
1784
December 31, 1784
Sampson County, North Carolina, United States