Display Patriot - P-286015 - Gustavus SCOTT

Gustavus SCOTT

SAR Patriot #: P-286015

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State of Service: MD      Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service / Civil Service
DAR #: A101477

Birth: abt 1753 Westwood / Prince William / VA
Death: 1801 Washington / Washington / DC

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. MEM COMM OF RECRUITMENT
  2. Delegate to the MA state Constitutional Convention in 1776
  3. Member of the Maryland State House of Delegates in 1780
  4. Delegate to the Continental Congress from Maryland - 1784

Additional References:
  1. NARA, M247, PAPERS OF CONT CONGRESS 1775-1789, ROLL #63, pg 289
  2. FORCE, AMERICAN ARCH, 5TH Series, Volume 3, pg 85, 135
  3. History Of Daviess Co MO, pg 478
  4. Revolutionary Patriots of Worcester and Somerset Counties Maryland, 1775-1783, pg 261

Spouse: Margaret Hall Caile
Children: John; Carl; Gustavus; Robert;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1973-08-10 MA Unassigned William R Prather (103624) John   
1979-11-29 FL Unassigned Charles A Tingley (116241) John   
1980-02-08 FL Unassigned George F Tingley (116550) John   
1997-01-14 CA 202919 Lowell Mellett Scott (147455) Gustavus   
1997-01-16 CA 202918 Gustavus Hall Scott (147454) Gustavus   
2009-09-09 MO 36531 Jerrold Samuel Taylor (175092) John/Caile   
2011-07-15 WA 43284 Donald Roderick Scott (180242) John   
2011-07-15 WA 43285 Casey Paul Edward Scott (180243) John   
2020-08-28 NC 93656 Lloyd Mifflin Scott II (216765) John   
2020-08-28 NC 93657 Robert Dean Scott (216766) John   
2020-08-28 NC 93658 Rives Dean McCrummen (216767) John   
Burial:
Fairfax City (aka Fairfax, Fairfax Courthouse) Cemetery (C-0374545)
Location:
Fairfax / Fairfax City / VA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
50180
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
38.846740 / -77.313626
Find A Grave Memorial #:
140732359
Marker Type:
vertical stone with SAR & DAR markers
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
16 May 2015

Comments:
  • Grave marked by Fairfax Resolves VA SAR
  • Photos used with permission of James T. Callender, George Washington Chapter, VASAR


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: James T. Callender
Gustavus Scott (1753 – December 25, 1800) was a lawyer and public official from Maryland.

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.
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