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Rowley Scotts

Rowley, a town in Essex County northeast of Boston, hugs the north shore of Cape Ann at Massachusetts Bay; and adjoins Ipswich. A settlement there and at Ipswich in the 1630's, at the call of Governor John Winthrop and the General Court, anchored the northern approaches against French encroachment. Native Americans there, being lessened by pre-settlement trading contacts which brought disease and reduced their numbers; had more land cleared than they would farm; and were approached civilly, peacefully to buy or lease land to farm for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Today's natural legacy of that land is the estuary at Ipswich, and the coastal Plum Island and the small cape with its dunes, called Wingasheet, by the Indians, which survive on Crane Beach, Plum Island Wildlife Refuge.

Scotts among, others joined Winthrop's call, with John Winthrop the Younger, and settled the north shore of Cape Ann at Rowley and Ipswich.

Some Rowley Vital Records - surname Scot & Scott
  • Pre-1700 or circa [1701] Vital Statistics Rowley Massachusetts Scott surname
    Source: Rowley Vital Records to 1850
  • Births p.190-1
  • Scott (Scot, Scote Skot)
    John s.of Benjamin and Susanah, May 5, 1679, [nb-deceased]
    John s. of Benjamin and Susannah, Mar. 23, 1680[1]; Sept 4, 1682 Ct.R.
    Joseph, s. of Benjamin & Susannah, Sept 4, 1682 ; bp Mar 15 1685 C.R.1.
    Samuell, s. of Benjamin & Susannah, Jan 28, 1691-2
    Susanna, d. of Benjamin & Susanah, Nov. 1,1689
    Ebenezer (Scot), s. Joseph and Anna, Feb. 29, 1687 [1685 CT.R.]
    Joanah (Scot) d. Joseph and Anah, Aug. 20, 1679
    Mary d. Beniamin [sic] and Margaret, 16:1m:1651
    Sarah d.Benjamin and Margret, 1:11m:1656
    Sarah d. Joseph and Susannah, Aug 6, 1681
    Sarah d. Joseph and Hannah, Mar. 10, 1690-91
  • Scote
    Sarah (Scote) d. Benjamin and Susannah, Sept. 10 [12 CT.R.], 1677
  • Marriages p.392-3
  • Scot[t]
    John (Scot) & Elizabeth Crosbie, Sept. 24, 1701 p.392
    Benjamin (Scot) and Susanah Scails, d. John, Dec 28, 1676
    Hannah and Richard Syle [of Newbury int] at Newbury, Aug 31, 1697 T.C.
    Mary (Scot) and John Decker, June 18 [28 CT.R.], 1680
  • Deaths p. 518 Rowley V.R.
  • Scott
    John s. of Benjamin and Susannah, May 22, 1679
    Joseph s. of Benjamin [and Margret] bur. Dec 3 1664
    Joseph Oct 29, 1692
    Benjamin Scot[t] & Margret; bur. Mar 10, 1655
    Sarah, [d. of Benjamin] Aug 21, 1660
    Samuell, [s.of Benjamin] Mar. 10, 1655
    Susanna, w. of Benjamin, Aug 20, 1720; in her 69th yr. [G.R.I.]
    Benjamin Feb 7, 1724
  • SMC Ed. Note: This Benjamin Scott line continues back to Cambridge, Ma.; and by LDS & FamilySearch.org; IGI pedigree & vital records; the Susannah maiden name would be Stephenson; another of the maiden names would be Scailes. research continuing. [By preliminry, general reading,these Scotts emigrated also from Suffolk; and join the various John Scott descendants to Thomas Scott of Kent.
SMC Ed.Note: Gov. Winthrop of Connecticut,then, appointed a John Scott, magistrate for the Mansfield area; and he is referencing as having a son Henry. The early Connecticut records; and the Thomas Scott records at hs marriage to Sarah Hale; reference his parents, Henry and Mary Scott as being of Mansfield. Henry 's birth is given as abt 1701; he is married at Canterbury abt. 1725; to a Mary of that town; who's birth is abt. 1704-6; they then have chidren at Canterbury, and Norwich; then back to Ashford and North Mansfield. That movement parallells the settlement of other John Winthrop connected families in Connecticut; namely that of Henry Adams, whose daughter Mary, may have married Henry Scott, the son of John Scott the Magistrate. The Adamses, then lived in Canterbury, then moved to Norwich. Henry Adams was the son of Samuel Adams, of Chelmsford in Middlesex County.
Gov. John Winthrop of Connecticut, the son of Gov. Jhn Winthrop -Governor of the Dominion of New England and Massachusetts Bay; died in 1676; one of his successs as an elected Connecticut Governor, was his son Fitz-John Winthrop; and he would have been that appointing Governor, if not John Winthrop the Younger. Hence, the Scotts or our ancestry; referenced as Ipswich, Rowley & the North Shore, would have come with John Winthrop the Younger .. with this position of magistrate for John; and to settle the Connecticut Colony. Most of the Rowley, seaside Scotts could have come by ship, coming up from New London & Saybrook; others overland via the Old Connecticut Trail.
Kent is also a section planted and farmed in the Rowley-Ipswich area.

These appear to be the Scotts of my family's ancestry as referenced by Great-Aunt Mary Alice Scott and her father's (Charles Henry Scott) general knowledge and papers of his ancestry which are absent now to me (last seen 1994).
It also joins the family remarks and pleasure at Wengarsheet & Crane Beach, Ipswich and Marblehead Massachusetts - ' .. this is where we started ..." ie Owen Connolly to family.
My ancestry tracing confusion came in working without my Aunt's papers and attempting to sort the many Scotts to my great-grandfather - especially the connectin to halifax Vermont and Connecticut.

Benjamin Scott & Margaret Stephenson's Family from an LDS Ancestral File:
Family Group RecordFamilySearch™ Ancestral File v4.19Download GEDCOM 
Husband's NameBenjamin SCOTT (AFN:8HTX-SV) Pedigree 
Born: 1612Place: Of, , , EnglandDied: 21 Jul 1654Place: Rowley, Essex, Mass.Married: Abt 28 1642 JulPlace: Of Rowley, Essex, Ma
Father: Mother: 
Wife's NameMargaret STEPHENSON (AFN:8HTX-T2) Pedigree 
Born: 1616Place: Of, Cambridge, Suffolk, Mass.Died: 22 Sep 1691Place: Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, United StatesMarried: Abt 28 1642 JulPlace: Of Rowley, Essex, Ma
Father: Mother: 
Children
1. Sex NameF Hannah SCOTT (AFN:FBBP-GG) Pedigree 
Born: 1635 Place: Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts Died: 20 Dec 1718 Place: Braintree, Norfolk, Ma 
2. Sex NameM William SCOTT (AFN:8HTR-78) Pedigree 
Born: 1655 Place: Of, Kent, Kent, England Died: 15 Jan 1717 Place: Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States 
3. Sex NameF Mary SCOTT (AFN:FVDN-8L) Pedigree 
Born: 16 Jan 1651 Place: Cambridge, Suffolk, Mass. Died: 25 Dec 1700 Place: Rowley, , Mass. 
4. Sex NameM John SCOTT (AFN:NRQW-J1) Pedigree 
Born: 25 Oct 1640 Place: Braintree, Norfolk, Ma 
5. Sex NameM Peter SCOTT (AFN:NRQW-K6) Pedigree 
Born: 6 Mar 1643 Place: Braintree, Norfolk, Ma 
6. Sex NameM Samuel SCOTT (AFN:FVDN-9R) Pedigree 
Born: 7 Mar 1655 Place: Cambridge, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States Died: 10 Mar 1654/1655 Place: , Essex, Essex, Ma Buried: 10 Mar 1655 Place: Rowley, Essex, Ma 
7. Sex NameF Mary SCOTT (AFN:200M-P6J) Pedigree 
Born: 15 Mar 1651 Place: Cambridge, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States 
8. Sex NameF Elizabeth SCOTT (AFN:FVDN-7F) Pedigree 
Born: 24 May 1650 Place: Cambridge, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States Died: 3 Jun 1650 Place: , Cambridge, Middlesex, Ma Buried: 3 Jun 1650 Place: Cambridge, Suffolk, Mass. 
9. Sex NameM John SCOTT (AFN:8MJR-TP) Pedigree 
Born: 2 Jul 1648 Place: Of Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, U.s. Colonies Died: 1715 OR 1715 Place: , Roxbury, , Ma 
10. Sex NameM Benjamin SCOTT (AFN:FVDN-53) Pedigree 
Born: 5 Jul 1646 Place: Cambridge, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States Died: 7 Feb 1724 Place: , Rowley, Essex, Ma 
11. Sex NameM Joseph SCOTT (AFN:FVDN-4W) Pedigree 
Born: 14 Jul 1644 Place: Cambridge, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States Died: 21 Jul 1644 Place: , Rowley, Essex, Ma Buried: 3 Dec 1664 Place: Rowley, Essex, Ma 
12. Sex NameF Sarah SCOTT (AFN:FVDN-BX) Pedigree 
Born: 1 Nov 1656 Place: Cambridge, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States Died: 21 Aug 1660 Place: , Rowley, Essex, Ma Buried: 21 Aug 1660 Place: Rowley, Essex, Ma 
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There is also a notation on one family file of these Scotts that Margaret Stephenson was burned as a witch . .Rowley Vital records place her death much after that date of 1692. There may have been two Margaret Stephensons.
More research coming.