Henry Scott is the Great-Great-Great-Grandfather of Scott M. Connolly, and is Vermont born of Connecticut and Massachusetts Scotts. Buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Portland, Maine ... he is the father of another Henry Scott (GG-GF) (b 1827).
Our Scotts are English .. and settled Maine from Connecticut and Massachusetts Bay Colony - of which Maine was a Province.
GGGF-Henry Scott married Sarah Jones in 1807, after moving from Vermont as a boy. His parents dead, he lived with his future father-in-law's family Dr. David Jones of Abigton, Massachusetts in North Yarmouth, Maine.
GGG-GF Henry Scott was the ninth of ten children of Thomas Scott and Sarah Hale of Ashford, Connecticut. GGGG-GM Sarah Hale was the descendant of a family of Massachusetts and Connecticut ministers of the Puritan and Congregational Church; who emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony from England about 1635-50. Her ancestry like the Scotts she married included many New England Puritan families - they were Protestants in Cromwell's Massachusetts and Connecticut. Puritan New England's age mellowed by the mid-18th century to a Georgian one; and its churches in meetings resembled Anglican Low Church - Calvinist Christian - and community centered.
My great-grandfather is named Charles Henry Scott ... all of these Henry Scotts may have used either or been named Henry. Research is continuing to our GGGGG-GF Henry Scott, born in Connecticut about 1700; who is believed a descendant of Henry Scott of Rattlseden Suffolk England and his line - Henrys and Thomas are prominent there.
Another Charles Henry Scott married to a Mary Alice Scott - like our great-great-grandmother, appears in the US Maine Census .. and he is listed as a 'truckman' in Lubec, Maine. A daughter of C.Henry Scott - my grandmother Sarah Scott ... would marry the son of a 'teamster' named Bryan Connolly --- Joseph A. Connolly in 1906. Perhaps they met by reason of their business combinations -- Bryan Connolly is also associated with an earlier Bernard Connolly also a 'teamster' and all list at the same address, same and different times, in various editions of the Portland Directory. [228 Cumberland Avenue].
GG-GF Henry M. Scott's business matters are still being researched. G-GF Charles Henry Scott married Mary Ann Durgin - both are believed Protestant ( Congregationalist or Episcopalian ) - but their two surviving daughters are raised Roman Catholic.
As to 'truckmen' ..ponder Thoreau:
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If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion;...
'truckmen' hauled others and their own goods to market towns; transporters. The daughter of a Scott descendant in Portland married the son of a teamster in Portland -- both Connollys of Portland had directory addresses at 228 Cumberland Avenue ... where Charles Henry Scott had his offices.
Our GGGGG-GF Henry Scott ancestor - Connecticut born about 1700; likely descends from that Henry Scott Family of Rattlesden Suffolk, England who emigrated about 1632 to Boston and Ipswich Massachusetts. That Henry Scott or [SKOTT] died before travelling - but hus children and widow and their wives landed in Ipswich.
New England Historical Genealogical Society [NEHHGS] records are supplying some of the history of the Scott Family of Maine which I am re-constructing. While supplementing lost family records - many Henry Scotts were researched. One example is this:
Vol 63 p.138
Henry Scott - 27 husbandman, Yorkshire Ship - "Albion" to Ft. Cumberland, N. America "To Seek a better livlihood"
... Note - Ft. Cumberland, N. America was the Portland Maine & York County predecessor [part of York County became Cumberland County - embracing Portland, Maine] ... or Cumberland & Cumberland County Maryland.
Rootsweb 'Ships' lists an "HMS Albion"
Albion 8 Oct 1814 "His Majesty's ship "Albion", Rear Admiral Cockburn, and the "Hebrus" frigate arrived in Bermuda from the Chesapeake." (Royal Gazette & Weekly Adveritser).
"Albion" & Ft.mberland Notes ...Henry Scott
"Albion" arrived in Halifax NS 1774 from Hull Yorkshire
From a Geocities Nova Scota Bound site
Surname Given Age Occupation Spouse Father Mother
Scott Henry 27 husbandman ** ** **
Scott Henry 3 ** ** Henry **
Scott Mary 29 ** Henry ** **
Scott Catherine 1 ** ** Henry **
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Computed ages --
Henry born 1747...Mary born 1745 ... Henry born 1771 ...Catherine born ... 1773
| Notes from the International Ships Trascribers Guild re: "The Albion"
1 - All passengers are listed as being from Yorkshire
2 - All passengers are listed as going to Fort Cumberland, North America
Notes on the Albion:
".... the 150-ton Brigantine Albion. Their destination was one of hope and one of desperation. The 53-day voyage was one of many hardships. They crowded the 154 passengers on a ship built to carry 75. They suffered through three weeks of major storms, out breaks of Smallpox that took many lives, and food shortages." The main port of call for the Albion was usually Maryland. The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1776 shows most of her trips to there. e.g. 7-24 April 1767. Shippers by the Albion, Mr. Thomas Spencer, bound from Bristol for Maryland: Sedgley & Co., Joseph Beddome. Document Source: Joan Martin: English emigration lists, 1774. T. 47, vol 9, pt. 1 (Selections). PANS.. 10/13/97
Contributed by Chignecto Project
ISTG ---ALBION 1774
| List is also re-produced atthis link at Rootsweb
Fort Cumberland is referenced ..the port of destination in Nova Scotia. NB .. the NEHGS reference note at Henry Scott states Henry Scott Ft. Cumberland "Albion"
If my ancestry -- they arrived 2 years before Independence in Nova Scotia - and became American in Maine by the next generation or sooner. Nova Scotia hosted Loyalist exiles by transport from Boston et al after 1780 from Massachusetts.
| The "Albion" and Henry Scott of Yorkshire, England to Ft. Cumberland, Nova Scotia explained.
After arriving in 1774, at what was once Forte Beausejour .. at the land point between northern Nova Scotia and eastern New Brunswick at the waist - which was later called Ft. Cumberland (after the British defeated the French & renamed it prior to 1763). Today an historic site affecting Arcadian & early English history there .. near present day Amherst, Nova Scotia .. The American colonies revolted .. Nova Scotia and its new arrivals and the few French among them were sought by a John Eddy and others who recruited men for the Continental Army Nova Scotia History - the Eddy Rebellion & American Independence.
By 1787, if he had stayed ... Cumberland County's Census return showed a total of 299 inhabitants.
Fort Cumberland may show up in many maps today by its historic old French name as well: Forte Beausejour ... near present Amherst, Nova Scotia.
Until, I learn more ... this will explain how a man possibly fresh from England .. ended up in Maine with his descendants. Perhaps Henry Scott (b. 1747 Yorkshire England emigrant), m. Catherine; son Henry (b. 1771 England?) are my GGGGG-GP's & GGGG-GF. Two suggestions - the number of Henrys & a reference that my grandmother Sarah Scott was DAR eligible with her sister.
The Henry Scott b. 1771 (the 3 year old boy with his parents) would then be father (20-26 yrs old) of the Henry Scott (b 1791 or 1795), and my GGGG-GF who married Sarah Jones. Where the Jones-Scott marriage occurred is still beng researched.
This self-genealogist - Scott M. Connolly is named for his Scott family lineage by Sarah Scott - his paternal grandmother, and impressed enough to change his name to '"Henry Scott" Michael Connolly' .. and just may.
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