Thomas Scott

d. 1643 · perhaps Cambridge, Massachusetts → Hartford CT

Died 1643

Children include Sarah

He was at Hartford by 1637 and had perhaps been at Cambridge before that. What the record holds him for is how he died. On 6 November 1643 he was killed by John Ewe, and the jury found that Ewe caused his death by misadventure, a lawful act done without intent or fault. Ewe was fined five pounds to the colony and ten pounds to the widow. Savage's abstract calls it "careless," but the jury's word was misadventure. The colony took its penalty and the family took its compensation, and there was no trial for a life.

He did not die at once. After being wounded he made a nuncupative will, which is a will spoken aloud before witnesses rather than written, and the court held it good even though it was incomplete, since he had not lived long enough to name overseers. It provided for his widow Ann, his son Thomas and his three daughters.

That son was, in Savage's phrase, infirm in body or mind, perhaps both, and did not live long. So everything ran through the girls. Mary married Robert Porter, Sarah married John Stanley of Farmington, and Elizabeth married John Loomis of Windsor.

Children

Sarah Scott d. 1661

Sources

The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, prior to the Union with New Haven Colony, ed. J. Hammond Trumbull, vol. I (Hartford, 1850), the undated Particular Court at pp. 102-103 and the Court of Election of April 1644 at p. 103

James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, 1862), vol. IV, under SCOTT

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