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- Source for this connection is a Matthew SCOTT, 423 S. Finley, Lombard IL, 60148 (1983) http://www.bytesizesound.com/jws1/andrew.html
also WFT #1973.
Have one note from Ancestry.com (Source: tomvinson@aol.com) states this man was born in Scotland in 1710, Came from Scotland in 1724 and settled in PA and died 19 JAN 1794 Corain Twsp., Lancaster Co., PA
ANDREW SCOTT b. about 1705? Scotland d. 1794 Colerain Township, Lancaster co. Pennsylvania m. _____ (Sarah? maiden name Wilson?), who died before 1794. His will was written on 29 Jan 1794, and proved in court 21 Jan 1795.
Family tradition, repeated in various histories of his descendants, holds that Andrew emigrated to the United States in 1725. He seems to be listed in the 1790 census of Lancaster county, in Colerain Township, in a family of 4 males over the age of 16 and one female. This probably included one or two of his sons and two or three of his grandsons, but not his wife as there was no wife listed in his will (either that, or she died between 1790-1794).
The link between Andrew Scott and John Scott (father of John Wilson Scott I) is not very strong. Two strong arguments against Andrew being the father of that John are that the names of Andrew's other children do not match the names chosen for John's descendants at all, and that an apparent death date of 1794 for Andrew is very late, considering John Scott apparently lived 1734-1803 (people are rarely as old as 60 when their father dies); if we consider simply that John Scott was born when his father was between the ages of 20 and 40, then this Andrew Scott lived between 80 and 100 years.
The fact that the date the will was written and the date it was proved in court were one year apart may be significant; if Andrew was aged around 89 when he wrote this will, it was almost certainly an update of an earlier will, possibly because of the death of his wife or other unmentioned children (ask yourself, would a man in his late eighties write his first will then?).
Andrew had at least 6 children (who were living in 1794), and probably more:
Matthew- living 1794
Ann m. _____ (William?) Kenedy , living 1794
Margaret m. _____ Brown, living 1794
Jean m. _____ Donaldson, living 1794
John b. 1734 Penn. d. 1802/3 Washington co. Va. m. ca. 1762? Ann Creighton
David- living 1794; there was a David Scott listed in the 1800 census of Lancaster co. Penn., on the same page as a William Kennedy family (this implying both were born before 1755, which makes sense).
Author: Matt Scott
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1720 - 1794 (74 years)
