Edward Scott

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 26 Dec 1642

Notes:

He was a clothier.

Edward married Sarah Carter on 18 Dec 1599 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England. Sarah died before 29 Mar 1633 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England; was buried on 29 Mar 1633 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Richard Scott was born before 9 Sep 1605 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England; was christened on 9 Sep 1605 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England; died between 1679 and 1680 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 8 Sep 1627, Glemsford, Suffolk, England

Notes:

Writing in 1943, G. Andrews Moriarty (citation details below) referred to an "ancient illuminated pedigree on vellum, drawn up between 1608 and 1612 for Edward, father of the immigrant, with many carefully painted coats of arms. This pedigree eventually came into the possession of Richard Scott of Providence and passed down in the family of his descendants, the Scotts of Newport." This pedigree gave this Edward Scott as the son of another Edward Scott, the latter the third son of Richard Scott, third son of Sir John Scott of Scott's Hale, Kent. The Edward Scott shown as this Edward's father was given as a younger brother of Reginald Scott (d. 1599) of Smeeth, Kent,

In 1960, Anthony Wagner demonstrated that this pedigree had to have been a forgery, probably made by "such an one as William Dawkyns, 'a notable dealer in arms and maker of false pedigrees,' for whose arrest in 1597 a warrant was issued giving the names of nearly a hundred families, chiefly in Essex, Hertfordshire, and Cambridgeshire, for whom he had compiled spurious pedigrees." A forgery, first, because evidence exists that Reginald Scott was an only son; and second, because of various IPMs and transactions too detailed to summarize here, it would appear that by 1576 no brother or male descendant of a brother of Reginald Scott could have been living, thus rendering the pedigree impossible. Wagner supposes that the present Edward Scott, who died in 1627, was probably one of the three sons of Richard Scott who d. 1565, and who was also a clothier of Glemsford.

This fits very well with the Scott line presented by John Brooks Threlfall (citation details below), in which Richard Scott who died at Glemsford in 1565 is given, among his other children, an Edward "perhaps b 1540-44", who married an Elizabeth, who was a clothier, and who died in 1627.

Edward married Elizabeth Grome. Elizabeth died before 24 Oct 1620 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England; was buried on 24 Oct 1620 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Joanna. Joanna died before 23 Aug 1556; was buried on 23 Aug 1556 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]