Samuel Thornton Scott (1777 - 1827)

Born 1777 in Currituck, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Dunlap) Scott — married 23 Jun 1804 in Woodford County, Kentucky

Died 3 Dec 1827 at about age 50 in Vincennes, Knox, Indiana, United States

Biography

Reverend Samuel Thornton Scott was born in 1777, a son of Sergeant William Scott and his wife, Grizzell Caruthers. Reverend Scott was the first resident Presbyterian minister in Indiana Territory, 1808. More about him may be found here: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=48966

Samuel's father is honored for his military service by the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution as DAR Ancestor #A101891. DAR records indicate that William died before December, 1804, in Jessamine county, Kentucky. Applications for membership in the Society of the DAR have been made by the descendants of his son Samuel Thornton Scott, who married Margaret W. Dunlap ^[1]

Samuel came to Woodford County, Kentucky as a youth. He was educated at Pisgah by William Steele. He married Margaret Dunlap and they moved to Indiana where in 1806 Samuel founded Indiana Presbyterian Church at Vincennes. He became president of Vincennes University in 1807.^[2]

Reverend Samuel Thornton Scott died December 30, 1827, in Vicennes, Knox county Indiana and is buried in the Greenlawn Cemetery. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A101891
2. ↑ The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 19, No. 55, p. 70,
3. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29283217/samuel-thornton-scott

• "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHG4-HXS : accessed 13 August 2017), Samuel T Scott, Vincennes, Knox, Indiana, United States; citing p. 87, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 14; FHL microfilm 205,608.
• Christianity in the United States - From the First Settlement Down to the Present Time, by Daniel Dorchester, Revised Edition, 1895
• History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, Volume 2, edited by Ezra Gillett, 1864