Robert Scott (1803 - 1899)

Born 1803 in Charlottesville, Albemarle, Virginia, United States

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Died 1899 at about age 96 in Charlottesville, Albemarle, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Robert Scott is a part of US Black heritage.

Robert Scott, a free person of color, was born on 7 October 1803 in Albemarle County, Virginia, USA.^[1] He was the son of Jesse Scott and Sarah Jefferson Hemmings^{[2] [3] [4]} Robert's father Jesse Scott, a talented musician, was the son of a white man and Annika Cumba, a Pamunkey Indian.^[5]

Robert Scott bought Nancy Colbert in 1842 in Albemarle County, Virginia. She became his wife.^{[6] [2]}

Children

• Elizabeth Scott (1824-1916)^[7]
• Sarah Bell (Scott) Sammons (abt.1827-abt.1902)^[8]
• Mary T Scott (1833-)^[9]
• Jesse Scott (abt.1844-)^[2]
• Charlotte Scott (1849-1913)^[9][10]
• Robert Scott Jr (1851-)^[9]

Robert and James Scott attended white schools and, according to one contemporary, their musical talent and “prepossessing appearance and fine manners” gave them social advantages. In 1857 they obtained a kind of legal recognition of this intermediate position between black and white by successfully petitioning the court to be declared “not negroes.” Jefferson’s grandson Thomas J. Randolph vouched for the fact that they had more than three-quarters white ancestry.^[5] Robert played the violin in the Scott family band that was famous throughout Virginia.

Sources

1. ↑ https://cvillepedia.org/Robert
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} 1850 US Census: 1850 United States Federal Census, Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
3. ↑ 1860 US Census: "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4BY-GH6 : 18 February 2021), Robert Scott, 1860.
4. ↑ https://www.monticello.org/getting-word/people/robert-scott
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} African American Oral History Project, Jefferson's Monticello (https://www.monticello.org/getting-word/families/scott-hemings-family)
6. ↑ https://www.monticello.org/getting-word/people/robert-scott
7. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9278/images/43004_162028006051_0008-00048?treeid=&personid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=SMy7&_phstart=successSource&pId=600126508
8. ↑ http://www.centralvirginiahistory.org/SammonsCemetery2.shtml
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2} 1870 US Census:"United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFL8-YDG : 29 May 2021), Robert Scott, 1870.
10. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9278/images/43004_162028001249_0015-00056?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=710f394ed5e39f1a295231142b9ef959&usePUB=true&_phsrc=SMy9&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.58295656.378730778.1610039711-749170649.1610039711&pId=600029574

• Book: "Those Who Labor for My Happiness": Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello by Lucia C. Stanton, Feb 2012, University of Virginia Press.

See also:

• FamilySearch Record: G362-8TB profile of Robert Scott.