Lucy (Ring) Scott (1751 - 1777)

Born 3 Oct 1751 in Kingston, Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Jonathan Scott — married 14 Mar 1768 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Descendants

Died 20 Dec 1777 at age 26 in Chebogue, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Biography

Lucy Ring was born in 1751, the daughter of George Ring and Lucretia Chipman of Kingston, Mass^[1]

In 1762, she accompanied her family to Nova Scotia, where they were among the first settlers of Yarmouth township^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

On March 14, 1768, she married Jonathan Scott, who was also an early Yarmouth settler^{[5] [2] [6]}, and their children included:

1. John, born November 21, 1768^{[5] [2]}, who married Ruth Hilton, daughter of Amos
2. Lydia, born July 21, 1770^{[5] [2]}, who married Ebenezer Ellis (son of Ebenezer, and then married David Verrill of Minot
3. Samuel, born January 26, 1772^{[5] [2]}, no further record found
4. Jonathan Edwards, born May 13, 1773^{[5] [2]}, a ships master who married in Maine
5. Lucretia, born December 2, 1774^{[5] [2]}, who married Timothy Redding of Minot
6. Olive, born October 5, 1776^{[5] [2]}, who married John Tedford.

Lucy died at Chebogue, Nova Scotia on December 20, 1777, at the age of 26 ^[6], and was buried in Chebogue cemetery^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4P9-FYV : 4 December 2014), Lucy Ring, 03 Oct 1751; citing Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 47; FHL microfilm 910,368.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Wright, Esther Clark, 1895-. Planters And Pioneers. rev. ed. [Canada: s.n.], 1982
3. ↑ A history of the county of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia by Campbell, J. R. (John Roy), 1841-1928; Publication date 1876; Publisher Saint John, N.B. : J. & A. McMillan
4. ↑ Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; a sequel to Campbell's History by Brown, George S. (George Stayley); Publisher Boston, Rand, 1888
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7} Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Genealogies : Transcribed from the Yarmouth Herald, by George S. Brown; prepared for publication by Martha & William Reamy, assisted by John McDonald Hilton ... et al.; published in Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., c1993. ISBN: 0806313722; page 143
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} New Englanders in Nova Scotia by Fred E. Crowell, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.) See the Scott Family #111 on page 114-5
7. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #31498426