Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Hugh Scott and Jennett Agnew


Husband Hugh Scott 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 

           Born: 1726 - Chester (later Adams) Co, PA 2 4 6 11
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Oct 1819 - Washington Co, PA 6 11 12
         Buried:  - Pigeon Creek U. P. Cemetery, Washington Co, PA


         Father: Abraham Scott (1677-Abt 1760) 4 9 10 13
         Mother: Margaret McFarland (      -      ) 14


       Marriage: 1754 6 15 16

Wife Jennett Agnew 15 16 

            AKA: Janet Agnew,7 10 11 Jannet Agnew,6 Mae Janet Ayers 8
           Born: 13 Aug or 23 Aug 1735 6 15
     Christened: 
           Died: 9 Oct 1814 11 15
         Buried:  - Pigeon Creek U. P. Cemetery, Washington Co, PA


         Father: James Agnew (1711-1770) 4 6 10 12 17 18
         Mother: Martha [Unk] (      -Abt 1735) 18


Children
1 F Rebecca Scott 11 16 19 

           Born: 20 Mar 1756 15
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried:  - Canal Fulton, Stark Co, OH

         Spouse: George Van Eman (1753-      ) 16 20 21
           Marr: 1776 15 16

2 M Abraham Scott 5 11 22 

            AKA: Abram Scott 8
           Born: 1756 - Highland Twp, Adams Co, PA 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 1 Mar 1834 - Adams Co, PA 23
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Jane McClean (Abt 1763-1789) 24

         Spouse: Jane Kerr (Abt 1766-1813) 23 24

         Spouse: Margaret McMillen (Abt 1783-1833) 23

3 M James Scott 11 22 

           Born: Abt 1760
     Christened: 
           Died: 1 Oct 1806 - Adams Co, PA 23
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Rebecca Patterson (1768-1827) 23 25
           Marr: 1790 23

4 M Hugh Scott 11 26 

           Born: 1763 27
     Christened: 
           Died: Apr 1849 - Licking Co, OH
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Jane Latta (Abt 1767-1837) 27

5 M Josiah Scott 3 7 11 15 28 

           Born: Abt 1770
     Christened: 
           Died: 16 Aug 1834 - Nottingham Twp, Washington Co, PA 28 29
         Buried:  - Presbyterian Cemetery, Mingo, Washington Co, PA

         Spouse: Jane Darragh (1799-1841) 11 29

6 M John Scott 11 25 26 

           Born: 1772 - Adams Co, PA 27
     Christened: 
           Died: 17 Oct 1834 27
 Cause of Death: Cholera
         Buried:  - near Washington, Washington Co, PA

         Spouse: Martha Patterson (1777-1834) 11 25 27
           Marr: Abt 1792 - Gettysburg, Adams Co, PA 27

7 F Elizabeth Scott 11 15 

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died:  - West Virginia
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Edward Todd (      -      ) 11 27

8 F Sarah Scott 11 15 

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: John Jordan (      -      ) 11 29

9 F Margaret Scott 11 15 

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: James Ramsey (      -      ) 10

General Notes: Husband - Hugh Scott


With his parents, he crossed the ocean and settled in Donegal, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1730. In 1738, in company with James Ayres, who had married his aunt, Rebecca Scott, he removed to York County, in the Marsh Creek settlement. In 1741 he took up a tract of four hundred acres which he improved and converted into a fertile farm. In 1773 he removed to Westmoreland County, and later to Washington County. He was prominent in the events preceding and during the Revolution. In 1781, when Washington County was created from Westmoreland, he was by special act of assembly named chairman of the commission. [CRFP, 968] But other sources state the family was in America much earlier.

He, with his brother Josiah, came from York County, Pennsylvania, to Washington County in 1772. Hugh settled in Nottingham and Josiah in South Strabane, two miles east of Washington, where he owned a large tract of land.

He married and lived on the Millerstown road, about five miles from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In 1772 he came to the territory of Washington County with his brother Josiah, and settled on a tract of land later in possession of his grandsons, J. K. and H. C. Scott. Hugh Scott was a blacksmith, and in that year built a blacksmith-shop on Mingo Creek, almost opposite the residence of his grandson. He was one of the commissioners appointed to purchase a site for the county court-house and jail in 1781. A man of great piety and influence, he was one of the signers of the "Religious Agreement" written by James Edgar, and one of the founders and first elders in the Pigeon Creek Presbyterian Church. [HWC 1882, 883]

He lived on Millerstown road, five miles from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was a left-handed blacksmith, and emigrated (as supposed) to Washington County, in 1773 or '74. He was certainly there when Dr. McMillan on the third Sabbath of November, 1776, ordained five elders in Pigeon Creek congregation, of whom Hugh Scott was one. His name is also found in the first grand jury panel of October 2, 1781; also one of the four trustees who purchased ground from David Hoge on the 18th of October, 1781, for public buildings for the county. He was commissioned justice of the peace November 8, 1788. He settled on a tract of land in Nottingham township (where his great-grandsons, James Kerr Scott and Hugh G. Scott, later resided), for which he received a patent dated January 23, 1799, in pursuance of a warrant dated September 22, 1788. [CBRWC, 425]

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Sources

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 883, 953.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 422, 425.

3 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1286.

4 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 84.

5 —, History of Adams County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 446.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 426.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 471.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 968.

9 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 789.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 323.

11 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 883.

12 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 422.

13 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 422, 429.

14 Jeff McBride, Descendants of Thomas A. Forster (Laurel, Md: Web-published, 2012).

15 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 425.

16 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 85.

17 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 2.

18 Edward B. Reighard, John Agnew of Hominy Ridge (Clearfield, PA: Self-published, 1984), Pg 5.

19 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 272, 425.

20 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 883, 951.

21 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 216, 272, 425.

22 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 425, 426.

23 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 426.

24 —, History of Adams County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 447.

25 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 436.

26 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 425, 427.

27 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 427.

28 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 324.

29 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 428.

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