Robert Wilmot Scott

Birth Date

1808-11-02

Death Date

1884-11-09

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Joel T. Scott and Rebecca Wilmot Scott. Married to Elizabeth Watts Brown Scott. Father of Preston B. Scott, Joel Scott, John S. Scott, Mary B. Scott, Rebecca E. Scott, Elizabeth B. Scott, Louisa R. Scott, and Henrietta R. Scott. Attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1826. Farmer in Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned twenty-six enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Owned Elvina [Unknown] in Franklin County in 1858. Farmer in Franklin County in in 1860. Owned thirty-three enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 27A-B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 843.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 220.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 482A.
Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Transylvania University, January 1826, (Lexington, KY, 1826), 16.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994034, Franklin County Births.
Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 28608, State 1558.
Thomas D. Clark, Footloose in Jacksonian America: Robert W. Scott and His Agrarian World (Frankfort, KY: Kentucky Historical Society, 1989).
"Robert Wilmot Scott (1808-1884)," Find A Grave, Memorial 58554705, accessed April 27, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58554705.

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