From: http://www.bytesizesound.com/jws1/andrew.html , last accessed Sep 2017
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John Scott was born in Scotland, probably near Edinburgh, in 1706. It is unknown when he moved to Northern Ireland, but he was wounded in the Catholic Rebellion in 1725 and lost an arm. While in Ireland, he married Margaret Thornton on March 13, 1740. They immigrated to America in June 1745 and probably arrived at the port of Philadelphia. Several sources indicate that they lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In 1762 the growing family packed-up and moved South over the Old Wagon Road which ran East of the Blue Ridge through Virginia to the Piedmont region of North Carolina. They finally reached Guildford County, North Carolina in October 1763 and settled on a plantation along the banks of the Haw River. John Scott was a Presbyterian and an Elder in Mr. Campbell's Church in North Carolina. He was clearly well educated and had remarkable penmanship. Because of his disability, he probably worked as a frontier teacher and small farmer. All of his children were also evidently well educated, at least by frontier standards. John Scott died at age 68 at Guildford Courthouse, North Carolina on November 12,1774. Margaret [Thornton] Scott died in Jessamine County, Kentucky April 6, 1801. ...
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Source: "Letter" from William Thomton Scott of Holton, Kansas to Dr. E. O. Guerrant Minister at Troy Presbyterian Church in Woodford County, Kentucky dated May 15, 1895. In this interesting letter (the original which was once in the possession of Miss Martha Guyn of Lexington has since disappeared), Mr. Scott was seeking information about a slate sundial that had been brought from Ireland by his grandfather, John Scott, and presumably was left behind. He planned to exhibit the sundial at the 1895 Atlanta Exposition. Mr. Scott stated, "John Scott, my grandfather, he was one armed, lost the limb in some of the Rebellions in Ireland." William T. Scott was the youngest son of Samuel and Martha [McCorkle] Scott. As perhaps the last surviving son of a "King's Mountain Man", he (Samuel) corresponded on several occasions with Lyman Draper during preparations for his book King's Mountain and Its Heroes (see the Draper Collection 34CC52-54).
