Person:Thomas Scovell (2)

He is designated as Thomas 2nd (which distinguishes him from his father).

It is presumed that this Thomas took the Oath of Allegiance and Freeman's Oath in March of 1789 (if the date may be read correctly) as his father did so in 1787. [see photo of the page from the town records.]

From Ronnie (Scovel) Brothers

I made a photocopy from an old book (early 1900's) I found at our (San Antonio) main library... but, unfortunately, I didn't note title, etc. At the top of each page (1097, 1098) is New York. This book listed prominent NY families and their ancestry.

SCOVELL: Thomas Scovell, the first of the line here under consideration, was a soldier of the revolution, serving at Ticonderoga. He married and had a son, Thomas, of whom further.

(II) Thomas Scovell married Rachel, born Sept. 16, 1753, daughter of Josiah and Rachel (Cole) Boardman. She married (first) November 9, 1775, Hezekiah Wilcox, who died Sept. 11, 1776; a son by the first marriage was born exactly a month after his father's death."

The data goes on to follow the descendants of Thomas and Rachel's son, (III) Josiah Boardman; (IV) Oliver Perry; (V) Josiah Boardman, youngest child of Oliver Perry. He married Jan. 16, 1909, at Lewiston, NY., Rhoda Ann, daughter of Goerge H. and Margaret (McLean) Godfrey, of Lewiston. They have one child, Margaret Elizabeth, born at Fairbanks, in Lewiston, Dec. 17, 1911.

This where this family history ends. BUT, there is a lot of family history about schools attended, businesses owned, memberships, churches, etc. that I have not included.

From Genealogical and Family History of New York by Pelletreau

Thomas Scovell, the first of the line here under consideration, was a soldier of the revolution, serving at Ticonderoga. He married and had a son Thomas, of whom further.

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (I) Scovell, lived at least as early as 1779 and as late as 1781, at Lempster, Chester (now Sullivan county), New Hampshire. Later he settled about two miles east of the village of Orwell, Addison county, Vermont. Here, with others, he entered into a mercantile business, which failed. He was a soldier of the revolution, and served at Ticonderoga. He married Rachel, born September 16, 1753, daughter of Josiah and Rachel (Cole) Boardman. She married (first) November 9, 1776, Hezekiah Wilcox, who died September 11, 1776; a son by the first marriage was born exactly one month after his father's death.

From the Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society Revolutionary Rolls and Lists, 1775-1783; Volume 8: By Henry P. Johnston and Iris Rose Guertin (not proven)

Thomas Fargo: private; p. 28-29; started service 4/1776; 19th Continental under Col. Webb; Hale's Company under Capt. Hale; record is a pay abstract for the month of April 1776.

In the 1800 census, his numbers were 1-1-2-1-0-2-0-1-0-1

1. ↑ Homer Worthington Brainard. SCOVELL: A Survey of the Scovils or Scovills in England and America; Seven Hundred Years of History and Genealogy. (privately printed Hartford 1915 (250 copies) Springfield Printing & Binding Co.)
   p. 506.
2. ↑ Jessica W. Stevens. Lempster, New Hampshire, Inhabitants From Incorporation in 1767 Through the 1900 Federal Census. (privately printed 1995).
3. ↑ Researcher.

   Ronnie Brothers

4. ↑ William S. Pelletreau, A.M. Genealogical and Family History of New York
   p. 1097.