Family:Aaron Parker and Mary Dobson (2)

Ohio Supreme Court Justice Thomas Scott on the occasion of his 79 birthday (October 31 1851) wrote a letter to his children outlining their ancestry. Within the letter is the following text:

Page 9 My father (John Scott, son of Thomas Scott & Susannah Watson), beside those named, had three sisters of the half blood, Alice, Polly and Margaret. After the death of my Grandfather, Thomas Scott my grandmother intermarried with a Major Willian Dobson by whom she had the children last above named. Major Dobson was a large, well proportioned, pretty good-looking Irishman and I believe he generally maintained a good character for honesty and integrity. He commanded a company in General Braddock's Brigade at the time of this defeat; and wrote the dispatch for the Officer next in Command who was badly wounded. Alice intermarried with William Hargess by whom she had several children whose names except William, her oldest son, have faded from my memory. Page 10 Polly intermarried with Aaron Parker by whom she had three sons, William, Thomas and Nathaniel. Margaret never married. On the death of the old Major, their last surviving parent, his estate, real and personal, which was pretty considerable, passed to his said three children or their legal representatives. I have heard that they emigrated to the West, I know not where. Nearly sixty years have elapsed since I met with any of them, except William Parker who called to see me many years since.

The will of Major William Dobson reinforces the three sons of Aaron Parker :

Will Book 1 p 58 - 1798, William Dobson's Will dated 9-15-1798; probated 10-15-1798; names wife Martha, daut. Margaret and grandsons Thomas Parker, Nathaniel Parker and William Parker. Executors William Donaldson, Jeremiah Sullivan. Witnesses: Robert and Andrew Walker, Samuel McAttee Found in Early Records, Hampshire County, VA: Now West Virginia page 114 by Clara McCormackl Sage