Person:Thomas Scott (13)

Thomas was killed by John Ewe, who was eventually found guilty of causing his death by "misadventure." Thomas evidently did not die immediately, as his will was dictated to Edward Stebbing and Timothy Standley the day he died. The will leaves most of his estate to his wife and his son Thomas, who Thomas Sr. seemed to think may not outlive his wife. The will also mentions multiple daughters who should receive their portions of the estate at marriage or age 20. Thomas died before he could name his overseers. The inventory, totalling £174, 12s, mentions provisions for three daughters.^[5]

At his death, Thomas held lands in the "North meadow", as well as lands in Hartford and Tunxis Cepus (Farmington). His daughters married Farmington men, but it does not appear Thomas lived there.

Children married Loomises and Porters, both cloth-making families originally from Essex.

A 40-year-old Thomas Scott sailed from Ipswich, England to Ipswich, MA in Apr 1634 with 9 year old daughter Elizabeth. This is not the correct Thomas - that Elizabeth married John Spofford. (The other Thomas is here.) ^[6]

Savage’s lists two Thomases, showing the difference:

THOMAS, Hartford 1637, had been, perhaps, of Cambridge, was k. 6 Nov. 1643, careless. by John Ewe, for wh. he. was. fin. L5. to the Col. and £10. to the wid. Aft. being wound. he made nuncup. will, held good, tho. incomplete, as not nam. overseers, provid. for wid. Ann, s. Thomas, and three ds. That s. was infirm in body, or mind, perhaps both, and liv. not long; and the wid. m. 7 Nov. 1644, Thomas Ford; and d. at Northampton, 5 May 1675. One d. Mary m. at the same time with her mo. Robert Porter; ano. Sarah, m. 5 Dec. 1645, John Staley; and the other, Elizabeth m. 3 or 6 Feb. 1649, John Loomis of Windsor.

THOMAS, Ipswich, came in the Elizabeth from Ipswich 1634, aged 40, with w. Elizabeth 40; and ch. Elizabeth 9; Abigail, 7; and Thomas, 6; was freem. 4 Mar. foll. made his will 8 Mar. 1654, names ea. of these ch. as liv. but that Thomas was at Stamford, and ment. younger ch. Hannah, Sarah, and Mary. In the same ship came Martha, aged 60, prob. mo. of this Thomas, and Richard Kimball, 39, by Scott, in his will, 20 yrs. later, call br. At Boston, Co. Lincoln, in 1630, was one Thomas Scott, that may have been the same as the preced. or the foll.

Text References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Thomas Scott, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
   VI:213-218.

   ORIGIN: Unknown [Possibly Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex. See TAG 82:107-110 for a discussion of this]
   MIGRATION: 1634 (based on grant of land at Cambridge on 4 August 1634 [CaTR 9].
   BIRTH: By about 1597 (based on estimated date of marriage).
   DEATH: 6 November 1643 (died while dictating a nuncupative will on that date [CCCR 1:454-54; Manwaring 1:32-33]). (At a Connecticut Particular Court in early 1644 [probably in March], the "jury find that John Ewe, by misadventure, was the cause of the death of Tho[mas] Scott. The said John Ewe is fined to pay five pounds to the country and ten pounds to the widow Scotte" [CCCR 1:103; RPCC 25]).

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   4:39.
3.   Mahler, Leslie. The English Origin of Thomas and Sarah (Scott) Grave(s) of Hartford, Connecticut, and Hadley, Massachusetts. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (2007)
   82:110.

   'Thomas Scott [child of Christopher Scott]. His children, Thomas Scott, Mary Scott, Sarah Scott, and Elizabeth Scott, were named in his father's will (1640). This matches the description of the family of Thomas(1) Scott of Hartford, Conn., who left a will dated 6 Nov. 1643. Their names, however, are very common, and the records in Hartford do not show any connection with the family of Thomas(1) Grave(s).'

   Note: While the names of the children of Thomas, son of Christopher Scott, may be common, they are listed in exactly the same order in the will of Christopher Scott as the authors of The Great Migration have concluded the children of Thomas(1) Scott of Hartford were born (based on marriage dates of the daughters and other information). Furthermore the lists match exactly (there are no additional children in either list). This, together with the fact that Thomas, son of Christopher, was the right age to be Thomas (1) of Hartford, seem to strongly suggest that they were the same man, although the author of the article did not appear prepared to make this claim.

4. ↑ Based on estimated birth years of his siblings (assuming he was the son of Christopher Scott of Broad Oak, Essex).
5. ↑ Source:Colonial Connecticut Records
6. ↑ NEHGR 99:237