James Scott (1748-1804)

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Identifier
NJS-PER-04786
Given Name
James
Family Name
Scott
Birth Date
1748
Death Date
1804
Sex
Male
Biographical Description
James Scott was a white Loyalist who evacuated from New York to Canada in 1783. He was listed as the person who had possession of a Black man named Peter Stogdon (Stockton) during the evacuation to St. Johns.

Lorenzo Sabine's Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution gives this biographical note about James Scott:
"Scott, James. Of Tryon, (now Montgomery, County,) New York. In 1775 he signed a Declaration of loyalty. James Scott, a Loyalist, died at St. John, New Brunswick, 1804, aged fifty-six."
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white person
Places
New York City, New York
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Montgomery County, New York
Related Person
Peter Stogdon (b. ca. 1760) {Stockton}
References

Lorenzo Sabine, Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, with an Historical Essay, vol. 2 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1864), see p. 268, https://archive.org/details/cu31924092886542/page/268.
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Larissa Jimenez Gratereaux
Princeton & Slavery Project
Jesse Bayker
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