American Revolution Ancestor of James Rule Watson
Thomas Scott, II (Jul 15, 1755 in Maryland-March 1, 1834, Cumberland Co. Ky.) buried in Clinton, Ky.
Limited Submission of Ancestral Revolutionary Soldiers and Compatriots Recognized by the Sons of The American Revolution for; JAMES RULE WATSON, III, National 160209 and JAMES RULE WATSON, IV , National 160210
Thomas Scott served in the Militia in North Carolina as a private in the militia (PNSR). He came from a large family with a military background. He married Letitia Russell (Iredell, N.C.-Jan.31, 1837 Cumberland Co. Ky.) in 1775, Burke Co. N.C.
Thomas was given a grant of 4000 acres in what is now known as Scott Co., TN. He was blond/white haired as well as his wife and their first child was the same with blue eyes. He spoke the Indian language of that region and quickly became friends with the Indians who gazed at his wife and son's fair complexion. He broke the land into four plantations. Each had a farm home and the largest was a Hunting Lodge of great size for the period. It stood as a landmark for many years. Although Thomas was one of the first settlers in the region, his first cousin was General Winfield Scott. Winfield Scott won his name from his command in the war of 1812, the Mexican and Indian Wars and was the General in Command of Washington for the Union during the Civil War.
Winfield hunted on Thomas's land frequently and when the County was formed, Winfield was the County seat and the County was named Scott. Thomas's sons were made non-commissioned officers in the war of 1812 and the Mexican conflict. Children of Thomas Scott; Mary, Samuel, Nancy, Lettice, Jermina, Jane, Elizabeth, Richard
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Addendum
Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements
Pension application of Thomas Scott W 5997
Transcribed by Will Graves
State of Tennessee, Fentress County
On this the _ [blank in original] day of December 1833 personally appeared before me Robert Richardson one of the Justices of the Court of Pleas and quarter sessions for the County of Fentress State of Tennessee Thomas Scott a resident citizen of the County of Cumberland State of Kentucky living in the extreme part of the County close to the Tennessee Line at Fentress County who from old age and loss of bodily strength is unable to attend a court of record and the near Justice of the Peace to him being gone to the Arkansas so that he cannot get a Justice of the Peace in the Kentucky side they being extremely unhandly and he being handy to a Justice in the Tennessee side in Fentress County he is wholly unable to go to a court of Record or go to a Justice [illegible word] he would have so in his own County he being afflicted with the dead palsy he is aged 78 years agreeable to his undoubted account he being born the 19th day of July 1755 he having no record of his age was born in Maryland not certain in what County and carried to North Carolina Wilkes County he being first duly sworn for that purpose on his oath makes this declaration in order to attain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832 he states he entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War in said County of Wilkes sometime in the early part of the summer of 1777 a volunteer private to serve a tour of_ [blank in original] months under Captain James Morrows [sic, James Morrow] on against the Indians the precise time of entering the service not recollected marched to Cryder's Fort stationed there sometime then marched to various places about the Catawba River and Silver Creek and back to the Fort was finally marched back and verbally discharged by his said Captain he moved to Burke County said State and in the spring of 1778 he again volunteered under Captain Charles Forester to serve three months more and went on to Cathy's Fort and would march up and down the Catawba River and having finished his tour of three months he was verbally discharged by his said Captain and some short time after he again volunteered under his last mentioned Captain and went to said Fort again continued in service about three weeks and was dismissed for a while and returned home, and were shortly called out again he still went a volunteer under said Captain and was in the service a great part of the fall and winter he serving sometimes about twenty days and then about ten days sometimes more and some times less owing to the intervals between times having done the service in detached pieces he cannot state precisely how long he served but according to his best recollection he served not less than nine months against the Indians as a private volunteer he never had any written discharge, he again volunteered and entered the service under Captain Barton [John Barton] as a light horse some time about "twenty days before the battle of King's Mountain and went on and was in said Battle after the battle and after having helped to take care of the wounded he was verbally discharged, having served thirty days or agreeable to his best information making ten months total according to his best recollection he continued to live in Burke County said State until twenty five years ago and has lived in his present neighborhood at the State Line between Kentucky and Tennessee for the last 25 years he has no doubt he can prove his character as a man of veracity and having been Reputed as a soldier of the Revolution by his neighbors generally in the Kentucky side and Tennessee side of the State line he will name Alexander Beaty David Jones Lewis Devault Colonel Bramlett and he has no doubt but by fifty men that has well known him for 25 years though there is no clergyman within his present neighborhood and cannot get one without considerable Trouble, he has no written or documentary evidence of his service and knows of no person by whom he can prove his service he hereby relinquishes his every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension Roll of the To agency of any State. Sworn to & subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid.
Sf Thomas Scott, X his mark