Hannah Scott married Alfred Adams on 10 Jul 1834 in Greenwich. They went on to have Augustus A, Mary Jane (became Stottler), and two boys who died very young. Hannah died on 3 Dec 1842 and shortly thereafter Alfred married her sister Jane; they had Harriett and George.
Lewis Scott married Eliza Clark on the same day as Hannah in the same place with the same preacher. In fact, the original of their marriage certificate includes both couples on the same document. Eliza Clark died a year later and Lewis married Julia Ann Denton in Greenwich in 1837.
Lewis Scott bought land in Greenwich in late 1833, and his brother William did the same shortly thereafter. Lewis was a painter.
Lewis and William were born in Peekskill New York to Elijah Scott and Sarah (possibly Marshall), based on their death certificates.
By 1840 Elijah and Sarah had moved to Greenwich and were living on William's land, possibly in William's home.
William married Mary (?) Mead later. William was a boatman, later owned his own sloop.
Census records for 1810 show Elijah with a wife (judging from her age) and 2 daughters under 10.
Census records for 1820 show Elijah with a wife (judging from her age), 1 girl b before 1810, and 2 boys and 2 girls b 1810-1820.
The boy is William. Lewis has apparently been farmed out, or apprenticed: he was about 9. We know he was a member of this household from his death certificate, we just don't know where he is at the moment. The younger girls are the right ages to be Hannah and Jane. We don't know who the oldest girl is, nor do we know what happened to the other girl who was in the 1810 census.
What we need is to verify that Hannah and Jane were these two girls. We would also like to know who the older girls were.
For now it seems the overwhelming proponderance of evidence suggests that Elijah and Sarah were the parents of Hannah and Jane. But we don't know. Death certificates would help.
There are other circumstantial pieces of evidence, but we need a Rosetta Stone tying them all together.
Or do you think the wedding on the same day is such a link?
I should also mention that the Stottlers have in their family lore a story that Alfred's marriage to Hannah's sister Jane was prearranged. The fact that Alfred married first a Hannah Scott and then a Jane Scott, and that Elijah has two daughters of the right age is highly suggestive. Is it enough?
In 1830, the census for Peekskill (under Cortlandt, Westchester Co) NY shows Elijah and wife with a dau 5-10 and another 10-15. The latter is certainly Jane (if Elijah was her father), and we don't know who the other one was. Hannah (in this scenario) was somewhere else, age about 17, and not to be married for 4 years. Possibly farmed out.
According to church records in Stamford, Jane Scott became a member of that church in 1840, suggesting she had moved to Stamford. Hannah and Alfred were living in Stamford from at least 1838, and were there at the time of Hannah's death in late 1842 and Jane's marriage to Alfred in early 1843. We do not have any documentation that states that Jane who married Alfred was a Scott, but family lore suggests that was the case.
Summary:
We know that Elijah and Sarah were the parents of Lewis and William (from death certs).
We know that Elijah and Sarah moved to Greenwich after 1830 and before 1840, and lived at William's.
We know Lewis bought land in 1833 and William in 1834 in Greenwich.
We know Lewis and Hannah were married at the same time as each other in July 1834 in Greenwich.
We know that Elijah and Sarah had children the same ages as Lewis, William, Sarah, and Jane, and had three other daughters we don't know by name.
See the Adams Family Tree for documents.
What do you think? Please comment!
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