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The Fourth Generation (1st, 2nd and 3rd Boston Line)
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The family had produced two major branches by the second generation (Pittsburgh branch & Boston-Canada branch) and the third generation established the nine major lines.  The nine families with descendants formed the current lines or clans within the family.

Boston after 1849, continued to be home for three of the nine lines.  The 1st, 2nd and 3rd Boston families are the focus of current research.  Some of these families lines have reached the ninth generation of descendants to live in North America.

Besides the three lines which left descendants there were other members of the Boston clan who played a key role in maintaining connects among the families.  Thomas Albert Scott (1840-1911) and his wife Amelia were a key link to the Nova Scotia family and hosted important social events for family members.  Always known as T. Albert Scott or Uncle Albert he was an accountant in Boston who lived at Post Office Square at 38 Roslin St. and enjoyed a level of comfort that impressed his namesake nephew John Albert Scott who arrived in late December 1907 to marry his boyhood love, Lillian Jane Harvey. Lily as she was known, had moved from Ste. Croix, Nova Scotia to study and enjoyed a career in Boston as a nurse.  Uncle Albert the congenial host made sure the couple had a good send off from their marriage on New Year's Eve at 1st Presbyterian Church Boston.  A silver service tea set was his gift to the newly weds as Lillian and John headed home to Nova Scotia to start married life.

John Albert Scott, whose middle name honoured his kindly uncle, would long recall the generosity of his Boston cousins who lavished gifts and much attention upon a relative he had never met before.  Despite the fact that Albert and Amelia had no children, his name would not to be forgotten as John Albert Scott's grandson Albert Frederic Scott today carries the familiar name in Nova Scotia.

Thomas Albert Scott having no descendants, drafted a will listing all his relatives, which became the framework to conduct genealogical research a century later and played a key role in linking family past and present.

The members of the fourth generation in the Boston lines are the focus of this chapter and thus they will be highlighted in coloured text (green).

The 1st Boston line was headed in the third generation by John Adams Scott & Sarah Sargent (Long) Scott.  John Jr. a blacksmith who worked in the family carriage factory had come from Nova Scotia in 1846 prior to the arrival of his family. He was a young man and worked in the carriage building trade eventually owning his own shop.  Their five children included:

Although the fourth generation included five individuals, it appears that collectively only two descendants survived childhood to form the fifth generation of their line.
 

Mildred O. Scott (1853-1915) did not marry and her sister Mary Elizabeth Scott (1850-1874) died at the age of 24 while their sister Jessie Fremont Scott (1858-1935) lost her only child when he was age 17.  Court documents of the day indicate she was the victim of an act of violence at the hands of her husband of August 21, 1910 when:

"the said Thomas E. Spear seized your petitioner by the throat and choked her, while she was ill and hysterical, and next day left her alone in a lonely house in the country;  and has ever since refused and neglected to support her, although of ample means, and has violently ejected her when trying to enter his home in said Boston, and refused to allow her to enter his home."
The courts ruled in favour of Jessie (Scott) Spear and she was granted on Oct 28, 1910:  

"The within petition is hereby continued, for further hearing.  Pending the final determination of said petition, it is ordered that the respondent pay to the petitioner the sum of twenty seven dollars in each and every month.  It is further ordered that the respondent pay to the petitioner the sum of twenty-five dollars forthwith for costs and expenses"

By 1919 the same Thomas Spear, an inspector of gas meters who last resided at 24 Winthrop St. Boston the same address that Jessie is listed as living at, died and his estate which was probated, amounted to $5,445.37.  Jessie was appointed administrator of the estate. She lived another sixteen years.
           4 Jessie Fremont Scott b. 7 Nov 1858 Boston d. 10 Jul 1935 Boston
        m. Thomas Edward Spear b. 22 Mar 1850 Boston d. 12 May 1919 Boston, [son of Robert Spear and Eliza Mills]
        5 Harold S. Spear b. 1882 Boston d. 29 Sep 1899 Boston, Mass.


Jessie's, brother John Franklin Scott married Jemima L. Guthrie and their son John Adams Scott gained a family name which would be often reused. Although not the first of his line to have the name, for genealogical purposes he is called John Adams Scott I.  His grandfather is often distinguished by using his Civil War title as Capt. John Adams Scott and sometime in reference to his own dad called John Jr. and to clarify when we speak of his cousin in Illinois we tend to use the title Dr. John Adams Scott.  Eventually the son and grandson of John Adams Scott I were called John II and John III.  Military records for service of John Adams Scott III in Viet Nam indicate that he used that full name.

  4 John Franklin Scott b.1860 Boston Mass. d. 2 Jan 1942 Quincy, Mass.
        m. Jemima L. Guthrie m. 13 May 1884 Somerville, Mass  b. [28 JAN 1857]? Boston South, Mass. d. 29
Aug 1923 Quincy, Mass
        5 John Adams Scott I b. 8 Jul 1885 Newton, Mass recorded Boston d. 23 Jul 1960 Cape Cod Hospital, Mass
          m. unknown _____
          m. Elsie Maud Hill m. 25 SEPT 1920 Norwich, Vermont  b. [24 JAN 1884] Hartford, Vermont d. 6 Mar 1964 Yarmouth, Mass

Through this second marriage, two sons were born to form the fifth generation


William Jackson Scott like his father Capt. John Adams Scott was a carriage maker. He married Caroline (Tyner) Scott had one child, William Jackson Scott.  Effort to research this family have not yielded results as they disappear from records in the Boston area. Possibly they relocated like other family members. William Jackson Scott survived childhood and was 14 years old in 1910 when listed in the will of T. Albert Scott. Research continues on this family.
 

 4 William Jackson Scott b. 1 Apr 1862 Roxbury, Mass.
        m. Caroline M. Tyner m. 28 Mar 1883 Boston  b. 1862 Boston, Mass.
        5 William Tyner Scott b. 24 Apr 1886 Boston, Mass 
 A Family from Forfar - Chapter 4.2
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