Joseph Warren Scott

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Joseph Warren Scott (November 21, 1778 – April 27, 1871) Colonel in U.S. Army who lived in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

He was born to Moses Scott, the senior surgeon during the US Revolutionary War. Moses named Joseph Warren Scott I, for his friend Joseph Warren who died during the Battle of Bunker Hill. Joseph graduated from Princeton University in 1795, then married Jane Griffiths (c1780-1821) and had a daughter: Lavinia Agnes Scott, who married Richard Varick Dey. Joseph obtained a law degree, and, in 1821, he bought "The White House" in New Brunswick, New Jersey and named it Buccleuch.

In 1808, he was a Captain in the Middlesex Regiment and served in the War of 1812. In 1829, he was promoted to Colonel. He was the oldest member of the New Jersey bar when he died in New Brunswick at the age of 93.

References[edit]

  • A.D. Jewett; Address delivered at the funeral of Joseph Warren Scott, May 4, 1871. Published by the American Whig Society of Princeton, New Jersey (1871)
  • Everett R Turnbull, Ray V Denslow; A History of Royal Arch Masonry Part Two ISBN 1-4179-5005-6
  • Francis Bazley Lee; New Jersey as a Colony and as a State: One of the Original Thirteen