David Scott

8 October 2026 — Direct-line research update

Cemetery transcription p. 181 records David Scott, died 12 November 1868, age 89 years, 10 months, 25 days. Record the reported age without silently replacing any competing birth date.

Evidence and limits B08 — Upper Octorara historical cemetery transcriptions. Historical cemetery transcription; printed page images inspected, not gravestone photographs. J. Smith Futhey, Historical discourse delivered on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Upper Octorara Presbyterian Church (1870), cemetery appendix pp. 167, 175–176, 179–182. https://archive.org/details/cu31924028852452

Earlier archive notes (preserved): David Scott 4th great-grandfather of James 1981 genealogy; corroborated by independent compiled genealogy Birth: 17 Dec 1778 Death: 12 Nov 1868 Recorded parents: Thomas Scott , Sarah Hope . Relationship estimate: 95% — uncertain. Father Thomas explicitly names son David in his will; family register connects this David to the pedigree. Wife Sarah is named, but the will alone does not explicitly state she is David’s mother; maternal estimate remains 90% using the family register. Corrected: the family register lists David and John Scott Jr. as brothers, both sons of Thomas Scott and Sarah Hope. The previous direct-parent link to John Scott Jr. was erroneous. Original registered copy of Thomas’s 1806 will now independently supports the corrected father-son link. David had already received land; the additional one-dollar bequest should not be read by itself as disinheritance. Sources: HISTORY · WALDRON · THOMAS1806