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	1785 St. ndrew's Society Bios Bklyn
		JOHN He was the second son of Sir John Rutherfurd of Edgerston, Roxburghshire, and Elizabeth Cairncross, and was baptized June 12th, 1712.
		JOHN Vice-President 1770-71; President 1771-72 John Watts was the son of Robert Watts, of Rose Hill, near Edinburgh, and Mary, eldest daughter of William Nicoll, of Islip, Long Island.
		(114) CAMPBELL, COLONEL JOHN Colonel Campbell of Glendaruel was appointed Ensign in the 42nd, Royal Highlanders, in 1745, Lieutenant in 1748, Captain-Lieutenant in 1759, Captain in 1760, Captain 27th Inniskilling regiment in 1762, Major Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Quebec in 1773, Lieutenant-Colonel in 1777, and Colonel in 1790.
	www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Society/1785.St.Andrew.Bio.html (13187 words)

	John Morin Scott Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Papers of John Morin Scott, Pennsylvania state representative in the late 1830s.
		The collection consists of a large number of letters between Scott and his wife, ca.1820-1845.
		Scott includes some stray comments on political matters, but the correspondence is primarily concerned with personal and family matters.
	www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/S/ScottJM.html (61 words)

	Scots in Business and Philanthropy
		John Morin Scott (1730-1784) was born in New York City, the grandson of Sir John Scott, of Ancrum, Roxburghshire.
		John Morin Scott was graduated in 1746 from Yale and became the most noted lawyer of his day in the Province.
		John Stewart Kennedy (1830-1909) was a native of Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/descendants/chap15.htm (1153 words)

	Perseus Lookup Tool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Scott, John Morin.; To the freeholders and freemen of the City and County of New-York.
		Whereas at a very considerable meeting of freeholders and freemen of various denominations, in the evening of Tuesday the third instant, it was unanimously determined to preserve, if possible, the peace of this city, by preventing a contested election for members to serve in the next General Assembly...
		it was thereupon unanimously resolved that Philip Livingston, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Theodorus Van Wyck, and John Morin Scott Esqrs, be declared candidates for the ensuing election...
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/vor?lookup=Theodoros (700 words)

	Sullivan - History of New York State 1523-1927
		John Morin Scott, who had been an aspirant for the office when Jay was appointed in 1777 and had refused the puisne judgeship, afterwards offered to and accepted by John Sloss Hobart, was either not now offered Jay's mantle or again refused judicial office.
		For instance, in 1795 the venerable John Rutledge, who was to succeed John Jay as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, could not hold back his angry thoughts; he said that Jay was either a fool or a knave.
		Robert R. Livingston, J. Scott, Morris, R. Yates, Jay and Hobart a committee "to prepare and report a plan for organizing and establishing the Government agreed to by the Convention." On May 8, 1777, this plan was adopted.
	www.courts.state.ny.us /history/elecbook/sullivan/pg6.htm (9891 words)

	The Supreme Court Historical Society
		Combined with evidence presented earlier about the influence of John Jay on the actions taken by the Court in its first term, it is not too much to suggest that the assertion of strong leadership during the Court’s first decade set the stage for the role that John Marshall would assume next.
		John Tucker was, at that time, one of two clerks of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
		John Rutledge was absent for the entire term, Robert H. Harrison had resigned on January 21, 1790 (Library of Congress Special Collection, RG 233, National Archives).
	www.supremecourthistory.org /04_library/subs_volumes/04_c20_d.html (3525 words)

	Adams Electronic Archive : John Adams diary 21, 15 August - 3 September 1774 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Scott is a Lawyer, of about 50 years of Age, a sensible Man, but not very polite.
		Scott was censuring McDougal in a friendly free Way for not insisting upon choosing Delegates by Ballot, andc.
		Scott and Livingston are said to be lazy.
	www.masshist.org /DIGITALADAMS/AEA/cfm/doc.cfm?id=D21 (7929 words)

	Kingston, First Captial of New York
		John Jay was Chairman, and his associates were Governor Morris, Robert R. Livingston, William Duer, Abraham and Robert Yates, General Scott, Colonel Broome, Mr.
		John Jay, true to his Huguenot recollections and training, threw the weight of his great influence and ability on the side of restriction.
		John Adams expressed the opinions of the best and greatest men of the day when he wrote to John Jay that it exceeded all others in its wisdom.
	www.threerivershms.com /kingston.htm (11469 words)

	BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
		His most famous case was his unsuccessful defense of the newspaperman John Peter Zenger, against the charge of libel.
		A Scot and a Presbyterian minister, John Witherspoon became the sixth President of the College of New Jersey (Princeton) in 1768.
		The journalist John Peter Zenger was arrested in the Fall of 1734 for alleged libelous statements against Governor Cosby in some issues of the New York Weekly Journal, of which he was publisher.
	beatl.barnard.columbia.edu /kingsv1/biosketches.htm (4791 words)

	Lectures: The United States of America One-Dollar Bill
		On August 20 the committee reported its design to Congress; but the report was tabled, and for three years and a half no further action was taken.
		On March 25, 1780, the report of the first committee was referred to a new committee consisting of James Lovell, John Morin Scott, and William Churchill Houston.
		In the spring of 1782, a third committee, composed of Arthur Middleton, John Rutledge, and Elias Boudinot with the assistance of William Barton, A.M., reported a third design for a Seal to Congress which was also found not satisfactory.
	www.geocities.com /lodge34/torrione_ldg.One_Dollar.html (1659 words)

	James Riker: History of Harlem, Chapter XXIV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Morin Scott), and attained to near 90 years, as one who knew him informed us, died August 31, 1807.
		John Meyer (50) was many years town clerk, we believe the last holding that office here.
		John G., born August 30, 1800, married Ellen Kip, November 3, 1825, but died without issue, March 15, 1834.
	home.comcast.net /~t.r.valentine/riker24myer.html (4855 words)

	“The trial of Zenger in 1735 was the germ of American freedom, the morning star of that liberty which subsequently ...
		However, John Peter Zenger was uneducated, and therefore unaware of the scandal or politics of the controversial paper he was printing.
		After Bradley finished, Zenger’s lawyer, John Chambers, spoke to the jurors on what libel was and told them that he doubted it could be proven what person wrote the libelous statements.
		This weekly magazine advocated liberties and opposed "superstition, bigotry, priestcraft, tyranny, servitude, public mismanagement, and dishonesty in office." In one editorial by Livingston, entitled "Of the Use, Abuse, and Liberty of the Press," a distinction was drawn between two uses of the press- legitimate and illegitimate.
	www.harwich.edu /depts/history/HHJ/zen.html (5839 words)

	A Page about Freemasonry: Masonry in US History -- through 1846
		The Congress was composed of fifty-six delegates, thirty-two of whom are known to be Masons.(29) On June 12, 1776, a committee was appointed to draw up a plan for a union of the states consisting of one delegate from each state.
		Since the government of the United States bears such a startling similarity to the government of the Masonic fraternity, both in theory and in structure, it is difficult to ascribe the similarity to coincidence.
		In the spring of 1782 a third committee, composed of Arthur Middleton, John Rutledge, and Elias Boudinot with the assistance of William Barton, A.M. reported a third design for a seal to Congress which was found not satisfactory.
	web.mit.edu /dryfoo/Masonry/Essays/jdcarter.html (8422 words)

	The United States of North America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Holker, were laid before Congress and read; one dated at Philadelphia, 15 July, 1778, appointing him, the said John Holker, inspector general of trade and manufactures of France, and agent to the royal marine of France in all the ports belonging to the United States of North America.
		The other, dated Philadelphia, 15 July, 1778, appointing him, the said John Holker, inspector general of trade and manufactures of France, consul of France in the port of Philadelphia: Whereupon two resolutions were moved.
		Nathaniel Scudder and John Fell, Esquires, or any one or more of them, to Represent and vote in Behalf of this State, in the Congress of the United States of North America, untill the first day of December next, unless a new Appointment shall sooner take place.
	home.earthlink.net /~walterk1/Patr/US/USNA.html (2254 words)

	NYSL: A Brief Resume of its History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		IN MARCH 1754, six public-spirited young New Yorkers, William Alexander, Philip, Robert, and William Livingston, John Morin Scott, and William Smith, conceived the idea of establishing a good and useful library in the city of New York.
		It is thus that the Library still possesses (shared in part with the New York Public Library archives) the record of its history from the beginning and a part of the first public library in New York.
		Other special collections are the Governor John Winthrop collection on chemistry and alchemy, shared with the New York Academy of Medicine, the Hammond Collection of fiction published between 1750 and 1830, and the John C. Green Art Collection.
	www.nysoclib.org /history1.html (1540 words)

	Quintin Publications \| Family Genealogies Letter S (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Scott Family Letters: The Letters of John Morin Scott and His Wife, Mary Emlen Scott: With Notes Relating to Them, Their Ancestors and Their Descendants.
		Dorothea Scott, Otherwise Gotherson and Hogben, of Egerton House, Kent: 1611-1680.
		Descendants of William Scott of Hatfield, Massachusetts, 1668-1906, and of John Scott of Springfield, Massachusetts, 1959-1906., Allen, Orrin P (1906) Title
	www.quintinpublications.com /familygenealogies_sc.html (1238 words)

	Chronology20
		It took only about six hours for the full evacuation of the 9,500 men along with all their equipment, provisions and horses to be completed.
		The Congress debated the issue and, on the 5th, replied with the answer that as "repreƒenta-tives of free and independent ƒtates of America" it would not be proper for any of the delegates to meet with General Howe as private citizens.
		A committee of three (John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Edward Rutledge) was appointed to travel northward to the British camp on Long Island to confer with General Howe.
	www.motherbedford.com /Chronology20.htm (3821 words)

	Print Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		“Who can prize life without Liberty?” That was the question posed by John Morin Scott (1730-1784), founder of the New York Sons of Liberty, as he waited for the American Revolution to reach the city in November 1775.
		War began to seem inevitable, a shift recorded in this letter fragment (GLC09061) from Scott to Richard Varick (1753-1831), the future mayor of New York, among whose papers this last and only surviving page was preserved.
		Scott captures the flight of a panicked citizenry and alludes to the rise of the Whigs in the newly elected Second New York Provincial Congress, of which he was a member.
	www.gilderlehrman.org /collection/print/print_Scott_Liberty.html (350 words)

	Second Committee's Design for the Great Seal of the United States - 1780 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Continental Congress formed a second committee on March 25, 1780 –; four years after the first committee made its report.
		The other two members were John Morin Scott (New York) and William Churchill Houston (New Jersey).
		The committee sought the assistance of Francis Hopkinson, the prominent and gifted Philadelphian who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and designed the new American flag that Congress adopted in 1777.
	www.greatseal.com /committees/secondcomm/index.html (268 words)

	Mayors of Philadelphia
		John Barker 21; Robert Wharton 8; John Geyer 2
		John Geyer 21; Robert Wharton 4; John Barker 4
		On 2 February 1854, the Act of Assembly passed by the Pennsylvania Assembly which called for the Consolidation of the city and county of Philadelphia into one political and geographical unit was approved by the governor of Pennsylvania, William Bigler.
	www.phila.gov /PHILS/Mayorlst.htm (1095 words)

	usnews.com: The People's Vote: Original Design of the Great Seal of the United States (1782)
		The committee members—Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams—prepared a very complicated design that was promptly tabled by Congress.
		In 1780, a second committee—James Lovell of Massachusetts and John Morin Scott and William Churchill Houston of Virginia—developed a second design, but it was also tabled by Congress.
		Like the first design, the second had elements that were later incorporated into the final seal, including the olive branch, the constellation of 123 stars, and the shield with red and white stripes on a blue field.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/documents/docpages/document_page5.htm (430 words)

	Robert Erskine
		However his arrival was misunderstood as being a move by London to keep surveillance on John Jacob Faesch, who had been managing Ringwood since the recall of Peter Hasenclever in 1769.
		On 24 March 1773 Robert Erskine was appointed along with John Jacob Faesch to the office of local magistrate by the Governor of the Province of New Jersey.
		After expressing his regrets about the convenience experienced by the British in finding an open and comparatively free channel, he proposed that his tetrahedron be studied as a possible contrivance to be used to stop British commerce on the Hudson River.
	www.ringwoodnj.net /erskine1.htm (3282 words)

	Bibliography
		The Correspondence of John Cleves Symmes, Founder of the Miami Purchase.
		Powell, John H. "John Dickinson, Penman of the American Revolution." Ph.D. dissertation, State University of Iowa, 1938.
		Ancestors of Willard Atherton Nichols Who Participated in the Civil and Military Affairs of the American Colonies and those who were Soldiers in the Continental Armies during the War of the Revolution and those who served in the War of 1812.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/RevWar/ss/biobibs.htm (3433 words)

	Chapter 7: Perserverance to Victory
		John Habersham recruited some pardoned Loyalists, but Congress took no formal action in regard to the regiment since the regiment never reached operational strength.
		Hints that Congress might renounce the promise of half-pay made earlier in the war led General McDougall, accompanied by Col. John Brooks and Col. Matthias Ogden, to carry a petition to Philadelphia in January.
		John Trumbull finished his series of paintings of historic moments from the Revolution with this depiction of the moment when Washington returned his commission as commander in chief to the Continental Congress, then sitting at Annapolis, Maryland.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/revwar/contarmy/CA-07.htm (13566 words)

	Amazon.com: Scott family letters;: The letters of John Morin Scott and his wife, Mary Emlen Scott; with notes relating ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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		Scott family letters;: The letters of John Morin Scott and his wife, Mary Emlen Scott; with notes relating to them, their ancestors and their descendants (Unknown Binding)
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		The letter is a twenty-page document relating to a complaint that was brought to the Philadelphia School Board's attention concerning the misconduct of one of their teachers, identified as Mr.
		Richard campaigned in several mayoral elections, losing to John Morin Scott in 1842, John Swift in 1848, and Robert T. Conrad in 1854.
		A letter from 1859 requested his attendance at a meeting given by John Beeson, Chairman of the New York Indian Aid Association, to hear of the sufferings and wrongs of the aboriginal tribes.
	www2.hsp.org /collections/manuscripts/v/vaux684.xml (9356 words)

	Sixteen Small Stones: The Great Seal of the United States
		In one of its first post-declaration actions, the Continental Congress formed a new committee comprised of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, all of whom had been key participants in drafting the declaration.
		John Adams suggested that the seal employ an allegorical engraving by Simon Gribelin known as “The Choice” which depicts young Hercules as feminine personifications of Virtue and Vice attempt to convince him of one path over the other.
		It was comprised of James Lovell from Massachusetts, John Morin Scott from New York, and William Churchhill Houston from New Jersey.
	www.sixteensmallstones.org /the-great-seal-of-the-united-states (2079 words)

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