Joseph Warren Scott

Military Person

1778 – 1871

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Who was Joseph Warren Scott?

Joseph Warren Scott 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 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.

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Born
Nov 21, 1778
Education
  • Princeton University
Lived in
  • New Brunswick
Died
Apr 27, 1871
New Brunswick

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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