History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 551.
[Bourbon County]  [North Middletown Precinct]

JAMES SCOTT, farmer, P. O. North Middletown; is a native of Bourbon
County and was born Dec. 17, 1802, on the premises where he now resides;
his grandfather and family, together with twelve other families, came
down the Ohio River from Pennsylvania in the year 1778, and settled on
what was afterward known as Corn Island, opposite Shippingsport, Ky., (now
a part of Louisville); he built the third cabin in that place in the fall
of that year (1778), but the families composing the little colony were
all driven away by the Indians, and Mr. Scott and family found refuge in
the fort at Harrodsburg; he afterward located 1,000 acres of land on Flat
Creek, in what is now Bath County, but settled in Bourbon County; he
raised four children, three sons and one daughter, and died about the
year 1804.  His eldest son, Robert Scott, settled on a part of his father's
place in Bourbon County, built a cabin and afterward married Miss Ann
Galloway, by whom he had eight children, five boys and three girls. His
second son, James Scott, who is the subject of this sketch, lived upon the
old homestead until 1853, when, on the 23d of September of that year, he
was married to Emeline P. Offutt; this union was blessed with five
children, three of whom are living: Nammie, Emma P., and William Robert.
Mr. Scott has about 570 acres of land well improved; he is a Democrat.
His mother-in-law, Mrs. Offut, lives with him, is ninety-two years old and
remarkably sprightly for one of her years.

Scott Offutt Offut Galloway
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Louisville-Jefferson-KY Mercer-KY PA

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