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John Morin Scott (
1730 New York City -
September 14,
1784 New York City) was a
lawyer,
military officer, and
statesman before, during and after the
American Revolution.
Ancestry
The Scott family descends from Sir John Scott,
Baronet (1648-1712), of
Ancrum,
Roxburghshire in
Scotland, whose second son, Captain John Scott (1678-1740), emigrated to New York City, where he received the rights of citizenship in
1702. He had nine children, the eldest of which was John Scott (1702-1733), a Manhattan merchant, who married Marian Morin (1703-1755), daughter of Huguenot settler Pierre Morin. Their only child was John Morin Scott.
Life
Scott was born in
Manhattan and attended
public school there. His father died when he was three years old, and his mother never remarried.
He graduated
Yale College in
1746, at the age of 16. After further study he was admitted to the New York
bar association in
1752, and practiced law in Manhattan, where he also served as an
alderman from
1756 to
1761.
During the Revolutionary War, John Scott was a member of the
New York Provincial Congress while also serving as a
brigadier general under
George Washington in the
New York and New Jersey campaign. He commanded the 1st New York (Independent)
Battalion, the 2nd New York (
County) Battalion, and several New York
Militia Regiments. He fought with
Putnam's division at the
Battle of Brooklyn on August 27, 1776, and was the last of
Washington's generals to argue against surrendering Manhattan to the British -- possibly due to his large landholdings there, including what is now
Times Square and New York City's
Theater District.
Twenty days later, on September 16, 1776, Scott led the same battalions and regiments at the
Battle of Harlem Heights, an American victory. On October 28, 1776, his forces participated in the inconclusive
Battle of White Plains.
After the war, Scott regained his Manhattan
estate and was a
candidate for the first
governorship of
New York State, losing to
George Clinton. He became, instead, New York's first
Secretary of State, a
state senator, and served as an active
delegate to the
Continental Congress.
His body is
interred at the north entrance of
Trinity Church, New York. His inscribed
slab is visible from the corner of
Wall Street and
Broadway. An
equestrian statue is erected in his honor in
upper Manhattan.
His son,
Lewis Allaire Scott, was appointed Secretary of State of New York in 1789.
Offices, titles, and affiliations
- Sons of Liberty founding member
- New York alderman (1756 - 1761)
- New York General Committee member (1775)
- New York Provincial Congress member (1775 - 1777)
- Brigadier General of the New York Militia during the Revolutionary War
- Member of the State of New York committee to author a state constitution (1776)
- New York State Senator, Southern District (1777 - 1782)
- New York delegate in the Continental Congress (1780 and 1782)
- Secretary of State of New York (1778 - 1784); died in office
Additionally, Scott was
elected Associate Justice of the
State Supreme Court of New York in 1777, but declined.
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