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SCOTT, BENJAMIN (1808-1872)

SCOTT, BENJAMIN, Baptist minister, Newcastle and North Esk, 1853-56; b. Yarmouth, N.S., 23 May 1808, s/o Benjamin Scott Sr and Sarah Dennis; m. 1840, Clementina Bagnall, of Prince Edward Island; d. Truro, N.S., 1 May 1872.

Benjamin Scott was a grandson of David Scott, a native of Lunenburg, Mass., who settled at Yarmouth, N.S., in the early 1770s, and he was a grandnephew of the Rev. Jonathan Scott (1744-1819), the prominent Congregational minister and author, who also lived at Yarmouth between the 1770s and the 1790s.

When Scott was a child he moved with his parents to Port Hood on Cape Breton Island. He was visiting in Yarmouth in 1827-28 while a great Baptist revival was underway, and he was one of 300 who were 'born again' and drawn into the Baptist fold during that event. Upon his return to Cape Breton he began to preach at Mabou and elsewhere in Inverness County. In 1830 he went to Prince Edward Island, and he was ordained there in 1832. He ministered on the Island for twenty-two years, during which time he was associated with half a dozen congregations and promoted the erection of churches in Charlottetown and several other centers.

Scott came to the Miramichi in 1853 under auspices of the Baptist home mission board, after he had spent a year at Shediac, N.B., and had acted to have a church erected there. At Newcastle he made arrangements for a congregation to be organized on 23 August 1853, with a membership of six. At both Newcastle and North Esk "he took a leading and efficient part in the erection of meeting houses." Although still in an unfinished state, the Newcastle church was brought into use in November 1855. The North Esk church which he helped build may have been the successor to one which was standing on the south side of the river when Robert Cooney's history was written and which was lost in a fire in 1845.

Scott returned to Nova Scotia in 1856 and continued his organizational and church building activity in that province with much success. In 1858 he settled at Onslow, near Truro, and he resided there for the last fourteen years of his life. His wife, Clementina Bagnall, was enumerated with him at Onslow in the census of 1871. He remained active until the end, preaching his final sermon only three days before he died.

Sources

[b] Scott vital data; annual 1872 [m] Guardian 15 Apr 1840 [d] annual 1872 / Acadia archives (Miramichi/ Whitneyville Baptist church records); Bill; census (1871, Onslow, N.S.); Commercial World 13 Aug 1953; Cooney (H); DCB (re. Jonathan Scott); Leader 6 Jul 1956, 5 Apr 1978; McCormick research; official death records

Remarques

There are published genealogical works in which the Benjamin Scott who was born at Yarmouth, N.S., on 23 May 1808, a s/o Benjamin Scott Sr, is stated to have been married in 1838 to a Miss Beamish. The Scott/Beamish marriage took place in Trinity Anglican Church in Saint John between a Benjamin Scott, "late of Yarmouth," and Mary Ann Smyth Beamish, recently of Ireland (ref. Wood-Holt, and NB Courier 8 Dec 1838). There is no indication in the data on the marriage that Mr Scott was a Baptist minister or a resident of Prince Edward Island. The genealogical works mentioned do not take account of the 1840 marriage of Benjamin Scott of this sketch to Clementina Bagnall, with whom he subsequently lived for more than 30 years in P.E.I., N.B., and N.S.


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