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book, History of Livingston County, NY, p226 Wm Scott, Peter ROBERTS

James H. Smith, History of Livingston County, NY 1881, from p. 226
Peter ROBERTS re William Scott- "In 1813 he (William Scott) was drafter, but hired a substitute, Peter Roberts, for fifty dollars."

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In the spring of 1811, he went into partnership with Carson Rochester in the carding business at Dansville, in which connection he pursued the business three years until Mr. Rochester, selling his property here, severed the partnership. In 1813 he was drafted, but hired a substitute, Peter Roberts, for fifty dollars. He also volunteered on three occasions of public alarm, one of which was the burning of Buffalo, when he marched under General Wadsworth as far as Batavia. In that same year he built a grist-mill in Scottsburgh in company with his brother.
In 18 14, he became foreman in the cloth dressing establishment of Benjamin Hungerford, in what is now West Sparta, where he remained three
* From Mr. Scott's personal reminiscences"given at a meeting of pioneers of Livingston county, in 1873.

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226 HISTORY OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY.
sylvania to Sparta was considered great in those days, and the journey was attended with severe labor, much of the distance being over rough roads or no roads at all, which in such cases necessitated the cutting of a thoroughfare through the forests. In the fall of the same year in which Mr. Scott and his wife made their prospective trip to Sparta, two of his sons came here and made a small clearing on the land which he had located, on which they built a log cabin, returning the next summer to Pennsylvania. In this cabin the family located in 1806, and commenced their new hfe in the Genesee country, with all the attendant labor and privations of pioneer existence. After a residence of thirty-four years in the town in which he was respected as an honest, energetic and useful citizen, James Scott died in 1840, aged eighty-four. His wife died in 1851.
Upon William Scott fell the mantle of his father's usefulness and influence. For him the village of Scottsburgh was named, which for years was known as CoUartown. Wilham Scott was born July 18, 1790,* in Mount Bethel, Northampton county, Pa., coming with his father to Sparta, as before stated, in i8o6. The year after his arrival here, then sixteen years old, he entered the wool-carding and cloth-dressing establishment of Samuel Culbertson, in Dansville, where he remained nearly three years. At the expiration of his services with Mr. Culbertson, he went to Livonia where he engaged with Russell & Holden at the carding business for eighteen dollars per month. His engagement with the firm lasted until winter only, when he engaged his services to the Norton Mills, now Mendan, and at that time owned by Elder Weeks.

In the spring of 1811, he went into partnership with Carson Rochester in the carding business at Dansville, in which connection he pursued the business three years until Mr. Rochester, selling his property here, severed the partnership. In 1813 he was drafted, but hired a substitute, Peter Roberts, for fifty dollars. He also volunteered on three occasions of public alarm, one of which was
the burning of Buffalo, when he marched under General Wadsworth as far as Batavia. In that same year he built a grist-mill in Scottsburgh in company with his brother.
In 18 14, he became foreman in the cloth dressing establishment of Benjamin Hungerford, in what is now West Sparta, where he remained three
* From Mr. Scott's personal reminiscences"given at a meeting of pioneers of Livingston county, in 1873.

years. At this place began his acquaintance with Millard Fillmore, afterward president of the United States, who had come here to learn the wool carding business. The friendship thus formed lasted through Hfe, a regular correspondtence being kept up between them, and Mr. Scott often visiting Mr. Fillmore at his private residence and at the White House. Mr. Scott, after his three years' service here, went to Arkport, Steuben county, where for one season he carried on the carding works of Judge Hurlburt, receiving as compensation thirtyfive dollars per month and in the succeeding year taking the business on shares. Remaining in Arkport two years, Mr. Scott returned to Sparta in the early part of 1819, and built a house in Scottsburgh which, two years later, he opened as a hotel, continuing in that business until 1826. In 1835 he was elected justice of the peace, holding that office twelve years. In 1836 he was elected member of Assembly and again the succeeding year was returned to that office. He also held in 1847 the position of Justice of Sessions. His associate was John H. Jones of Leicester, Judge Lord occupying the bench as County Judge.
In 1820 Mr. Scott married Phebe Woodruff of Livonia, the result of this union being one child, a son, who died in 1840 at Canandaigua while a student in the academy there. Mrs. Scott died in 1856. Mr. Scott's career of usefulness in this town and county extended over a period of seventy years, and his energy, honesty and manUness formed a character that commanded the respect and esteem of all with whom he came in contact. His death which occurred in Rochester in the spring of 1876,
was widely lamented. He died at St. Mary's hospital in that city, his remains being brought to Scottsburgh for burial. Mr. Scott was eighty-six years old. His brother, Samuel Scott, a highly esteemed citizen, still resides in Sparta, a short distance east of Scottsburgh.
Among other early settlers in Sparta were Hector McKay, Morgan Hammond, and among the settlers from the old country were Archibald McFetridge, Edward Logan, Robert Ross, William Carney, Squire Magee, Henry Havens and Hugh Magee. Morgan Hammond had six sons, two of whom are dead, and only one son, Lester, is now living in Sparta.
Hector McKay was a great friend to the Indians of those early days, and by them was highly esteemed. Two of his sons, Robert and Mordecai, are living in the town ; another son, James, who used

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