HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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and later removed to Europe, where he 

 died; Josiah Noble, see forward; Jane, 

 who married a ISIr. Lee ; and Samuel 

 Godon, of Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. 



Josiah Noble Scott, second son of Gen- 

 eral Samuel and Mary Ann (Wylie) Scott, 

 born four miles north of Washington, Penn- 

 sylvania, June 26, 1813, was the father of 

 the subject of this sketch. He was but 

 six years of age at the death of his father, 

 and his mother soon after married John 

 D. Lindley, of Lindley's Mills, on Ten- 

 Mile-Run, near the village of Prosperity, 

 where the children of her first husband 

 were reared. On March 8, 1837, Josiah 

 Noble Scott m.arried Rachel Vance, daugh- 

 ter of William and Rachel (Patterson) 

 Vance, of Cross Creek township, Wash- 

 ington county, Pennsylvania, and settled 

 in that township, where they reared a fam- 

 ily of eight children. Mf. and Mrs. Scott 

 were both members of Cross Creek Pres- 

 byterian church, and both lie buried in 

 the graveyard of that church. Their eight 

 children were : Hannah Loretta, married 

 Isaac M. Lavton, who died in 1878, and 

 she later became matron of the boys' board- 

 ing school at Saltsburg, Pennsylvania ; 

 Mary Ann, w'ife of Captain J. B. Hays, 

 of South Bur.'^ettstown, Pennsylvania ; 

 Samuel Clark, wl."" served in the Twenty- 

 second Pennsylvania Cavalry during the 

 civil war, now a re. ident of Lyon county, 

 Kansas ; Orphalina, 'vife of James Fyfe. 

 of Kansas ; Ella, wife of J. Q. Law. of 

 Harrison county, Ohio ; William Vance, 

 of the same place ; Melissa Jane, wife of 

 Samuel S. Campbell ; and Josiah Ernest, 

 the subject of this sketch. 



Rachel (Vance) Scott, the mother of 

 Dr. Scott, was born December 28. 1816, 

 a daughter of William and Rachel (Patter- 

 son) Vance, and was descended in both 

 paternal and maternal lines from early 

 Scotch-Irish settlers on the frontier of 

 Penn.sylvania. Her father, William Vance, 

 was born on the old Vance homestead in 

 Washington county, Pennsylvania, Novem- 

 ber 30, 1775. and was a son of Joseph 

 Vance, and a grandson of William Vance, 

 who was a member of the first committee 

 of observation for Washington county under 

 the committee of safety for that section 

 in 1775. His first wife, Rachel Patterson, 

 was born June 3, 1781, and died January 

 9, 1817; and his second wife was Hannah 

 Patterson, her sister, born 1786, died 1878. 



James Patterson, the maternal great- 

 grandfather of Rachel (Vance) Scott, was 

 born in county Antrim, Ireland, of Scotch 

 parents, in 1708, and emigrated to Pennsyl- 

 vania in 1728. Landing in New York, he 

 made his way to Little Britain township, 

 Lancaster county, where he took up land, 

 a part of which is still in possession of 

 his descendants. After preparing a home 

 in the wilderness he returned to New York 

 in 1732 and married the wife of his choice, 

 whom he had met on his arrival in Amer- 

 ica, and brought her to his Lancaster county 

 farm, where they reared a family of eleven 

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children, several of whom became pioneers 

 in York, Westmoreland, Washington and 

 other frontier counties, as well as in Ken- 

 tucky and Ohio. William Patterson, eldest 

 son of James the founder, born March 14, 

 1733, died June 29. 1818, was the grand- 

 father of Rachel (Vance) Scott. He was 

 twice married, his first wife being Rosanna 

 Scott, of Cecil county, ]\Iaryland. by whom 

 he had three sons — Samuel, Thomas and 

 James. She died April 5. 1769. and he 

 married, August 10, 1770, Elizabeth Brown, 

 who died January 30, 1826. She was the 

 mother of seven children : Nathaniel ; 

 Rachel, born June 3, 1781, married William 

 Vance, December 24. 1799, and died Janu- 

 ary 9, 1817; Elizabeth; Josiah; Hannah, 

 born 17S6. married June 12. 181S, William 

 Vance, died in 1878; Nathan, and Elinor. 

 William Patterson was one of the earliest 

 settlers at Cross Creek, Washington county, 

 Pennsylvania, and a prominent man in that 

 community. William Vance was a farmer 

 in Cross Creek township, and reared a 

 family of fourteen children, nine by the 

 first wife and five by the second, Rachel, 

 the mother of Dr. Scott, being the youngest 

 child of the first marriage. 



Josiah Ernest Scott was born in Wash- 

 ington county, Pennsylvania, September 16, 

 1856, and is a worthy descendant of his 

 Scotch-Irish forbears. He early manifested 

 a taste for study and reading, and with the 

 sturdy persistency of his ancestors set about 

 acquiring an education that would qualify 

 him to fill the position he had chosen for 

 himself in professional life. Mainly by 

 his own efforts he worked his way through 

 normal and other schools into and through 

 the Ohio Weslej'an University at Delaware, 

 Ohio, during the years 1878-1881, repre- 

 senting his literary society on various occa- 

 sions as essayist and orator. On April 26, 

 1882. he married Elizabeth T. Laizure, of 

 Cadiz, Ohio, in whom he found an efficient 

 aid and spur in realizing his cherished 

 ambition for qualifying himself for the pro- 

 fession of a physician. Returning to his 

 native county of Washington, he devoted 

 his summer months to agricultural pur- 

 suits and the winter to study and teaching, 

 for five years. His wife was a fitting 

 helpmeet for the ambitious student. In 

 addition to her household duties she found 

 time to compete for prizes offered by var- 

 ious journals for essays on various sub- 

 jects, and for a time had charge of the 

 woman's department of the National 

 Stockman, published at Pittsburg. In 

 1887 Mr. and Mrs. Scott removed to Phila- 

 delphia, and he entered the medical de- 

 partment of the LTniversity of Pennsyl- 

 vania, from which he graduated with the 

 highest honors as an M. D. en May i, 

 1890. He at once located in New Hope, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he has 

 since practiced his chosen profession with 

 marked success, extending his practice into 

 the adjoining parts of the county and across 

 the river into the state of New Jersey. 

 He has from time to time taken post- 



