Soldiers in King Philip's war. Containing lists of the soldiers of ...

No. XXIV.
CAPT. JOSHUA SCOTTOW AND HIS MEN.
JOSHUA SCOTTOW came to Boston with his mother Thoma-
*J sine, who joined the church September 21, 1634. He with
his brother Thomas joined the church May 19, 1639. He married
Lydia , and had Joshua, b. Sept 30, 1641, and died soon ;
Joshua, b. Aug. 12, 1643 ; Lydia, bap. June 29, 1645 ; Elizabeth,
b. July 29, 1647; Rebecca, b. October 10, 1652; Mary, b. May
11, 1656; Thomas, June 30, 1659, grad. H. C. 1677. Capt.
Scottow was of the Artillery Company in 1645, Ensign in 1656,
and Capt. afterwards. Elizabeth Scottow m. Thomas, son of Major
Thomas Savage, and had a large family. Rebecca m. Benjamin
Blackman, April 1, 1675, and Mary m. Samuel Checkley.
Capt. Scottow was a very energetic man, an enterprising and
eminently prosperous merchant. He was largely engaged in foreign
commercial transactions, and from 1654-7 was the confidential agent
of La Tour in his business with our colony.
In 1660 Mr. Scottow bought of Abraham Jocelyn, of Blackpoint,
two hundred acres of land, including the hill since known as " Scottoway's
Hill ;" and in 1666 he purchased of Henry Jocelyn the " Cammock
Patent," which at the granting to Thomas Cammock in 1631
consisted of fifteen hundred acres of land lying between the Black-
point and Spurwink rivers. Cammock left his entire estate to his
friend Henry Jocelyn, with the care of his widow during her life.
Jocelyn married the widow Margaret, and some twenty years afterwards
conveyed the property as above, together with seven hundred
and fifty acres outside the Patent, remaining upon it, however, as
agent for Mr. Scottow. Capt. Scottow removed to Blackpoint
settlement about 1670, and engaged with great energy in improving
his property there, and in his fishing and commercial transactions.