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insertion here except the first part, " A JVarrative of the Planting
the Massachusetts Colony Anno 1628," &c. Besides these
tracts there are many intimations of eccentricity in the character
of Mr. Scottow. See "Memoir of Joshua Scottow," by Hon.
Hamilton A. Hill, A.M. Also Sibley's "Harvard Graduates."
The accounts of Capt. Scottow for disbursements during the war
were still unsettled in 1685, when the amount claimed was over two
hundred pounds ; the Court that year voted him a grant of fivehundred
acres of land in the " Province of Mayne in any free place ;"
and in 1686, some delay and trouble about this former grant having
arisen, he was granted five hundred acres in addition in same place
and under the same conditions.
Capt. Scottow left numerous descendants, by his daughters ; in
his will probated March 3d, 1698, he mentions sixteen grand-
children. Thomas Scottow, only surviving son of the Captain, after
graduating at Harvard in 1677, seems to have associated himself
with his father ; he was Recorder of York County in 1686, and signs
as Deputy Register, after that until 1688. In his father's will he is
bequeathed a double portion, which, if he dies without issue, shall
go to his sister Elizabeth Savage. In Mr. Waters's " Genealogical
Gleanings," Part I., page 210, is found Thomas Scottow's will,
which declares him to be "of Boston, Chirurgeon, now bound
forth to sea in the Ship Gerrard of London, Capt. William Dennis,
commander, 14 November 1698," proved 4 September, 1699.
Gives his sister Elizabeth Savage, of New England, all his
real and personal estate in New England. To his "loving friend
Margaret Softley of the Parish of St. Paul, Shadwell, in the County
of Middlesex, widow," all his goods and chattels and estate in the said
ship, and all wages that may be due him for service on the said ship
at the time of his death, in satisfaction of what he shall owe her, at
his death. He appoints her executrix.
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