Henry P. Scott

Henry P. Scott (Issaquena County)

State House: 1878-1879

Born: c. 1826 North Carolina
Died: fall 1899 in Issaquena County, MS

Planter. Also served as sheriff (appointed by Governor Alcorn and then reelected) and tax collector of Issaquena County. Estimated birth year varies widely: 1846 in the 1878 House Journal, 1825 on the 1870 census, and 1830 on the 1880 census. Listed with wife Nancy Green and children on the 1870 census in Vicksburg and the 1880 census in Issaquena County.

Scott signed his will on August 13, 1899, and it was probated on October 3. Nancy died in Warren County in 1924.

Signature of Henry P. Scott
Signature of Henry P. Scott from a May 1871 letter to the governor’s office

Links:
Testimony of H.P. Scott before Senate committee, 1876

Letter to S. Thomas, April 17, 1866
Letter to S. Thomas, April 17, 1866
Weekly Mississippi Pilot, January 8, 1870
Letter from Henry P. Scott to the Governor's Office, May 20, 1871
Letter to Governor’s Office, May 20, 1871
Letter from Henry P. Scott to the Governor’s Office, May 24, 1871
Letter to Governor’s Office, May 24, 1871
Vicksburg Daily Times, February 15, 1872
Letter to Governor Powers, July 8, 1872
Letter to Governor Powers, July 8, 1872
Weekly Democrat-Times, Dec 12, 1874
Daily Mississippi Pilot, September 25, 1875
Vicksburg Herald, February 2, 1886
Weekly Democrat-Times, Oct 1, 1887
Weekly Democrat-Times, April 26, 1890
Weekly Democrat-Times, April 26, 1890
Daily Commercial Herald, May 2, 1890
Vicksburg Evening Post, June 18, 1895
Will of H. P. Scott, October 1899
Will of H. P. Scott, October 1899

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