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 and family on the 1870 census in Vicksburg and the 1880 census in Issaquena County.
Signature of Henry P. Scott from a May 1871 letter to the governor’s office
Weekly Mississippi Pilot, January 8, 1870Letter to Governor’s Office, May 20, 1871Letter to Governor’s Office, May 24, 1871Vicksburg Daily Times, February 15, 1872Letter to Governor Powers, July 8, 1872Weekly Democrat-Times, Dec 12, 1874Daily Mississippi Pilot, September 25, 1875Vicksburg Herald, February 2, 1886Weekly Democrat-Times, Oct 1, 1887Daily Commercial Herald, May 2, 1890Vicksburg Evening Post, June 18, 1895