Richard Scott (settler)

Richard Scott
Born	baptized 9 September 1605 Glemsford, Suffolk, England
Died	by 1 July 1679 Providence, Rhode Island
Education	signed his name to documents
Occupation	Shoemaker
Spouse(s)	Katharine Marbury
Children	James, John, Mary, Joseph, Patience, Hannah, Deliverance
Parent(s)	Edward Scott and Sarah Carter

Richard Scott (1605–1679) was an early settler of Providence Plantations in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He emigrated from Berkhamstead in Hertfordshire, England with his wife and infant to Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony where he joined the Boston church in August 1634. By 1637, he was in Providence signing an agreement, and he and his wife both became Baptists for a while. By the mid-1650s, the Quaker religion had taken hold on Rhode Island, and Scott was said to be the first Quaker in Providence.

Scott was married in England to Katharine Marbury, the daughter of the Reverend Francis Marbury and sister of Puritan dissident Anne Hutchinson.

Richard Scott was born 1607 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England, the son of Edward Scott of Glemsford who was a clothier by trade. Records are lacking concerning his childhood, but he appears as a young man in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire where he was married on 7 June 1632 to Katherine Marbury, the daughter of Francis Marbury and a younger sister of Anne Hutchinson.

The couple's first child was baptized in Berkhamstead in March 1634, and within months of this date the young family boarded a ship for New England. It is not known what ship it was. John Austin suggests that it was the Griffin, but Robert Anderson rejects that hypothesis, stating that Richard Scott was admitted to the Boston church on 28 August 1634 while the Griffin did not land until several weeks later.

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