There's a lot of family trees out there claiming that Nancy Rainer Scott Clark is the daughter of Marmaduke and Miriam Jackson Scott, but I have this feeling that she isn't and that is a myth that continues on.
Now before you go to the reply button and starting going all bananas, I have some evidence about the real Nancy Scott, daughter of Marmaduke and Mary Polly Jackson Scott. You, too, can view it on Family Search and/or Ancestry in Marmaduke's AND Mary Polly's estate files. (Marmaduke's file is over 100 pages.)
All of the images on the right show that the Nancy mentioned in Marmaduke's will and his estate files, as well as Mary Polly's files clearly show she married Allen B. Jones.
I did find Allen B. Jones in the 1820 and 1830 census of Pasquotank County. She looks to have been born between 1800 and 1810 and she is also referred to as an orphan in one dated 1819, meaning that she was under 18 or 21 at the time. That also makes me wonder if she got married in either 1819 or 1820.
I also have to ask this question about Nancy Rainer Scott Clark (who was born about 1784 since she reported in the 1850 census that she was 66, despite some one's attempt to make her born in 1794 on Find a Grave). If my research serves me well, Rainer is not a girl's name. It is a boy's name as well as surname. Was her real maiden name Rainer, she married a Scott, he died, and she remarried Barney Clark? Another option is that her middle name was Luranny, a popular name that I have seen in numerous records for the time in Pasquotank County and it got messed up in translation.
I did find a Richard Rainer in a nearby county. Is this her father? A relative? Maybe just a coincidence?
The information I have came from typed notes given to me by Dot Scott, the wife of William Lloyd Scott, after he had passed away. The notes are from the family Bible of the Clark family. I am not sure where that Bible is now, but would love to have scans or photographs of the original pages to study.
I met Lloyd Scott when I was about 13 or 14. I remember him well. They lived outside of Ovid/New Columbus, Indiana. He had been working on the family genealogy for years. I remember his "book" (which Dot kept and I'm not sure where it is now) and all the notes he had. As I recall, he had assumed that Nancy as well as Miriam Meedie Davis were the ones mentioned in the will, but what Lloyd didn't have (nor I at the time) was access to the estate files on-line.
I understand that genealogy can be frustrating, but I would like to clear this one up. Don't we owe it to Nancy to make sure she is connected to the right person? If you've got the hard-core evidence, in other words, unmistakable primary documents that says she was the daughter of Marmaduke Scott, bring them forward.
If not, remember this. Maramduke was not the only Scott in Pasquotank County, North Carolina. He had brothers and sisters and cousins and aunts and uncles, some of whom came here to Indiana as well as further points west. So the big challenge is to find the right branch of the family to put her.
Sorry, if this offends any of Nancy's descendants, but being the research librarian and historian that I am by chosen profession, I expect to see primary resources that support theories. As I mentioned before, the images on the right are in the estates files. You can see them for yourself on Ancestry or Family Search. I can send links, but you're going to have to pay a subscription to Ancestry, but Family Search is free (with some restrictions on some collections). You just need to set up an account.
CSM
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