Priscilla Scott
Priscilla Scott was born into slavery. Her owner was John Davis, and she married a man named Robert Carter. They had no children together. She later claimed that she married William Scott in 1868 in Paynesville, Missouri. Scott died of cholera in the summer of 1873, and Priscilla moved to Quincy, Illinois. She applied for a widow's pension. The pension agency, however, determined that she was not William Scott's legal widow, either because their marriage had taken place while they were enslaved, or because they had gotten married without a license, or because William had refused to marry her.
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SOURCES
Pension Records for William Scott, RG15, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
