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Halifax,
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Halifax was the first home in North America
for David Scott and Sarah Jean Dalgity and their three children
and has continued to have a variety of family connection for generations
since, which are still being discovered.
It is believed that the three children - David, John, and Sarah Ann
(generation 2) were raised in Halifax after the death of their father in
1803 when they were all under the age of six. Son David was living
in Halifax in 1825 when his daughter Margaret was born and baptised there. Second son John was married in Windsor, NS in 1823. Very little is known about the period from 1803 and 1823 and is only being
reconstructed from what documents survive from the period and any verbal history which was recorded in letters, a hundred and fifty years
after the actual events.
Among the third generation, Nova Scotia-born David Scott a grandson of Sergeant David operated a mercantile business
in Halifax for a period during the 1870's. A fifth generation member,
Rev. John Redford Scott attended Pine Hill Divinity School in the historic West End of Halifax during 1932-1935
and returned to serve as chaplain at HMCS Stadacona naval base during WWII. Three, sixth generation Scott family members now live or work in Halifax (in 2017).
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