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SCOTT, Richard, colonist, born in Glemsford, Suffolk, England, in 1607 ; died in Providence, Rhode Island, about, 1681. He was a lineal descendant of John Baliol, founder of Baliol college, Oxford. Scott came to Boston in 1634, married Katharine Mar-bury, sister of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, about 1637, and soon afterward joined Roger Williams. He was co-proprietor with Williams in the latter's purchase from the Indians, and a signer and the supposed author of the celebrated covenant that was made among the settlers of Rhode Island. In 1657 he became a Quaker, and his wife and daughters were whipped and imprisoned in Boston for their faith. He was a commissioner to Massachusetts in 1645 to settle the controversy with that colony in regard to Shawomet, and a deputy to the assembly in 1666.
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