Scotopites, one of the many names of the Cir- cumcellions (tj. v.). It is found in Isidore Hispalen- sis, and in Gratian's Decretals, II, xxiv, 3.
Scott, Andrew J., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Pliiladelphia, Pa., about 1846. His conversion occurred when he was sixteen, and he was received on trial by the New Jersey Con- ference in 1866. but was soon disabled by disease which resulted in his death, Jan. 2, 1871. Mr. Scott was affable, kind, and sincere, and as a minister be-
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Scott, Archibald, a Presbyterian minister, was a native »( Scotland, and migrated in liis bovhood and alone to the colony of Pennsylvania, about 17(50. He is said to have been originallj' a laboring man, and to have pored over his books while his horses were feeding. Dr. Cooper, a worthy physician of the colony, being im- pressed with Scott's remarkable aptitude for learning, ■was instrnmental in introducing him into the family and school of a Jlr. Finley, where he enjoyed the ad- vantages of a thorough academical education, which he compensated for in some measure by working on the farm. During the period of his connection with this school he joined the Presbyterian Church, and, for the time, began to entertain some thoughts of entering the ministry. He was for several years a student of the- ology under the supervision of principal Graham, of Liberty Hall Academy, and during this period support- ed himself by conducting an academy of high reputation in Augusta County, Va., at which Dr. Campbell laid the foundation of his accurate scholarship. He was licensed to preach by the Hanover Presbytery, Oct. 31, 1777, and was ordained and installed pastor of the united churches of Hebron and Bethel, in Augusta County, in December, 1778, which relation continued for more than twent}' years, and was at last dissolved by his death, March 4, 1799. !Mr. Scott's charge was a verv scattered one, com- prehending a district some twenty miles square. Like most of his brethren, he also had a very inadeipiate sal- ary during the Revolution ; but he never suffered anj'- ■ thing to divert him from his great work as a minister of the Gospel. " He entered warmly into the American cause, and exhorted his people to tight fi>r freedom. It was his practice to assemble all the children and youth of his charge in tlifferent neighborhoods on week-days, to attend to catechetical instruction. It was in this employment that he was engaged on that memorable Saturday of June when the alarm of the approach of colonel Tarleton and his British dragoons spread con- sternation from Staunton throughout the surrounding valley of Virginia. It is said that ^Ir. Scott, like his two neighboring brethren, Graham and Hrowii, exhort- ed the stripling youths of his congregation to arm them- selves and go with their neighbors, to stand wdth their arms at Rock Fish Gap, on the Blue Ridge ;Mountains, to dispute the pass with the invader and his legion." It was the recollection of that stand that gave occasion to those memorable words of general Washington — " If I should be beaten by the British forces, 1 will retreat with my broken army to the Blue Ridge and call the Itoys of West Augusta around me, and there I will plant the flag of my country." Mr. Scott was greatly be- loved and esteemed in his day. He possessed a logical and discriminating mind, and was a strong, vigorous thinker; his preaching is said to have been in a high degree instructive, and often eloquent and powerful. He attached much importance and devoted much time to the religious instruction of the young. Resides the Shorter Catechism which he used, he introduced what was known as The Mother's Catechism, a work extend- ing to 32 pp. 8vo, the appendix of which he wrote him- self. See Sprague, Annals of the A mer. Pulpit, iii, 387 ; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v. ; David- son, Hist, of the Fresh. Church in Kentucky, p. 29 ; Foote, Sketches of Virginia (2d scries). (J. L. S.)
Scott, Charles W., a minister of the Methodist Episco|ial Church, was born in Morgan (bounty, ()., May 10, 181.i, and joined the Church in his eighteenth year. He was admitted into the Pittsburgh Conference in 1866 ; was superannuated in 1874, ami died of consump- tion, .Jan. 28, 1875. He was studious, careful, amiable, devout, and conscientious. See Minutes of A miual Con- ferenres, 1875, ]3. 36.
Scott, Daniel, a Dissenting minister, the son ol a merchant in London, was educated with Butler and
Seeker under a ^Ir. Jones, at Tewkesburj', Gloucester- shire, from whose semmary he removed to L'trecht, in Holland, where he took the degree of LL.D. While there he changed his views concerning the mode of baptism, and became a Baptist. Returning to lingland, he settled in London, or Colchester, and devoted his time to writing. He was never married, and died sud- denly in retirement near London, March 29, 1759. His works are. Essay towards a Demonstration of the Script- ure Trinity (Anon. 1725, 1738) : — A New Version of St. Matthew's Gospel, etc. (1741): — Appendix to H. Ste- phetis's Greek Lexicon (1745, 2 vols. 4to).