Biographical Sketch (1909):660, v. 2, p. 134-138. "Joseph Scott left the ancestral home in Pennsylvania and made his way down the Ohio river in a dugout and pulled to Zanesville. He settled in Burlington Township, Licking County, in 1810, and was there identified with pioneer life in all of its varied phases and experiences. In 1814 he sold this property and settled in Washington Township, where he was the first elder in the Presbyterian Church at Utica. He also served as Justice of the Peace. In 1834 he removed to Logan County where his wife died, while his death occurred in Lima, Ohio, in 1837."