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Welcome to Scott County
Missouri Genealogy Research
Courthouse built 1883
My name is Bob
Jenkins and I created this
website to provide genealogy
information and links to genealogy
information to assist people in
researching
their Scott County Missouri
ancestors.
I would appreciate any
contribution that you would like to
make to this site:
biographies, obituaries, birth,
marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc
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County Data
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Brief
History:
1789, a north–south route
crossing the county and extending through
St. Louis, Missouri. In the late 1790s,
Southerners were the first United
States settlers on Spanish land grants in
this area. France briefly took back the
territory, then sold it to the
United States in 1803 as part of the
Louisiana Purchase.
Delaware (Lenape) and Shawnee people
migrated into the area in the 1820s from
territories east of the Mississippi,
pushed by European-American
encroachment on their lands.
The second county formed in
Missouri's Southeast Lowland Region, Scott
County was created by the Missouri state
legislature on December 28, 1821.
The county was named in honor of John
Scott (1785–1861), the first
congressman from Missouri.[3]
One of the earliest settlements was
Commerce, Missouri, long known as
Tywapitty, derived from an Osage
language term. It was an early
French fur trading post. Under Spanish
rule before 1800, Rezin Bowie was syndic
of
Tywappity Settlement. (He was the
brother of Kentucky frontiersman Jim
Bowie.) This was established as a river
landing by 1803, and residents
formed the first Baptist Church in
Missouri there in 1805. Sergeant John
Ordway of
the Lewis and Clark expedition used
the proceeds from his land grant bounty to
purchase land in Tywapitty where
he farmed cotton and had apple and
peach orchards until devastated by the
1811-182 New Madrid earthquakes. The
city was platted in 1823 and it
served as the Scott county seat from 1864
to 1878.
The current county seat of Benton
was laid out in 1822; it is named after
Thomas Hart Benton, one of Missouri's
first U.S. Senators.
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