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Sarah Bell Scott

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Robert Scott in front of Bell-Scott house, Charlottesville
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Jesse Scott, husband of Sarah Jefferson Bell and father of Robert Scott. 
Courtesy of Olivia M. Dutcher 
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Dates: ca. 1785–post 1840

Family: Scott (Hemings)

Sarah Jefferson Bell, the daughter of Mary Hemings and white merchant Thomas Bell, lived in freedom on Charlottesville's main street.  Her husband, Jesse Scott, with their sons James and Robert Scott, led a dance band well known throughout Virginia.

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