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Charity Jane was the daughter of John Crawford Abbott and Mary Ann Horton. I wonder if she was named for Charity Urquhardt Campbell from PEI and the Miramichi.

In 1865, she married James C. Scott, in Newcastle. m. Wednesday 27th Dec., by Rev. Wm Henderson, James C. SCOTT Rosebank / Miss Charity Jane ABBOT, Douglastown (North. Co.). Grace Scott was a witness.

James and Charity went to Maine, where some of their children were born. In the US 1870 census, they had one daughter, Emily Grace. They returned to New Brunswick by the time of the 1881 census, when they were in Upper Mills, Charlotte County, New Brunswick with Charity's father.

In the 1891 census, Minnie, Clara, Wallie, Helen, Fannie and Belle were living at home. James and Charity returned to the States.

In the 1910 US census, only Frances was living at home with her parents. In this censis, Charity said she had had 9 children, of whom 6 were living. She and James had been married for 43 years. James and Charity said they emigrated in 1872.

Name: Charity J Scott
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 22 May 1915
Event Place: Belmont,,Massachusetts
Age: 69
Birth Date: 19 Nov 1845
Birthplace: Charlottetown
Father's Name: John C Abbott
Mother's Name: Mary A Horton
Spouse's Name: James C Scott

An old resident of Cambridge and Somerville, Mrs. Charity J. Scott passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. S. Douthart, 177 Belmont street, Belmont, last Saturday, in her 69th year. Services were held Monday at 2 p. in., at which Rev. Richard Wright officiated. Burial was in Cambridge cemetery. Mrs. Scott leaves, besides her husband, five daughters, Mrs. Alfred Gunn, Mrs. Edward Burton, Mrs. J. W. Howard, of this city, Mrs. R. S. Douthart, of Belmont, and Mrs. John R. Langille, of River John, N. S., and one son, William J. Scott, a starter for the Boston Elevated Railway. Eighteen grandchildren also survive her.

Sources:
Citing this Record: "Massachusetts, Deaths, 1841-1915," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N4HX-WZR : accessed 07 Apr 2014), Charity J Scott, 22 May 1915; citing Belmont,,Massachusetts, 363, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2406041.

Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 23 Number 1653
Date December 30 1865
County Northumberland
Place Chatham
Newspaper The Gleaner and Northumberland Schediasma