SCOTT STREET
By Sandra Clark

Scott Street is one of the longest streets in Naugatuck. It begins on Elm Street (across from Data Comm.), crosses Cherry Street and winds its way up hill. Keeping to the right, it continues on until it reaches Melbourne Street (across from Beanie’s Dry Cleaners).

Situated on the lower end of Scott Street and above the Cherry Street intersection is a red saltbox house. It is set back from the street and faces west (not Scott Street). The house is believed to have been built around 1729.

Edmund Scott II who was born in Farmington CT about 1658 acquired the land on which the house was built. He was the son of Edmund Scott, Sr. (I) and Hannah (Bird) Scott. This marriage produced four children: Hannah (b. 1646), Joseph (b. 1656), Edmund Jr. (b. 1658), and Samuel (b. 1660). There is no record of Hannah’s death (Scott’s wife), but sometime between 1663 and 1666, Scott married Elizabeth Upson, widow of Thomas Upson. Five children were born of that union: Jonathan (b. 1666), George (b. 1667), David (b. 1669), Robert (b. 1670, and Elizabeth (b. 1674).

On October 9, 1673, Edmund Scott Sr. was granted permission to settle at a place called Mattitacoke (later called Mattituck and finally Waterbury). Elizabeth and Edmund settled there with seven of the nine Scott children. They were joined by some of Elizabeth’s children (by Upson) who were by then married and establishing homes of their own.

May 14, 1716
Laid out to Edmund Scott (II) this day, above mentioned, twenty acres of land at Judd’s Meadows west of his eight acre lot and to the east on his own land, south on his own land, north and west on common land, laid out by doctor Ephraim Warner, measurer.” Quoted from the Scott Family Files.

Edmund Scott (II) built a house here in 1729 and gave it to his son, Edmund (III) as a wedding gift. Edmund III was born May 10, 1703, the sixth child of Edmund II and Sarah Porter, the widow of Benjamin Porter. Young Scott married Martha Andrus around 1730.

Unfortunately, young Scott died in 1733, after living in the house for only three years. He had only one surviving child, Comfort, who later married her cousin, Obadiah Scott. When Comfort turned twenty-one years of age, in 1754, she and her husband sold, as part of her claim to her father’s estate, her father’s land. The land was sold to Obadiah’s brother, Enoch Scott, Sr.

Enoch Scott Sr. died in the late 1790’s, leaving the house and lot to his son, Enoch, Jr. Enoch, Jr. sold the house and lot to his two sons David and Elias, with the understanding that their father, Enoch, Jr. would have life long residency in the house.

When Enoch, Jr. died in 1833, the house had been in the family for a little over 100 years.

Having no use for the house, the brothers sold it to Laimon and Asabel Lewis. The house was sold in quick succession after that, first to Lucien Lewis, who sold it to Gustavus and Lawrence Spencer, who sold it to Austin Hickox 1869.

The present owners of the house are David and Shari Carda. Thank you Shari and Dave for sharing this information with us.

Source - Naugatuck Historical Society Newsletter, July–August 2005 issue