Extracts from an address delivered
			at an annual reunion of the Scott's
			held at Logansport, Indiana on the 
			26th of August, 1936.  Reverend Ezra 
			Scott of Westville gave the address.

This annual gathering of the descendants of John and Alexander Scott
is highly propitious, in that it celebrates the 100th anniversary of
the coming of these men and their families to this particular
locality.


It is a long and winding trail back to the days of Indian Trail, the
tomahawk, and the scalping knife, but one hundred years ago there were
two tribes of Indians occupying the land hereabout. The Wabash River
being the effectual dividing line.  The Miami were to the south of the
river, and the Potawatomi Indians on the north.

The first public benefit for Cass county, and the miniature city of
Logansport was the Michigan Road.  The land necessary for the road
from the Wabash to the mouth of Trail Creek ( now Michigan City) was
obtained by a treaty with the Potawatomi Indians.

By a special treaty the Indians ceded a strip of land one hundred feet
wide from Lake Michigan to the Wabash river, a distance of about
ninety miles.  One section of land adjacent to each mile was also
granted to finance the building of the road.

Alexander Scott was an "exhorter" in the Christian Church, and Elder
John Scott was an ordained minister.  The first sermon north of the
Wabash was preached by Elder Scott in the new home of Joshua Binney.
Elder John organized the Spring Creek Christian church in 1834.

Note: This complete address may be found in the family record by
Sylvester A.  Scott.

Typed by Lyman Morrison March 15,  1994