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    Dennis Scollins

    Birth: 1827

    Death: unknown

    Birth Date Prefix: c.

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    Alternate Surname: Scallins

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Possibly mentioned in 18600318WSJ_FMS1. "Dennis took the occasion while Father was home to get on one of his sprees, I sent him home telling him that if he repeated the performance must look for another place, next morning I talked to him some time and he appeared to be quite sorry. He has now just been in to tell me that he has been to Father Creedon this morning and signed the pledge and that hereafter he intends to make up for previous falters."
Also mentioned in 18630712FMS_WHS1 "Dennis Scallins 
wife has employed Warren
Worden  in her prosecution
of Williams- He is so
unscrupulous that the
colored man will
have a severe trial-
I know little of the
news about town- am
told that Irishmen in
their rage about Dennis threatened
to burn our house because you
were a friend of the negroes-"

Scollins is listed as living with the Sewards in the 1850 census.

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Possibly mentioned in 18600318WSJ_FMS1. "Dennis took the occasion while Father was home to get on one of his sprees, I sent him home telling him that if he repeated the performance must look for another place, next morning I talked to him some time and he appeared to be quite sorry. He has now just been in to tell me that he has been to Father Creedon this morning and signed the pledge and that hereafter he intends to make up for previous falters." Also mentioned in 18630712FMS_WHS1 "Dennis Scallins wife has employed Warren Worden in her prosecution of Williams- He is so unscrupulous that the colored man will have a severe trial- I know little of the news about town- am told that Irishmen in their rage about Dennis threatened to burn our house because you were a friend of the negroes-" Scollins is listed as living with the Sewards in the 1850 census.
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https://search.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1850usfedcenancestry&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsln=seward&gsln_x=1&msrpn__ftp=Auburn%2c+Cayuga%2c+New+York%2c+USA&msrpn=10206&msrpn_x=1&msrpn__ftp_x=1&MSAV=1&uidh=if4&pcat=35&fh=5&h=11360020&recoff=&ml_rpos=6&hovR=1 Year: 1850; Census Place: Auburn Ward 2, Cayuga, New York; Roll: M432_482; Page: 250B; Image: 88 Source Information Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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