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In 1851 he resigned his position as harbour-master, a position he still held despite all of his commercial and municipal responsibilities. He was noted for using his own boats on colonial business but an injury to his arm made him relinquish this task and "retire". By 1864 he had formed the
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Scott was employed at a hundred pounds a year but he set forth with acts of his own enterprise. Scott soon had a number of boats transporting goods from his own jetty. The activity seems to have been approved of as James
Stirling, the
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Fremantle until 1868. Scott negotiated a rental of the wool warehouse for five years at £250 a year, although it was agreed that improvements could be made in lieu of rent up to a value of £1000.
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Frances had eleven children. Scott's eldest son Daniel Henry Scott led his father's other enterprises after his death. Scott and his daughter occupy two of the graves featured in
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but the waterfront warehouse was invaluable when the first 75 convicts arrived in
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Campbell) the second wife of Daniel Scott, a flag maker. The son went away to sea and was mentioned by the
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The land where Scott's first warehouse became a temporary prison for convicts is now the location of the
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by the British government instead of any pay or pension owing. Seven months after his arrival on
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prison by the prisoners. This tunnel went beneath the prison and linked Bathers Beach to the
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when it set out in 1842. This ship was owned by Scott and a syndicate in Liverpool.
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was driven ashore and it and all her whaling equipment were sold to Scott. The
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