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Name: SCOTT, Peter Cameron

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Nee: son of John M. And Anne Scott

Birth Date: 7.3.1867 Glasgow, Scotland

Death Date: 4.12.1896 Nzawi, Ukamba, malaria

Nationality: Scottish/American

First Date: 1895

Last Date: 1896

Profession: A founder of the African Inland Mission in 1895. Arrived at Machakos in 1895 with a number of British and American men and women.

Area: Nzawi, Ukamba

Book Reference: Gillett, Ainsworth, Watt, Weller, Tignor, North, Barnes

General Information:

Ainsworth - In 1895 Ainsworth established a Police Post at a place called Chania in the Kathomi location of Ukambani, in order to intercept a considerable traffic in Masai girls which was found to be going on from Northern Kikuyu to Ukamba. It was attacked by the Wakamba and burnt. The post was rebuilt on a much more elaborate scale and later Mr Peter Cameron Scott of the African Inland Mission took over the station for mission work. We had no further trouble in this area.
Mr Scott's party comprised the late Mr McLellan Wilson (later of Kiambu), Miss M. Scott (who later became Mrs McLellan Wilson), Mr & Mrs Kreiger, Mr Hotchkiss and others.
Later in 1896 the father and mother of Mr Scott arrived in the country from America, accompanied by their younger daughter, Ina, who in November 1897 became my (Ainsworth's) wife.    
Watt - 'we welcomed to Akamba some Missionaries from the United States, who settled down on the south-eastern boundary of the country. The leader of the band was Mr Peter Scott. Unfortunately the district in which he built his station was rather unhealthy and the natives thinly scattered. We gave to Mr Scott a hearty invitation to come further inland, near to our district, where the population was more dense and the climate less trying. The result was that he commenced work within a day's march of our Mission Station. His constitution had been already much weakened, and very soon he and another Missionary, named Allen, were smitten with fever, and passed away to their reward, and, sad to say, the Mission ultimately declined.'    
Tignor - a Scottish immigrant to the USA who had been a missionary in the Congo from 1890-92 where his brother died.
North - Formerly missionary in Congo 1890-2; arr. Mombasa 27/10/1895 dep. for Machakos 12/11/1895; Leader of first AIM party to EA; Applied for permission to build mission on land at Athi, March 1896; Founded AIM mission at Nzawi, Ukamba; Nzawi Sept. 1896; Machakos 2/10/1896; d. 4/12/1896, blackwater fever.
Grasshoppers - 1890 - went on mission work to Banana at mouth of Congo river where his brother John joined him. Recurrent bouts of fever and John died. In 1891 he had to return to England very ill. In 1895 he sailed for East Africa with 6 recruits. They picked up McLellan Wilson in England
Barnes - Nairobi South Cemetery - Peter Cameron Scott, born 7 Mar 1867, died 4 Dec 1896 aged 29, died at Nzawi - "Founder of the African Inland Mission in 1895

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