Job Scott was a Quaker minister from Providence, Rhode Island. He was born to John and Lydia Scott on the 18th day of the 10th month 1751. Scott married Eunice Anthony and the couple had six children together. In 1774 Scott first spoke as a minister and he travelled widely in ministry in North America, England, and Ireland. He died of small-pox in Ballistone, Ireland, on November 22, 1793.