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Scott, according to the New York Passenger list was recorded as being the surname of 67 German immigrants.[1] Whether or not the surname was acquired upon arrival in the US is not mentioned.
Also, the Jewish-English jazz musician Ronnie Scott used the surname 'Scott' as an anglicized variant of his family's original surname 'Schatt'. His family were originally Russian however, not German.