English and Scottish: occupational name for a clerk or scribe, from
Latin scriptor ‘writer’, ‘clerk’. The name has been altered
from its original Latin form through association with the more
familiar English word scripture ‘Bible’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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