Stukely WESTCOTT

Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown

Family 1: Juliana MARCHANTE

BULLOCK, J. Russell, Incidents in the Life and Times of Stukeley Westcote, With Some of His Descendants, (1886).

  1. Damaris WESTCOTT
  2. Samuel WESTCOTT
  3. Robert WESTCOTT
  4. Amos WESTCOTT
  5. Mercy WESTCOTT
  6. Jerimiah WESCOTT
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Notes

Updated June 29, 2022. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) About Stukely Westcott via Society of Stukely Westcott Descendants of America

"STUKELY WESTCOTT, 1592 - 1677, planter and colonizer, one of the 13 original proprietors of Providence Plantations and Colony of Rhode Island; of Salem, Mass., 1635, Providence, R.I., 1638, and Warwick, R.I., 1647. His wife, Juliana MARCHANT. Their children: Damaris (ARNOLD), Samuel, Robert, Amos, Mercy (STAFFORD), Jeremiah."

"Spelling of the name has changed through the years even within the same family group. Spelling can read Westcott, Wescott, Westcot and other spelling variations."

(2) Stukeley Westcott via Wikipedia

"Stukeley WESTCOTT (1592 - 12 January 1677) was one of the founding settlers of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and one of the original members of the first Baptist Church in America, established by Roger WILLIAMS in 1638. Coming to New England from the town of Yeovil in Somerset, England, he first settled in Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but difficulties with the authorities prompted him to join Roger WILLIAMS in settling near the Narragansett Bay in 1638 at Providence. He remained there for a few years, but in 1648 he was recorded as an inhabitant of Warwick, probably having settled there several years earlier. He was most active in colonial affairs from 1650 to 1660 when he was a commissioner, surveyor of highways, and the keeper of a house of entertainment. His highest offices held were as an Assistant in 1653 and much later as a deputy to the General Court in 1671 when he was almost 80 years old. He made his will on 12 January 1677, dying the same day with the will unsigned, leaving his affairs in limbo for the following two decades."

(3) Erlenkotter Family Records, citing:

... (3a) BULLOCK, J. Russell, Incidents in the Life and Times of Stukeley WESTCOTE, With Some of His Descendants, (1886).
... (3b) AUSTIN, John Osborne, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, (Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD, 1978), pp. 416, 418.

Notes provided in the Erlenkotter Family Records:

"Stukely WESTCOTT and his family arrived at Salem, Massachusetts on 24 June 1635, and he was made a freeman there in 1636. While at Salem he was impressed by the religious views of Roger WILLIAMS. The WESTCOTTs left Salem in 1638 to go to Providence with WILLIAMS, and as a consequence Stukely and his wife were excommunicated by the Salem church in 1639. He was one of the twelve men who founded the first Baptist church organized in America, the old First Baptist Church of Providence, in March 1639. After the establishment of rights by Samuel GORTON and others, he moved to Warwick in 1648 and was a freeman there in 1655."

"Will: 12 Jan 1676/77, Will dated at Portsmouth, where he died the same day

(4) Find a Grave

- Name: Stukely WESTCOTT
- Birth: 1592; Somerset, England
- Death: 12 Jan 1677 (aged 84–85); Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
- Burial: Stukely Westcott Burial Ground; Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA
- Memorial ID: 168862388

"Stukely WESTCOTT's 6 acre home lot on what is now West Shore Road. The site is now behind Warwick Fire Station No. 4. Stukely WESTCOTT emigrated from England to America on June 24, 1635. He lived in Salem, Mass., later moving to Providence with Roger WILLIAMS. In June of 1648, WESTCOTT moved his family to the new settlement of Shawomet, now known as Old Warwick. He was one of six early settlers to organize the first church in Warwick. He was chosen as a member of the Colonial Assembly eight times, and twice selected as one of the General Assistants to the Governor. In 1663, at a Town meeting, Stukely WESTCOTT was designated a member of a group of citizens to survey and lay out the property for a local blacksmith, a Town House, and the first public burial ground in Warwick. WESTCOTT died on Jan. 12, 1677 in Portsmouth, R.I., where he went to escape the King Phillip’s War. Family oral history has always maintained that Stukely was buried with his wife Juliana MARCHANT in the 'Westcott Cemetery,' also known as the first public burial ground of Warwick, adjoining his home lot and former residence."