Person:Jeremiah Westcott (3)

Jeremiah was a town officer in Warwick, 1664; freeman, 1672; lived on a farm there; died without making a will. The town fathers made one for him (as was the custom in those days). source: "The Lee Family of Hounsfield, NY" by Walter John Coates, Litt. D

His father, Stukely, gave him a farm for life adjoining the homestead farm and here Jeremiah passed the remainder of his life. source: Stukely Westcott book by Bullock p 155

BIOGRAPHY: Stuckley Westcote and some of his Descendants Fifty Copies Only. Privately Printed. No. 43, Page 59 -- "Jeremiah Westcott, was the youngest son of Stukely. He was probably quite young at the time of the arrival of his father in America, and accompanied him first to Providence, 1638, then to Warwick, 1643. In 1654, July 13, his name first appears as a witness to the deed of purchase from the Sachem Taccoman of "Potawomoot" neck. In 1664, he is appointed an officer of the town of Warwick to take and Indian prisoner from there to Newport. In 1666 he is chosen a committee to go to "Namket" and "Coeset" and warn the Indians not to plant on the town's land. He married 1665, July 27, Eleanor England, daughter of William, of Portsmouth, R. I., 1644. He was made a freeman 1672. It is supposed Eleanor survived her husband, as in 1691, February 2, "Eleanor, widow," with Jeremiah her son, deed certain lands. Jeremiah was a farmer and passed nearly all of his life at " Old Warwick," residing on land opposite to and given to him by his father for life. He died in 1686 and was probably buried in the burial ground near his farm where his father is buried. He left no will, and the town council of Warwick, as was the custom in those days, made one for him. Jeremiah had eight children, all of whom were born at "Old Warwick." and all of his six sons survived him."

-- Jonathan Russell Bullock, Incidents in the life and times of Stukeley Westcote, with some of his descendants, 1886, "Partial Genealogy of Stukeley Westcote's Descendants", page 59. -- http://archive.org/stream/incidentsinlifet00bull#page/59/mode/1up

Jeremiah was a town officer in Warwick, 1664; freeman, 1672; lived on a farm there; died without making a will. The town fathers made one for him (as was the custom in those days). source: "The Lee Family of Hounsfield, NY" by Walter John Coates, Litt. D

His father, Stukely, gave him a farm for life adjoining the homestead farm and here Jeremiah passed the remainder of his life. source: Stukely Westcott book by Bullock p 155

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