Person:Amos Westcott (1)

sources: LDS Ancestral Files, Marriage Records before 1669, compiled by Wm. Montgomery Clemens

"Amos in a deposition taken 1685, April 12, states that he was then 54 years of age. He was, therefore, born in England in 1631, and when a child was brought by his father to America, first to Salem, then to Providence, then to "Old Warwick." Here he passed the remainder of his life. He died between January, 1686 and May, 1688. The last record of him bears date at Warwick, 1685, where it states that he is then "very sick," and he appoints his loving brother-in-law, Samuel Stafford, to make up such reckonings as are needful, and after his debts are paid to dispose of his lands as he (Samuel) thinks best to the members of his family most needing it.

Amos lived on a small farm next to his father's, purchased of his brother Robert in 1667, when the latter moved to North Kingstown. The contract of purchase provided that Robert should have one-half of the apples that grew in the orchard adjoining their father's orchard for seven years. And if Robert in six or seven years should desire to re-purchase the place, Amos will "resign" it to him upon receiving one-half of a mare five years old, one horse two years old, two "stears" four years old, and "£10 in peage at 8 penny." In 1672 Amos completes the purchase of the farm, but gives Robert liberty to take the fruit of "seaven" apple trees for seven years, and the trees are marked with a "pege" on the south side and a hole by the roots.

In 1670 we first learn of Amos and his family living at his father's house and having the care of him. This was probably soon after the death of Stukeley's wife, of whom scarce any record remains. Amos was on the roll of freeman in 1655, was one of the commissioners to run the town lines in 1665, assessor to collect the rates to pay the expenses of getting the charter in 1666, and chosen Deputy to the Colonial Assembly in 1665, 1670, and 1671. He held many other minor town offices.

He married first, 1677, July 13, Sarah, daughter of the first Thomas Stafford, of Old Warwick, and sister, of Samuel who married Mercy the sister of Amos. Sarah died in 1669. He married second, 1670, January 9, Deborah the sister of Sarah. Deborah was born 1650-51, and died in 1706. This is the Deborah who contended in the courts with Zerobabel for the possession of his grandfather's homestead."

-- Jonathan Russell Bullock, Incidents in the life and times of Stukeley Westcote, with some of his descendants, 1886, page 37. http://archive.org/stream/incidentsinlifet00bull#page/37/mode/1up

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree (3). (Name: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA;;)
   Database online.

   Record for Stukely Westcott

2. ↑ Jonathan Russell Bullock, Incidents in the life and times of Stukeley Westcote, with some of his descendants, 1886
   Page 37.