Person:Josiah Westcott (2)

Josiah was a surveyor, and owned 7 operated a sawmill in Warwick. He was styled 'Captain'--probably because of service in the early Indian wars. sources: " The Lee Family of Hounsfield, NY" by Walter John Coates, "His. & Gen. of Stukely Westcott" by Whitman & Stukely Westcott book by Judge Bullock.

BIOGRAPHY: Stuckley Westcote and some of his Descendants Fifty Copies Only. Privately Printed. No. 43 Page 82 Josiah 3, of Jeremiah 2, of Stukeley 1, was the third son of the first Jeremiah. He was born at "Old Warwick, 1675, December 2, and died in that part of the town of Providence now Cranston, 1721, November 11, aged 46 years. All of his life, after he had reached the years of manhood, was passed in the latter town. He married, 1701, January 1, Hannah Gardner, of George and Tabitha (Tefft) Gardner, of "Kingstown," of the first George. After Josiah's death, his widow married Thomas, son of the first Roger Burlingame. She died after 1756. Josiah seems to have been a man of religious life. His bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Almira Greene, of "Old Warwick," has upon its fly leaf some religious verse, beginning, " Give me grace to run ye race," "That heaven may be my resting place," etc. Josiah owned a large farm near the "Ore Bed," in Cranston, from one to one and a half miles west of the Oak Lawn Station on the N. Y. & N. E. Rail Road, where he lived and where he died. He and several generations of his descendants were buried in a family burial ground upon this farm, but their graves are marked only by rough and uninscribed stones. Josiah also owned and run a saw mill upon an adjoining stream called Meshantituc. He was also a surveyor, and frequently called upon to locate and define the "shares" in, or "rights" to, land which were bought or sold by the early proprietors before they were located. He was known as Capt. Josiah, and by his industry, sound judgment and high integrity gained a wide influence in the community.

1.   Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (2). (Name: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;;)
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