Person:Mercy Wescott (3)

 "Mercy was the daughter of the first Stukeley. The time and place of her birth have not been learned. She died at "Old Warwick," 1700, August 24. Some have it March 25. She married, about 1660, Samuel Stafford. He was born 1636, and died 1718, March 20.
 Samuel was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Stafford. Thomas was born at Warwickshire, England, about 1605; came to Plymouth as early as 1625; from thence he removed, 1638, March, to Portsmouth or Newport, R. I., afterwards to Providence, where he constructed the first grist mill there at the mouth of the Mooshausick River. In 1650 he removed to Warwick, and erected the first grist mill there at the head of Mill Cove. Thomas was admitted a freeman in 1638. It is related of him that he died at Warwick in 1677, "aged and worn out with with labor, but industrious and prosperous." Thomas Stafford Drowne, D.D., of Garden City, Long Island, a descendant, has in his possession the original family "arms," carved in wood, brought from England, bearing the inscription,"The family of Stafford, of Warwickshire."
 Samuels, husband of Mercy, was admitted a freeman 1669. He was chosen one of the Governor's "assistants" in 1674, but declined to serve. In 1679-82-86, and 1705, he was elected a Deputy from Warwick to the Colonial Assembly. He was a man of influence, and much esteemed. His two sisters, Sarah and Deborah, were wives of Mercy's brother, Amos. He died in Old Warwick at the ripe old age of eighty-three. Both Mercy and her husband, and many of their earliest descendants, are buried in the old Stafford family burial ground near Conimicut Point."

-- Incidents in the Life and Times of Stukeley Westcote, with some of his Descendants, J. Russell Bullock, 1888, Page 46. http://archive.org/stream/incidentsinlifet00bull#page/46/mode/1up