"'Francis West, a house carpenter by trade, being a single man, invited by a Mr. Thomas of Marshfield, Massachusetts, left the town of Salisbury in England and came to N. England, and settled in Duxbury, Mass., and married Margrey Reeves, by whom he had five children, viz., Samuel, Thomas, Peter, Mary and Ruth.' So wrote Judge Zebulon West (1707-1770), a great-grandson of the emigrant, who probably learned these facts from his father, also named Francis (1669-1731), who lived with the emigrant in Duxbury until he grew up. ... During the last years of his life his son Peter took care of him, and his estate, which amounted to only £16:15:00, was given to Peter by the Probate Court."
[Note: this source is seriously flawed in its presentation of Peter's children, apparently having simply copied from Winsor's History of Duxbury. See the discussion on Peter's family page. For Francis' probate, see Plymouth Case 22311.]
