Person:Richard Wescott (1)

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Richard Wescott
b.1730
d.1 Feb 1825
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  1. Richard Wescott1730 - 1825
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m. 5 Feb 1757
  1. Reuben Westcott
  2. Edmund Wescott1769 - 1836
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Name Richard Wescott
Gender Male
Birth? 1730
Marriage 5 Feb 1757 to Margaret Meserve
Death? 1 Feb 1825

He is said to have carried the first mail between Portland and Boston and earned the name "Post". During the revolution he was known by everyone on the road between Boston and Portland and throughout the entire region of Cumberland County, Maine. During the Revolutionary War, he was employed by George Washington to carry military dispatches, and carry letters between the soldiers in the army and their friends and families in New Hampshire and Maine.

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