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m. 1604 - Thomas Stafford1605 -
Facts and Events
Thomas, father of Samuel, was in Plymouth, Mass. as early as 1626, of Portsmouth and Newport, RI in 1638, then of Providence, RI where he constructed the first grist mill at the mouth of the Moosausick River, he moved to Old Warwick from Providence in 1650 and at the head of Mill Cove built a grist mill for the settlers. Was admitted freeman in 1638.
source: Stukely Westcott book by J. Bullock [See below]
Thomas Stafford "emigrated from Warwickshire, England to Plymouth in New England, in or about the year 1626, and was among the inhabitants admitted 'at the Toune of Nieu-Port since the 20th of the 3d mo., 1638'. A few years later he removed to Providence, RI and from thence to Warwick RI, in 1652...Thomas Stafford is recorded in 1655 in 'the Roule of ye Freemen of ye Colonie' as 'Freeman of the Towne of Warwicke'....He was a millwright, and at Plymouth he built the first mill in this country for grinding corn by water. He constructed another at Providence near what is called Millbridge, and still another on his own place in Warwick...In the will of Thomas Stafford, made Nov. 4, 1677, just before his death, mention is made of his wife Elizabeth, and we know nothing further of her. Their children were Thomas, Samuel, Joseph, Deborah, Hannah and Sarah." "The Stafford Family" in Collections on the History of Albany, Vol. III. (1870), by Joel Munsell, pp. 440-41.
"Samuel was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Stafford. Thomas was born at Warwickshire, England, about 1605; came to Plymouth as early as 1626; from thence he removed, 1638, March, to Portsmouth or Newport, R. I., afterwards to Providence, where he constructed the first grist mill 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 labor, but industrious and prosperous." Incidents in the Life and Times of Stukeley Westcote, with Some of His Descendants, J. Russell Bullock, 1886, Page 46.
References
- ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
4:160.
"THOMAS, Newport of Portsmouth 1638, said to have been b. 1605, and to have come to Plymouth 1626, and to have built there the first mill for grind. corn by water, but this seems very loose rep. and the Col. rec. that refer to the first mill aft. June 1635, do not ment. him. He is found at Warwick 1652, among the freem. there 1655, rem. I presume to Conn. whose Gen. Ct. gr. him, 1674, fifty acres; but he had been at New London as early as 1662, and was at W. to end his days 1677. He made his will 4 Nov. 1677,and d. soon aft. had Sarah, wh. m. 13 July 1667, and Deborah, wh. m. 9 June 1670, both to Amos Westcott; Samuel; and Joseph. His will names w. Elizabeth eldest s. Thomas, and d. Hannah, w. of Luke Bromley, beside the others. Claim was assert. by him to be "of the blood of the Stafford," but of wh. Stafford is less clear, and prob. unimport. tho. he perhaps had a coat of arms."
- Albany, Albany, New York, United States. Collections on the history of Albany: from its discovery to the present time with notices of its public institutions, and biographical sketches of citizens deceased. (Albany, New York: J. Munsell, 1867)
3:440-441.
- Incidents in the Life and Times of Stukeley Westcote, with Some of His Descendants, J. Russell Bullock
1886.
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