Person:William Wescott (2)

William is believed to have become a seafaring man living in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Arrived in America in 1635, with his brothers Richard and Daniel. These brothers were either Stuckely Westcott's brothers, as I have them, or nephews. They were born in Great Torrington, Barnstaple Bay near the field of Wescote in the Devon area of England.

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1.   Whitman, Roscoe L. (Roscoe Leighton). History and genealogy of the ancestors and some descendants of Stukely Westcott: one of the thirteen original proprietors of Providence Plantation and the colony of Rhode Island with especial mention of the Westcotts of Cheshire, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and the Westcotts of Milford, Otsego County, New York and some of the allied families. (Oneonta, New York: Otsego Publishing Co., 1932)
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   "However, the fact, clearly established by the old Arnold papers, that Stukely Westcott and his friend William Arnold and their families, started from Somersetshire to board the sailing vessel at Dartmouth to come to America, is at least circumstantial evidence that they were both natives of that shire. It is recorded positively that the Arnolds were natives of Somerset."
   
   "... of Richard, b-1588, Stukely, b-1692, and of William, who are conceded to have been brothers."