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Stukely Westcott¹     11th great grand father    Morin line.
b. circa 1592, d. 12 January 1676, #4057
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Birth	circa 1592	Stukely was born circa 1592  possibly in Somerset, England. It is also possible that he was born in Marwood Parish, Devenshire, England.2
Marriage	circa 1616	Stukely Westcott married Rosanne Hill circa 1616 possibly in Somerset, England. Some sources without documentation give this marriage before the marriage to Stukely to Julianna Marchant and claim that some of the children are by Rosanne, (without documentation) yet some do not give this marriage at all. Since Stukely and Julianna were not married until Stukely was about 27 years old, there is time for a first marriage.2
Marriage	5 Oct 1619	Stukely Westcott married Julianna Marchant, who was 28 years old, 5 October 1619 in St. John the Baptist Church, Yeovil, Somerset, England. Their known children: 1. Damaris WESTCOTT b: ABT 1621 in England, Somerset (probably) She married Benedict Arnold, Governor of RI. Not THE Benedict Arnold. 2. Samuel WESTCOTT b: ABT 1622 in England, Somerset (probably) 3. Robert WESTCOTT b: ABT 1625 in England, Somerset (probably) Another list gives these children some of whom were born in the colonies. Robert Westcott b: 1618/1619 in , Yeovil, Somerset, England Damaria Westcott b: 27 Jan 1621 in of, Yeovil, Somerset, England c: 27 Jan 1621 in , Yeovil, Somerset, England Samuel Westcott b: 31 Mar 1622 c: 31 Mar 1622 in , Yeovil, Somerset, England Robert Westcott b: ABT 1629 Mercy Westcott b: ABT 1633 in Prob. Yeovil, Somerset, England Amos Westcott b: 1631 in Prob.Yeovil, Somerset, England Jeremiah Wescott b: 1632/1633 in , Yeovil, Somerset, England William Westcott b: 1632 in Prob.Yeovil, Somerset, England Jeremiah Westcott b: ABT 1635 Stukely Westcott b: ABT 1636 in , Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Josiah Westcott b: 1638 Benjamin Westcott b: 1641.2
		Stukely, his wife and 6 of his children arrived in Salem Massachusetts on 24 June 1635. He was made a "freeman" in 1636 and granted land in 1637.3
	1638	Stukely had become a Quaker and was ordered to leave Salem in early 1638. By August of 1638 Roger Williams was preparing to go to land that he had purchased from the Indians, that eventually became Rhode Island. Stukely was one of those that left Salem for this new colony. On the list of stalwart men that went to the New Colony the first appears the name of Stukely Westcott, and second, the name of William Arnold, both ancestors of the Westcotts of Cheshire and Milford, NY. The eighth name on the list is that of William Carpenter, who with Westcott and Arnold, made the crossing together from England. Others were John Greene, Thomas James, Robert Cole, William Harris, John Throckmorton, Thomas Olney, Francis Weston, Richard Waterman and Ezekiel Holliman. The first Baptist Church to be organized in America, the old First Baptist Church of Providence, was founded March, 1639, by Roger Williams, Ezekiel Holliman, William Arnold, William Carpenter, Robert Cole, John Greene, William Harris, Thomas James, Thomas Olney, Richard Waterman, STUKELY WESTCOTT and Francis Weston, all but John Throckmorton of "the thirteen proprietors," becoming members. This venerable church was for the first century and a half of its existence of the Six-Principle Baptist sect. The six principles, or doctrines, held by the church, may be found in Hebrews 6:1-2.
Death	12 Jan 1676	Stukely died on 12 January 1676 at Portsmouth, New Port, Rhode Island.4

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