Ancestry of
Benedict Arnold

Traitor of the American Revolution

Stukeley Westcott

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Benedict Arnold — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 18 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1592 
  • Birth Location:
  • Ilminster, Somerset, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Jan 1677 
  • Death Location:
  • Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Juliann Marchante
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Oct 1619 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Yeovil, Somerset, England  
  • Children:
  
  

  Damaris Westcott (Ahnentafel No:9 )

  Samuel Westcott

  Robert Westcott

  Amos Westcott

  Mercy Westcott

  Jeremiah Westcott

  • Notes: 

  • The name of Stukely Westcott's wife is said by some to probably be Rosanna Hill. This is believed to be false. (see Whitman's Book of Appendices ..., p. 9, for an explanation)

• Sources for Stukeley Westcott

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Benedict Arnold (m. 1640), p. 1.
  • ² Historical Marker at Stukely Westcott Historical Cemetery, (accessed 03/06/2023).
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1879, Vol. 33, p. 436.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1969, Vol. 45, p. 157.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 365.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 88.
  • ⁷ Fuller, Oliver Payson, The History of Warwick, Rhode Island: From Its Settlement in 1642 to the Present Time, Providence: Angell, Buringame and Co., Printers (1875), 40.
  • ⁸ Holden, Frederic A., and E. Dunbar Lockwood, Descendants of Robert Lockwood: Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630, Philadelphia: Printed privately by the family (1889), 60.
  • ⁹ Whitman, Roscoe L., Book of Appendices to the History and Genealogy of the Ancestors and Some Descendants of Stukely Westcott, 1592 to 1677, n. p.: n. p. (1939), 7-8.
  • ¹⁰ Whitman, Roscoe L., History and Genealogy of the Ancestors and Some Descendants of Stukely Westcott, Vol. 1, n. p.: n. p. (1932), 13-33, 123, gives Stukely's wife's name as probably Rosanna Hill.
  • ¹¹ Wikipedia, "Benedict Arnold (governor)", (accessed 03/30/2013).
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "Stukeley Wescott", (accessed 03/30/2013).