Ezekiel
"Zeke"
Westcott
Born in Providence, Rhode Island
Ancestors 
Son of William Westcott Sr.
and Abigail (Gardiner) Westcott
Brother of
William Westcott Jr., Joseph Westcott, Bethiah (Westcott) Child, Bethiah Westcott, Zuriel Westcott, Peleg Westcott, Stukely Westcott, Hannah (Wescott) Westcott, Mary Westcott, John Westcott Sr., Experience (Westcott) Knight, Penelope (Westcott) Knight, Amos Westcott Sr. and Mercy (Westcott) Hudson
[spouse(s) unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Zilpha (Westcott) Salisbury, Sarah (Westcott) Howard, James Westcott and Penelope (Westcott) Howard
Died
at about age 73
in Cranston, Providence, Rhode Island
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Biography
Birth
Ezekiel Westcott was born about 1701 in Providence, Colony of Rhode Island.[1][2][3]
In 1733, his father, William Westcott gave him sixty acres, a part of the home farm, lying west of the Pochasset River. In 1734, he sold it and removed from that part of town, Providence (old Cranston section) to Scituate. In 1744, he enrolled in the train band of Providence County. He was enumerated at Scituate in the census of 1744, when his family consisted of four.[2][3]
Children
Ezekiel and Mary Westcott had the following children: [4]
- Zilpha "Sophia" Westcott married Abriham Salisbury circa 1760.
- Sarah Westcott married Thomas Howard on 19 January 1764.
- James Westcott married Lydia Spink circa 1764.
- Ezekiel Westcott married Mary and died sometime before 1794-8.
- Penelope married Christopher Howard on 8 November 1768.
Residence
Att a Town Council held in Scituate in the County of Providence the 11th Day of october AD. 1742...
Whereas there is one Ezekiel Westcot with his Family Lately Came in this Town with an intent to Settle therein and hath Procured a Certificate from the Town Council of the Town of Providence (from whence he Removed heither) in the following words.
These may Certifie whom it May Concern that Ezekial Westcot and his family are Proper Inhabitants of this Town of Providence and Shall be Received by sd. Town as Such at any time hereafter when they Shall Come or be Sent thither. Given by order of a Town Council held in Providence the 30th day of august 1742. Signed per order of Said Town Council per mr Richard Waterman Clerk of ye Councill.
Whereupon it is Voted that the said Ezekiel Westcot and his family be admited to Dwell in this Town untell further order.[5]
Death
Ezekiel Westcott passed away in 1781.
Research Notes
DISPROVEN:
- Mary Dyer is not the wife of Ezekiel Westcott.
This information seems to be disproven. See comments on the profile of Mary Dyer. Now Mary Dyer has been removed as spouse. That profile says the wife was Mary Dare, not Dyer. He married Mary Dyer, the daughter of Edward and Mary (Greene) Dyer, on 17 August 1718.[1]
SPECULATIVE:
- Mary Dare is possibly the wife of Ezekiel Westcott.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 White, Roscoe L. 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, 1939. Vol 2. page 290-1.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bullock, J. Russell. Incidents in the Life and Times of Stukeley Westcote: With Some of His Descendants, 1888, page 139.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Whitman, Roscoe L. History and Genealogy of the Ancestors and Some Descendants of Stukely Westcott. Vol. I. Decorah, IA: The Anundsen Publishing Co., Reprinted 1932 and 1939, page 217.
- ↑ RLWhitman Vol 2, pages 291 -299, Children
- ↑ Scituate, Rhode Island. Probate and Town Council Records, Book 1, p. 83. Ancestry.com. Rhode Island, Wills and Probate Records, 1582-1932 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015, https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9079/007649084_00076#. (Subscription requires.)
- The Westcott Family Tree. Rutland, VT: Shart Offset Printing, Inc., Printed 2000 by Edna Jay Lewis, page 18. Person #69.
- See also:
- Brock Family Tree by Randall Brock.
- Memorial for Ezekiel Find A Grave: Memorial #155657665 with a link to Mary Dyer and one child
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Richard Batchelder Jr.
Ezekiel's wife was not Mary Dyer, daughter of Edward Dyer and Mary Greene. That Mary was born in 1701, and had two husbands, Christopher Helme (died 1732) and John Williams. That Mary died in 1740 in RI. There is an exhaustive treatment of this Mary in a 1971 article published in the NYGBR by Dudley Bennett, entitled The Identity of Two Mary Helmes. The RI Vital Records also show that a "Wescott" (no first name listed) married a "Mary Dare" on August 17, 1718. This could not be the Mary Dyer who married Christopher Helme five years later, since Ezekiel was still alive then, and had children both after Mary Dyer's marriage to Helme, and after this Mary Dyer died in 1740.
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Randall Brock
Westcott-851 and Westcott-173 appear to represent the same person because: looks like a likely match same children
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Kyle Dane
Westcott-494 and Westcott-173 appear to represent the same person because: Combine these three into one then we can work on sources.
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Kyle Dane
Westcott-769 and Westcott-173 appear to represent the same person because: Looks like we have three profiles of this person. Not many sources, but dates, places and relationships all match.
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