This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Westcott, Redway Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2AC.2ACI/215.1069.1 Message Board Post: << Martha's Parents were David and Elizabeth Wescoat, both of Putney m. 28 Jan 1789 Putney, >> The marriage at Putney, 25 (not 28) Jan. 1789, was between David Redway and Elizabeth Westcott/Wescoat/Waistcoat/etc., sister of Martha. The sisters' parents were Richard and Rachel (Goff) Westcott/Westcoat/Waistcoat/etc. Below, in an excerpt from my Redway-family typescript, is material pertaining to David and Jonathan Redway, sons of Timothy and Mary (Willmarth) Redway, both of whom married Westcott girls (see my article on this family in October 2000 issue of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register): iv. DAVID REDWAY, born 26 March 1762; died at Barnston, Stanstead Co., Quebec, Canada, 20 March 1851, aged 90 (gravestone [transcr. Nancy Dodge, Colebrook, N.H., 1981]); married probably at Putney—intentions there, 25 (not 28) January 1789—ELIZABETH WESTCOTT of Putney, born probably at Rehoboth or adjacent Dighton, Massachusetts, ca. 1764, and died at Barnston, 6 March 1845, aged 81, daughter of Richard and Rachel (Goff) Westcott/Westcoat/Waistcoat/etc.[1] (Putney Land, Town & VR 1:1:341; Rehoboth VR 2:268; Bristol Co., Mass., Deeds 50:231; gravestone [Dodge]). ---------------------------------------------------------------- [1] For evidence supporting the identification of Elizabeth Westcott’s parents, see Rehoboth VR 2:136, 173, 268, 6:94; Bristol Co. Deeds 66:319, 467; Warwick, Mass., VR 1:45, 68, 77, 78, 2:260; Putney Town & VR 397; Putney Land, Town, & VR 2:298 (witness), 3:78 (witness); Putney Deeds 6:248 (witness); Heads of Families, 1790, Mass., 127 (Richard and Richard 2d Waistcoat); 1800 U.S. Census, Warwick, Hampshire Co., Mass., 40 (Richard and Richard Jr. Weastcoat); 1825 Quebec Census, Barnston, Richelieu Co., 728 (David and David 2d Redway, Wheeler Westcoat). ---------------------------------------------------------------- David was of Putney as late as 2 January 1794, when his father reassumed ownership of the family farm to fight David’s (and brother Jonathan’s) ejectment (above) (Putney L,T&VR 3:20-22). When on 2 October 1795 his father deeded half the Putney homestead farm back to him, David was living at Warwick, Massachusetts—wife Elizabeth's father, a brazier, had brought his family there from Dighton between 1765 and 1773—where he stayed probably less than two years (Putney L,T&VR 3:196; Bristol Co Deeds 50:231; Warwick VR 1:68). By 1 May 1796, certainly, David had returned to Putney and the following 6 September was listed among the town's freemen (Putney L,T&VR 1:1:462, 3:345). On 22 March 1804 David was identified in Putney records as a Baptist (Putney T&VR 59); he was not on a similar, 1806 list, however. Between 17 and 21 January 1807, he disposed of all his lands at Putney, including the aforementioned half of his father's former farm, which he sol! d for $600 to brother Jonathan, who already owned the other half (Putney Deeds 4:318, 319, 419). David and his family left Putney probably about this time. Although absent from U.S. censuses after 1800, they next appear in the northern-Vermont township of Burke, where on 25 May 1813 a warning-out order was issued against them and served on his wife (Burke T&VR A:146). The only known, subsequent American record pertaining to this family documents the marriage—at Burke, 28 October 1816 (not 1815)—of David’s namesake and only known son to Nancy Humphrey (Burke T&VR A:445). While it is uncertain if the family was still (again?) residing at Burke at this time (neither party’s residence is noted), the record’s failure to refer to the groom as “Jr.” suggests that David Sr.—and thus the bulk of his family—was living elsewhere. The next known record of father or son locates both in 1825 at Barnston, less than ten miles north of the Vermont-Quebec border: listed successively in Quebec’s earliest ninet! eenth-century census are heads-of-household David Redway, David Redway 2d, and Wheeler Westcoat, eldest child of Elizabeth's brother Richard (1825 Quebec Census, Richelieu Co., 728; Warwick VR 1:45). David and Elizabeth, David Jr. and Nancy, and three of the latter couple's daughters are buried at Barnston’s Buckland Cemetery (gravestones [Dodge]). The archivist for nearby North Hatfield’s Old North Church Cemetery Association reports that Ruth F. Redway, wife of Silas Perkins (and probable daughter of David and Elizabeth Redway), is buried there (Terry Skeats, “Ruth Redway,” e-mail to compiler from <[email protected]>, 26 Jan. 1999). Redway children (perhaps others), b. probably at Putney: 1. David, b. 10 Aug. 1793 (gravestone [Dodge]). 2. Probably Ruth F., b. Sep. 1797 (gravestone [Skeats, transcr. 1999]). v. JONATHAN REDWAY/RADWAY, born 13 March 1764; died at Putney, 1 or 2 March 1813, aged 49 (gravestone, in Ken Stevens, Vital Records of Putney, Vermont, to the Year 1900 (Pittsford, Vt., 1992), 334, and in Vt. VR Coll. [Radway]; Putney ChR 1:106, in Vt. VR Coll.); buried at Dipping Hole Cemetery, Putney; married at Putney, 18 February 1790 (intentions 31 Jan.), MARTHA WESTCOTT, born probably at Rehoboth or Dighton, ca. 1765, and living at Newburg, Ohio, in 1850, aged 85, daughter of Richard and Rachel (Goff) Westcott/Westcoat/Waistcoat/etc.[2] (Putney L,T&VR 1:1:343, 1:2:15; Rehoboth VR 2:268; Bristol Co. Deeds 50:231; 1850 U.S. Census, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio 650 [Rodway]). ---------------------------------------------------------- [2] The 1850 U.S. Census (fully cited above) reports Martha’s birth place as Massachusetts; she is enumerated in the household of her youngest son, wagon maker “L[ovell] Rodway,” aged 38 [sic]. Since Lovell was actually 40, it is tempting to doubt the accuracy of his mother’s reported age. A lineage chart of Ohio Radways and allied families shows Martha’s birth year as 1762; it also has her as having died in 1847, however (Eldert L. Hyde, "Genealogy of the Barlow, Hyde, Radway & Marshall Families" [chart, 1934; photocopy in custody of compiler]). From her husband Jonathan’s birth year (1764), that of his brother David (1762), and that based on the age at death recorded for Martha’s sister (David’s wife) Elizabeth (ca. 1764), it is reasonable to suppose that Martha’s reported age of 85 in 1850—producing a birth year of ca. 1765—is about right. For sources supporting the identification of Martha Westcott’s parents, see the preceding note. --------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan, who had married a sister of his brother David’s wife, lived at the sisters’ hometown of Warwick about the same time as did David but probably even more briefly. Like his brother, he had been of Putney on 2 January 1794 (Putney L,T&VR 3:20-22); of Warwick when on 3 September of that year his father deeded half the Putney homestead farm back to him, he probably returned to Putney about that time (ibid., 3:77-78). Clearly by 1 May 1796 Jonathan had returned to Putney and on 6 September of that year was listed among the town's freemen (ibid., 1:1:463; 3:345). In 1807 he bought from brother David the other half of what had been their father's farm (Putney Deeds 4:318). Like David, he was listed as a Baptist on 22 March 1804 and does not appear on a similar, 1806 list (Putney T&VR 59). Since Jonathan's death is reported in the records of the Putney Congregational Church (1:106, in Vt. VR Coll.), he had probably resumed worshipping there. Jonathan's estate inventory, presented to the court on 24 May 1813, valued his personal estate at $492 and 150 acres of real estate at $1,890 (Westminster District, Vt., Probates D:380-82). The debts accruing to the estate were such as to force widow Martha, granted letters of administration on 25 March 1813, to sell an "out pasture" of about 50 acres in two transactions totaling $379 (Westminster Dist. Probates D:323, E:219-20, F:127-28; Putney Deeds 5:56, 166). The 100-acre home farm, valued at $1,600, was finally distributed on 24 March 1818 to Martha and six of the ten surviving children (Westminster Dist. Probates F:183-86). It was sold out of the family in 1832 by son Lovell, who earlier that year had acquired the other heirs' interests (Putney Deeds 7:305-61 passim). Martha remarried between 1820 and 1823, taking as her second husband John Priest of Westminster, on Putney's northern border (1820 U.S. Census, Putney, Windham Co., Vt., 133 [Radway]; Putney Deeds 6:62, 6! 3, 338, 350, 7:123). Redway/Radway children, b. (except perhaps no. 3) at Putney (Putney T&VR 397): 1. Bethany, b. 7 March 1791. 2. Experience, b. 2 Dec. 1792. 3. Arad, b. (Warwick?) 17 Aug. 1794. 4. Martha, b. 2 Aug. 1796. 5. Daniel, b. 16 May 1798. 6. Rachel, b. 3 June 1800. 7. Elizabeth, b. 26 July 1802. 8. Richard, b. 24 July 1804. 9. Preserved, b. 26 June (d. 24 July) 1806. 10. Laban, b. 16 Dec. 1807. 11. Lovell, 26 Aug. 1809. [Here, out of order, is an additional item of interest.] From 1812 to 1820 the surname of Timothy's eldest son, Wilmarth, daughter-in-law Martha (Jonathan's widow), and their respective families underwent a transition from Redway to Radway (see Putney Deeds 4:570, 580, 621, 5:56-622 passim, 6:62-532 passim, 7:29-361 passim; 1820 U.S. Census, Putney, Windham Co., Vt., 133, 134). Certain of Wilmarth’s descendants retained the latter spelling; others reverted to the former. All Jonathan’s descendants appear to have remained Radways. (It is ironic that this modification did not follow on the heels of the Redways' migration to Putney but occurred after more than thirty years there. Timothy’s other two sons and their respective families left Putney before the transition began and escaped it altogether.) [If you'd like information about Timothy and Mary (Willmarth) Redway, the rest of their children, and their Redway ancestors, let me know and I'll send it to you as an e-mail attachment. You might also obtain copies of three articles, all in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register: "Joanna Hildreth, Wife of Captain James3 Redway of Rehoboth, Massachusetts: How Much Circumstantial Evidence Is Enough?" NEHGR 146(1992):337-42; "Samuel4 Redway of Rehoboth, Massachusetts: His First Wife and Later Life," NEHGR 150(1996):311-14; and "The Redway/Radway Family of Putney, Vermont: A Branch of the Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Redways," NEHGR 154(2000):446-58 (this is the one mentioned in my introductory remarks).]