Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I-III Franklin Lawrence Sheppard and Howard Reynolds Sheppard Richard Westcott, whose ancestry has been traced back to 1170, in Devonshire England, and his brothers Strickly and William Westcott, came to Salem, Massachusetts, prior to 1636, and were members of the church there, of which Roger Williams was pastor. Strickly Westcott was one of those named with Roger Williams in the decree of banishment from the colony of Massachusetts Bay, made by the General Court March 12, 1638. Richard Westcott removed from Salem to Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1639, and in 1644, to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he died in 1651. By his wife Joanna, he had children: John, Daniel, Joanna, and Abigail. Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I-III Abbot S. Cooke Daniel Cooke, son of John Cooke, was born at Saybrook, Connecticut, September 19, 1691. He became a resident of Providence, Rhode Island, where he married, February 4, 1713, Mary, daughter of Nicholas Power (3), granddaughter of Nicholas Power (2), who was slain at the famous capture of the Narragansett Fort, December 19, 1675, and a great-granddaughter of Nicholas Power (1), who was an associate of Roger Williams in the settlement of Providence and one of the thirteen purchasers of Shawomet (Warwick) from the Indians. He was a man of large means and his sudden death, intestate, August 25, 1657, was the occasion of what would now be regarded as a most extraordinary proceeding. Ten years after his death his estate being unsettled, the town council made a will for him, disposing of his property as they thought proper and not according to any rule of law. Mary (Power) Cooke was born March 29, 1696, died December 17, 1741. Daniel Cooke, her husband, died February 7, 1738. Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I-III Mrs. Robert Bruce Ricketts William Reynolds was born in Gloucestershire, England, in 1596, and in 1615, married Ruth ---. Of his ancestors little is known. It is stated that he came, by way of Bermuda, to the state of Massachusetts, where he was a member of the church of Salem. In 1637 he bought for two shillings sixpence, certain lands at Providence, Rhode Island, and is said to have engaged in business with Roger Williams. He was the second of the thirteen signers to the compact, which is as follows: "We, whose names are hereunder desire to inhabit the town of Rhode Island and do promise to subject ourselves in active and passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for the public good of the body, in an orderly way, by the major assent of the present inhabitants, masters of families, incorporated together into town fellowship, and such others whom they admit unto them". Arnold, in his History of Rhode Island," states that these signers were the second comers. It is worthy of more than passing note that this declaration meant what it said; religious liberty in Rhode Island was apparently of first importance after an orderly government had been established. When the fundamental law of this nation was later established, the influence of Rhode Island was potent in securing a constitutional declaration which guaranteed to the freeman of all times in this land, the right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience. July 27, 1640, William Reynolds and thirty-eight others signed an agreement for a firm government. This was a more elaborate document than the first, but it preserved all the details of the first compact. November 17, 1641, Reynolds and twelve others complained in a letter to Massachusetts, of the "insolent and riotous carriage of Samuel Gorton and his company," and as petitioners desired Massachusetts to lend us a neighborlike helping hand, etc." Again, January 27, 1644, he and others of Providence testified as to the outrage on Warwick settlers by Massachusetts. January 27, 1645, William Reynolds sold Robert Williams all his houses and homeshare and three small pieces of meadow; on the same date he sold to William Field a share of six acres on Fox's Hill; and April 27, 1646, he sold to Thomas Lawton his valley containing eighty acres, and three acres of meadow, "provided that in any case hereafter the town shall be put to any charge about Indians, that he or they that doth possess the land shall pay their share". After the sale of his land at Providence, Rhode Island, it is supposed he settled at Kingston, Rhode Island, where he passed away. Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I-III Nathaniel Seymour Thomas Benjamin Smith, son of Christopher and Alice, born in England in 1631 did not accompany his parents to America, but followed them in 1658, having previous to his emigration been a soldier in Cromwell's army. He was a sergeant of a military company at Patuxet, Rhode Island, in 1659; eight years a deputy there, and nineteen years an assistant at Warwick, Rhode Island. His wife, Lydia Carpenter, who was baptized in Rhode Island by Roger Williams, was a daughter of William Carpenter and his wife, Elizabeth Arnold who was a daughter of William Arnold, of Dartmouth, England, who with his wife, Christian Peck, settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1635, and removed, with the Peck family, to Patuxet, Rhode Island, in 1638. Benjamin Smith, (1661-1730), son of Benjamin and Lydia (Carpenter) Smith, married Phebe Arnold (1670-1730), daughter of Stephen Arnold, son of William and Christian (Peck) Arnold, above mentioned. Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I-III John Sparhawk Wurts John Throckmorton, father of Job, and grandfather of Mary (Throckmorton) Grandin, came from England with Roger Williams in the ship "Lyon" in 1631, and was one of the original proprietors of Rhode Island. Is this the same Roger Williams Biographical Sketch of Robert WILLIAM (1881); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Sandra Ferguson <[email protected] net>. from Futhey and Cope's THE HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY (1881); " Robert William, of Merion, widower, was married at the house of Hugh Roberts, 4, 19, 1691, to Gwen Cadwalader. About the year 1700 they were settled in Goshen, probably on land then of Griffith Owen, at or near the present Goshen Friends' Meeting. He was sometimes called the King of Goshen, and it is claimed that he was the first settler in the township. Tradition says their first residence was a cave, and that on occasion, when their hearth-fire went out, he had to go seven miles to get it renewed. Goshen Meeting was held first, it is believed, at his house, though the record says at the house of Griffeth Owen, but the latter doubtless lived in Philadelphia. In 1715 they lived in Uwchlan Township and in that year conveyed the Goshen homestead to their son Ellis. Though he had considerable land in Goshen, he appears to have been in straitened circumstances, so that in 1702 Friends of Haverford contributed 19 pounds 9d. 8s. to him to build a new house, he having received Friends "kindly and open- hearted," and keeping the meeting in his house. In 1710, Edward Roberts complained of him for debt, and the meeting advised him to sell some of his land to pay for it and even appointed persons to assist him in doing it. He died in 1734, at the age of eighty-seven years. His children, so far as known, were. - 1. Elizabeth, m. to William Philips, 1708; 2. Ellis, who died 1756, m. Mary __ about 1712; she died 2, 7, 1753; 3. Lewis, m. about 1720, to Ann, daughter of James Thomas; 4. John, perhaps a son,[sic] m. Jane ____: 5. Ann, b. 1700, m. Griffith John; 6. William, m. 10, 3, 1723, at Uwchlan Meeting, Joan Pugh, daughter of James Pugh, of Uwchlan, d. in Vincent, 7, 17, 1744; 7. Grace, b. 3, 12, 1707, m. John Meredith; 8. Hannah, m. John Morgan, Nov. 9, 1723; 9. Sarah, b. 1712, m. Timothy Kirk." ------Original Message------- From: Dorothy C. White Date: 12/30/05 15:34:19 To: [email protected] Subject: [WILLIAMS] Roger Williams VA 1622 For those descended from Roger Williams, early immigrant to tidewater VA go to ENGLISH-AMERICA site on the net (Google can take you right to it) and find Roger Williams, 20, (Matthew servant) arrived on the Southampton in 1622. English-America: Virginia, Virginia Muster, 1624/5 and under "Capt. Mathews Plantation." Dorothy C. White [email protected] 804.795.4296 ==== WILLIAMS Mailing List ==== List web page: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/w/williams.html Genealogy Links - http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/GEN-links.htm ============================== Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.9/216 - Release Date: 12/29/2005 .