Thomas Westcott
American judge (1758–1838)
Thomas Westcott (July 16, 1758 – September 22, 1838) was Rhode Island sheriff and militiaman who served as a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from May 1810 to May 1811.
Westcott was high sheriff of Kent County, Rhode Island, and a Brigadier General of the militia.[1] He served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court for one year, from May 1810 to May 1811.[1][2] He died in Warwick, Rhode Island.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Roscoe Leighton Whitman, Jonathan Russell Bullock, History and Genealogy of the Ancestors and Some Descendants of Stukely Westcott (1932), p. 185.
- ^ Rhode Island. Dept. of State, Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1882), p. 137.
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Preceded by Benjamin Johnson | Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court 1810–1811 | Succeeded by Benjamin Johnson |
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