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
The Rhode Island Supreme Court is the court of last resort in the U.S. State of Rhode Island. The Court consists of a Chief Justice and four Associate Justices, all selected by the Governor of Rhode Island from candidates vetted by the Judicial No ...
from May 1810 to May 1811.
Westcott was high sheriff of
Kent County, Rhode Island
Kent County is a county located in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. As of the 2020 census, the population was 170,363, making it the second-most populous county in Rhode Island. The county was formed in 1750 from the southern third of Providence ...
, and a Brigadier General of the militia.
[Roscoe Leighton Whitman, Jonathan Russell Bullock, ''History and Genealogy of the Ancestors and Some Descendants of Stukely Westcott'' (1932), p. 185.] He served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court for one year, from May 1810 to May 1811.
[Rhode Island. Dept. of State, ''Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations'' (1882), p. 137.] He died in
Warwick, Rhode Island
Warwick ( or ) is a city in Kent County, Rhode Island, the third largest city in the state with a population of 82,823 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. It is located approximately south of downtown Providence, Rhode Island, sout ...
.
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1758 births
1838 deaths
Rhode Island sheriffs
Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
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