Thomas Westcott

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

  1. Roscoe Leighton Whitman, Jonathan Russell Bullock, History and Genealogy of the Ancestors and Some Descendants of Stukely Westcott (1932), p. 185.
  2. Rhode Island. Dept. of State, Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1882), p. 137.
Political offices
Preceded by
Benjamin Johnson
Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
1810–1811
Succeeded by
Benjamin Johnson


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