Tabitha Westcott was the great-great granddaughter of Stukely Westcott, one of the founding settlers of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and one of the original members of the first Baptist Church in America, established by Roger Williams in 1638. Coming to the New World from the town of Yeovil in Somerset, England, he first settled in Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but difficulties with the authorities there prompted him to join Williams in settling at Providence on the Narragansett Bay in 1638.
Tabitha was the second of 13 children born to Nathan Westcott, Sr. and Mary Rutenburg.
She married John Parker on January 1, 1769. They had nine children:
Nathan Parker, 1770-1848
Elizabeth Parker, 1771-1815
John Parker, abt. 1773-1865 (believed to be Findagrave #70296275)
Charles Parker, 1777-1871
Stephen Potter Parker, 1780-1857
Damaris Parker, 1783-1868
Nancy Parker, 1785-1864
George Washington Parker, 1788-1873
Westcott Parker, 1791-1860
Tabitha and John were born and spent most of their lives in Rhode Island, but relocated to Killingly, CT for a few years, ca. 1782-1785, then returning to Rhode Island and settling in Scituate, RI, where they lived for nearly 50 years. They were originally buried in the John Parker Family Lot in Scituate (RI Historical Cemetery SC159), but were reinterred in Rockland Cemetery in the 1920s, when a dam built across the Pawtuxet River to supply water to Providence flooded most of the town of Scituate.
Tabitha was the second of 13 children born to Nathan Westcott, Sr. and Mary Rutenburg.
She married John Parker on January 1, 1769. They had nine children:
Nathan Parker, 1770-1848
Elizabeth Parker, 1771-1815
John Parker, abt. 1773-1865 (believed to be Findagrave #70296275)
Charles Parker, 1777-1871
Stephen Potter Parker, 1780-1857
Damaris Parker, 1783-1868
Nancy Parker, 1785-1864
George Washington Parker, 1788-1873
Westcott Parker, 1791-1860
Tabitha and John were born and spent most of their lives in Rhode Island, but relocated to Killingly, CT for a few years, ca. 1782-1785, then returning to Rhode Island and settling in Scituate, RI, where they lived for nearly 50 years. They were originally buried in the John Parker Family Lot in Scituate (RI Historical Cemetery SC159), but were reinterred in Rockland Cemetery in the 1920s, when a dam built across the Pawtuxet River to supply water to Providence flooded most of the town of Scituate.
Tabitha Westcott was the great-great granddaughter of Stukely Westcott, one of the founding settlers of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and one of the original members of the first Baptist Church in America, established by Roger Williams in 1638. Coming to the New World from the town of Yeovil in Somerset, England, he first settled in Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but difficulties with the authorities there prompted him to join Williams in settling at Providence on the Narragansett Bay in 1638.
Tabitha was the second of 13 children born to Nathan Westcott, Sr. and Mary Rutenburg.
She married John Parker on January 1, 1769. They had nine children:
Nathan Parker, 1770-1848
Elizabeth Parker, 1771-1815
John Parker, abt. 1773-1865 (believed to be Findagrave #70296275)
Charles Parker, 1777-1871
Stephen Potter Parker, 1780-1857
Damaris Parker, 1783-1868
Nancy Parker, 1785-1864
George Washington Parker, 1788-1873
Westcott Parker, 1791-1860
Tabitha and John were born and spent most of their lives in Rhode Island, but relocated to Killingly, CT for a few years, ca. 1782-1785, then returning to Rhode Island and settling in Scituate, RI, where they lived for nearly 50 years. They were originally buried in the John Parker Family Lot in Scituate (RI Historical Cemetery SC159), but were reinterred in Rockland Cemetery in the 1920s, when a dam built across the Pawtuxet River to supply water to Providence flooded most of the town of Scituate.
Tabitha was the second of 13 children born to Nathan Westcott, Sr. and Mary Rutenburg.
She married John Parker on January 1, 1769. They had nine children:
Nathan Parker, 1770-1848
Elizabeth Parker, 1771-1815
John Parker, abt. 1773-1865 (believed to be Findagrave #70296275)
Charles Parker, 1777-1871
Stephen Potter Parker, 1780-1857
Damaris Parker, 1783-1868
Nancy Parker, 1785-1864
George Washington Parker, 1788-1873
Westcott Parker, 1791-1860
Tabitha and John were born and spent most of their lives in Rhode Island, but relocated to Killingly, CT for a few years, ca. 1782-1785, then returning to Rhode Island and settling in Scituate, RI, where they lived for nearly 50 years. They were originally buried in the John Parker Family Lot in Scituate (RI Historical Cemetery SC159), but were reinterred in Rockland Cemetery in the 1920s, when a dam built across the Pawtuxet River to supply water to Providence flooded most of the town of Scituate.
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