This page contains mentions of Westcotts in various histories and in genealogies of related families, including Nathan Westcott (1812-1878); Corinne Wescott Cornell (1828 – aft. 1902); and the Charles Westcott (1772-1856) Family. Each of these snippets includes a link to the original publication.
Nathan Westcott of Goshen, New York (1812-1878)
There are two mentions of Nathan Westcott in Portrait and Biographical Record of Orange County, New York (NYC and Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1895). The book is available on line from the Hathi Trust Digital Library.
Title page of Portrait and Biographical Record of Orange County, New York; click the image to view the transcribed pages
On page 273 in the biography of Charles G. Elliott:
Charles G. Elliott is President of the Goshen National Bank, which is capitalized at $110,000. This well known and stable financial institution was organized in 1850, and about 1864 was started under its present policy as a national bank. In intervals since 1850 Mr. Elliot has been a public official. He entered the County Clerk’s office under his uncle, Nathan Westcott, who was then Clerk of Orange County …
Judge Horace W. Elliott, father of C.G. was born in Killingworth, Conn., and came to this place about 1802. From that time until his death he was engaged in business here as a druggist. He was a hero of the War of 1812, was an ardent Democrat, and held the offices of Justice of the Peace and Associate County Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. At the close of a long and useful career he died, in 1863, when in his eighty-third year. His wife, Charlotte, a native of Goshen, was the daughter of Hon. David N. Westcott, who was a member of the New York Constitutional Convention, was Colonel of a company of state militia, and served in the Legislature. For several years he was also County Clerk of Orange County. Financially he was well-to-do, possessing valuable tracts of land and other property. He died when about seventy years of age. Mrs. Charlotte Elliott, who was a faithful member of the Presbyterian Church, departed this life in 1880, when about threescore and ten years of age.
On Page 1511, in the biography of Herbert Gedney:
The father of our subject, D. F. Gedney, a native of Newburgh, was District Attorney of Orange County two terms, and County Judge the same length of time. After graduating from Union College, he studied law and was admitted to the Bar. Later he formed a partnership with Nathan Westcott, at Goshen, N.Y., this partnership continuing until the retirement of Mr. Westcott. Mr. Gedney continued alone until 1875, when he took his son Herbert into partnership, the firm becoming D.F. & H. Gedney.
Corinne Wescott Cornell (1828 – aft. 1902)
Corinne (or Corinna) Wescott married Garrett Cornell in 1845, the first of four husbands, as documented in Genealogy of the Cornell Family: Being an Account of the Descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth, R. I. by the Rev. John Cornell, M.A. (NYC: T.A. Wright, 1902). The book is available on line from the Hathi Trust Digital Library.
Charles Westcott Family of Charlestown, N.H.
Charles Westcott was born in Cranston, R.I. on July 10, 1772, the 15th (and last) child of Nathan Westcott and the 13th of Nathan’s second wife Mary. He was a descendant of Stukely and Juliana Westcott in the fifth generation: Charles Wetscott5, Nathan4, Josiah3, Jeremiah2, Stukely1. Charles moved to the Manadnock Region of New Hampshire, where his spent most of his adult life and where he died on February 26, 1856. Charles and his wife Rachel Ballou had three children, the youngest of whom was Artemesia (born August 10, 1808).
Two snippets about Charles and Artemesia appear in Some History of Charlestown, New Hampshire, The Old No. 4, Embracing the Part Borne by its Inhabitants in the Indian, French and Revolutionary Wars, and the Vermont Controversy by Rev. Henry H. Sanderson (Claremont, N.H.: Town of Claremont, 1876), The book is available on line from the University of New Hampshire Library.
Source: Edna Lewis, The Westcott Family Tree, 1999 (see numbers 61 and 143)