Matthew
WEST
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1598
- 1659
Father: Thomas WEST
Mother: Elizabeth SANKEY
Family 1 :
1. Robert WEST
2. Nathaniel WEST
3. Bartholomew WEST
4. John WEST (1)
6. Joan WEST
7. John WEST (2)
8. Richard WEST
9. Thomas WEST
10. Peter WEST
11. Martha WEST
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Matthew was living in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1636 and he was a Baptist and a tailor; on 9 MAR 1637, he was made a freeman. In 1646 he removed to Newport, Rhode Island, and was made a freeman. There on 16 JAN 1677, he deeded grandson, "Nathaniel West for love, and etc., son of my oldest son, Nathaniel West, who departed this life many years ago and forasmuch as he hath for many years past and now dose live with me, and his comfort of me in my old age dwelling house I now live in by (bounded) by John Crandall and John Thronton, immediately after my decease" Source: Auston, History of Rhode Island.
W. F. Donnelly, The Wests of Duck Creek (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press,
1997) 262f :
"One of the early Wests in America was Matthew West of the town of Lynn in territory which was to become part of the state of Massachusetts. Lynn was established in 1629, one of the oldest towns in Essex County, Massachusetts, after Salem. Matthew West was recorded as being there as early of 1636, a 'freeman' in 1637 and an owner of 40 acres in 1638. In the colonies, being a freeman generally meant that a man was over 21 years of age, had personal property or real estate, was a member of a church and had been elected a freeman by a majority of the town's freeman. It also meant that Matthew West had to pay taxes, participate in the election of new freeman and elect representatives to the governing assembly...Mathew West was a tailor. The old records lead to the conclusion that he was a Baptist and resided in a community of Baptists in Newport where he was listed as a resident in the year 1646. He was listed there as a freeman there in 1655 and the same year was a representative in Providence along with the Rev. Roger Williams. In 1672, he deeded to his grandson, Nathaniel West II, son of his eldest son Nathaniel West I, the 'dwelling house I now live in' in Newport."
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