David M. Westcott

David Mandeville Westcott (ca. 1769 Cornwall, Orange County, New York – April 21, 1841 Goshen, Orange Co., NY) was an American politician from New York.

Life

In 1789, he removed to Goshen, and became co-editor of the Goshen Repository, the first newspaper published in Goshen, founded in 1788 by David Mandeville.

Westcott married Keziah Gale (1773–1819), and they had eight children, among them Sarah Gale Westcott (b. 1796) who married Congressman Samuel J. Wilkin (1793–1866).

He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Orange Co.) in 1798-99; County Clerk of Orange County from 1815 to 1819, and from 1821 to 1822; and again a member of the State Assembly in 1828.

He was a member of the New York State Senate (2nd D.) from 1831 to 1834, sitting in the 54th, 55th, 56th and 57th New York State Legislatures.

He was buried at the Slate Hill Cemetery, in Goshen NY.

Sources

• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 128ff, 147, 172, 315 and 391; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
• Death notice in The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge (Boston, 1842; pg. 315)
• Genealogy of the Eliot Family by William Horace Eliot Jr. & William S. Porter (New Haven CT, 1854; pg. 166f)

External links

• David M. Westcott at Find a Grave [Gives a wrong death date, but the tombstone shows the correct date given by the Almanac.]