Dr. Thomas WEST, Sr.

1646 - 1706  (60 years)

• Name	Thomas WEST
  Prefix	Dr.
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	1646	Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	2534463
  Reference Number	2568850
  Reference Number	60
  WWW	https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/West-1684
  Death	7 Sep 1706	Homes Hole, Dukes, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I266	Gummer
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2024

  
  

  Father	Francis WEST,   b. Abt 1606, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d. 2 Jan 1692, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay (Age 86 years)
  Mother	Margery REEVES,   b. Abt 1608, England d. Bef 1692, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age < 83 years)
  Marriage	27 Feb 1639	Duxbury, Plymouth Colony
  Family ID	F67	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth THOMAS,   b. 12 Sep 1652   d. 16 Feb 1728 (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F283	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2024

  
  

• Photos		Dr. Thomas D. West
  		Francis West Descendants Chart from book...
  		West-5608 and West-1684 appear to represent the same person because: These appear to be the same man--name, dates, places match--with successive wives. Elizabeth Jackson died long before Elizabeth West.

  
  

• Notes

  == Biography == Dr. Thomas West, father of Ruth (West) Cartwright was born in 1646 and died Sept. 7, 1706, aged 60. He was the son of Francis and Margery (Reeves) West. His mother died Feb. 16, 1723 at the age of 75 years. Dr. West married Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of Nathaniel Thomas of Plymouth and they were parents of several children. He was in Plymouth in 1667 and 1671 and after 1673 resided at Martha's Vineyard, where most of his children were born. He was not only a practicing physician, but perhaps also a lawyer, for he was called "The King's Attorney" in 1681 and "Their Majestie's Attorney" in 1689. He joined the Sabbitarian Baptist Church at Newport, R.I. in 1692, but the record shows that he was dismissed from it in 1702. Many of his descendants today are members of that faith, among them the descendants of Ruth (West) Cartwright. The Sabbitarian Baptist Church is the present Seventh Day Baptist Church. It was organized January 3, 1672 at Newport, R.I. and was the first Seventh Day Baptist Church in America. Most of its members at the time of its organization resided at a place what is now known as the village of Ashaway, R.I., about four miles from Westerly. They retained their membership in the Newport Church until 1708 when they orgainzed the First Hopkinton Seventh Day Baptist Church at Hopkinton, R.I. This church continues, but the Newport Church is now extinct. The building is now owned by the Newport Historical Society and has been built into their brick building. Seventh Day Baptists of that section of Rhode Island have a meeting in the old Newport Church once in every five years. Thomas died in West Tisbury, Massachusetts on September 6, 1706, and was buried in the West Tisbury Village Cemetery{{FindAGrave|5673806 }}. Dr. West's will, dated January 5, 1697/6, mentions his six sons, but makes no reference to his daughters, who are, however, mentioned in a division of his real estate in 1722.Mack, Stanley L., [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062884218;view=2up;seq=46 ''Edward Cartwright (1640-1705) of Nantucket, Mass.: some of his descendants and their families; compiled from data furnished from the notes of genealogists of the Cartwright family, old family records & other reliable sources.''] Duluth, Minnesota (1936) Page 8. == Sources == See also: * Banks, Charles Edward, [https://archive.org/details/historyofmarthas02bank/page/n489 ''The History of Martha's Vineyard, in three volumes.''] Boston: George H. Dean (1911) Volume II, pages 25-27 (in the "Annals of Tisbury" section.) * Dukes County Genealogy: [http://history.vineyard.net/franwest.htm Francis West of Duxbury, Mass.]* Martha's Vineyard Museum: [http://history.vineyard.net/west.htm The West Family]