Deborah WEBBER is my seventh great grandmother. She was born to Samuel and Deborah (LITTLEFIELD) WEBBER, between 1698 and 1702 in York, Maine.[1] Deborah was taken to court for having a bastard child with Jacob PERKINS (my eighth great grandfather), 1 April 1718, she was ordered to receive ten stripes on her naked back at the post and pay court fees of 8 shillings or pay a fine of 30 shillings and fees, there is no record of which she chose. The child born is Joseph PERKINS.[2] She married Andrew WESCOTT after 19 April 1729 in the First Church in Kittery, Maine.[3] Andrew and Deborah had six children: Josiah, Alice, William, Samuel, Mercy and Anna. There is no record of her death all that is known is that it was after 20 October 1760, the time in which she co-signed a deed with her husband.[4] Her place of burial is also unknown at this time. Many articles have been written on the WESCOTT family, most not putting them in a good light.
[1] Steven Edward Sullivan, “Andrew and Deborah (Webber) Wescott of Cape Neddick, York, and Penboscot, Maine,” The American Genealogist, 70 (1995), online archives, American Ancestors (www.americanancestors.org : accessed ).
[2] Sullivan, “Andrew and Deborah (Webber) Wescott of Cape Neddick, York, and Penboscot, Maine.”
[3] Maine Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, “Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907,” online index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : online 18 September 2013), Andrew Westscoat [Wescott] and Deborah Webber jun., 19 Apr 1729, York, York, Maine.
[4] Sullivan, “Andrew and Deborah (Webber) Wescott of Cape Neddick, York, and Penboscot, Maine.”
