Individual Details

Samuel Stafford and family joined the Quaker Church and the birth date of Mercy Stafford is from the Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Before 1692.Volume 4 . Listed under Stafford. By James Savage. Quaker Records of Newport. Likewise the record of her death and or marriage should also be there.

Rhode Island Genealogical Record Abstract of Will of Samuel Stafford .
Stafford, Samuel, being aged. will dated 16 MAR 1710/11, proved 16 Apr 1718, pgs 135-136. Mentions: Sons Amos Stafford eldest & Thomas Stafford youngest. Daughters Sarah Scranton eldest, Patience Howland 2nd, Freelove Tillinghast 3rd, & Elizabeth Devotion 4th. Granddaughters Marcy Thurber & Mary Stafford.

Note: There is no mention of his daughter Mercy b.1688. There is no mention of Edward Thurber -son of Mercy and Richard Thurber. Samuel Stafford was admitted freeman in

Birth	1636	Warwick, Kent Co., RI
Birth	1636	Warwick, Kent Co., RI
Marriage	24 Feb 1660	Warwick, Kent Co., RI - Mercy Westcott
Marriage	24 Feb 1671	Warwick, Kent Co., RI - Mercy Westcott
Will	16 Mar 1710
Death	20 Mar 1718	Warwick, Kent Co., RI
Death	20 Mar 1718	Warwick, Kent Co., RI
Burial		Old Stafford Cemetary, Conimicut Pt, Warwick, Kent County, RI

Spouse	Mercy Westcott (1632 - 1700)
Child	Stukely Westcott Stafford (1661 - 1661)
Child	Amos Stafford (1665 - 1760)
Child	Mercy Stafford (1668 - 1725)
Child	Sarah Stafford (1669 - )
Child	Samuel Stafford (1673 - 1675)
Child	Patience Stafford (1675 - 1721)
Child	Freelove Stafford (1677 - 1711)
Child	Elizabeth Stafford (1680 - )
Child	Capt. Thomas Stafford (1682 - 1765)

Father	Thomas Stafford (1605 - 1677)
Mother	Elizabeth (1614 - 1677)
Sibling	Thomas Stafford Jr. (1632 - 1723)
Sibling	Hannah Stafford (1640 - 1692)
Sibling	Sarah Stafford (1646 - 1669)
Sibling	Joseph Stafford (1648 - 1731)
Sibling	Deborah Stafford (1651 - 1706)