This is a transcription of Two More Ancestors of the Cheshire and Milford Westcotts from History and Genealogy of the Ancestors and Some Descendants of Stukely Westcott by Roscoe L. Whitman, 1932, page 10.
Two More Ancestors of the Cheshire and Milford Westcotts
William Arnold, father of Benedict, was born at Lemington in Somerset, June 24, 1587, and therefore was the senior member of those on the little sailing vessel. His wife, Christanna Peak, and several of their children were aboard, among them Stephen Arnold. William and Stephen were to become the third and fourth ancestors of the Westcotts of Cheshire and Milford, Stukely and his son Jeremiah being the first and second. (See Wells-Arnold, Pt. IV.)
Stephen Arnold married Sarah Smith, of Rehoboth, Mass., and had a son Israel, whose wife was Mary Barker, and their son was Stephen Arnold. This son had a daughter, Elizabeth Arnold. The daughter married Peter Wells of Warwick, R. I., and to them was born Anna Wells, who married Stukely Westcott, and settled in Cheshire, Mass. She became “the Mother of the Westcotts of Cheshire and Milford.”
[page 11] Accordingly, a four-fold reason why June 24, 1635, should be remembered by the descendants of this family as a date of interest and importance to them.
For fifty-five days and nights, the small sailing craft, probably unchartered as many were in that period, with its tops’ls and mizzen-masts running before the wind, with probable occasional cries of “Thar she blows!” as the sails filled, ploughed its choppy way westward through the seas and on Thursday, June 24, 1635, landed its thankful passengers on the wild, unsettled shores of the Massachusetts Bay.
Arnold made no mention of the experience of those on the little vessel, but of the voyage it surely may be said that it was an adventure, and the travelers, adventurers indeed!