Jonathan Westbrook

DAR Ancestor #: A123300

He operated the mill after his father's death and farmed.

Jonathan Westbrook died according to the story of a slave named Tim, when he was poisoned by a slave named Pete Motte. The story has it that Pete Motte, having gone to Kingston to get medicine for his master, added the fatal dose of poison. The storyteller, Tim, was a native of Africa and evidently was quite talented as a "doctor" particularly in rheumatic cases. He was well-known and sought out in surrounding towns. He remained with the family until he was very old, and then left on his own, his master having given him his freedom (unnamed document in file found at Bennington, VT Library).

The date of her death is unknown to me, but I speculate that it might have been not too long after the birth of Cornelius in 1782, as he was her only child and as there is no mention of her in anything I have read.