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He was married to Betsey Maria DEAN on Jan 16 1825 in ?.(3) Children were: Eunice Maria WEBSTER, Robert Dean WEBSTER, Harriet Lorane WEBSTER, Daniel Billings WEBSTER, Ellen Jane WEBSTER, Wilbur Fisk WEBSTER, Maria Elizabeth WEBSTER, Unnamed DAUGHTER, Eunice Maria WEBSTER, Ozro Robert WEBSTER, Jason Columbus WEBSTER, Norman Galen WEBSTER.
Children were: Daniel Allen WEBSTER, Shanna Danielle WEBSTER . Children were: Donald Dean WEBSTER, Charles Asborn WEBSTER, William Francis WEBSTER.
Children were: Beverly Anne WEBSTER, Sherry Gail WEBSTER, Teresa Lynn WEBSTER, Edwin , II Webster GAYLORD , Karen Elaine WEBSTER. He was married to Anna CHALKER before 1800. Children were: Anna WEBSTER, Fanny WEBSTER, Daniel WEBSTER, Abner WEBSTER. She was married to William MARKHAM in 1658 in Hadley, Connecticut. (3) He was married to Joyce Ann MOBLEY on Aug 8 1972 in Jesup, GA. Children were: Deanna Sha WEBSTER. He was married to Tracie Ellen HASSOL on Nov 23 1990 in Jesup, GA.
He was married to Willie Alice CALER on Apr 6 1947 in Brunswick, GA. Children were: Elmer Dean WEBSTER Jr., Brenda Elaine WEBSTER, Cheryl June WEBSTER, Debra Celeste WEBSTER, Timothy DeWayne WEBSTER. Children were: Alfred Allen BAHAM , Allen Daniel WEBSTER, Edwin Gaylord WEBSTER, Elmer Dean WEBSTER, Loretta Elaine WEBSTER, Roberta Marie WEBSTER , Wilma Silvastine WEBSTER. He was married to Sarah BLISS on Dec 13 1695 in Lebanon, Connecticut. (3) Children were: Noah WEBSTER. The progenitor of the oldest, and probably the most numerous family in America, bearing the name of Webster, was John Webster of Warwickshire, England. He came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in a year not certainly known, but, by tradition, understood to have been about 1630-33. He removed from Newtowne, now Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the present site of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636, presumably with the Rev. Thomas Hooker and his historic party. Hartford was then known by its Indian name, Suckiaug, meaning "black earth," possibly from the dark rich soil of its fertile meadows and cultivated fields, portions of the country even then being under the rough tillage of the savages. John Webster located on the south side of Little River, a small stream flowing into the Connecticut from the west, and which, from the founding of the Colony, has divided the town into two unequal parts, the south side never quite equaling the north in population. In the beginning, it formed the boundary between two "plantations" into which the community was divided, and this dual feature,--with separate meetings, independent books, and recognition in the town votes, --continued even after the legal organization of the town was effected. From an ancient chart in the possession of descendants of Noah Webster, LL.D., the following is set forth as the possible line of Gov. John Webster. "The Websters were settled in Yorkshire at a very early period. They were, according to Burke and Playfair, of Scottish descent, and held the manor of Lockington, Yorkshire, in the time of Richard II (1389-1399). The apparent founder of the family was John Webster of Bolsover, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, who, in the 12th of Henry VI (1434), was returned into Chancery among the gentlemen of that County who made oath, in behalf of themselves and their retainers, for the observance of the king's laws. From him descended John Webster, who, upon the dissolution of the monasteries, received from Henry VIII, large grants in Cambridgeshire, Essex and Huntingdonshire (1509-1547). From him descended, in the third generation, John Webster who came to Watertown, near Boston, New England, from Warwickshire, England, about 1636." The line thus established would be: 1330, Webster of Lockington, Esquire, time of Edward III. 1434, John Webster of Bolsover, Esquire, twelfth of Henry VI. John Webster in the time of Henry VIII, 1509-1547. John Webster, b. 1590, Fifth Governor of the Colony of Connecticut. That John Webster was a man of influence and standing in the Hartford colony is obvious. When the colony was settled at Hartford, a Board of Commissioners from Massachusetts governed the new towns, but a meeting of all the freemen of Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield, held Jan. 14, 1639, adopted a wirtten constitution, --"the first written constitution known to history, that created a government." (Fisk, "Beginnings of New England," p. 127) From that time to 1659 he was chosen to office; from 1639 to 1655, as magistrate, or judge; 1655, deputy governor; 1656, governor; and the three following years, first magistrate, or chief judge. Hinman in his "First Puritan Settlers of Connecticut," says that John Webster's first appearance as an officer of the Court was in April 1637, when he was a member of a committee who for the first time sat with the court of Magistrates for the purpose of declaring war againt the Pequot Indians. That same year he was elected to the general court, and also elected as one of the deputy commissioners in 1638. Then followed his election to the court of magistrates at the first general court holden by Gov. Haynes in April 1639 as aforesaid. In 1640 he was appointed with Mr. Ludlow and Gov. Welles to consult with friends in New Haven respecting Indian murders which had been committed, to learn of them whether they would approve a decree of war. With William Phelps he was appointed to form law against lying, and to hold consultation with elders on the subject. He was also a member of a committee with William Phelps who formed a noted criminal code of laws for the colony; reported and approved by the General Court in 1642, several of which remain on the statute book unto this day, with little alteration except in punishment. In 1654 he was appointed a member of the Congress of the united Colonies with Maj. Gen. Mason. He was the first of his name in this country who gave high character for talent in the name of Webster. Benjamin Trumbull gives the following summary of his public services: "For twenty years Mr. John Webster had been annually chosen into the magistracy of Connecticut, being elected Governor in 1656. At the elction in Hartford, May 17th, 1655, Thomas Welles was elected Governor and John Webster Deputy Governor. At the election in 1656 John Webster was elected Governor and Thomas Welles Deputy Governor. At the elction in 1657 John Winthrop was elected Governor, Thomas Welles Deputy Governor, and John Webster Chief Magistrate. This alternating was not a freak of voting, but arose from the law which permitted a governor to hold his office (until after 1660) only one out of two years. Out of the one hundred and fifty-three original settlers of Hartford, only ten gentlemen besides himself were honored with the imposing prefix Mr. The ordinary title was Goodman or Goodwife, sometimes Goodwoman, and ofter Goody, or Neighbor. Only men of means and rank in the Colony who had come from England were looked up to with awe and without familiarity, such as clergymen, magistrates, doctors, schoolmasters, and those freemen who had received a second degree at college; eminent merchants, military captains, captains of vessels, and sometimes the mates, were addressed as Mr. and their wives as Mrs." John Webster and others of Hartford became involved in a religious controversy concerning church doctrine which resulted ultimately in their withdrawal from Connecticut. The agreement to remove to Hadley, Massachusetts, is dated at Hartford, April 18, 1659, and signed by fifty-nine persons belonging to Hartford and Wethersfield, including one or two from Windsor. In the Hadley records John Webster's name appears first on the list of settlers from Hartford. The tract of land which they purchased was upon the Connecticut River, on the east, covering what is now included in the present towns of Hadley, Amherst, South Hadley and Granby, and on the west side, Hatfield and a part of Williamsburg. Soon after signing the agreement to remove to Hadley, dated April 18, 1659, the signers, or some part of them entered upon the work of preparing for settlement there. John Webster accompanied or preceded them that he might assist or superintend the laying out of the roads and other business, and made his temporary home in Northampton where he was taken sick and made his Will, dated June 25, 1659. It was witnessed by John Russell, Jr., the minister at Hadley, and Eleazer Mather, the minister at Northampton. Mr. Webster recovered however and lived nearly two years, dying in Hadley, April 5, 1661, and was buried there according to the instructions in his Will. Honor and labor followed him to his new field for he was soon made a judge, or commissioner as it was then called, John Pynchon and Samuel Chapin being his associates. The Court was held alternately at Northampton and Springfield. The end was now near at hand. In eleven days, namely, April 5, 1661, under circumstances without record now extant, the Puritan and Pilgrim of two hemispheres, the faithful judge, the Deputy Governor and Governor of an incipient American State, the public spirited citizen and public servant, in old age an exile for conscience sake from the infant city which he helped to found, in a new home, but surrounded by neighbors who had suffered with him, he closed his labors, and sleeps with the pioneers who with him blazed the path of empire in the New World. His eminent descendant, Noah Webster, LL.D., one of the chief lexicographers of the English language, erected in the Old Hadley Cemetery, in 1818, a modest slab upon or near the spot where Gov. Webster was buried, bearing the following inscription: To the memory of John Webster, Esq. one of the first settlers of Hartford in Connecticut, who was many years a Magistrate or Assistant, and afterwards Deputy Gov. and Governor of that Colony, and in 1659 with three sons, Robert, William and Thomas, associated with others in the purchase and settlement of Hadley where he died in 1661, this monument is erected in 1818 by his descendant, Noah Webster of Amherst. In the Northampton, Mass., Probate Records, pages 20 and 21 is recorded the following instrument, attested as a true copy of the last Will and Testament of Mr. John Webster, lateof Hadley, deceased. "I, John Webster late of Hartford in the jurisdiction of Connecticut being weak of body yett sound of mind and having my perfect understanding doe ordayne this to be my last will and testament in manner following-- "Imprimis. I comitt my soule into the hands of the Almighty and most mercifull hoping to be saved by the alone meritts of the Lord Jesus Christ being washed w'th his blood and clothed with his righteousness and sanctifyed by the Holy Ghost. Amen. "My body also I bequeath to ye earth to be interred with comely bureall (if at this time I be taken out of this world) in some part of the New Plantation on ye east side of the river agt Northampton. Moreover my worldly goods wch the Lord hath blessed me with and left me as a father's portion, I bestow as followeth. "To my Deare and beloved wife Agnes Webster I give one bed and comely furniture for ye same. As also my house and lands in Hartford all the profitts of the same during her natural life. And upon her decease all shall come into the hands and be at ye disposal of my executor. "Item, to my son Matthew Webster I give the summ of ten pounds. "Item, to my son William Webster I give the summ of seventy pounds. "Item, to my son Thomas Webster I give ye summ of fifty pounds. "Item, to my daughter Marsh I give ye summ of twenty pounds. "Item, to my daughter Markham I give ye summ of forty pounds. "To my grandchild Jonathan Hunt I give the summ of forty shillings. "To my grandchild Mary Hunt I give ye summ of ten pounds. "To all my grandchildren else in N. England I give ten shillings apiece. "To Mary the wife of William Holton of Northampton in part of recompence for her great love and paynes for me I give forty shillings. "To my son Robert Webster I give all the remainder of my estate of one kind and another, whom also I doe appoynt and ordayn to be my sole and full executor of this my last will and testament. "My will further is that the foresaid legacys should be paid within fifteen months after my decease soe farr as my personall estate (that is all my estate besides houses and lands) will reach and the rest within eighteen months after my wives decease. "Which of the legacys shall be paid first or how much of them I leave to the discretion and faithfulness of my son Robert desiring yt if there appeare any difference he would in it take and act by the advise of my loving friends Nathaneell Ward and Andrew Bacon who have beene acquainted with much of my mind herein. Only my just debts I would have first paid before ye legacys as also my funerall expences. "My lot at the New Plantation with ye accomodations thereunto belonging and I give to my sons William and Thomas upon condition of their inhabiting there as I myself was ingaged to doe weh is also my desire they should-- "And soe doeing to have it equally divided between them. "In witness hereof I have sett to my hand this present 25 of June 1659. John Webster In ye presence of John Russell, Eleazar Mather. Gov. John Webster's widow, Mrs. Agnes Webster, died six years later, probably in Hartford, in the year 1667. Parents: Matthew WEBSTER and Elizabeth ASHTON. He was married to Agnes SMITH on Nov 7 1609 in England.(3) Children were: Matthew WEBSTER, Margaret WEBSTER, William WEBSTER, Thomas WEBSTER, Lieutenant Robert WEBSTER, Anne WEBSTER, Mary WEBSTER, Elizabeth WEBSTER, Faith WEBSTER. She was married to Calvin ABELL on Sep 5 1832 in Sheldon, Vermont, probably. (3) Children were: Reliance Webster ABELL , John Grant ABELL, Silas Billings ABELL, Betsey Maria ABELL. Children were: Elmer WEBSTER. Children were: Claude WEBSTER, Mazie WEBSTER , Merle WEBSTER, Howard WEBSTER , Dean WEBSTER, Gaylord WEBSTER . Children were: Doris WEBSTER, Dorothy WEBSTER. Children were: Howard WEBSTER Jr., Randy S. WEBSTER. |