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Harvey
Webb
Full name : Harvey Webb
Alternate spellings, aliases :
Parents :
Father : David Webb
Mother : Lydia Parmele
Date of Birth : 1 October 1798
Place of Birth : Oneida County, New York
Spouse :
Name : Sophronia Frost
Date of Marriage : November 1821
Place of Marriage : Riga, Genesee County, New York
Died :
Notes : Sophronia born c. 1805, daughter of Deacon Frost of Norwalk,
Connecticut, and according to Ezra Webb, “…educated in the common schools of
that state and possessed of a wonderful memory.” After Harvey’s death, Sophronia remarried a man named Ezra
Leonard.
Date of Death : first week of August 1827
Place of Death : Riga, Genesee County, New York
Burial Information :
Notes : died suddenly while visiting
Military Service : unknown
Occupation(s) : farmer
Location of Residences, record of movement,
migration, etc.
Property :
Condensed from the Firelands Pioneer…, Jan 1920,
pp. 2358 - 2363 : Immigrated from near Riga, New York
to the 'Firelands' area of Ohio, later known as Huron County in February
1822. He and his wife arrived in a
sleigh, the snow had gone before they reached Ohio and they finished the last
leg of their journey on open ground. Originally settled just across the
Vermillion river west of the David Underhill place.
In 1822 David Webb and his son Harvey
purchased from the Executors of Jonas Cook two hundred acres approximately
three miles north-west of Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio in Ridgefield Township,
which formed the nucleus of the Webb Settlement. Harvey paid $250 dollars for one hundred acres on the north
side and David was left with 109 acres.
They both built log houses; Harvey’s burned in 1854. In 1823, Harvey and family moved into a
frame house on the Morse place.
Family :
Son : Edward Harvey
Date of Birth : July 1823
Place of Birth : Webb Settlement, Ridgefield Township, Huron County, Ohio
Married : Abigail Leonard, 6 April 1844
Died : 1853
Notes : He was a Baptist Disciple Clergyman
Son : Edwin
Date of Birth: 1825
Place of Birth : Webb Settlement, Ridgefield Township, Huron County, Ohio
Married :
Died :
Notes : buried in Fairfield Cemetery
Huron County Marriage Record Abstracts.
Harvey Hayes Webb family bible transcript, typed
transcript, drafted in the 1950's; courtesy Hazel Skelly Webb
Webb, Loren. Diary of Captain Loren Webb, 1861 -
1863, Firelands Historical Society, 1995. Transcribed by Matthew L.
Burr.
Written communication with Vinton Phillips and
David L. Hester, Huron County, Ohio, January 2001- ongoing.
Huron County Tax Auditors
Rolls 1822 – 1841 (facsimiles). Bowling Green University Archives. Ohio.
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