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Joshua Webb
Full name : Ebenezer Webb
Alternate spellings, aliases : Ebenezer Webb, Sr.
Parents :
Father : Samuel Webb
Mother : Hannah Ripley
note : his mother was daughter of Joshua Ripley
Date of Birth : 19 February 1721/2
Place of Birth : Windham, Windham County, Connecticut
Spouse :
Name : Hannah Abbe
Date of Marriage : 17 September 1724
Place of Marriage : Windham, Windham County, Connecticut
Died : 12 February 1815, aged 91 years
Notes :
Date of Death : 17 April 1808, aged 86 years
Place of Death : Rockingham, Vermont
Burial Information : buried in the old burying ground in Rockingham, Vermont;
his epitaph reads, “He settled in the town at the early age of it - he was
honored with many offices of trust – in town and state – with zeal and fidelity
he employed his talents in building up the civil and religious society in town –
in aiding and promoting the cause of liberty in the revolution of our country –
and in organizing and building up the state – and through a long course in
public business was generally accepted as a man of talents and integrity.
Military Service : Civil service in the
Revolutionary War; Patriot. He was
a representative from Rockingham to the Vermont state legislature in 1778,
1779, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783, during almost the whole period of the war,
serving on several committees. It
has been suggested that Colonel Ethan Allen frequented his home during the
Revolution.
Notes : See references here.
Residences, property :
1790 Federal Census. Town of Rockingham, Windham County, Vermont
Head of Family, Free White Males 16>, <16, Free White Females, Others,
Slaves
131, Charles Webb, 1, 5, 2, 0, 0
131, Joshua Webb, 3, 0, 3, 0, 0
131, Calvin Webb, 2, 2, 4, 0, 0
131, Jehiel Webb, 3, 1, 3, 0, 0
1800 Federal Census. Rockingham, Windham County, Vermont
Page, Head, Free Males <10,
10-16, 16-26, 26-45 >45, Free Females <10, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45 >45,
Others, Slaves
R. Joshua Webb, 1,
1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0
Joshua Webb, 0, 0,
0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0
Luther Webb, 1, 0,
0, 1, 0, 3, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0
Calvin Webb, 2, 1,
1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0
Charles Webb, 2, 2,
3, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0
Jehiel Webb, 1, 0,
1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0
Jehiel Webb Jr., 1,
0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0
Occupation(s) : farmer, father, Church member, merchant,
politician, patriot
Religious participation :
Congregational; Separatist; United with the First Church of Windham on 3
September 1738, under Reverend Thomas Clap’s parsonage.
Family :
Son : Jehiel
Date of Birth : 23 January 1744/45
Place of Birth : Windham, Windham County, Connecticut
Married :
Died : 16 February 1813,
aged 68 years
Notes : He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Buried in Old Rockingham Cemetery, Rockingham, Vermont
Son : Joseph
Date of Birth : 8 May 1746
Place of Birth : Windham,
Windham County, Connecticut
Married :
Died : 23 September 1825, aged
79 years
Notes : He lived in the vicinity
of Piermont New Hampshire in 1776, 1777. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary
War.
Son : Azariah
Date of Birth : 11 October 1748
Place of Birth : Windham,
Windham County, Connecticut
Married :
Died : 16 April 1846, aged 98
years!
Notes : He lived in the vicinity
of Piermont New Hampshire in 1776, 1777.
He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War; served as Private Soldier and
Captain; received a pension 4 March 1831. In the 19th, 21st and 22nd Sessions of U. S. Congress he
pretitioned for compensation for providing supplies and for arrears of pay. He was issued receipts, as recorded in
the Commissary Accounts, for supplying provisions to the military in August,
September, October & November 1781 at Corinth, Fort Wait. He is buried in a cemetery ‘near
railroad station’ in Guildhall, Vermont.
1840 Census of
Pensioners. Essex County, Vermont
Azariah Webb, 93, J. R. Webb,
Lunenburg, Essex County
Son : Charles
Date of Birth : 19 August 1750
Place of Birth : Windham,
Windham County, Connecticut
Married : Chloe Chandler, 1 July
1777, Piermont, New Hampshire
Died : 24 September 1820, West
Bloomfield, New York, ‘while visiting his son Charles, Jr.’, aged 70 years
Notes : He lived in the vicinity
of Piermont New Hampshire in 1776, 1777.
Chloe was born 3 October 1760, and died 29 June 1829 at Rockingham,
Vermont; they had nine children, viz : Samuel, born 1 November 1777, died 5
December 1852; Theron, born 12 December 1779; Asphasia, born 4 March 1782, died
29 March 1785; Charles, Jr. born 24 September 1784, died 3 March 1868; Belac,
borm 17 May 1786, died 5 March 1787; Ira Chandler, born 9 February 1789;
Alfred, borm 30 march 1791, died 6 October 1815; Zera, born 18 January 1794,
died 21 June 1866; John, born 11 May 1795 or 96. He was possibly a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
Daughter : Hannah
Date of Birth : 20 June 1752
Place of Birth : Windham,
Windham County, Connecticut Rockingham, Vermont
Married :
Died : October 1817, aged 65
years
Notes :
Daughter : Eunice
Date of Birth : 28 November 1755
Place of Birth : Rockingham,
Vermont
Married :
Died : 26 June 1845, aged 90
years
Notes :
Son : Calvin
Date of Birth : 31 Juky 1755
Place of Birth : Rockingham,
Vermont
Married :
Died : 15 November 1853, aged 96
years!
Notes : He was possibly a
soldier in the Revolutionary War.
Daughter : Mary
Date of Birth : 28 January 1760
Place of Birth : Rockingham,
Vermont
Married :
Died : 30 July 1841, aged 81
years
Notes :
Daughter : Anna
Date of Birth : 22 August 1761
Place of Birth : Rockingham, Vermont
Married :
Died : 17 February 1842, aged 81 years
Notes :
Son : Luther
Date of Birth : 24 October 1763
Place of Birth : Rockingham,
Vermont
Married : Dorothy Wheelock, 9
February 1792
Died : 2 August 1860, aged 96
years, 9 months, 9 days!!
Notes : Dorothy was born 21
March 1769, died 10 December 1856, aged 87 years, 8 months, 19 days. They had seven children, viz :
Son : Joshua Ripley
Date of Birth : 7 Juky 1766
Place of Birth : Rockingham,
Vermont
Married :
Died : 21 February 1813, aged 47
years
Notes :
Comments, sources, various additional :
Vinton, John
Adams. The Giles Memorial –
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Jennison, Leonard, Lindall, Curwen, Marshall, Robinson, Sampson, and Webb; also
Genealogical Sketches of the Pool, Very, Carr and other Families with a history
of Pemaquid, ancient and modern; some account of early settlements in Maine;
and some details of Indian warfare.
Printed for the author, by Henry W. Dutton & Son, Washington Street,
Boston. 1864. pp 496 – 532, 556.
Crane, Ellery Bicknell. Genealogy
of the Crane Family Volume II. Descendants of Benjamin Crane, of Wethersfield,
Conn., and John Crane, of Coventry, Conn., also of Jasper Crane, of New Haven,
Conn., and Newark, N. J. and Stephen Crane, of Elizabethtown, N. J. with
families of the name in New Hampshire, Maryland and Virginia. Press of Charles Hamilton. Worcester, Massachusetts, 1900.
Lincoln, Waldo. Genealogy of
the Waldo Family. A record of the
descendants of Cornelius Waldo of Ipswich, Massachusetts from 1647 to
1900. Volume 1. Press of Charles Hamilton. Worchester, Massachusetts, 1902.
Hayes, Lyman Simpson. History
of the Town of Rockingham, including Bellows Falls… with genealogies. Published in Bellows Falls, Vermont,
1907.
M637. 1790 Federal Census of Windham, Windham County, Connecticut. Roll1. National Archives and Records Administration. Washington, DC. Viewed 2001.
Records of the Congregational Church in Windham, Conn. 1700-1851. Connecticut Historical Society. Hartford, 1943.
Windham Town Records, Vital Records
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