John Webb
Full name : John Webb
Alternate spellings, aliases :
Parents :
Father : Christopher Webb, Sr.
Mother : Hannah Scott
note :
Date of Birth : 23 October 1655
Place of Birth : Braintree, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Colony
notes : from Braintree Town records, “John Webb, the sonne of Christopher Webb
and Hanna his wife was borne the (23) (8) 1655.”
Spouse1 :
Name : Bethiah Adams
Date of Marriage : May 1680
Place of Marriage : Braintree, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Colony
Died : 6 October 1698, Braintree
Notes : daughter of Joseph and Abigail Adams, born 20 December 1661
Spouse2 : ??
Name : Mary Ashley
Date of Marriage : 20 Marsh 1701
Place of Marriage : Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Colony
Died :
Notes : married by John Bagley, Esq.
Date of Death : 1 July 1727
Place of Death : Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Burial Information :
Probate : His son Samuel Webb of Charlestown was appointed administrator 31
July 1727 (Suff. Prob. 25:211).
Military Service :
unknown, may have been in local militia
Occupation(s) : Vinton
writes, “He was a ‘miller’ in Braintree, and occupied the grist-mill on the Monatiquot
river, just above the ‘cart-bridge’, so called, and hard by the spot where the
Railway Station now is in East Braintree.
In the latter part of his life, when past fifty, he removed to Boston;
was a ‘distiller’ there…”
Religion : He was
a member of the Church of Braintree.
Property : He
occupied the grist-mill on the Monatiquit river in Braintree; this was on the original
site of the Braintree Iron Works, land once owned by his father. Bates states, “The Iron Works, in 1688,
appears to be in the possession of Christopher Webb, senior, millwright, who
with Hannah his wife conveyed on April 11th of that year, to John Holbrook of Weymouth,
housewright, for 180 pounds, all their corn mill, mill pond, waters, water
courses, dam, banks, one and one-half acre of land with barn thereon; bounded
north and west on the highway, south on the river, east with Simon Lynde.”
“June 1, 1697, John Holbrook of Weymouth sold to John Webb of Braintree, so of
Chrsitopher, senior, for 228 pounds, grist of corn mill, one and one-half acres
of land adjoining, near said mill, orchard and barn, bounded north and west by
the highway, south by the river, east by Simon Lynde; being the same property
conveyed in 1688 by the father of John (ed: Christopher Webb) to the said
Holbrook. The same property, together
with additional, in 1752, was conveyed to Ebnezer Thayer, Jr., by Samuel Hayden
and Esther, his wife, in the deed of which it says that it was part of the homestead
of John Webb, late of Braintree, consisting of twelve and three-quarters acres of
land, the west end of dwelling house in which said Webb lived, and the garden adjoining,
barn, shop, two thirds of the grist mill; all standing on the aforesaid land; two-thirds
of the pond, dam, &c.
Family
:
Son : John
Date of Birth
: 9 March 1681/2
Place of Birth
: Braintree, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Colony
Married : not
married
Died : 9 June
1682
Notes :
Son : John
Date of Birth
: 21 August 1687
Place of Birth : Braintree, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Colony
Married1 : Frances Broomfield, 13 April 1715 (died 14 September 1721)
Married2 : Elizabeth Jackson, 24 January 1726 (died April 1789 aged 95 years)
Died : 16
April 1750
Notes : from Braintree Town Records, “John Web, son of John Web, by Bethiah his
wife borne 21 August 1687.”
Rev. John Webb; Graduate of Harvard, 1708; First Pastor of New North
Church in Boston, 20 October 1714; children of John & Elizabeth were
Elizabth born 13 February 1729/30, John born 30 January 1731/2, and Jonathan
born 1736
Son : Samuel
Date of Birth
: 19 April 1689
Place of Birth
: Braintree, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Colony
Married : Abigail
Austin?
Died :
Notes : lived
in Charleston, Massachusetts
Daughter : Bethiah
Date of Birth
: 29 October 1691
Place of Birth
: Braintree, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Colony
Married : William
Nichols of Boston, 11 November 1714
Died :
Notes : William
Nichols was a ship-joiner
Daughter : Abigail
Date of Birth
: 9 October 1693
Place of Birth
: Braintree, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Colony
Married : unmarried
Died : 2
September 1721 in Boston, aged 28 years
Notes :
Daughter : Hannah
Date of Birth
: 9 October 1693
Place of Birth
: Braintree, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Colony
Married : unmarried
Died : 2
September 1721 in Boston, aged 28 years
Notes :
Comments,
sources, various additional :
Bates, Samuel A. (Editor; Town Clerk of
Braintree). Records of the Town of Braintree Massachusetts, 1640 to 1873. Braintree, Suffolk County,
Massachusetts Colony 17 June 1886.
Facsimile Reprint by Heritage Books. Bowie, Maryland, 1991.
ISBN1556133979
Bates, Samuel A. The Ancient Iron Works at Braintree, Mass. (The First in
America). Frank A. Bates. South Braintree, 1898.
Vinton, John
Adams. The Giles Memorial –
Genealogical Memoirs of the Families Bearing the Names Giles, Gould, Holmes,
Jennison, Leonard, Lindall, Curwen, Marshall, Ribinson, 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
Savage,
James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England,
showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692 on the basis of
Farmer’s Register. Baltimore
Genealogical Publishing Company,
originally published Boston, 1860-1862. Reprinted with "Genealogical Notes and Errata,"
excerpted from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol.
XXVII, No. 2, April, 1873, pp. 135-139; and a Genealogical Cross Index of the
Four Volumes of the Genealogical Dictionary of James Savage, by O. P. Dexter,
1884. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1965,1969,1977,1981,1986,
1990. Electronic version has been adapted under the direction of Robert Kraft
(assisted by Benjamin Dunning) from materials supplied by Automated Archives,
1160 South State, Suite 250, Orem UT 84058
(http://genweb.net/~books/savage/savage.htm)
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.
Public
Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776, Volume 6. October 1723 [page
415]; available online http://www.colonialct.uconn.edu/
Copyright Jonathan Webb Deiss
http://www.webbdeiss.com/
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