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Individual:
!Birth: abt 1585, Cossington, Leicestershire, England.
!Marriage: 7 November 1609, Cossington, Leicestershire, England.
!Immigration: in America before 1636, first in Watertown, Mass.
!Residences: Leicestershire, England, Watertown, Mass., original proprietor of
Hartford, CT in 1636, where he went with Rev. Thomas Hooker's company, Hadley,
Mass. 1659, where he was also an original proprietor.
!Offices: At meeting held 14 January 1639, Hartford, CT adopted the first
written constitution which created a government; from 1639-1655, John Webster
served as a magistrate, also served as member of CT General Court; helped
establish noted criminal code for the colony which was adopted in 1642; member
of the Congress of the united colonies in 1654; elected deputy governor of CT
1655, and (fifth) governor in 1656; in Hadley, MA, he served as a judge.
!Religion: Puritan; withdrew from Hartford Church to go to Hadley, MA with group
who were in strong disagreement with Hartford minister, Rev. Samuel Stone.
!Death: 5 April, 1661, Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA.
!Burial: Old Hadley Cemetery, Hadley, MA; stone erected 1818, reads:
"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."
!Will: Northhampton, MA Probate Records, pp. 20-21, dated 25 June 1659.
!Ancestry: Originally Scottish, but in Yorkshire, Eng. very early where they
held manor of Lockington during reign of Richard II, 1389-1399; founder of this
family believed to have been John of Bolsover, Derbyshire in 1434; in reign of
Henry VIII, 1509-1547, descendant, another John, received large grants of land
in Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Huntingdonshire; three generations later, John
Webster came to America; Webster means feamale weaver.
!Sources: Webster, William H. & Webster, Rev. Melville, HISTORY AND GENEALOGY
OF THE GOV. JOHN WEBSTER FAMILY, Rochester, NY, E. R. Andrews Co., 1915, pp.
1-19; Hook, James W., LIEUT. SAMUEL SMITH, HIS CHILDREN AND ONE LINE OF
DESCENDANTS, New Haven CT, pp. 334-336; West, Edith W. Goodman, THE GOODMANS OF
BOLTON, NEW YORK, Glens Falls, NY, Bullard Press, 1930, pp. 11-12; Torrey,
Clarence, NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700, pp. 789-790; Love, Rev. William,
COLONIAL HISTORY OF HARTFORD, Hartford, CT, 1914, pp. 32, 72, 124-125.
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