John Webster (governor)

John Webster (bef August 16, 1590 – April 5, 1661) was an early colonial settler of New England, serving one term as governor of the Colony of Connecticut in 1656.

John Webster

Thomas Welles

John Winthrop Jr.

Thomas Welles

bef. August 16, 1590
Cossington, Leicestershire, England

April 5, 1661(1661-04-05) (aged 70)
Hadley, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Agnes Smith

(m. 1609)

Early life[edit]

Webster was born in Cossington, Leicestershire, England, the son of Matthew Webster and his wife, Elizabeth Ashton.^[1]

Matthew Webster (1609-1675), who married Sarah Waterbury and Mary Reeve

Margaret Webster (b. 1610/11), who married William Bolton and Thomas Hunt

William Webster (1614–1688), who married Mary Reeve (1617–1698) ("Half-Hanged Mary": accused witch who survived being hanged in 1683)

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Thomas Webster (1616–1686), who married Abigail Sage Alexander (1647–1688)

Robert Webster (1619–1676), who married Susanna Treat (1629–1705)

Anne Webster (1621–1662), who married John Marsh (1618–1688)

Elizabeth Webster (1622/24-1688), who married William Markham (1621–1690)

Mary Webster (b. 1623), who likely died before April 15, 1623

Faith Webster (1627–1627), who died 10 days after her birth

On November 7, 1609, Webster married Agnes Smith (born August 29, 1585 in Cossington, Leicestershire, England) at Cossington. She died in Hadley, Massachusetts in 1667. They had nine children (all born in England):

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Webster, William Holcomb and Melville Reuben; William Holcomb Webster; Melville Reuben Webster (1915). History and Genealogy of the Governor John Webster Family of Connecticut. E. R. Andrews Printing Company. pp. 1–19.

Barbour, Lucius Barnes (1982). Families of Early Hartford, CT. Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.

Holmes, Frank R. (1974). Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620–1700. Genealogical Publishing Company.

Meckler. Biographies of American and Colonial Governors.

Goodwin, Nethaniel (1856). Genealogical Notes First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Randolph Runyon (August 19, 1999). . University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2769-9.

Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad

Webster, Henry K. (1930). A Memoir of Towner Keeney Webster: 1849-1922. Walter A. Strong.

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