Margaret Webster

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Jun 1656, Leicester, Leicestershire, England

Margaret married Thomas Hunt on 5 Jun 1632 in Cossington, Leicestershire, England. Thomas (son of Thomas Hunt) was born about 1604 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England; died before 3 Aug 1642; was buried on 3 Aug 1642 in St. Nicholas, Leicester, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Deacon Jonathan Hunt was born about 1637; died on 29 Sep 1691 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; was buried in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts.

Notes:

Emigrated in 1635; first at Watertown, then in 1636 to Hartford, probably with the Rev. Hooker's party. His name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford.

His gravestone at Old Hadley cemetery was erected in 1818 by his descendant Noah Webster, the lexicographer, and gives the year of his death, incorrectly, as 1665.

From Timothy Lester Jacobs at the Founders of Hartford site:

He became an Assistant to the Connecticut General Court in 1639, which office he held until 1655. He was a Commissioner to the United Colonies of New England in 1654. He became Deputy Governor of Connecticut in 1655, then Governor in 1656. In 1657 he was named as Chief Magistrate.

He was among the dissenters against Samuel Stone becoming Hartford’s minister in 1659, and he left shortly after that as one of the leaders of the Hadley Company, although he first resided in Northampton, Massachusetts. He later removed to Hadley, where he was made a magistrate in May 1660, dying the next year on 5 April 1661.

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Gov. John Webster (1590-1661) = Agnes Smith (1585-1667)
Robert Webster (1619-1676) = Susanna Treat (1629-1705)
John Webster (1653-1694) = Sarah Mygate
John Webster (1680-~1753) = Abiel Steele (b. 1693)
Aaron Webster (1717-1783) = Lydia _____
Sarah Webster (1767-1830) = Daniel Barnes, Jr. (b. ~1752)
Romulus Barnes (1800-1846) = Olivia Denham (1807-1887)
Charles Montgomery Barnes (1833-1907) = Ellen Moore (1837-1923)
William Robbins Barnes (1866-1945), co-founder of Barnes & Noble

Gov. John Webster (1590-1661) = Agnes Smith (1585-1667)
Robert Webster (1619-1676) = Susanna Treat (1629-1705)
John Webster (1653-1694) = Sarah Mygate
Daniel Webster (b. 1693) = Miriam Cooke
Noah Webster (1722-1813) = Mercy Steele (1727-1794)
Noah Webster (1758-1843), lexicographer

John married Agnes Smith on 7 Nov 1609 in Cossington, Leicestershire, England. Agnes (daughter of Richard Smith and Agnes Wraske) was born before 29 Aug 1585; was christened on 29 Aug 1585 in Cossington, Leicestershire, England; died in 1667. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Moore and Allied Families (citation details below) states that "it is thought" that she died at Hartford, Connecticut.

Matthew married Elizabeth Ashton on 17 Apr 1587 in Cossington, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Agnes Wraske on 19 Jan 1585. Agnes (daughter of Robert Wraske) died before 28 Apr 1612; was buried on 28 Apr 1612 in Cossington, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Eme.

Notes:

From Skillington et al., citation details below:

John Webster III, whose domestic life was punctuated by a pathetic succession of lyings in and layings out, appears to have married shortly after his grandmother's death. His bride, Isabel, died in childbed within a year and he married again very soon, for another babe was laid in the churchyard before sixteen months were out. In those days, when no man could run a farm or a business without a helpmeet, he would not be accused of inconstancy.

He prospered in business; the accounts show that he ranked extra land and that he was taxed quite highly for parish purposes. He became, after the squire and the parson, a leading man in the village; in fact, his name appears next after theirs in the articles of agreement made in 1585. It is interesting to note that these rules, that were "to conynew for ever," were drawn up at a time when England was in greater peril than she was ever to be again until 1940.

John married (Unknown second wife of John Webster) after Aug 1560. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Robert Wreste.

Notes:

"The churchwardens' accounts show John Webster II paying his mother's legacy, collecting a levy and doing business for the village at Stamford. Stamford, whose fair was one of the most notable in the Midlands -- its fame penetrated even to Justice Shallow in remote Gloucestershire -- is about thirty miles from Cossington, and that, with a laden waggon on Tudor roads would be three days' journey. His spouse, the 'goodwyfe Webster,' was responsible for the church's washing." [Skillington et al., citation details below.]

Notes:

From Skillington et al., citation details below:

[William Webster's] eldest son, John, took up his freedom in 1509/10, when he would probably be in his early twenties. He paid the Lay Subsidy in Syston in 1524 and his name appears on the Musters there in 1540.

John Webster I became tenant, under the priory of Ulverscroft, co. Leicester, of a farm in Cossington about 1535, and in 1544 he went to law about it. His opponents, Thomas Chamberlain and William Chamberlain, were probably his friends, who joined him in a collusive suit to secure his title. It is significant that Thomas Chamberlain and William Chamberlain were witnesses to the will of Emett Webster, John's widow. In 1554 John bought this house and farm, where he had lived for some years. His name appears twice in the churchwardens' accounts: in 1545 he paid rent for a piece of land (a butte) and in 1549 he held the office of churchwarden.

John married Emett Welle. Emett died before 20 Mar 1558; was buried on 20 Mar 1558 in Cossington, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Skillington et al., citation details below:

Emett, whose brother, William Welle, was in holy orders, belonged to the old school of churchmanship; she not only left the customary fourpence to Lincoln Cathedral and to her local church, but she endowed a mass and left other money to Cossington church. It is not difficult to picture the day of her funeral: family and friends were early at church for the dirge and mass that preceded the burial and then went home for breakfast.

After the meal a little party of relatives and neighbours went through the three rooms of the house valuing its austere equipment, and out onto the land to price the stock and implements. Then they would return to the house, gather round the table again, the one among them who could write occupying the only chair, and so make out the inventory.