John Webster, Governor of Connecticut

Bef 1590 - 1661  (> 70 years)

• Name	John Webster  [1]
  Suffix	Governor of Connecticut
  Birth	Bef 16 Aug 1590  [2]
  Baptism	16 Aug 1590	Cossington, Leicestershire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	5 Apr 1661	Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [3]
  Burial	Old Hadley Cemetery, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I17750	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Matthew Webster,   b. Abt 1564   d. Bef 13 Sep 1592 (Age ~ 28 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Ashton
  Marriage	17 Apr 1587	Cossington, Leicestershire, England   [2]
  Family ID	F10906	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Agnes Smith,   b. Bef 29 Aug 1585   d. 1667 (Age > 81 years)
  Marriage	7 Nov 1609	Cossington, Leicestershire, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Margaret Webster,   b. Bef 21 Feb 1612   d. Bef 1662 (Age < 49 years) + 2. Anne Webster,   b. Bef 29 Jul 1621   d. 9 Jun 1662, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age > 40 years)
  Family ID	F10905	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Dec 2018

  
  

• 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. —— 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

  
  

• Sources

  [S1440] John G. Hunt, "Origin of Families of Hunt of Northampton and Hull, Mass., and Barnes of Westchester, N.Y.:--Correction and Supplement." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 114:147, 1960. [S1456] Mrs. S. H. [Florence E.] Skillington, "The Ancestry of Governor John Webster," ed. Bruce Hunter Sisler and Mrs. Bruce Hunter [Evelyn Brown] Sisler. The American Genealogist 24:197, October 1948. [S1528] Moore and Allied Families: The Ancestry of William Henry Moore by L. Effingham de Forest and Anne Lawrence de Forest. The de Forest Publishing Company: New York, 1938. [S1469] Mrs. S. H. [Florence E.] Skillington, "Ancestry of Agnes Smith Webster," ed. Bruce Hunter Sisler and Mrs. Bruce Hunter [Evelyn Brown] Sisler. The American Genealogist 29:80, 1953.