| Parents: Marriage: |
Matthew Webster Elizabeth Ashton Agnes Smith Cossington, Leicestershire, England November 7, 1609 |
| Children: | Matthew | Feb. 11, 1609 | † July 16, 1675 |
| Margaret | Feb. 21, 1610 | † June 25, 1656 | |
| William | Dec. 26, 1614 | † Apr. 27, 1688 | |
| Thomas | Nov. 24, 1616 | † Oct. 20, 1686 | |
| Robert | Nov. 17, 1619 | † May 31, 1676 | |
| Anne | July 29, 1621 | † June 9, 1662 |
| Notes: | "Immigrated to New England, probably in the early 1630's; moved from Newtowne (now Cambridge), |
| Massachusetts
in 1636, and took up residence in what is now Hartford,
Connecticut. Became a member of the Connecticut General
Court in 1637, and in 1638 was also chosen as a Deputy
Commissioner. Served as an Assistant of the colony from 1639
until 1655, when he was named Deputy Governor, elected
governor of Connecticut in the spring of 1656.
"In the 1650's Connecticut's Hartford and Wethersfield churches were affected by disputes over questions of church order, including a dispute over the eligibility requirements for infant baptism. Although a council met in Hartford to seek a solution to these differences in June 1656, the Hartford minister and his church refused to abide by the council's recommendations, and religious dissention persisted in the troubled colony. "Despite the fact that he had been named Connecticut's First Assistant following his year as governor, Webster in 1659 joined with those members of the Hartford church who had decided to unite with other dissidents and establish a new congregation in Hadley, Massachusetts. After he settled in Hadley, Webster was in May 1660 'commissioned with magistratticall power for the year ensuring' by the Massachusetts General Court, but he died on April 5, 1661, before his term had expired." -- from History & Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut, 1915 |
| Ancestry: | The Webster-Hunt Line |
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