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rom an ancient chart in the possession of descendants of Noah
Webster, LL.D., the following is set forth as the possible line
of Gov. John Webster. "The Websters were settled in Yorkshire
at a very early period. They were, according to Burke and Playfair,
of Scottish descent, and held the manor of Lockington, Yorkshire,
in the time of Richard II (1389-1399). The apparent founder of
the family was John Webster of Bolsover, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire,
who, in the 12th of Henry VI (1434), was returned into Chancery
among the gentlemen of that County who made oath, in behalf of
themselves and their retainers, for the observance of the king's
laws. From him descended John Webster, who, upon the dissolution
of the monasteries, received from Henry VIII, large grants in
Cambridgeshire, Essex and Huntingdonshire (1509-1549). From him
descended, in the third generation, John Webster who came to Watertown,
near Boston, New England, from Warwickshire, England, about 1636."
The line thus established would
be: 1330, Webster of Lockington, Esquire, time of Edward III. 1434,
John Webster of Bolsover, Esquire, twelfth of Henry VI. John Webster in the
time of Henry VIII, 1509-1547. John Webster,
b. 1590, fifth governor of the Colony of Connecticut. John Webster
was previously at Salem where his daughter
was a member of the church, moved from Connecticut to Hadley with his wife Agnes,
and died there on April 5th, 1661.
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