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THIRD GENERATION
4. Jonathan WEBSTER was born on 18 Mar 1682 in Hartford, Hartford,
Connecticut. He was baptized on 26 Mar 1682 in Hartford, Hartford,
Connecticut. He Will - Dated on 14 Sep 1758 in Hartford, Hartford,
Connecticut. He died on 18 Sep 1758 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut.
He Will - Probated on 6 Apr 1762 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. History
& Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut. By William
Holcomb Webster & Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, D.D. 1st Edition, Published
by Endless Genealogies, St. Paul, printed by: E. R. Andrews Printing Co.,
Rochester, N. Y. 1915. p. 49
Jonathan Webster removed from Hartford to Glastonbury where, in 1713, he
was a taxpayer, and in 1730 was a resident of Wright's Island.
1736, Oct. 5, Jonathan Webster of Glastonbury buys land of Thomas and John
Hopkins and Mary Sedgwick, in the "Five Miles" so called in the town of
Hartford, east of the great river.
1739 - 40, Feb. 16, Jonathan Webster of Glastonbury has land deeded to him
in Bolton.
1743-4, Feb. 7, Jonathan Webster sells to Richard Keeney of Hartford, 35
acres "bounded and butter" w. by Jonathan Webster's own land, e. by highway,
n. by Richard Keeney's own land, and s. by Richard Keeney, Sr.'s own land.
1745, Dec. 11, Jonathan Webster sells to Ezekiel Webster, for 67 pounds old
tenor, land in the second tier of lots beginning at Windsor.
1746, Apr. 14, for 20 pounds Jonathan Webster sells to his son Jonathan of
Glastonbury, 20 acres of upland in the "Five Miles."
1746, June 10, Jonathan Webster of Hartford deeds land in Bolton to Philip
Bump. (Bolton Records.)
1748, Mch. 3, Jonathan Webster "for love and affection" give his son
Stephen 150 acres with dwelling house, barn, mill, etc., bounded e. by
highway, w. by another highway, s. by Cap. Cyprian Nichols, n. by heirs of
Daniel Clark, deceased. Improvements reserved.
1748, May 11, Jonathan Webster sells to Peter Thatcher of Lebanon, 72 acres
in the "Five Miles", for 216 pounds, bounded e. by Bolton line, s. by John
Forbes, n. by thirds laid out to Mrs. Webster, now belonging to John Webster.
1752, Mch. 20, Jonathan Webster gives "to my son David" 150 acres in the
"Five Miles," and mentions "my wife Esther."
1753, June 2, Jonathan Webster quit claims to Ezekiel Webster for 1200
pounds land in the "Five Miles."
1753-4, lot 13, Jonathan Webster's land bounds s. on Thomas Burnham, and n.
by Thomas Thorntone - 7 acres plus.
1758, Sep 14, Jonathan Webster of Hartford, Will: (1) Esther my wife use
of house where I now live with the grist mill and the barn; also one cow with
a whit face, two sheep, one swine, the wife to have her choice, etc.; (2) son
Jonathan, 5 shillings; (3) the heirs of my son Ezekiel; (4) my son David;
(5) my son Stephen one-half of grist mill; (6) my dau. Esther Smith, and her
son, Timothy Smith; (7) my dau. Jemima risley; (8) My dau. Mehitable Smith;
(9) My dau. Dorcas Ensign; (10) My dau. Sarah Keeney; (11) the heirs of my
dau. Mary Williams.
Jonathan Webster was named as Executor. Witnesses: Isaac Chalker, Thomas
Pitkin, Margaret Keeney. The Will was probated Oct. 11,1758.
1762, Apr 6, the Probate Court of Harford appointed Joseph Swetland,
Jonathan mygat, and John Thatcher, or any two of them, to "set out" to Esther
Webster, widow of Jonathan Webster of Hartford, her thirds according to the
Will. He was married to Esther JUDD on 14 Dec 1704 in Hartford, Hartford,
Connecticut.

5. Esther JUDD was born on 8 Feb 1686 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut.
She died on 22 Dec 1782 in Bernardston, Franklin, Massachusetts. She was
buried after 22 Dec 1782 in Old Cemetery, Bernardston, Franklin,
Massachusetts. History & Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of
Connecticut. By William Holcomb Webster & Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, D.D.
1st Edition, Published by Endless Genealogies, St. Paul, printed by: E. R.
Andrews Printing Co., Rochester, N. Y. 1915. p. 50
Her epitaph reads, "My soul chooseth strangling and death rather than life.
I would not live always. Let me alone for my days are vanity." History &
Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut. By William Holcomb
Webster & Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, D.D. 1st Edition, Published by
Endless Genealogies, St. Paul, printed by: E. R. Andrews Printing Co.,
Rochester, N. Y. 1915. p. 49
1705, Mch. 6, Esther Webster, formerly Judd, then living in Hartford, sold
to her brother, Benjamin Judd, out of her father, Benjamin Judd's estate, for
7 pounds and mentioned "my grandfather, William Lewis of Farminton." The
deed was signed by Jonathan Webster, Jr., on behalf of his wife, Esther.
(From Record of Deeds, Farmington).
1708, July 25, Esther Judd wife of Jonathan Webster received into the 2nd
church of Hartford. Jonathan WEBSTER and Esther JUDD had the following
children:

i. Jonathan WEBSTER was born on 5 Oct 1705 in Hartford, Hartford,
Connecticut. He was christened on 7 Oct 1705 in Hartford, Hartford,
Connecticut. He died on 14 Nov 1782 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut.
History & Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut. By
William Holcomb Webster & Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, D.D. 1st Edition,
Published by Endless Genealogies, St. Paul, printed by: E. R. Andrews
Printing Co., Rochester, N. Y. 1915. p. 49 & 87.
October 7, 1705, Jonathan Webster, s. of Jonathan publicly renewed the
covenant.
April 14, 1746, Jonathan Webster sold for 20 pounds, 20 acres of upland in
the "Five Miles," to his son, Jonathan Webster of Glassenbury.
July 25, 1754, Jonathan Webster, Jr., of Glassenbury purchased land of
Samuel Risley in the meadow at Hoccannum.
Jonathan Webster served in the French and Indian War in Major Nathan
Payson's Co., 1st Regt., as a private from March 29, to Nov. 30 1757, 35
weeks and 2 days, receiving as total "wages" 14 pounds, 2 shillings, 3 pence
and 2 farthings. The roll was dated at Ft. Edward, Oct. 17, 1757. A Conn.
Regt.
April 25, 1767: Jonatan Webster, of Glassenbury gives to his son Jonathan,
Jr., one half my mill lott in the Five Miles, bounded North by Elizur
Webster, and South by Alexander King.
From Hartford Records of Deeds, Sept. 1, 1767: Jonathan Webster deeds to
his son Ashbel one half of Grist Mill, mill lot, dam, house, barn, etc.,
situated on East side of river (Conn. river), and on the same date Jonathan
Webster, Jr., gives a quit claim on same property to his brother Ashbel. And
on the same date, Jonathan Webster, Sr., deeds to his son Elizur 200 acres of
land on the East side of the river, situated in the "Five Miles."
At the October session of the General Assembly, 1777, provision was made
that all freemen should take the oath of fidelity to the State and county.
Jonathan Webster took that oath of fidelity at Glastonbury, in 1777.
Dec. 25, 1781, an inventory of the estate of Jonathan Webster of
Glastonbury, deceased, was taken by Samuel Wells and Benjamin Porter, valued
at 55 pounds, 5 shillings and 1 pence.
ii. Esther WEBSTER was born on 25 Feb 1708 in Hartford, Hartford,
Connecticut. She died on 9 Mar 1793 in Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire. She
was christened 29 Feb 1707 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut.
iii. Jemima WEBSTER was born on 25 Dec 1709 in Hartford, Hartford,
Connecticut. She died on 18 May 1805 in Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts.
She was buried in Old South Cemetery, Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts.
iv. Capt. Ezekiel WEBSTER was born on 12 Jun 1712 in Hartford, Hartford,
Connecticut. He died on 3 Jul 1756 near Syracuse, Onondaga, New York.
History & Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut. By
William Holcomb Webster & Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, D.D. 1st Edition,
Published by Endless Genealogies, St. Paul, printed by: E. R. Andrews
Printing Co., Rochester, N. Y. 1915. p. 90
Capt. Ezekiel Webster was killed by an Indian. Tradition in various
branches of the family says in the French and Indian War.
Capt. Ezekiel Webster was an officer in the Revolutionary war; that he was
killed by an Indian who removed his heart before life was extenct, and ate
it. The date of his death fixes the war in which he fell; it was too early
for the Revolution.

Scribner's History of the United States, Vol. III, p. 290, recites: "On the
3d of July, when Col. Bradstreet, who had been charged with the conduct of a
convoy of provisions and stores down the Onondaga to Oswego, was returning to
Schenectady, he was suddenly attacked about ten miles from Oswego, and had a
sharp skirmish with a body of Canadians and Indians," etc. On the 8th of the
previous September the battle of Lake George had been fought, war had been
declared by the English, May 17, 1756, and by the French, June 9, following.
The coincidence of the time and circumstance gives confirmation of the family
tradition relating to the death of Capt. Ezekiel Webster. History &
Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut. By William Holcomb
Webster & Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, D.D. 1st Edition, Published by
Endless Genealogies, St. Paul, printed by: E. R. Andrews Printing Co.,
Rochester, N. Y. 1915. p. 90 - 91.
Ezekiel Webster was appointed guardian of Jerussha Sparks, a minor aged
about 13 years, Feb. 11, 172, and Anna Sparkss, a minor six years old, May
11, following, both daughters of john Sparks, late of Glastonbury, deceased,
and Aug. 7, 1753 he exhibited in Court an inventory of the estate of Susannah
Sparks, late of Hartford, deceased.
Ezekiel was Collector in that part of the town of Eat Hartford which is now
the town of Manchester, in 1746. One of the schools establish in 1751 in
what is now Manchester, was located near Ezekiel Webster's in the Five Miles,
then a part of Hartford.
Stephen Webster, a young brother, sixteen years the junior of Ezekiel,
named on of his sons in honor of Capt. Ezekiel, his brother, and in his later
life told of this older brother "of light hair and immense build and
strength."
Sep 7, 1756, administration was granted on the estate of Cap. Ezekiel
Webster, late of Hartford, deceased, to Honah Olcott and Joseph Cowles. The
inventory showed about 14 acrex near Samuel Price, Appriasers.
In his Will of Sep. 14, 1758, Jonathan Webster of Glastonbury makes a
bequest to "the heirs of my son Ezekiel."
Nov. 5, 1761, the estate of Ezekel Webster was declared insolvent. Samuel
Weed, David Webster and Jonathan Webster being creditors, and 14 acres near
Webster's grist mill were set out to said creditors.
Dec. 30, 1771, Rebecca Webster of Hartford sold to Samuel and Timothy
Briant of Hartford, land in Orford Parish, Elijah Webster a witness. Feb.
13, 1773, Rebecca Webster, widow, deeds land in Orford Parish.
July 6, 1787, Elijah Webster, Alexander Keeney, Jun., and Sarah Keeney, all
of East Harford, sell land in Glastonbury to Joshua Webster.
June 8, 1780, Joseph McKee and Ruth McKee; Ephriam Webster and Eleazor
Webster, unite in a deed for the transfer of the same land as the above.
For many years search was made in vain among all descendants for a birth
list of the children of Cap. Ezekiel Webster. At last Mrs. C. A. Stevens of
53 Pine Street, Watherbury, Conn., found one, and in a letter dated Sep. 18,
1904, she says: "The enclosed is a copy of an old paper I found not long
since among old deeds, & c., taken from the garret of the "mansion House"
built by Ephriam Webster, on the banks of the Farmington River."
v. Mehitable WEBSTER was born on 20 Oct 1714 in Hartford, Hartford,
Connecticut. History & Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of
Connecticut. By William Holcomb Webster & Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, D.D.
1st Edition, Published by Endless Genealogies, St. Paul, printed by: E. R.
Andrews Printing Co., Rochester, N. Y. 1915, p. 91.
1770, July 15, I widow Mehitable Smith of Hartford, West Division do for
value received, lease unto my son Timothy Morley (or Mosley) all my third
part of the farm that was my last husband's John Smith, deceased, the whole
time and term of life after date hereof. Signed by X mark.
vi. Dorcas WEBSTER was born on 13 Feb 1716 in Hartford, Hartford,
Connecticut. She died in Whitestown, Herkimer, New York. now Oneida County,
New York History & Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut.
By William Holcomb Webster & Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, D.D. 1st Edition,
Published by Endless Genealogies, St. Paul, printed by: E. R. Andrews
Printing Co., Rochester, N. Y. 1915. p. 92
Dorcas gave 1797, Dec. 25, power of att'y to her son Samuel to rent her
farm in New Hartford, Ct., "on which my late husband, Eliphalet Ensign
formerly lived," and describes herself as "late of New Harford." Math.
Hurlburt, Justice of the Peace, and Uriah Seymour are named in the paper.
vii. Sarah WEBSTER was born on 13 Jan 1718/19 in Hartford, Hartford,
Connecticut. History & Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of
Connecticut. By William Holcomb Webster & Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, D.D.
1st Edition, Published by Endless Genealogies, St. Paul, printed by: E. R.
Andrews Printing Co., Rochester, N. Y. 1915, p. 92 - 93
Sarah is mentioned in her father's Will of 1758, as Sarah Keeney. A deed
is given in 1751 by John Keeney and Sarah his wife of Glastonbury, which may
have been the above Sarah Webster and her husband. The Centennial of
Glastonbury, p. 197, affirms that she married John Case. If she was twice
married it is probable that John Case was her 2d husband. She had a niece,
Sarah, dau. of Cap. Ezekiel Webster, who m. Alexander Keeny, Jr.
viii. David WEBSTER was born on 29 Jan 1721 in Glastonbury, Hartford,
Connecticut. He Will - Dated on 8 Jan 1805 in Newington, Hartford,
Connecticut. He died on 12 May 1806 in Newington, Hartford, Connecticut. He
Will - Proved on 6 Jun 1806 in , Hartford, Connecticut. History & Genealogy
of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut. By William Holcomb Webster &
Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, D.D. 1st Edition, Published by Endless
Genealogies, St. Paul, printed by: E. R. Andrews Printing Co., Rochester, N.
Y. 1915. p. 93
David Webster graduated at Yale in 1741; studied and practiced law at
Farmington and elsewhere. Taught school in Newinton from 1751 to 1759, all
but two years, and there made the acquaintance of Lydia Andrus, who became
his first wife. He also taught school in Great Swamp society. Lydia, his
wife, was large and tall, he small. The children were large like the mother.
He located on the hill near the line between the town of Farmington and
Wetherfield, where Jonathan Webster, now (1808) lives. He died at the house
on the hill where the late Philo Webster lived and in 1864 died.
The Will of David Webstter dated January 8, 1805, when his age is given:
"Actate Octave Decimo Quatuor." He gives to his wife Olev; son Amos A; son
David; son John; his daughter the wife of William Steele; his daughter Mary,
relict and widow of Jonathan Beckley; daughter Hephzibah, wife of Israel
Deming; daughter Lydia, wife of Elijah Bevins; his granddaughter Lucy, Lydia,
and Olive Deming, Zerviah youngest daughter of his son John. Will exhibited
in Court June 6, 1806. Inventory taken May 29, 1806.
The estate was distributed December 12, 1806, to the widow, Amos, David,
jOhn, Hannah, Lydia, Hephzibah, Mary, and Zerviah, a granddaughter.
ix. Mary WEBSTER was born on 8 Nov 1723 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut.
She died before 1758. Not living at the time of her fathers will, Sep. 14,
1758.
x. Susannah WEBSTER was born on 28 May 1726 in Hartford, Hartford,
Connecticut. She was christened on 21 Jul 1726 in Hartford, Hartford,
Connecticut. She died on 8 Jan 1728 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut.
2 xi. Stephen WEBSTER.

6. Jacob WILLIAMS was born on 29 Jan 1698/99. He Will - Dated on 14 Jul
1750 in , Hartford, Connecticut. Genealogies of Hadley Families, Embracing
the Early Settlers of the Towns of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and
Granby, Compiled Sylvester Judd, published in 1905. p. 73
Hartford, Ct. He was married to Rebecca HUBBARD on 13 May 1727 in Hadley,
Hampshire, Massachusetts.

7. Rebecca HUBBARD was born on 19 Sep 1706 in Hadley, Hampshire,
Massachusetts. Jacob WILLIAMS and Rebecca HUBBARD had the following
children:
i. John WILLIAMS.
ii. Jacob WILLIAMS.
iii. Aaron WILLIAMS.
iv. Israll WILLIAMS.
v. Wright WILLIAMS. In the 5 Miles (ref. from fathers will).
3 vi. Rebeckah WILLIAMS.
vii. Zubah WILLIAMS.
viii. Anneh WILLIAMS.
ix. Deborah WILLIAMS.
x. Thankful WILLIAMS.

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