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From: Don & Bettie Edwards <>
Subject: [WEBB-L] Re: Unidentified subject!
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:44:00 -0500
References: <4341-39491795-5010@storefull-133.iap.bryant.webtv.net>


Chuck,
My gg-grandmother Martha WEBB born 1856, married Peter THACKER.
I have only gone back to KY and TN in my searching as yet.
I have no idea if this Martha WEBB is related to yours.
Bettie
Chuck Becken wrote:

> Dear Jim; Mine too. We must be 8th cousins. That story about Willam
> Micajah Webb bringing his four sons to Virginia
> in 1629 has always enrapt me with awe.
> Embarking at Fort Jamestown(assumed) and then
> finding transport for his family and household good, trekking down to
> his
> land grant(assumed) in the Isle of Wight,
> then building suitable lodging. plant some
> crops, then wait. Tobacco was the medium of exchange back then, coinage
> came later. How on earth did he do it?
> The indian massacres were over and the
> friction with the rigid protesants with Smythe had also subsided. These
> early
> pioneers had the "right stuff"!!!!!
> Do you know any thing about our
> ancestors in Va? Are there wwweb
> histories, etc.?
> I have printed out your great Webb genealogy for my future study.
> My branch of Webbs forked from yours
> with James Webb(1656+or-) who married
> Elizabeth Godwin(1650+or-) then up to
> William and Mary(Taeberer,nee) then
> William Warren Webb(1699-1783) and Mary Elizabeth (Crittenden,nee) Webb
> and so forth.
> Some of the later generations began
> using the name Thacker, viz Thacker
> Vivion Webb, grandson of Wm.Warren.
> Do you know which Webb married a Thacker?
> This seems like an effusively long letter
> for an opener. Sorry about that.
> Write to me at your earliest convenience.
> Alway glad to talk to a new cousin.
> And I remain, Very Cordially, Charles Webb B
>
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