"ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1633
FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury
REMOVES: Boston 1634
OCCUPATION: 'John Webb … was released from his master William Parks of Roxbury, Mass., on Jan. 6, 1633/4' [TAG 23:129, citing unknown source].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: 'John Webbe a singleman' admitted to Boston church 9 February 1633/4 [BChR 17].
COMMENTS: The above two records (assuming that they refer to the same man) have been held to be the first appearances in New England of a John Webb later of Boston and then Northampton. In 1947 Fred C. Warner and Harrison E. Webb, having noted the above two items, go on to say '[h]e probably lived in Boston for the next ten years, but no evidence has been found that he owned any property there' [TAG 23:129]. This uncertainty, and the many years without any evidence of a man who had just been freed, raise doubts about whether these two records do pertain to the Northampton man, and that connection will not be made here."
