"5. John Webb, b. Jan. 8, 1667, Northampton, d. Jan. 27, 1711/12, Springfield, m. ab. 1693, Hannah [Anna] _____, b. ____, d. Sept. 11, 1719, Springfield. The first record found of John Webb indicates that the selectmen of Northampton had, about 1682, bound him out to Benoni Stebbins. He was before the courts held at Springfield on Sept. 30, 1684, and Sept. 29, 1685. In 1689, ninety soldiers under Capt. Jonathan Bull went to defend Albany in King William's French and Indian War. A John Webb was captured and carried to Canada and might have been this John Webb from Northampton. On April 21, 1697, he and his brother Henry, with the consent of Anna, the wife of John Webb, Jr., and Mary, the wife of Henry, sold eight acres of land in the north end of Northampton which they had inherited from their Grandfather Henry Cunliffe. John and Anna Webb probably soon afterward moved to Springfield, where they had a son born on Feb. 9, 1700/1. On Mar. 9, 1707/8, the town of Springfield granted him ten acres in the plain between Thomas Terry and Elys Brooke, he having moved for it at a former meeting. He died Jan. 27, 1711/2, and his widow Hannah Web on Mar. 25, 1712, filed at Northampton, an inventory, taken on Feb. 12, 1711/2, which totaled £60.09, including house and four acres of land valued at £20."
