Person:Richard Webb (22)
Richard Webb
b.Bef 1611
d.Jul 1665 Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
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Name[1][2] Richard Webb
Gender Male
Birth[1] Bef 1611 Based on freemanship.
Emigration[1] 1632
Residence[1] 1632 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Other[1] 6 Nov 1632 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Residence[1] 1635 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage Aft 1646/47 After death of her first husband.
to Elizabeth Gregory
Residence[1] Bef 1665 Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Death[1][2][4] Jul 1665 Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Estate Inventory[1][3][4] 5 Oct 1665 £234 8s. 6d., including £65 in "houseing & lands."
Probate[1] 1 Nov 1665 Inventory presented to the court by the widow, who was appointed administratrix.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Richard Webb, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    3:1954-56.

    ORIGIN: Unknown.
    CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Membership in some Massachusetts Bay church (probably Watertown) prior to 6 November 1632 implied by freemanship.
    FREEMAN: 6 November 1632 [MBCR 1:367].
    'BIRTH: By 1611 based on freemanship.'
    ASSOCIATIONS: Richard Webb of New Haven and Stamford was not son of this Richard Webb [TAG 25:194-97]. (The entry in Colket for Richard Webb of Cambridge, Hartford and Norwalk is apparently based on the older literature making this claim.)

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977)
    645.

    Richard Webb died 1665 Norwalk mar Elizabeth who died Jan 24, 1680. Early member 1 Ch. Name on Founders Monument. Cambridge; freeman Mass. Nov 6, 1632; one of the original proprietors of Hartford 1639; his home lot was on the west side of Main St. near the present corner of Church St.; grand juror 1643; townsman 1649; surveyor of highways 1650; was one of the signers of the agreement for planting Norwalk June 19, 1650, and removed there soon after. Had an estate of £255 in 1665 at Norwalk where he died. He had no children, but took Sarah, youngest dau. of the Rev. Samuel Stone, and brought her up. In 1677 his widow Elizabeth employed her "Beloved Brother John Gregory to make an agreement with Thomas Butler of Hartford and his wife" they "laying claime to the estate of her husband Richard Webb deceased."

  3. ↑ Richard Webb, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    1:247.

    Probate Records, Vol. III, 1663 to 1677. Page ?

    Webb, Richard. Decd. July last. Invt. £234-08-06. Taken 5 October, 1665, by Richard Olmsted, John Gregory, Walter Hoit [These are Norwalk, not Hartford men].

    Court Record, Page - 1st November, 1665 : The Widow to be Adms. And whereas, Thomas Butler claims, in the behalf of his wife, a child's portion of the estate, Mr. Campfield and the sd. Thomas hath agreed that the sd. Thomas shall have ten pounds out of the estate sumtimes before Michalmas next, and if not payd until the first of May next, must be other current pay, horse flesh excepted. Upon this agreement the sd. Thomas acquits the sd. Adms. from any further demands. A true copy of the Record.

    William Hill, Clarke.

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    64:83 (Notes).

    'An inventory of the estate of Richard Webb, who "deceased July last," was taken October 5, 1665, ...'
    This is the Richard Webb for whom "Elissabeth webb widowe the rellique of Richard webb formerly of norwalke deceased the twentie fowre of January 1680." '

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