When Elisha Webb was born about 1798, in Freehold Borough, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States, his father, Bowman Webb Sr, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Valentine, was 37. He married Mary Faulkner about 1827, in Clay Township, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Taylor Township, Fulton, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860 and Wyandot, Ohio, United States in 1880. He died after 1880, in Pitt Township, Wyandot, Ohio, United States.
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While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Historical Boundaries 1850: Fulton, Pennsylvania, United States
English: occupational name for a weaver, from early Middle English webbe (Old English webba (masculine) or webbe (feminine), probably used of both male and female weavers). This word survived into Middle English long enough to give rise to the surname, but was already obsolescent as an agent noun; hence the secondary forms with the agent suffixes -er and -ster (see Webster , Webber and compare Weaver ).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish (Ashkenazic) surnames, cognates of 1, including Weber and Weberman.
History: Richard Webb, a Lowland Scot, was an admitted freeman of Boston in 1632, and in 1635 was one of the first settlers of Hartford, CT.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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