Brief Life History of Grace
When Grace Webster was born on 18 August 1713, in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Benjamin Webster Jr., was 35 and her mother, Ruth Hibbard, was 30. She married William Neff on 11 June 1733, in Windham, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died in February 1768, in Windham, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 54.
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- Grace Webster, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
- Grace Webster, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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1726
Windham County was created from Hartford and New London counties on May 12, 1726
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for a weaver, from Middle English webbester ‘weaver’ (Old English webbestre ‘female weaver’). By the time of surname formation, the gender distinction of the -stre suffix had almost completely disappeared. Compare Webb , Webber , and Weaver .
History: The name Webster was brought to North America from England independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One John Webster settled in Ipswich, MA, in 1635; another John Webster (died 1661), ancestor of the lexicographer Noah Webster, emigrated to Cambridge, MA, c. 1631 and later became one of the founders of the colony of CT, of which he was appointed governor in 1656. Daniel Webster (1782–1852), politician and orator, was born in Salisbury, NH, a descendant of Thomas Webster, a prominent 17th-century citizen of Ipswich, MA, whose family had settled there around 1635, while he was still a child.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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