When John Martin Webb Sr was born on 19 September 1817, in Knox, Kentucky, United States, his father, James Webb, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth "Betsy" Pennington, was 25. He married Elizabeth Sturgill on 13 August 1839, in Harlan, Harlan, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 3, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and East Fork, Metcalfe, Kentucky, United States in 1910. He died on 12 June 1911, in Lawrence, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Glenwood, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States.
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The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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.
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