When Ebenezer Webb was born on 7 May 1704, in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Webb, was 30 and his mother, Mary Hoyt, was 30. He died on 16 August 1704, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Stamford Burying Ground, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.
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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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