Elizabeth (Gregory) Webb (1623 - 1681)

Born 22 Jan 1623 in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England

Ancestors

Wife of Richard Webb — married 4 Mar 1647 in Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 24 Jan 1681 at age 58 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Biography

The widow of Richard Webb, Elizabeth sought assistance in 1677 from her "Beloved brother, John Gregory" in the settlement of Richard's estate.^[1] This passage led historians and family historians to believe Elizabeth was born Elizabeth Gregory; further, that she was the daughter of Henry Gregory, known to have had a son John Gregory.

Some accounts about Richard Webb, and Elizabeth's first husband, Seth Grant, called into question the meaning of the noted 1677 reference, so that Webb’s widow was then referred to as Elizabeth (_____) (Grant) Webb.^[2]

Recently, baptisms were found for the older children of Henry Gregory, including a baptism for Elizabeth, removing previous objections to her parentage. Elizabeth Gregory, daughter of Henry and Marg[faint] his wife, was baptized 22 January 1622/3 at St. Margaret's, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England.^[3][4]

Elizabeth was married first, by about 1635,^[5] Seth Grant, 1632^[6] immigrant to Cambridge who settled at Hartford in 1635.^[7]

Based on the date of his inventory, Seth Grant died Hartford, Connecticut, before 4 March 1646[/7].^[8]

From later dated records regarding the settlement of estates, Elizabeth (____) Grant married second, Richard Webb^[9] Richard Webb was also an early immigrant who resided first at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and removed shortly to Hartford, Connecticut. Still later, Webb settled at Norwalk^[10] The names of both Seth Grant and Richard Webb appear on the "earliest volume of Colony Land Records" that include the Hartford area.^[11]

Richard Webb died July 1665,^[12] and "Elissabeth Webb, the widow of Ritchard Webb, formerly of Norwalke," died 24 January 1680[/1].^[13]

Although no record of their births has been located, Frank Farnsworth Starr's work with Grant and Webb land and estate records^[14] show at least two children born to Seth Grant, probably with his wife, Elizabeth.

1. Elizabeth Grant, born say 1635^[15]; married Robert Warner.^[16]
2. Sarah Grant, born say 1637^[17]; married Richard Holmes.^[18]

Estate

"1681 Webb, Elizabeth of Norwock, Inv. taken by selectmen Feby. 8, 1680, filed Mch. 14, 1681.^[19] Book 1675-1689. p. 86. Thos. Benedict Sr. Nath. Hayes, Cresto Comstock The abov Eliz. was the widow of Rich* Webb.

Court allows

Bartholenew Barnard £15 in right of his wife and in right of his father in law, kindred.

Richard Homes is to have £20. the wife of Rich. Homes wants some things out of est. that were her own father's.

Steven Beckwith granted £10-10 \

& Thomas Barnum granted £4-10 .\ for their service of Rich. Webb. decd.

Mr Thos. Handford 40s. promised by decd.

Mr. Bartholoemew Barnard appears before court in the right of his wife and in the right of all that are related to his father Burcher a right to a proportion out of the estate of bothe the above deceased by vertu of kindred, also

Richard Holmes claims right to a portion out of the estate of the said Eliz. by vertu of his wives relation to her

All the above heirs agree.

John Gregory Sr. apt. administrators."^[20]

Research Notes

Elizabeth's second husband, Richard Webb, is frequently confused in print. In 1948, Harrison E. Webb wrote, "Few pioneers of the early colonial period have suffered more from early genealogical bungling than has Richard Webb of Stamford, Connecticut." This author identified three men, all Richard Webb, who had been frequently confused:

(a) Richard Webb of Cambridge, Hartford and Norwalk,
(b) Richard Webb of Weymouth, and
(c) Richard Webb of Stamford

Webb wrote, "As far as the writer can ascertain, there is not a single item of tangible evidence to show that the three Richards were in any way related, or that they were even acquainted."^[21]

Sources

1. ↑ Citing "fol. 51," in Edwin Hall, The ancient historical records of Norwalk, Conn. : with a plan of the ancient settlement, and of the town in 1847 (1847), 20, for entry, "Elizabeth Webb, relicke of Richard Webb”; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).
2. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III 3 vols. (1995), 3:1954-1956 (Richard Webb); digital images, American Ancestors (accessed 2014).
3. ↑ West, Randy A. FASG, "Henry¹ Gregory of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Stratford, Connecticiut: His Marriage and the Baptisms of His Elder Children in England." Connecticut Ancestry Vol. 65, No 1, p. 1. (Connecticut Ancestry Society, August 2022).
4. ↑ St. Margaret, Uxbridge, co. Middlesex, chapel register, 1538-1656 (London Metropolitan Archives, DRO/010/001) [London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 (Borough: Hillingdon) at www.ancestry.com, images 21 (Thomas), 22 (John), 23 (Persis), 25 (Elishaphat), 26 (Alice), and 27 (Elizabeth).
5. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III 3 vols. (1995), 2:804-805 (Seth Grant); digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014).
6. ↑ John Camden Hotten, The original lists of persons of quality; emigrants; religious exiles; political rebels; serving men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American plantations 1600-1700 ... (1874), 150, entry of June 1632 for “Zeth Graunt”; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).
7. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III 3 vols. (1995), 2:804-805 (Seth Grant); digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014).
8. ↑ Referencing "An inventory of his estate, dated 'March the 4th 1646,' printed on pages 481 and 482 of the first volume of the 'Colonial Records of Connecticut,'" in Frank Farnsworth Starr, “Notes: Grant, Webb, Warner, Holmes,” _The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 64 (1910): 83-84; digital images, _Internet Archive_ (accessed 2014). See also Charles William Manwaring, A digest of the early Connecticut probate records, 3 vols (1904-1906), 1:15 for Seth Grant, of Hartford, including notice inventory taken 4 March 1646; digital images Hathi Trust (accessed 2014)
9. ↑ Frank Farnsworth Starr, “Notes: Grant, Webb, Warner, Holmes,” _The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 64 (1910): 83-84; digital images, _Internet Archive_ (accessed 2014).
10. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III 3 vols. (1995), 3:1954-1956 (Richard Webb); digital images, American Ancestors (accessed 2014).
11. ↑ Original Distribution of the Lands in Hartford ..., in Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, 14 (1912):xiii-xiv.
12. ↑ Charles William Manwaring, A digest of the early Connecticut probate records, 3 vols (1904-1906), 1:249 for Richard Webb; digital images Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).
13. ↑ Edwin Hall, The ancient historical records of Norwalk, Conn. : with a plan of the ancient settlement, and of the town in 1847 (1847), 188, for entry, "Elissabeth Webb"; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).
14. ↑ Frank Farnsworth Starr, “Notes: Grant, Webb, Warner, Holmes,” _The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 64 (1910): 83-84; digital images, _Internet Archive_ (accessed 2014).
15. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III 3 vols. (1995), 2:804-805 (Seth Grant); digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014).
16. ↑ Starr, “Notes: Grant, Webb ...," NEHGR 64 (1910):83-84.
17. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III 3 vols. (1995), 2:804-805 (Seth Grant); digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014).
18. ↑ Starr, “Notes: Grant, Webb ...," NEHGR 64 (1910):83-84.
19. ↑ Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9049/images/007627300_00168). Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 [database on-line], Probate Records, Vol 1-5, 1648-1750 image 168. Fairfield, Vol 3 1676-1690, Page 86-87, Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Free Ancestry.com image
20. ↑ Abstract of probate records at Fairfield, Connecticut, down to 1721 p. 400
21. ↑ Harrison E. Webb, "Richard Webb of Stamford," The American Genealogist 25 (1948):194-197; digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014).

See also:

• Edwin Hall, _The ancient historical records of Norwalk, Conn. : with a plan of the ancient settlement, and of the town in 1847_ (1847), 20 (Richard Webb), 188 (Elissabeth Webb); digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).

• Frank Farnsworth Starr, “Notes: Grant, Webb, Warner, Holmes,” _The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 64 (1910): 83-84; digital images, Internet Archive (accessed 2014).

• Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III 3 vols. (1995), 3:1954-1956 (Richard Webb); digital images, American Ancestors (accessed 2014).

• Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III 3 vols. (1995), 2:804-805 (Seth Grant); digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014).

• Nathan Grier Parke, _The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and His Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth_, Donald Lines Jacobus, ed. (Woodstock, Vt., 1960), 228-230. Access is available to many via Heritage Quest.

• John Camden Hotten, _The original lists of persons of quality; emigrants; religious exiles; political rebels; serving men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American plantations 1600-1700 ..._ (1874), 150, entry of June 1632 for “Zeth Graunt”; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).

• Charles William Manwaring, _A digest of the early Connecticut probate records_, 3 vols (1904-1906), 1:249 for Richard Webb, including notice of inventory taken 5 October 1665 by “Richard Olmstead, John Gregory, Walter Hoit”; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).

• Charles William Manwaring, A digest of the early Connecticut probate records, 3 vols (1904-1906), 1:15 for Seth Grant, of Hartford, including notice inventory taken 4 March 1646; digital images Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).

• Original Distribution of the Lands in Hartford among the Settlers 1639 ..., Connecticut Historical Society, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, 14 (1912):80, for "Land belonging to Seth Grant's Children"; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).

• Original Distribution of the Lands in Hartford among the Settlers 1639 ..., Connecticut Historical Society, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, 14 (1912):334, for land "Sometime belonging to Seth Grant's Children" digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).

• Original Distribution of the Lands in Hartford among the Settlers 1639 ..., Connecticut Historical Society, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, 14 (1912):442, 446, for "Land belonging to Seth Granttes Children" digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).

• Original Distribution of the Lands in Hartford among the Settlers 1639 ..., Connecticut Historical Society, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, 14 (1912):494-5, "Coppy of ye mill Rates recorded Feb: 13: 1659, noticing "Seth Grants children"; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).

• Original Distribution of the Lands in Hartford among the Settlers 1639 ..., Connecticut Historical Society, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, 14 (1912):xiii-xiv, "Secretary's Record Book, vol. 1, part 1." Concerns "Seueral psells of land in Harford vppon the Riuer of Conecticott belonging to the Inhabitants thereof..."; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).

• Richard Henry Green, William Webb, September 19, 1746- September 23, 1832 : his war service from Long Island and Connecticut, ancestry and descendants (1814); digital image Hathi Trust (accessed 2014). One of a series of unproven or disproven print articles about Richard and Elizabeth Webb--reports immigrant Richard Webb was born at Dorsetshire, England, married Elizabeth Gregory, and had son John Webb (the "fifth child" among "eight children" born to the couple).

• Fred C. Warner and Harrison E. Webb, "John Webb of Northampton," The American Genealogist 23 (1946):129 (in particular part); digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014). Robert Charles Anderson took exception to particular early claims by the authors. In particular, Anderson found no records by which to associate John Webb of Northampton with the man who migrated in 1633 and was "released from his master William Parks of Roxbury ..." on 6 June 1633/4. See Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III 3 vols. (1995), 3:1954 (John Webb).

• Citing "NEHGR 54:84," Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III 3 vols. (1995), 3:1956, in entry for Richard Webb.
  for the underlying record, see Frank Farnsworth Starr, “Notes: Grant, Webb, Warner, Holmes,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 64 (1910): 83-84; [https://archive.org/stream/newenglandhistor1910wate#page/83/mode/1up digital images, Internet Archive (accessed 2014).

• Citing "NEHGR 54:84, citing Norwalk LR 1:59," Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III 3 vols. (1995), 3:1956, in entry for Richard Webb.
  See also Edwin Hall, The ancient historical records of Norwalk, Conn. : with a plan of the ancient settlement, and of the town in 1847 (1847), 188, for entry “Elissabeth Webb"; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014). Entry reads, “Elissabeth Webb, the widow of Ritchard Webb, formerly of Norwalke, deceased the twenty fowreth of January 1680.” Note at p. 181 reports these entries “are taken almost entirely from the Town Records, and have been transcribed in the same form as they are recorded …”