William Webster III (1723 - 1776)

Born 27 Sep 1723 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Thorne) Webster — married 27 Jul 1749 in Woodbridge MM, Plainfield, New Jersey

Died 1776 at about age 52 in New Jersey

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William was a Friend (Quaker)

Biography

William Webster III was born 27 Sep 1723 in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey. He is a son of William Webster and Susannah Cowperthwaite . ^[1]

He married Sarah Thorne. ^[1]

William Webster passed away on 13 April 1791, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a member of Nottingham and Little Britain Monthly Meeting.

Research Notes

• Death record, for those with Ancestry.com subscriptions: https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2189&h=1100450515&tid=&pid=&queryId=7d76a95d7932a4bf8118eee3707f38cb&usePUB=true&_phsrc=DBj2002&_phstart=successSource; As most of you know, you need a paid Ancestry.com subsription to use most all of their sources/links, this Death Record is a good source, but you do need to be a paid Ancestry member to open the link.
• "Thorn.pair. c o m" is a domain name that is protected and no longer a good link. Thorne b Jul 26 1726, profile #137], father is Jacob Thorne b 1700; Wm Thorne descendants Data Base. (Please Note, as of 04 Aug 2020, I have tried this link and it just keeps showing up as no longer working.)

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Wesley, Rusha - Author; “Our Quaker Ancestry: Adams, Cowperthwaite, Maris, Paxson, Pownal, Shotwell, Simcock, Waln, Webster”; 84 pages, portraits; Self Published, 1945. Page 51.

• Annals of our Colonial Ancestors, Genealogical Register of the Shotwell Family in America, Jacob Thorne, 1700-59 & Susannah Shotwell Thorne; Ambrose M Shotwell; 1895. Robert Smith & Co., Printers And Binders, Lansing, Mich.’' pg 102-103, 125.