Jonathan Webster (1657 - 1735)

Born 9 Jan 1657 in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Dorcas (Hopkins) Webster — married 11 May 1681 in Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 1735 at about age 77 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Deacon Jonathan Webster, son of Lieutenant Robert and Susannah (Treat) Webster, was born 9 January 1656/7 at Middletowm, Connecticut. He married in 1681, Dorcas Hopkins (1660 - 1695), a daughter of Stephen and Dorcas (Bronson) Hopkins, Both Jonathan and his wife were very active in the church, as his title implies. On 2 January 1696, Deacon Jonathon married his second wife, Mary Judd, and they had one child, Benjamin, born 9 August 1698.

Deacon Jonathan Webster was a merchant in Hartford where he died in 1735, aged seventy eight years. His death date may have been 23 July, 1735^[1]. Mary lived beyond that date but the date of her death is not known.

Will made 7 April 1732 mentions my loving wife, three daughters (namely Susanna Steel, Mary Brace, Mehetabell Bidwell), son Benjamin, heirs of son Stephen deceased, son Jonathan. Inventory dated 23 July 1735. ^[2]

Children of Deacon Jonathan and Dorcas (Hopkins) Webster:

1. Jonathan 18 Mar 1682
2. Samuel 17 Feb 1683/84
3. Susannah 25 Apr 1686 - 27 Nov 1757 m. Thomas Steele Captain 10 May 1709
4. Mary 29 Sep 1688
5. Mehitabel 8 Mar 1691 - after 1751
6. Stephen 1 Jan 1692/93 - 1724

Child of Deacon Jonathan and Mary (Judd) Webster

Benjamin b 9 Aug 1698

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S118 page: https://www.myheritage.com/site-family-tree-151136411/treat-family-files Accessed 26 Aug., 2018 Text: 23 July, 1735 burial Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA no sources cited Certainty of Data: 1
2. ↑ "A Digest of the early Connecticut probate records" compiled by Charles William Manwaring, vol 3 1729-1750, publ 1906 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044032313041;view=1up;seq=244

• Source: S118 Title: Treat family Files web site Publisher: MyHeritage.com

See also:

• "History and Genealogy of the Gov John Webster Family of Connecticut" by William Holcomb Webster & Rev Melville Reuben Webster, D.D., 1915, Rochester, NY, p 34-35, descendants on pg 49- https://archive.org/details/historygenealogy00webs

• Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) Hartford Vital Records 1635-1855 Vol. D page 32.

• http://gene.kellerhouse-webster.com/westny.html

• Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).

• http://www.royalblood.co.uk/D79/I79362.html

• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Holt, 1885) Vol. 1, Page 593

• Clemens, William Montgomery. Early Marriage Records of the Hopkins Family in the United States (W.M. Clemens, New York, 1916) Page 6