John Webster

• General Notes
  • From Don Weymouth:  John Webster came from Ipswich, Suffolk County, England, around 1631 to Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he was made a freeman in 1635. He was a baker by trade, admitted an inhabitant of Salem in 1637 and had a grant of land. He was a witness in the Essex court in 1639 and applied for land at the Creek in 1642. He died soon after coming here, leaving four sons and four daughters. The family subsequently moved to Newbury.  Source: 'Historical and Genealogical Shatswells of Ipswich., No 1.', Augustine Caldwell, p 1.  'Some of the Descendants of John Webster of Ipswich, Mass., in 1635', Wm. B. Lapham, 1884, p 1.  'New England Families Genealogical and Memorial,' William Richard Cutter, 1915, p 1179.  'The New England Historical and Genealogical Register', Volume 150 April 1996, p 185.