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ID: I9261
Name: John Webster
Given Name: John
Surname: Webster
Sex: M
Birth: 27 JAN 1604/5 in Oulton, Suffolk, England
Death: 30 MAR 1646 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
Burial: 1646 Ipswich,Essex,Massachusetts
Immigration: 1631 rom Ipswich, Suffolk County, England to Ipswich, MA
Occupation: Baker
Event: Freeman 4 MAR 1634/35
_UID: 8A86279D1035324A910FA7D3604C533AE868
Note:
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.
1.     'Some of the Descendants of John Webster of Ipswich, Mass., in 1635', Wm. B. Lapham, 1884, p 1.
2.     'New England Families Genealogical and Memorial,' William Richard Cutter, 1915, p 1179.
3.     'The New England Historical and Genealogical Register', Volume 150 April 1996, p 185.

Father: Mathew Webster b: 1564 in Cossington, Leicestershire, England
Mother: Elizabeth Ashton b: 1566 in Cossington, Leicestershire, England

Marriage 1 Mary Shatswell b: 1606 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Married: 1624 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Children
1.      Elizabeth Webster b: 1640 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
2.      Abigail Webster b: 1642 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
3.      Nathan Webster b: ABT 1646 in Ipswitch, Essex, MA
4.      Mary Webster b: 1 JAN 1633 in Ipswich, Essex County, MA
5.      John Webster b: ABT 1632 in Ipswich,Essex Co,MA
6.      Hannah Webster b: 23 DEC 1635 in Ipswich, Essex Co., MA
7.      Stephen Webster b: BET 1637 AND 1639
8.      Israel Webster b: 1644 in Ipswitch, Essex, MA


JOHN WEBSTER died at about 41 years without a will, Inventory of JOHN WEBSTER'S lands and goods sworn to 29:7:1646 by his widow,MARY (SHATSWELL)WEBSTER, who is appointed administratrix. (Ipswich Quarterly Court Records,vol.2,leaf5.)
Petition of MARY widow of JOHN WEBSTER, that her eldest son,John,should have the land called the farm, of about 32 acres,which lyeth between Mr. Rogers oxe pasture and Thomas Bishop's farm, when he is twenty-one years old, he to pay Nathan the youngest child 5li at fourteen years or if he refuse that Elizabeth,Abigail,Israell have ywenty nobles each, when twenty-one; the dwelling house and six acres of land tied to make it good.The Court,Nov. 4,1646, granted that the estate be ordered as the widow desired and apointed her administratrix, to give bond for the security in such sum as the next Ipswich Court shall approve and receive of her inventory amount to 147li. 5s (Mass Bay Colony RecordsVol 2,p.184)
JOHN EMERY of Newbury marred Mary widow of John Webster, late of Ipswich, and she had power from the Court to administer and dispose of his goods to his children. Some of the children now grown , almost ready to receive their portions, John Emery petitions for liberty to sell the Island which is divided to three of his children, and also the house and six acres of landwhich was bound to make good the 20li. to the other three, and upon grant of this,binds himself to pay the children the full price he shall set it at, and the other three children , who are to have 20 nobles, to make good to them the 8li. apiece and to pay the daughter their portions at eighteen and the sons at twenty-one years.(Mass Bay Records, Vol 3, p.254) The above petition was granted Oct 14, 1651.(Mass Bay Colony Records, Vol. 3, p. 254)Source: Printed "Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts; 1635-1681," In three volumes,The Essex Institute;Salem,MA;1916

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Book, Four Generations of the Descendants of John Webster of Ipswich MA
Book, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
Book, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Torrey
  WEBSTER, John (-1646) & Mary (SHATSWELL) (-1694), m/2 John EMERY 1649); ca 1627?, in England, Ipswich.
Book, Old Families of Salisbury & Amesbury, by David Hoyt
Book, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, by
Mary Holman 1938. John WEBSTER, born probably in England about 1605, died in Ipswich MA abt 1645-6.  He was married about 1630 probably in England to Mary Shatswell, born there about 1610, died in Newbury, MA 28 Apr 1694, sister of Theophilus and John Shatswell.  It is supposed that John Webster came to the colonies in 1634, as he was made a freeman in Boston, 4 Mar 1634.  Before 1639, he moved to Ipswich, his wife's brothers being residents of that town, and was noted as an absent witness in a case there.  In 1640 he is called "John Webster the baker," and in 1641, was again in a court case.  In 1642 he was a member of the trial jury. Since administration on his estated was granted in Sept 1646, and as his youngest child Nathan was born in that year (he being aged 16 in 1662 and 35 in 1681) possibly a posthumous child, it is evident that he died very soon before the administration was granted.  The inventory of John Webster's lands and goods was sworn to 29 Sept 1646, by his widow, Mary Webster,she being appointed administratrix. (Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, 2: fol 5.)
Book, Some of the Descendants of John Webster of Ipswich MA 1634, John C Webster MD 1912. Admitted a freeman at Boston MA 4 Mar 1634.  He then went to Ipswich, MA and possessed a lot of land which was granted a Mr. Rogers in 1642.  He was admitted a commoner by vote of the town 23 Feb 1644.  His occupation was that of a baker.
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Proprietor:1634.  Freeman: 4 March, 1634,or 1635.  Clerk of the bonds in 1642. Admitted an inhabitant of Salem in 1637 and had a grant of land.  An eyewitness in Essex Court in 1639; applied for land at the Creek in 1642.
WEBSTER coat-of-arms: Azure on a band argent cotised or between two demi-lions rampant ermine, a rosegules seeded and leaved proper between heads couped sable.
Crest: a dragon's head couped reguardent, quarterly perfesse embattled or and vert, flames issuing from mouth
Motto: Veritas, puritas: Truth, Purity.
The surname WEBSTER means a female weaver.  It is of English origin.