Anne WEBSTER

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• Fact: Daughter of Gov. John Webster

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Anne was the daughter of Gov. John Webster (of Connecticut) and his wife, Agnes Smith Webster.

The family first settled in Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. John then moved his family to Hartford, Connecticut in 1636, as one of the original landowners in Hartford.

Anne married John Marsh about 1642 in Hartford, Connecticut. They had eight children: John, Joseph (died in infancy), Joseph, Samuel, Jonathan, Daniel, Hannah and Grace.

The family attended the First Congregational Church of Hartford. After a religious dispute, in 1659 John took a group of dissenters to Northampton, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts. It appears that Anne was with them.

After Anne's death, her husband married Hepzibah Ford Lyman in 1664.

Anne married John MARSH in 1642 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. John was born in Apr 1618 in Braintree, Essex, England; died on 28 Sep 1688 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John MARSH was born in 1643; died about 1727 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
2. Samuel MARSH was born about 1645 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died on 07 Sep 1728 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA.
3. Grace MARSH died on 31 May 1676.
4. Joseph MARSH was christened on 24 Jan 1647; died in young.
5. Joseph MARSH was christened on 15 Jul 1649; died in young.
6. Jonathan MARSH was born about 1650; died on 03 Jul 1730 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA.
7. Daniel MARSH was born about 1653; died on 24 Feb 1725.
8. Hannah MARSH was born about 1656 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

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He came to Hartford in 1636, but from what part of Massachusetts is not known. He was an original proprietor at Hartford and his home lot in 1639 was on the east side of the present Governor Street. He was appointed one of the committee which, for the first time, sat with the Court of Magistrates May 1st, 1637, and served also the following year; was one of the committee which framed the code of criminal laws for the Colony, 1642; Magistrate, 1639 to 1655; Commissioner for the United Colonies 1654; Deputy Governor, 1655; and Governor in 1656. In the great contest about church government, he took sides with the Rev. Mr. Russell of Wethersfield, which caused his removal up the river in 1659 to found the town of Hadley, where he died two years later. He was admitted Freeman by the General Court of Mass., and 31 May, 1660, "Mr. John Webster, Senior, of the new towne at Norwottock is by this Court commissionated with Magistrattical power for the yeare ensuing, to ast in all civill & criminall cases, as any one magistrate ma doe and that he youne with the commissioners in keeping the Courts at Springfield." (Rec. of Mass. Bay 4, p. 420.) He was an influential member of the church in Hartford and a leader of the Hadley Company. By family tradition, he was from Warwickshire, England. He was the fifth Governor of Connecticut.

John married Agnes ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]