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| Salem, 1700 |
WEBB
Jonathan Webb (1690 – 1765), my 7th great
grandfather, is another brickwall ancestor.
There are many possible WEBB families in the area from whom he might
descend. Several online trees have him
as the son of John Webb and Susannah Cunliffe of Northampton, Massachusetts,
which is very far from Salem, Massachusetts where Jonathan lived and died. There were several possible Webbs right in
Salem including a John Webb who bought land in 1669. But now his ancestry is a mystery.
Jonathan Webb was a “coaster”, which meant he sailed fishing
small boats up and down the coast of Massachusetts and New England. He owned a house at the corner of Derby and
Hardy Streets in Salem. I find this
amazing because the family continued to live in this neighborhood until my great
grandfather was born! He was also a
deacon at the East Society church, where Rev. William Bentley would have his famous diary a few generations later. The East Society church stood on Essex Street.
His daughter, Mary (1724 – 1790), is my 6th great
grandmother. She married Joseph Cloutman
and they lived on Webb Street, named after her father’s land. Webb Street is still in existence in
Salem, at the end of Essex Street, near
Collins Cove. There are several streets
in this area named after my ancestors- Webb, Boardman, Becket, Lemon, and Beadle Lane which is now called
Pleasant Street in Salem.
My sources for this information on Jonathan Webb come from The Essex Antiquarian, Volume 23, page
71 (property information), The Essex County Registry of Deeds, book 115, leaf
76, and the book The Driver Family: A genealogical memoir of the descendants of Robert
and Phebe Driver of Lynn, Mass. , by Harriet Ruth (Waters) Cooke, 1889
(which is also available online at archive.org and at Google Book search).
My WEBB genealogy:
Generation 1:
Jonathan Webb, born about 1690, died before 1765; married on 23 March
1714 in Salem, Massachusetts to Priscilla Bray, daughter of Robert Bray and
Christian Collins. She was born 11 March
1690 in Salem and died after 4 Feb 1767.
Nine children.
Generation 2: Mary
Webb, born 17 December 1724 in Salem, died 21 March 1790 in Salem; married on
16 June 1747 in Salem to Joseph Cloutman, son of Joseph Cloutman and Mary
Peters. He was born about 1720. Four
children.
Generation 3: Joseph
Cloutman m. Hannah Becket
Generation 4: Mary
Cloutman m. Abijah Hitchings
Generation 5: Abijah
Hitchings m. Eliza Ann Treadwell
Generation 6: Abijah
Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis
Generation 7: Arthur
Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil
Generation 8:
Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ WEBB of Salem", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 8, 2017, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/03/surname-saturday-webb-of-salem.html: accessed [access date]).
My mother was a Pierce from Northumberland Percy's. I have "Pierce Family Tree" n Ancestry. I have Webb's: Josiah 1848 1924 Indiana m Caroline Clifton 1835- ch Maurice 1872, Anna 1876, Edgar 1874. Caroline Clifton's brother Chas Wesley Clifton 1835. Eliz Slade Webb 1603 1670 m Deacon John Upham; Elizabeth Webb 1633 1667 m Wm Pierce son James; Capt. Amos Comstock 1794 1877 m Hannah Maria Upton 1793 1865 son David Barkley Comstock 1827 1874. My mother's mother was Cora Ethel Tracy 1884 1933, Cora's mother was Sarah Elizabeth Clifton 1859 1939. Sarah's father was Wm Gray Clifton 1833 1906 and Emily G Adams 1819 (Indiana) 1919. Lots of Clifton's and Comstocks and Webb's.........none of the above is in any order.
ReplyDeleteJonathan is a brick wall as I have found a Jacob Webb b 1743, Billerica, Essex, Mass and alledged father of our Jacob, who died 1795 in Sussex Co., DE. Very discouraging to find so many trees that list his father and grandfather as Johnathan. There is a Jonathan and Marcy (Mercy) who bore a son, Jonathan. The Jonathan lines trace back to Warwickshire, Eng. No tree can stand alone without documentation/citation.
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