Webster, John, 1590-1661

LC control no.	no2014033929
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Webster, John, 1590-1661 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Located	Hartford (Conn.)
Birth date	1590
Death date	16610405
Place of birth	England
Place of death	Hadley (Mass.)
Affiliation	Connecticut. Governor
Profession or occupation	Governors
Found in	History and genealogy of the Gov. John Webster family of Connecticut, 1915: page 1 (Governor John Webster of Connecticut; came to the Massachusetts Bay Coloney from Warwickshire, England somewhere between 1630-1633; he removed from Newtowne, now Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the present site of Hartford, Connecticut in 1636, presumably with the Rev. Thomas Hooker and his historic party) page 6 (born 1590; Fifth Governor of the Colony of Connecticut) page 14-15 (died in Hadley, Massachusetts on April 5, 1661; his mose eminent descendent was Noah Webster, LL.D., one of the chief lexicographers of the English language) Connecticut State Library, via WWW, March 11, 2014 (John Webster, Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, 1656; John Webster was baptized on August 16, 1590 in Cossington, Leicestershire, England; he was the son of Matthew and Elizabeth (Ashton) Webster; John Webster and his family first settled in Watertown, Massachusetts and moved to Hartford in 1636, probably with Thomas Hooker's group, which left Newtown, Massachusetts in April 1636; he was one of the original landholders of Hartford, was a member of the committee that sat with the Court of Magistrates of the Colony of Connecticut in 1637 and 1638, and became an Assistant to the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut in 1639; he traveled to towns in Connecticut as a judge, helped create criminal laws for the colony, settled land and boundary disputes, helped the New England Congress supply Connecticut towns with soldiers and ammunition for an expedition against the Indians, and surveyed the highway from Hartford to Windsor; he was a Commissioner to the United Colonies of New England in 1654; the Colony of Connecticut elected him as Deputy Governor in 1655, with Thomas Welles as Governor; the next year, 1656, John Webster was elected as Governor (elections were annual, and prior to 1659 it was believed that no person should serve a term of more than one year); he and his family went to Northhampton, Massachusetts in 1659, and later to Hadley, where he was made a magistrate in May 1660; he died there, of a fever, on April 5, 1661 and is buried in Hadley)
Associated language	eng