Tag Archives: Family: Webster

Week 39 Prompt: Map It Out This week’s 52 Ancestors theme is”Map It Out.” I love maps. Many years ago when I was working on my Michigan families, I decided to create a Google Map to pinpoint various locations, such as land owned, residences, and […]

Week 31 Prompt: Brother Week 32 Prompt: Sister This week’s 52 Ancestors theme is”Brother,” and next week’s theme is “Sister.” I decided to combine the two into one post and write about a brother and sister who are both direct-line ancestors. It’s probably not an […]

Week 26 Prompt: Legend This week’s 52 Ancestors theme is”Legend.” While I tend to make mention that I am related to Noah Webster, of dictionary fame, I often neglect another Webster legend—Governor John Webster. Gov. John Webster is my eleventh great-grandfather, with an impressive resume […]

Week 12 Prompt: 12 This week’s 52 Ancestors theme is the number 12. My brain went to the year 1912, and I was curious to see who in my family died in 1912.

Part of the reason I took on the Genealogy By the States challenge is because I knew it would force me not only to post something every week, but it would allow me to get in some research time.  Only 11 weeks in and I […]

I have some distant ties to New Hampshire, one of them being my seventh great-grandaunt, Esther Webster, daughter of Jonathan and Esther (Judd) Webster.  Esther married about 1724, Timothy Smith, son of Samuel and Mary (Smith) Smith.  Sometime in the 1760s, Esther and Timothy settled […]

My earliest known GARRISON is James Manly GARRISON, who was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1861. I’m still trying to determine, with some level of certainty, who his parents are. I know his mother’s name was Susan, and I suspect that she herself was a […]

Since my Connecticut family from last week’s post also happens to have ties to Massachusetts, I guess I’ll continue on with more of the story of Gov. John Webster. Even though Gov. John Webster spent most of his New England life in Connecticut, he actually […]