I have a David Webb in NC, b 23 Feb 1833 d 29 July 1894 m Janie Hunter Carter From: gen42<mailto:gen42@comcast.net> To: WEBB-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:WEBB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 6:46 AM Subject: Re: [WEBB] My Webb Line/Additions and Corrections Appreciated. David Webb ----- Original Message ----- From: "dwebbe" <dwebbe@eohio.net<mailto:dwebbe@eohio.net>> To: <WEBB-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:WEBB-L@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:18 AM Subject: Re: [WEBB] My Webb Line/Additions and Corrections Appreciated. > Hi! > Can you share the name of this Webb that was in Stokes Co.N.C.? > Thank you > Diane > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "gen42" <gen42@comcast.net<mailto:gen42@comcast.net>> > To: <WEBB-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:WEBB-L@rootsweb.com>> > Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:40 AM > Subject: Re: [WEBB] My Webb Line/Additions and Corrections Appreciated. > > >> Were the Scott Co. Va. Webb's around a place called Big Moccasin Gap in >> Scott Co.? There >> was a Webb in this line that was born in Stokes Co. NC abt. 1820-1840. >> They were also in Scott Co. Va. & Letcher Co. Kentucky. >> Thanks. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "dwebbe" <dwebbe@eohio.net<mailto:dwebbe@eohio.net>> >> To: <WEBB-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:WEBB-L@rootsweb.com>> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 8:03 PM >> Subject: Re: [WEBB] My Webb Line/Additions and Corrections Appreciated. >> >> >>> Ann, >>> Thank you so much for making it a point that documentation is of great >>> importance when making claims to Webb lineage's! >>> That's why my Webb line only goes back to a John Webb of VA.and we can >>> only give him an estimated time of birth because we don't know! >>> DNA is in for this Webb line and we have connections to Buckingham & >>> Scott >>> Co.VA.plus Monroe,Pike and Floyd Co.KY. >>> Diane aka Diana Webb Evans >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: <AWNRDC@aol.com<mailto:AWNRDC@aol.com>> >>> To: <WEBB-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:WEBB-L@rootsweb.com>> >>> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:35 PM >>> Subject: Re: [WEBB] My Webb Line/Additions and Corrections Appreciated. >>> >>> >>>> >>>> I will again call for any hard documentation that makes the connection >>>> indisputably to William Micajah Webb or from him to Alexander. So far >>>> the most >>>> anyone has offered me is an undocumented website, or a book written in >>>> the >>>> 1800s "from an unpublished manuscript" or "a Bible so-and-so allowed me >>>> to look >>>> at" but "unfortunately so-and-so is now dead and I don't know where the >>>> Bible >>>> is now" or some other unverifiable "source." Now I'd like to claim >>>> kinship >>>> with William Shakespeare or nobility just as much as the next person, >>>> but I >>>> don't want to do it on the basis of "legend," particularly when there >>>> is so >>>> much evidence that the "legend" is false. >>>> >>>> Based on discussions with WEBB genealogy experts, Alexander Webb >>>> apparently >>>> did NOT "come to America with his four sons: John, Richard, >>>> Christopher, >>>> and >>>> 'some say William, some say Micajah'" Alexander apparently died in >>>> England. >>>> DNA has shown that Christopher isn't related to many of the WEBBs in >>>> the >>>> USA, and John and Richard don't seem to be related to one another >>>> either. As to >>>> "maybe William, maybe Micajah" I have seen a nice story about him, but >>>> one >>>> without any documentation. This is something I also long to see, >>>> especially >>>> since my own line is tied to Isle of Wight, VA by DNA. >>>> >>>> I'm not qualified to question anything from William Micajah down to >>>> Samuel >>>> Webb who died in 1827, although I will say that I do not find all the >>>> links in >>>> that --as outlined in Linkage by Jo Smith Webb to be completely >>>> compelling. >>>> Admittedly, I could be lacking some of the evidence. I do have one >>>> burning >>>> question however -- well two -- regarding the early GA John & Rachel >>>> Giles >>>> Webb -- Samuel Webb issue. >>>> 1. In LINKAGE, Jo Smith Webb shows that the drawers for the 1805 >>>> lottery >>>> include "Sam'l Webb's orphans" Who are they, pray tell? >>>> 2. Then there is the matter of a Samuel Webb will dated I think it >>>> was >>>> 1801 >>>> claimed as the will of the Samuel Webb who died in 1827. Long time to >>>> go >>>> without making a will. Even more curious, if memory serves me, that >>>> the >>>> will >>>> named a daughter whose birthdate, according to LINKAGE, was after the >>>> will was >>>> written. >>>> >>>> These two things make me wonder if two generations haven't been >>>> conflated. >>>> >>>> And I certainly don't know whether the links from Alexander back to Sir >>>> Henry are accurate or not. >>>> >>>> Now don't get me wrong. I don't KNOW that this is all in error. I'm >>>> saying >>>> I cannot accept these things with out seeing the evidence. I also >>>> realize >>>> that some of the evidence may have been lost or destroyed over time >>>> and >>>> the >>>> assertions are perfectly accurate. I welcome anyone who can give real >>>> documentation of any of this stuff I have questioned. >>>> >>>> I am just leery of claiming an ancestry I can't prove. Which is why >>>> my >>>> own >>>> WEBB lineage stops with the birth of Elias Webb c. 1785 in NC or GA and >>>> has >>>> only a dotted theoretical line back to NC and before that to Isle of >>>> Wight, VA. >>>> >>>> My grandmother Webb (nee Witcher) always told me that the famous Texas >>>> historian Walter Prescott Webb was a cousin. When I started serious >>>> research into >>>> the WEBB line, I was shocked to find I could find no connection. That >>>> doesn't mean my beloved "Momo" was incorrect, it means that any >>>> definitive >>>> connection she might have known about, or her mother might have known >>>> about (since >>>> she was the one who said so originally as I understand it), was never >>>> recorded. And thus goes genealogy --- knowledge that hasn't been >>>> recorded anywhere. >>>> Which means this may all be right, but what can we PROVE? >>>> >>>> Anne >>>> >>>> In a message dated 5/23/2006 2:49:19 P.M. Central Daylight Time, >>>> Francesdaniell36@wmconnect.com<mailto:Francesdaniell36@wmconnect.com> writes: >>>> >>>> Listed below, starting with my grandfather: >>>>> >>>>> Charles Linder Webb 1874 - 1942 m 2nd Minnie Bell Thomas 1888 - 1969 >>>>> William Green Webb 1846 - 1916 m. Mary Frances "Mollie" Harrison >>>>> 1849 - >>>> 1912 >>>>> William A. Webb 1818 -1864 m. Elizabeth Martin b. 1825 >>>>> Giles Webb d. 1833 m. Holland Askew d. 1861 >>>>> Samuel Webb 1764 -1827 - m. Martha Tabitha Driver 1765 - ca 1827 >>>>> John Webb 1737 -1798 m. Rachel Giles 1744 - 1825 >>>>> Isaac Webb 1709 - 1760 m. Frances Barber ca 1720 - 1782 >>>>> Giles Webb 1677 - 1732 m. Elizabeth Spann >>>>> John William Webb 1649 - 1694 m. Mary Samford or Sanford b. 1650 >>>>> Giles Webb 1620 - 1692 m. Judith Bland 1623 - 1673 >>>>> Richard Webb 1603 m. >>>>> William Micajah Webb 1582 m. >>>>> Alexander Webb, Jr. 1559 m. Mary Wilson b. 1561 >>>>> Alexander Webb, Sr.1534 - 1573 m. Margaret Arden >>>>> Henry Alexander Webb 1510 m. Grace Arden >>>>> John Alexander Webb ca. 1471 m. >>>>> John Webb 1450 m. >>>>> William Webb ca 1425 m. Joan Stone >>>>> John Webb 1405 m. >>>>> Geoffrey Webb 1372 m. >>>>> Sir Henry Webb b. ca 1350 m. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ==== WEBB Mailing List ==== >>>> <<Webb Genealogy; History and Family Traditions >> >>>> To change list modes, leave, or contact list admin >>>> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/w/webb.html<http://lists.rootswebcom/index/surname/w/webb.html> >>>> Use < http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/w/e/WEBB/<http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/w/e/WEBB/> > >>>> To connect to your list website and post your web links and family >>>> pages >>>> To Webb notes see http://www.wvi.com/~wb<http://www.wvi.com/~wb> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ==== WEBB Mailing List ==== >>> <<Webb Genealogy; History and Family Traditions >> >>> To change list modes, leave, or contact list admin >>> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/w/webb.html<http://lists.rootswebcom/index/surname/w/webb.html> >>> Use < http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/w/e/WEBB/<http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/w/e/WEBB/> > To connect to >>> your list website and post your web links and family pages >>> To Webb notes see http://www.wvi.com/~wb<http://www.wvi.com/~wb> >>> >> >> >> ==== WEBB Mailing List ==== >> <<Webb Genealogy; History and Family Traditions >> >> To change list modes, leave, or contact list admin >> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/w/webb.html<http://lists.rootswebcom/index/surname/w/webb.html> >> Use < http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/w/e/WEBB/<http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/w/e/WEBB/> > To connect to >> your list website and post your web links and family pages >> To Webb notes see http://www.wvi.com/~wb<http://www.wvi.com/~wb> >> >> >> > > > > ==== WEBB Mailing List ==== > <<Webb Genealogy; History and Family Traditions >> > To change list modes, leave, or contact list admin > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/w/webb.html<http://lists.rootswebcom/index/surname/w/webb.html> > Use < http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/w/e/WEBB/<http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/w/e/WEBB/> > To connect to > your list website and post your web links and family pages > To Webb notes see http://www.wvi.com/~wb<http://www.wvi.com/~wb> > ==== WEBB Mailing List ==== <<Webb Genealogy; History and Family Traditions >> To change list modes, leave, or contact list admin http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/w/webb.html<http://lists.rootswebcom/index/surname/w/webb.html> Use < http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/w/e/WEBB/<http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/w/e/WEBB/> > To connect to your list website and post your web links and family pages To Webb notes see http://www.wvi.com/~wb<http://www.wvi.com/~wb>