I Been Thinking the same Thing!!! --- Dan M <wb@wvi.com> wrote: > Things are really quiet lately > > > Dan > see http://wvi.com/~wb > > > ==== WEBB Mailing List ==== > To change list modes or leave > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/w/webb.html > Use < > http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/w/e/WEBB/ > > To connect to your list website and post your web > links and family pages > TO contact list owner <WEBB-admin@rootsweb.com >or > post a complaint > To read Webb lines > http://www.angelfire.com/or/matney/WebbPlace.html > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion > online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > ===== Have of Great Day XOXOXOX...Kimmyann kimmyann_1969@yahoo.com kimmyann69@hotmail.com kimmyann@samlink.com http://samlink.com/~kimmyann/ http://www.kimmyanns-page.cityslide.com/contents/contents.cfm/802155 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - sign up for Fantasy Baseball http://sports.yahoo.com

May be we can have a new twist for a while Rather that doing genealogy, how about genealogical stories about ( your own) family traditions , the people; who they were , what they did, what were they noted for in History and who were the Pioneers that traveled from where to where. Also if a few lurkers post their lines in the subject lines that makes a good start too, some who sit behind the list and wait, might be waiting for each other. Just things to think about PS I saved our text page on my website since they were kind enough to put it back. I spent times to back it all up. Dan see http://wvi.com/~wb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kimmyann" <kimmyann_1969@yahoo.com> To: <WEBB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 7:34 AM Subject: Re: [WEBB] HEY > I Been Thinking the same Thing!!! > --- Dan M <wb@wvi.com> wrote: > > Things are really quiet lately > > > > > > Dan > > see http://wvi.com/~wb > > > > > > ==== WEBB Mailing List ==== > > To change list modes or leave > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/w/webb.html > > Use < > > http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/w/e/WEBB/ > > > To connect to your list website and post your web > > links and family pages > > TO contact list owner <WEBB-admin@rootsweb.com >or > > post a complaint > > To read Webb lines > > http://www.angelfire.com/or/matney/WebbPlace.html > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion > > online genealogy records, go to: > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ===== > Have of Great Day XOXOXOX...Kimmyann > kimmyann_1969@yahoo.com > kimmyann69@hotmail.com > kimmyann@samlink.com > http://samlink.com/~kimmyann/ > http://www.kimmyanns-page.cityslide.com/contents/contents.cfm/802155 > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Sports - sign up for Fantasy Baseball > http://sports.yahoo.com > > > ==== WEBB Mailing List ==== > To change list modes or leave http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/w/webb.html > Use < http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/w/e/WEBB/ > > To connect to your list website and post your web links and family pages > TO contact list owner <WEBB-admin@rootsweb.com >or post a complaint > To read Webb lines http://www.angelfire.com/or/matney/WebbPlace.html > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

***Well YOU ASKED!!!*** My 6th Great Grandfather, Samuel Webb, ran away from England and his guardian and came to Weymouth, MA about 1716 via Rhode Island as best I can tell. According to a distant cousin who has a hand written account by Samuel Webb's great grandson who questioned his great grandfather in later years, Samuel Webb's father, also Samuel, was a sea captain, owned a couple of ships and was a SLAVE TRADER who was poisoned, with his crew, by an African chief with whom he had been trading regularly. (Our daughter says SERVES HIM RIGHT!!) It's a challenge trying to trace Webbs in Weymouth in that era as there was another Webb family with no connection that I have found that had come to Billerica, MA (where there is a "Web" Brook) in the 1600s and then to Weymouth. Their names were very similar with lots of Christophers and Samuels and the like. My 5th Great Grandfather, also Samuel, was the oldest son of Samuel by his first wife who died not long after the birth of their second son. The two boys were raised by their maternal Randall grandparents. Samuel remarried, had a child or two and then moved to Windham, ME and had a dozen or so children by that marriage. Only recently have I made contact (through the Internet) with distant cousins from the Maine branch of the family. My branch of the Weymouth Webbs were still living in Weymouth into at least the mid 1930s. It is interesting that by the mid to late 1700s the "other Webb" family moved to Windham, CT. Making things even more annoying to try to trace with two different Windham (Wyndham?) locations to keep track of. I'd sure like to find a connection between the two Webb families! There is a Webb State Park in Weymouth and I suspect it's on land once owned by my branch of the family but so far haven't found out. I guess I'll have to snail mail the park and see if I get a response. E-mail has failed to elicit a response so far. One of my Webb grandfathers was a State Senator and his house was in the process of being restored when my brother drove by it a few years ago. The people who bought it gave him a tour and were in the process of trying to buy a reasonable amount of surrounding land to return it to how it may have been in the early 1800s. My great great grandfather was a merchant and went to Maryland for a period of time in the late 1840s - I assume to establish a business - and my great grandfather was born in Maryland. I've found no actual records of them in Maryland except for family records from ancestors letters and papers. He and the family went to San Francisco in 1851 to "see the Gold Rush" according to the family legend. I have a letter that my great grandmother wrote to her parents back in Massachusetts telling about the trip by ship and the problems crossing South America and getting a second ship north up the coast to San Francisco. She speaks of people dying of cholera and their bodies being dumped overboard so they could still land in San Francisco. I found a newspaper article about my great great grandfather selling a business, which said the business was one of the only that also sold books in San Francisco in the mid 1850s and his brother was a fairly long time resident of San Francisco and according to family legend a member of the vigilance committee. His brother was also City Assessor of San Francisco according to the 1860 city directory and according to the census records from that era, reported $40,000 of worth assets excluding his house. The family returned to Massachusetts after 6 or 7 years and later my great grandfather left college (Bowdoin) and went to San Francisco shortly after the transcontinental railroad was completed. He and his uncle speculated on land in the Shasta Valley and along with other relatives, buying land and homesteading it in advance of the railroad expected through the area from north and south. They had a few dozen sections of land only to have the railroad stop short of that area so they were forced to farm it and be involved in water projects to bring irrigation water from great distances. I have a diary of his for 1887 and the ranching life sure wasn't easy. How one can drive 4,000 head of sheep from southern Oregon back to the Shasta Valley, with two men he hired in Oregon, is something I can't conceive of doing, but that's included in his diary. Apparently he lost about 6,000 head of sheep in a severe snow storm and freeze. Over the years my Webb ancestors sold their holdings and my father's story was that they were "typical stubborn Webbs" trying to raise sheep when they should have been raising cattle???? By the early 1900s it seemed that they had little land still in the Shasta Valley and lived in Yreka with other family members then back in San Francisco and across the bay in the area where the present University of California Berkeley is located. My great grandfather (Samuel Webb) was listed in the early 1900s in the Yreka City Directory as businessman and real estate manager. I found in the San Francisco City directory during the same time that he and his uncle had an office on Mission Street in San Francisco. There were 3 boys and 4 girls, my grandfather and his siblings, all born in Yreka or Montague, CA (called "Bogus" before the city of Montague existed) a few miles to the east. The females all lived to 85 to 97 years old and the males to 83 to 88 years old. The sister who lived to 97 and never married seemed to have the chore of caring for each of her siblings as they became incapacitated and came "home" to Yreka for a few years preceding their deaths. In the next generation my father was born in Los Angeles (died at 74) and his "kid" brother is still living at age 80. I'd like to hear from any other Webb relatives. I know of Maine relatives from my sixth great grandfather's second marriage who are presently in Idaho (formerly Montana), Washington State and Missouri. There is also a possible unverified Webb connection in western Canada. There are a couple of other likely cousins who aren't real communicative who have genealogy information posted on various web sites and I've been remiss in trying to trace all that information. Virginia Morgan who posted to this list for a period time seems to have dropped off the face of the earth and doesn't respond to e-mails. She believed at last report to be researching another branch of the same Webb family. Let me leave with one interesting happening. If you've read all this far you are brave indeed! My father and mother were waiting to be seated in a restaurant in Berkeley, CA several years ago. They called, "Webb, party of two!" and my mother and father got up only to arrive to be seated at the same time as another couple. My father said the other couple turned out to be "southern Webbs" and that the man looked enough like my grandfather to be his twin brother....!!!! You don't suppose we're ALL related???? Ian Webb Saratoga, CA Dan M wrote: > May be we can have a new twist for a while > Rather that doing genealogy, how about genealogical stories about ( your > own) family traditions , the people; who they were , what they did, what > were they noted for in History and who were the Pioneers that traveled from > where to where.

>Dan M wrote: > > May be we can have a new twist for a while > > Rather that doing genealogy, how about genealogical stories about ( > your own) family traditions , the people; who they were , what they did, > what were they noted for in History and who were the Pioneers that > traveled from where to where. Hehehehe... I don't know about this... aren't WEBBs a bunch of story-tellers?? <wink> Well, Ian already gave a nice thumbnail sketch of his line of the family. Let me see if I can do my branch the same justice... 1. Samuel WEBB (c1665/70-1708) Started off in England (London area?), was a slave trader to Africa and back. "In the service under the reign of Queen Anne, lost at sea 1708," according to Gen. Fam. Hist. ME; according to family accounts, he and a brother (name??) were the only two members of the family to survive the London Plague of 1666. He is said to have finally died after being poisoned by an African tribal chief. His great-grandson, Seth Webb, wrote quite an account of this. He married Margaret ____. Had 3 (maybe 5?) children. 2. Samuel Adams WEBB (1696-1785) b. in Redrift, Rotherhithe, London, England. Orphaned, apprenticed to a blacksmith (father of 1st wife--McIntyre); ran away to America in 1713; ar. Tiverton, RI; rem. Weymouth, Windham, Deer Isle. He was a young boy and present on the ship when his father died. He and 7 others were charged with getting the large ship back to England from Africa. Occupation: blacksmith, schoolmaster. Lived in Windham, NH, and Gorham, ME. d. 15 Feb 1785 Deer Isle, ME. 1m. Mary McINTYRE 1713/8; 2m. Susanna RANDALL 1721 Hingham, MA; 3m. Bethiah FARROW 1726 Weymouth, Norfolk, MA. He had 3 children with his 2nd wife; 12 children with his 3rd wife. 3. John WEBB (1730-1766) b. in Maine. (Maybe b. 1731 Tiverton, RI; d. 1827 Westbrook, ME.) res. Falmouth (now Westbrook), lived at Pride's Bridge; soldier at Windham in 1747. Occupation: tailor. He married Elizabeth LARRABEE in 1753. He had 7 (maybe 9?) children. 4. John WEBB, Jr. (1754-1846) b. Westbrook, Cumberland Co., ME. d. Westbrook, ME. m. Sarah LEIGHTON in 1777. They had 10 children. I don't have very much information on him. 5. Seth WEBB (1783/6-1858) b. Fayette, Kennebec Co., ME. r. Westbrook, Lowell, Springfield, and Prentiss, ME. He married Mary BUZZELL. They had 2 children. 6. Samuel Dr. Brackett WEBB (1816-1895) b. Westbrook, Cumberland Co., ME. Middle name of "Dr. Brackett" is to have been after the doctor that delivered him. Occupation: Farmer. d. Prentiss, Penobscot Co., ME. He married Maria E. JUDKINS in 1846 at Prentiss, Penobscot Co., ME. They had 11 children. 7. Norman Alexander WEBB (1852-1919) b. Prentiss, Penobscot Co., ME. d. Portland, Multnomah Co., OR. 1m. Mabel R. DAGETT in 1872 at Penobscot Co., ME (listed as a "Civil" marriage; no specific date recorded). Mabel and 3(?) children were to have died in ME from tuberculosis. The Dr. advised him to get out and live in the open for his health. Dr. said he would not live unless he did. With his gun and bedroll, he took off and walked all the way from Prentiss, ME to Carson City, NV in perfect health. He had his sister Mary come to Carson City when she lost her husband. She died there shortly after. Norman left Carson City and travelled up into Idaho where "Gold" had been found in Silver City, Idaho City, and other places. He travelled these busy places with a buckboard, called a "Yankee Notions Wagon", selling about everything folks might want. He had a lot of glamorous experiences as well as dangerous ones. He was working the area between Silver City, ID and Boise when Silver City was at its peak, a population of approximately 10,000 people. He owned a house in Silver City (although the land belonged to the mining companies), which was later handed down through the family. He also lived in Chestnut Valley (near his brother Nathaniel). 2m. Gertrude Angelica HATHAWAY on 4 Nov 1872 in Bozeman, Gallatin Co., MT. Norman & Gertrude had 2 sons. He and his brothers homesteaded an area in Western Montana near the town of Cascade, known as the "Bird Tail". Today, the ranch is still owned by family, and each field is named after a different sibling (Norman, Nathaniel, Samuel, etc.). 8. Samuel Alexander WEBB (1889-1965) b. St. Peters, Cascade Co., MT. d. Boise, Ada Co., ID. His parents sent both he and his brother "back East" to business school (and supposedly to find Caucasian wives). He and his brother met and married 2 sisters. They even had a double wedding. They then brought their new wives back to Montana. He owned and operated Webb's Commisary/Webb's Market, produced and sold whiskey (or gin?) during Prohibition, owned and operated a fox farm (bef 1930), etc. He has been described as a "born tease". This did not mesh well with his wife's (Mary's) stern demeanor. He enjoyed the occasional cigar, and today would probably be termed a "binge drinker". He had many Swiss fishing friends in Boise Valley, and enjoyed their culture. 1m. Mary Maria SHUTTS in 1912 at Camden (or Felton?), Kent Co., DE. Divorced. 2m. Agnes Schweiser SAUER c1928?. Divorced. 3m. [remarried] Mary Maria SHUTTS WEBB. Sam & Mary had 3 children; Sam and Agnes had 1 daughter. Sam actually owned a couple of different stores over the years, both in Montana and Idaho -- a couple of which were lost in fires. The last one, Webb's Commissary (later "Webb's Market"; now "McFadden's"), is still run by his younger daughter in Meridian (outside of Boise). At one time, he owned that entire city block, and rented out the space (for the bank, the saddle shop, etc.). Evidently, before Sam divorced Mary and "ran off" with Agnes (who was only about 18 at the time; meanwhile, his elder daughter was about 15), Sam offered to Mary that they go back up to the family ranch in Montana and start over again. Mary said "no." Story has it that she wouldn't let him divorce her, either. He finally threatened to go so far as to go to Mexico to get the divorce. Agnes is said to have "driven Sam to drink" and "took him for all he was worth" (no one is bitter here, right??). Sam and Agnes divorced and Sam came back to Mary. She agreed to take him back, but with the condition that she was going to make him miserable for the rest of his life. He agreed to those terms. He continued to send financial help for his daughter with Agnes, and she (his daughter) completed medical school, and became a doctor. MY GRANDMOTHER: 9. Gertrude Amelia WEBB (1913-) b. Meridian, Ada Co., ID. m. Edward Walton PEER 1936 Boise, Ada Co., ID. They had 2 children. She was a School Teacher for 40+ years, and had graduated from the Albion Normal School, Albion, ID in the early 1930s. She has held many other positions between school years, after "retirement", etc. She was the Deputy Auditor at Owyhee Co. Courthouse 1943-48(?). She helped her father sell alcohol in Boise Valley during Prohibition. She is supposed to have met her future husband, Ed, while selling alcohol outside a dance. The police drove up as Ed was just arriving at the dance. Gertrude gave him a bottle and told him to leave. Turns out, he was the grandson of the Justice of the Peace!! She says she still never found out what he did with that bottle. As a school teacher, she taught in many country schools in Idaho. Some schools were so remote that part of her contract included importing one or two children to the school to keep the minimum enrollment requirements. She would "borrow" a kid from a family for a school year at a time. Many times, that one year of schooling would be all that child would have been afforded. Those country schools would sometimes have all the grades together in one classroom. She and Ed saved up and bought 80 acres in Owyhee Co., Idaho. In Owyhee Co., Ed would catch wild mustangs and train them for the US Cavalry. They later moved to Orofino, Clearwater Co., ID where she taught school for a number of years, until her retirement. There, Ed was a log truck driver, etc. Since then she has been an Information Guide at State parks, processed heat assistance applications for low-income families, etc. Still hanging on the wall in her living room is a scenic picture that she painted herself of the Bird Tail Rock on the family ranch in Montana. She plays the piano, loves to sing, and plays a mean game of pinochle. She gave up the fight against the raccoons to save her chickens -- she now has grapes growing in what used to be the chickens' pen, and she now feeds the raccoons dry dog food. She still has to chase the deer away from eating her laundry off the clothes line outside. :) Well, I know I ended up leaving out a LOT of information, but there's only so much you want to hear, right?? Thanks for listening to me ramble. Take care! -- Amelia Searching: Andrews, Annable, Antebus / Antrobus, Apuke / Pooke, Arnold, Ayers, Baldwin, Batchelder, Bates, Beamond / Beaumond, Becker, Bond, Boreman, Bowes, Bradford, Bruch, Bull, Burger, Burnham, Buzzell, Carter, Champney, Chesley, Clements, Cooke, Corbman, Cox, Cromwell, Dearborn, Derell, Diamond, Dormer, Downham, Du, Duxford, Eames, Eastow, Farmington / Fremingham, Farrow, Felt, Firmin, Fiske, Flagg, Flanders, Furbish, Gershom, Gould, Grante, Green, Grey, Gunnison, Hall, Hankin/s, Haring, Harnish, Hathaway, Hilliard, Hilton, Hobbs, Holbrook/e, Hooftman, Hunt, Huntress, Hussey, Huyett / Hujet, Ingersol, James, Jennings, Judkins, Katherine, Keller, Kendall, Kinge, Knighton, Knode, Knopp / Knapp, Knowlton, Langley, Larrabee, Lawrence, LeClerc, Leete, Leffingwell, Leighton, Lovering, Low, Lunt, Marrian, Marston, Maynard, Mercer / LeMercier, Moulton, Murfyn, Neumann, Nute / Knott, Nutter, Offing, Ower, Page, Parkhurst, Perriman, Philbrick, Philbrook, Pierce, Pigot, Pitts, Potter, Powys, Pray, Pride, Reade, Rementer, Richardson, Roberts, Rupp / Rub, Sanborn, Shutts, Silsby, Silverside, Smith, Taylor, Templeton, Thomas, Thompson, Todd, Tuck, Tuttle, Valliance, Ward, Warren, Webb, Weeks, Welles, Wilkinson, Williams, Wilson, Wood, Wright, Wurtz, etc.