Agnes Smith

d. 1667

Died 1667

Children include Anne, Thomas, Lt.

Agnes Smith married John Webster at Cossington in Leicestershire on 7 November 1609: "John Webster and Agnes Smith, m. 7th November." Her family had been at Cossington as long as the Websters. Her parents are not named.

She bore nine children at Cossington over seventeen years. Matthew was baptised on 11 February 1609/10, Margaret on 21 February 1611/12, William on 25 September 1614, Thomas on 24 November 1616, Robert on 17 November 1619, Anne on 29 July 1621, Mary on 30 March 1623, Elizabeth on 10 May 1624 and Faith on 8 April 1627. Mary and Faith died within days of their christenings. Margaret married Thomas Hunt at Cossington in June 1632.

In 1634 her husband sold the Cossington property and took the family to New England. He settled at Hartford in Connecticut and became magistrate, deputy governor and governor of the colony. After the Hartford church quarrel he led a company up the Connecticut River to found Hadley in Massachusetts, and he died there in 1661. His will of 1659 left the estate to their son Robert as executor. Agnes outlived her husband by about six years and died about 1667, probably at Hartford, back in the town they had left.

Children

Anne Webster 1621-1662

Thomas Webster (d. 1686)

Lt. Robert Webster 1619-1676

Sources

Sylvester Judd, History of Hadley, including the early history of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby (1863), the genealogical register under WEBSTER, read in full text at archive.org, historyofhadleyi00injudd

Edward Doubleday Harris, A Genealogical Record of Thomas Bascom and his Descendants (Boston, 1870), printed pages 13 to 15 and 29 to 30, read in full text at archive.org, genealogicalrec00harr

William Holcomb Webster and Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut (1915), p. 32, archive.org historygenealogy00webs, leaf n61

William Holcomb Webster and Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut (1915), p. 16, archive.org historygenealogy00webs, leaf n41

William Holcomb Webster and Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut (Rochester, 1915), archive.org historygenealogy00webs, pp. 16 and 32

"The Ancestry of Gov. John Webster," The American Genealogist 24 (1948), p. 201, archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1948-10_24_4

"The Ancestry of Gov. John Webster," The American Genealogist 24 (1948), p. 208, archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1948-10_24_4

"The Ancestry of Gov. John Webster," compiled by Mrs. S. H. Skillington from the Cossington parish register and churchwardens' accounts, the Register of the Freemen of Leicester and the Leicester probate registry, The American Genealogist 24 (1948), pp. 197-212, archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1948-10_24_4

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