Lt. Aaron Webster
Aaron Webster was born at West Hartford in Connecticut on 24 February 1716/17 and baptised there the March after. He was the third child and second son of Capt. John Webster and Abiel Steele. West Hartford was then the western parish of Hartford, and his parents had been among the original members of its church in 1713. The double year is the old reckoning, in which the year turned in March: February 1716/17 is what is now February 1717.
When he was about thirteen the family moved south to Southington. Southington was then a parish of the town of Farmington, an ecclesiastical society with its own minister and meeting house, and it did not become a town in its own right until 1779. That is why his daughter Hannah's birth in 1748 is entered under Farmington. In 1744 his elder brother, the Rev. Elisha Webster, first minister of Canaan, sold him land at Southington.
He married a woman named Lydia. The family genealogy of 1915 prints her as "Lydia ______", the surname left blank. Their children were all born and baptised at Southington, ten of them between 1744 and 1767. The first, Lydia, died in her third year in September 1746, and the next daughter, born a month later, was given the same name. Their son Daniel was baptised on 14 April 1765 and died the same day.
His father made his will on 30 June 1752 and named him among the four sons, Elisha, Aaron, Osee and John. In October 1761 the General Assembly of the colony "established Mr. Aaron Webster to be Lieut. of the 2d Company, or trainband, in the parish of Southington." A trainband was the local militia company, the men of the parish between sixteen and sixty who drilled under their own officers, and the Assembly confirmed those officers by name. The 1915 genealogy adds that "His name frequently occurred in connection with the interests of the Congregational church."
He was a strong man, and the parish remembered it. The genealogy says he "became noted among athletes for various feats, among others for throwing a stone over the steeple of the old Church."
His daughter Lydia, who had married Amos Root, died at Southington on 9 April 1780, aged thirty three. He died there himself on 21 March 1783. His son Robert was the only administrator of the estate, which was all personal property, with no land in it. On 7 December 1785 his widow and five of his children and children-in-law signed a receipt to Robert for their shares, before Timothy Clark, justice of the peace. The signers were Lydia Webster; Jared Harrison and Hannah Harrison; Aaron Webster; Elisha Webster; and Daniel and Sarah Barnes. The receipt is the document that ties his daughter Hannah, wife of Jared Harrison of Wolcott, to this family by record.
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Cite: Heirology, "Lt. Aaron Webster (1716-1783)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/lt-aaron-webster-1716-1783-453096.