[Communicated to the Register by the Rev. ELIAS NASON.] THIS illustrious orator, jurist and statesman, was the youngest son of the Hon. Ebenezer and Abigail (Eastman) Webster, and was born in a small cottage in the town of Salisbury, N. II., on the 18th day of January, 1782. On the paternal side he was descended from Mr. THOMAS' Webster, of Ormsby, Norfolk County, England, who died there in April, 1634,* leaving a widow Margery, and an only son THOMAS, who was admitted a freeman in Massachusetts in 1644, married Sarah Brewer, Nov. 2, 1657, and died at Hampton, N. H., Jan. 5, 1715, at the advanced age of 83 years;† leaving, inter alios, EBENEZER, born at Hampton, Aug. 1, 1667, married Hannah Judkins, July 25, 1709, and died at Kingston, N. H., Feb. 21, 1736. Of their issue, EBENEZER, '§ born Oct. 10, 1714, married, July 20, 1738, Susanna, a descendant of the Rev. Stephen Batchelder, of Hampton, and had eight children, of whom the oldest, EBENEZER, born at Kingston on the 22d of April, 1739, married, 1st, Mehitable Smith, Jan. 8, 1761, by whom he had Olivia, Ebenezer, and Susanna born Oct., 1766, married John Colby, David who died at Hampstead, and Joseph who died in Salisbury; 2d, Abigail Eastman, of Salisbury, Mass., Oct. 13, 1774, and had issue: Mehitable, Abigail who married William Haddock, Ezekiel born April 11, 1780, DANIEL, and Sarah|| born May 3, 1784. * See Register, ix. 159. + Thomas lived in Hampton on the Drake road, near "Webster's Brook," and owned a part of the "small gains." He was one of the grand jurors at the Court of Common Pleas held at Portsmouth, Feb. 13, 1682. [Christopher Toppan's "First Settlers of Hampton," in MS.] Ebenezer.3-He was a soldier in the Indian wars, under Captains Sherburne and Noyes, and was probably killed in the service. He was one of the grantees of Kingston, to which place he removed in 1700.-[Id., also Kingston Town Records.] Ebenezer lived in a small house, the cellar of which may still be seen, on the left side of the road leading from the East Kingston Depot to Kingston. He was poor, versatile and witty, obtaining a scanty livelihood by hatch ng flax, cutting wood, shearing sheep, and slaughtering swine. His wife, however, was a woman of marked ability. She married Col. Ebenezer Webster, in 1808, and settled on the Webster Place," in Franklin, N. H. She died March 29, 1811, leaving an only daughter, Emily, who married Dr. E. K. Webster, of Boscawen (1861). Col. W. died June 3, 1861. |