fifty families to settle there. They, as the people who had settled on the Connecticut had done, entered into a compact for government, under which they lived and governed until the restoration of Charles the Second; when they were united into one colony by that King's renewed charter in 1662. In the meantime, they had purchased of, and conquered in just war with the natives, the most of all the lands within the patent on the east side of the Hudson's River; and had purchased from the natives, a large tract on both sides of Delaware River and Bay. The Dutch and Swedes, claimed to have been in possession of the lands at New York, Albany, the Jersey, and on the Delaware, before the grants and patents made Nov. 4th, 1620, by King James to the great council of Plymouth in the county of Devon. And on Sept. 19th, 1650, Articles of agreement were entered into and concluded at Hartford, on Connecticut River, between the United Colonics, and the Delegates of Peter Stuyvesant, Governor General of the New Netherlands, by which the determination of these difficulties was left to the decision of the Kings of England and Holland; their subjects in the meantime, to live in "Love & Peace." In 1664, there being a war between England & Holland, the Dutch title in America, was extinguished; and King Charles granted to his brother, all the Land in dispute. On the 30th June, 1673, New York and its Territories was recovered by the Dutch; and their grant was revived and continued until 1674 ; when England by Treaty, regained possession of the Territory, and a new Patent was issued to the Duke of York, dated 29th June, 1674. PRINCIPIA NON HOMINES Webb, Motcomb, County Dorset-granted June 15th, 1577- Crest out of Ducal Coronet, a Demi-eagle displayed, or. FAMILY RECORD. Richard Webb was admitted a freeman of the town of Boston in April, 1632, and in the summer of 1635 emigrated to the banks of the Connecticut River in company with the Rev. Mr. Hooker and others, and settled Hartford; where he was a land-holder in 1639. From there he removed to Stratford, and subsequently to Stamford, where he died in 1676-leaving five sons and one daughter. His widow Elizabeth died at Norwalk in 1680. Joseph (2d Gen.), son of Richard, married Hannah Scofield in 1672, at Stamford; by whom he had one son (Joseph) and four daughters. Joseph (2d Gen.), diel at Stamford in 1685. 7 نایه 1 /mary Jarah Third Generation. Joseph (3d Gen.), grandson of Richard, married Mary, daughter of Benjamin Hoyt, in 1698; by whom he had five sons and three daughters. He died A. D. 1743. Fourth Generation. Joseph (4th Gen.), great grandson of Richard, married for his first wife Sarah Blachley, in 1726; by whom he had one son, Joseph, born at Stamford, Dec. 8th, 1727. His wife Sarah died in 1733, and he married for his 2d wife, in 1736, Elizabeth Starr; by whom he had 2 sons and 2 daughters. The sons were Ezra & Ebenezer. Fifth Generation. Joseph (5th Gen.), great great grandson of Richard, eldest son of the above, removed to Wethersfield, Conn., with his halfbrothers Ezra & Ebenezer; where he married, in 1749, Mahetible d, ehem & Nott, by whom he had four sons, Joseph, Samuels B., John, and Sarah (WaterJohn 2d, and three daughters; Ebenezer, half-brother of Joseph, died in 1762, aged 20. Ezra, the other half-brother, married Hannah Nott, and had three sons, Ebenezer, Ezra and Joseph, and one daughter. Sixth Generation. Joseph (6th Gen.), great great, great grandson of Richard, eldest son of Joseph and Mahetible, Webb, married A. D. 1774, Abigail Chester, by whom he had 12 children. L. E. H., 1770. My Father, Samuel Blachley Webb, was brother of the abovenamed Joseph; and the record of births, is as follows: uve) Noth. Joseph, born Aug. 8th, 1749, died 5th April, 1791. Captje ( Samuel Blachley, born Dec. 3d, 1753, died December 13th, 1807. John 2d, born 18th February, 1759. Abigail, born 12th Jan'y, 1761. Samuel Blachley Webb, married Eliza Banker, daughter of Richard Banker, of New York, in 1780. She left no issue; and on the 3d September, 1790, he married at Claverack, Columbia. County, N. Y., Catherine Hogeboom, daughter of Judge Stephen Hogeboom; the fifth in descent from Peter Hogeboom, who came over with the first patroon, Van Rensselaer. 1797. 1876. They had issue. Catherine Louisa, born January 1st, 1792, died 28th April, Maria, born 21st August, 1793, died October 11th, 1868. Stephen Hogeboom, born Sept. 23d, 1796, died Aug. 15th, 1873. Catherine Louisa, born 31st Dec., 1799, died April 9th, 1878. Jane Hogeboom, born 6th Jan'y, 1804, died 5th Sept., 1875. James Watson Webb, a Lieutenant in the 3d U. S. Infantry previously of fourth artillery, married Helen Lispenard Stewart, daughter of Alexander L. Stewart, and grand daughter of Anthony Lispenard, on the 1st day July, 1823, at the residence of her father, 149 and 151 Hudson street, New York. They had issue. Robert Stewart, born in Garrison, at Detroit, Michigan Territory, 12 August, 1824. Lispenard Stewart, born 151 Hudson street, 25th Sept., 1825, died 26th Sept., 1828. Helen Matilda, born 151 Hudson street, 30th Nov., 1827. Amelia Barclay, born 151 Hudson street, 2d Aug., 1829, died 10th Oct., 1830. 1830. Catherine Louisa, born in Broad street, New York, 14th Dec., James Watson, born 92 Greenwich street, 29th Feb'y, 1832, died 6 Carroll Place, 20th September, 1832. Watson, born 6 Carroll Place, 10th Nov., 1833, died in Oakland, Cal., 3d Dec., 1876. Alexander Stewart, born 6 Carroll Place, 15th Feb'y, 1835. t Helen Lispenard Stewart, wife of J. Watson Webb, died at her husband's country residence, Pokahoe on the Hudson, on the 1st of July, 1848; and on the 9th of November, 1849, Gen'l Webb married in Calvary Church, Laura Virginia, the youngest daughter of Jacob Cram, Esq., formerly of Exeter, New Hampshire, and his wife Lydia Tucker, of Portland, Maine. They had issue. William Seward, born at 8 Union Square, 31st January, 1851. George Creighton, born at Pokahoe, 4th Dec., 1853. The Leonard Lispenard named in order of July 7th, on page 44, was thegreat grandfather of my wife, Helen Lispenard Stewart; and the great great grandfather of my elder children. I add, from Mrs. Lamb's History of New York, a notice of the family. Lispenard's country seat, laid down on most of the maps of that day, was situated on the Hudson, near Canal street; and the "Lispenard Meadow's" were famous, in my early days, as the favorite skating ground of the youth of the city. The water of the Bay backed up, at high tide, to Broadway; where the "Stone Bridge," as it was called, crossed Broadway; and the water from the Collect passed under it to the Hudson, or rather the Harbour. I have seen boats from the Harbour lying at that bridge as late as 1819. From Biographical and Historical Sketches, Chamber of Commerce Records, by John Austin Stevens. "Leonard Lispenard was born in the city of New York, in 1716. He was the son of Anthony Lispenard, Jr., and grandson of Anthony Lispenard, a Huguenot refugee, who came to New York about the middle of the seventeenth century. He married, in 1741, Alice, daughter of Anthony Rutgers. This lady inherited, from her father, who died in 1746, one-third of the extensive grants which he had received from George II.; and Lispenard |