TENTH GENERATION

512. Stephen Webster ^(13)(112) was born about 1637 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. ⁽¹⁷⁾ He died on Aug 10 1694 in Haverhill, or Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. ^(17)(113) Hannah Webster (sister of Stephen) who married Michael Emerson is the mother of the Hannah Emerson who married Thomas Dustin and was captured by the Indians and taken to an island in the Merrimac River. There she killed and scalped her captors, ten Indians in all, and escaped in a canoe, bringing the scalps, for which she received a large bounty, to Haverhill. The marriage of Hannah Webster to Michael Emerson is the first recorded marriage of a Webster in Haverhill. Date April 1, 1657. Stephen died 1694.

was a tailer

Miss Dorothy A. Reynolds
...Stephen, a tailor came into town soon after and is probably the ancestor of the Websters in this place.

He was born in Ipswich and moved with his mother, who married John Emery, Sr. to Newbury. He had three brothers and four sisters. His brothers John and Israel remained in Newbury. Nathan settled in Bradford. The descendents of Stephen are numerous and they are scattered in almost every part of the Union. The marriage of Michael Emerson to HANNAH WEBSTER was to be the first on record of any oth the name of WEBSTER. They were married April 1, 1657. She was a sister of Stephen. Hannah and Michael's daughter Hannah married Thomas Duston, Dec. 3.1677 and was the woman taken be the Indians and carried up the Merrimack River to the extreme part of Concord, N.H. where she with Widow Mary Neff and Samuel Leanardson killed ten Indians while they were asleep, scalped them and returned to Haverhill.

Miss Dorothy A. Reynolds, A-2
The inhabitants grew more alarmed on account of the Indians and in 1690 six garrisons were appointed and ordered to be kept in a state of defence. The first was commanded by Sargeant John Hazeltine, the second be Sgt. John Webster, has brother Stephen was with him. The third was commanded be Sgt. Jonathan Emerson, the fourth by James Ayer, the fifth by Joseph Bradley and the sixth by Capt. John White.

He was married to Hannah Ayer on Mar 24 1662 or 1663 in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

513. Hannah Ayer ⁽¹³⁾ died on Jun 2 1676 in Haverhill, Massachusetts. She was born 12-21 (abt 1637) or 10-21-1644 in Salisbury, Massachusetts. Hannah Ayer (Hanah Eyer) (Webster families of Havehill, Mass
born October 21, 1644 (town record) Children were:

i. Hannah Webster⁽¹³⁾ was born on May 10 1666. ⁽¹¹⁴⁾
ii. John Webster⁽¹³⁾ was born on Mar 15 1668.⁽¹¹⁵⁾ He died on May 4 1742. ⁽¹¹⁶⁾
iii. Mary Webster⁽¹³⁾ was born on Apr 21 1670.⁽¹¹⁷⁾
iv. Stephen Webster⁽¹³⁾ was born on Jan 1 1672.⁽¹¹⁸⁾ He died on Mar 9 1748. ⁽¹¹⁹⁾
256 v. Nathan Webster.
vi. Abigail Webster⁽¹³⁾ was born in 1676.