_The Registers of North Farnham Parish 1663-1814 and Lunenburg Parish
1783-1800, Richmond County, VA_, compiled and published by George Harrison
Sanford King (Fredericksburg, VA, 1966), p. 195: "M. WEBB, JOHN and Mary
Samford, 14 July 1673.
"B. WEBB, JAMES son of John and Mary Webb, 9 August 1673.
"B. WEBB, GILES son of John and Mary Webb, 15 April 1677. . . .
"B. WEBB, ISAAC son of John and Mary Webb, 18 December 1681."

Sam Sparacio <[log in to unmask]> post to VA-ROOTS 26 Feb 1998:
"Northumberland County Deeds & Wills 1666-1670 and a portion of 1706-1711.
WEBB, Thomas Will made 11 Sept 1702, rec. 16 Sept 1702. Eldest Son, Thomas,
Youngest Son, John, Dau Elizabeth; Son Thomas's Grandfather, James Austen;
Brothers Francis Webb and John Webb both deceased; Wife Ann Webb. Richard
Wright and Thomas Hobson to oversee Estate until Thomas arrives to age
eighteen. Thomas, Son, named sole Exr."

I wouldn't read too much into the forename Giles. It was a fairly popular
male name in the 16th and 17th centuries in England. It's always possible
that it came from a family surname, but it's equally likely to be a
Christian name.

The John Webb who was in Richmond Co by 1673 and who m. Mary SAMFORD may
well be the son of Giles the immigrant. Thomas WEBB d 1702 may be the
brother of this John WEBB. Does anyone know of documentary proof? Can anyone
supply evidence connecting them?

Sorry I can't help with these Smiths.

Kathleen
The Book Doctor

On Wed, May 28, 2008 Bill Davidson wrote:

>
> I looked at the many World Connect charts on RootsWeb for the "Giles Webb
> family" (for the first known Giles Webb...supposedly born in England around
> 1623), and it is obvious that there are many "opinions" about the lineage
> of
> this Webb family.  It seems clear, however, that Cuthbert and Theodorick
> were somehow from this same overall Webb family.  At least one chart shows
> that this overall Webb family included the early Merry Webb who was in
> Goochland Co., VA by at least the 1740s, but it is my understanding that
> DNA
> testing on living males from each of these two Webb families does not match
> (I do not know, however, how certain these DNA donors are that they are
> definitely from the lines that they claim).
>
> The above "earliest" Giles Webb, who was eventually in the Rappahannock
> Co.,
> VA area in the 1600s, had a descendant (a grandson, as I recall, but I
> can't
> remember for sure) who had a son and a daughter of his own, and they each
> married a Smith in the Essex Co., VA area.  The Webb son married a Smith
> woman from the Captain Nicholas Smith/Colonel Francis Smith family of Essex
> Co., VA, and the Webb daughter married a Colonel Samuel Smith, who was from
> the Alexander Smith/Lt. John Smith family of "next-door" Middlesex Co., VA.
>
>

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