Notes for Webb: The "Heirs of Thomas Webb" applied for and received 200 acres in Wilkes County, Georgia, from an old warrant. The land was located on the South Fork of the Broad River and was the same land that Jesse Webb agreed to make a good title to Nathan Barnett in 1783. Jesse is identified as heir of Thomas Webb. Receiving the grant was obviously part of clearing the title. Thomas Webb therefore was deceased by 1783 and had been a settler of Georgia from at least the beginning of the revolutionary war. The grant of 200 acres was the amount for a settler, but not a family. It is possible that Jesse did not apply for a larger amount of land because to increase the amount by 50 acres for each family member or slave caused a fee to be added for each. I do not know if Thomas was a father or brother to Jesse. Jesse's brother John was not mentioned, probably because John was by this time married and living in what is now East Tennessee. This is the closest record that I have been able to find regarding possible relatives of John and Jesse. I have seen many family histories that list their father as John and Ursula Webb, but I have found no proof of this. There was a John Webb in Amherst County, Virginia 7 October 1765 when he sold land to James Lyon, deed book B, page 71. Also in Amherst County, Virginia 2 July 1773, when he purchased land which is recorded in deed book D. This John Webb died in Wilkes county, North Carolina in 1785. His will is recorded there. See Wills, part 1, page 162, 8 February 1785. After John's death, his wife Ursula moved to Adair County, Kentucky, taking children John, Francis, Cuthbert and Hannah.
Children of Webb are:
+Jesse Webb, b. Abt. 1765, possibly Virginia896, d. March 25, 1848, Chestnut Hill, Jefferson County, Tennessee896.
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