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Descendants of Jesse Sr. Webb of Jefferson County, Tenn. - 7 Generations

Generation No. 1

1. JESSE SR.² WEBB (THOMAS HERE¹) was born 1766, and died March 25, 1848 in Chestnut Hill, Jefferson County, Tenn.. He married ANNA MCMURTERY, daughter of JOSEPH MCMURTERY and SUSANNAH PATTON.

Notes for JESSE SR. WEBB:
Jesse Webb

Sex: M
Born: 1766 in possibly Virginia
Died: 25 Mar 1848 in Chestnut Hill, Jefferson, Tennessee
Buried: in Jefferson County, TN, Webb Cemetery
Notes:

Pension file S3501-Jesse stated that he enlisted in 1781 in Greene County,
North Carolina under Captain Lusk who commanded a company in the North
Carolina Regiment commanded by Colonel Middleton. The regiment was marched across the Santee River in South Carolina and later to Eutaw Springs where they joined in the battle there under General Nathaniel Greene, in the brigade under General Sumter, later Jesse's company marched to Orangeburgh, South Carolina where they fought Tories until his term expired. Sometime after the war, Jesse was in Franklin County, Georgia. There is a record that he made a deed there in 1790 for 297.5 acres of a 1788 land grant. He received a land grant in Jefferson County, Tennessee in 1807, one of those first ones which indicated occupancy long before 1807.

The Jesse Web home was located at Chestnut Hill, the site now owned by Ruth & Hollis Thornton. The original log house burned.

On Sunday afternoon, October 22, 1978 a stirring service of dedication of the marker for Jesse Webb was conducted in the Chestnut Hill Cemetery by
Newport's William Cocke Chapter of the DAR.

More About JESSE SR. WEBB:
Fact 1: Title & Occupation: REVERAND, a methodist minister
Fact 3: 1776, REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER: Pvt. in N.C. Militia.
Fact 4: A methodist minister

More About ANNA MCMURTERY:
Fact 1: Buried at Webb Cemetery, Chestnut Hill, Tenn.

Children of JESSE WEBB and ANNA MCMURTERY are:

HENRY³ WEBB, b. 1784, Western Lands, North Carolina; d. November 03, 1851, Chestnut Hill, Jefferson Co., Tennessee.

ii.

THOMAS SR. WEBB, b. 1785, Chesnut Hill, Jefferson County, Tennessee; d. 1845, Chesnut Hill, Jefferson County, Tennessee.

iii.

MARY WEBB, b. 1789, Western Lands, North Carolina; d. Aft. August 18, 1871, Sevier Co., Tennessee.

iv.

JOSEPH WEBB, b. 1791, Green County, Territory South of the Ohio River; d. 1876, Cosby, Cocke County, Tennessee.

ELIZABETH WEBB, b. November 04, 1792, Jefferson County, Tennessee; d. December 11, 1872, Sevier County, Tennessee.

vi.

SUSANNAH WEBB, b. 1795, Chestnut Hill, Jefferson C., Tennessee; d. Bef. 1849, Chestnut Hill, Jefferson Co., Tennessee.

vii.

SARAH WEBB, b. September 17, 1799, Tennessee; d. April 20, 1879, Chestnut Hill, Jefferson, Tennessee.

viii.

JAMES WEBB, b. January 25, 1801, Jefferson County, Tennessee; d. March 31, 1859, Chestnut Hill, Jefferson County, Tennessee.

ix.

JOHN WEBB, b. April 10, 1804, Jefferson County, Tennessee; d. Cocke County, Tennessee.

WILLIAM WEBB, b. 1806, Jefferson County, Tennessee; d. Cocke County, Tennessee.

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