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- Reverand Jesse and his brother, John Webb, were living in Wilkes County, Colony of Georgia in 1778 when the British landed troops and captured Savannah. Jese's testimony (S301) places him and John (R11249) in at Niles Fort on the Broad River, Georgia. In late 1780's, Jesse, John & many other militia soldiers were driven by British soldiers & Indians into South Carolina, across the BLue Ridge and Iron Mountains to the western slopes of the Appalacian Mountains, (at that time Washington County, North Carolina, later Tennessee) where they made their camp on the Nolichucky River. This is how & why John & Jesse came to be in what is now East Tennessee.
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.
Jesse was back in Georgia by late January of 1784 and registered for a land grant. On February 2, 1784, a Georgia certificate was issued that certified that Jesse was an inhabitant of Georgia prior to the war & was a refugee from British arms, which entitled him to a land grant. Jesse's Georgia land grant was issued January 4, 1785 and registered January 14, 1785. The 287 1/2 acre bounty is registered in Book A, folio 12 & recorded Libeer B, folia 133 #398. It is very possible that Anna was with Jesse in Georgia while he owned the land in Franklin County. If so, their first three children would have been born in Georgia.
Sometime after the was, 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.
1840 Census, Jefferson County, Tennessee.
Jessie Webb is buried with his wife Anna McMurtry Webb. Approx 1/4 mile S. E. of the site of the marker in Webb Cemetery, within Chestnut Cemetery on Chestnut Hill.
The Jesse Webb home was located at Chestnut Hill, the site now owned by Ruth & Hollis Thornton. The original log house burned.
Daughters of the Americian Revolution Information:
Three other parts of the family are recorded as DAR members via John Webb and Asley Sutton Webb.
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.
DAR Listing for Jessie
WEBB, JESSE Ancestor #: A123807
Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank: PRIVATE
Birth: 1765
Death: 3-25-1848 JEFFERSON CO TENNESSEE
Pension Number: *S3501
Service Sources: *S3501
Service Description: 1) CAPT LUSK, COL MIDDLETON
RESIDENCE
Created: 2002-03-27 23:23:55.3, Updated: , By: Conversion 1) County: WASHINGTON CO - State: NORTH CAROLINA
SPOUSE
Number Name
Created: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, Updated: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, By: Conversion 1) ANNA MCMURTRY
ID: I00142
Name: Jesse Webb
Sex: M
Title: Reverend
Birth: 29 APR 1766 in Virginia
Death: 25 MAR 1848 in Chestnut Hill, Jefferson County, Tennessee
Military Service: 1781 Revolutionary Soldier, Pvt. in N.C. Militia.
Occupation: Reverend
Burial: Webb Cemetery, Chestnut Hill, Jefferson, Tennessee
Possible Parents?: Richard Webb & Elizabeth Taylor or Thomas Here Webb or John Webb?
Lineage:
JAY S7, (REV. GROVER CLEVELAND6, HENRY STEPHEN5, DEBORAH4 JAMES3, JOSEPH2, JESSE1 WEBB)
U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
Name: Jesse Webb
SAR Membership: 93469
Birth Date: 1832
Death Date: 25 Mar 1848
Death Place: Jefferson, Tennessee
Spouse: Anna Webb
Children: Thomas Webb
SAR Membership Number: 93469.
The Jesse Webb 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.
"The big problem finding the parents of John and Jesse. First, they were living in the Colony of Georgia. John was a private in the army stationed at Ft. Stuard (Stewart?), and Jesse was there with him. John was transferred to Savanna for awhile, and when he returned, Jesse also joined the Army. They were stationed at Fort Nails together. They were chased out of Georgia into what is now east Tennessee by the British, Indians and Tories. This is how Jesse and John came to be in this part of the country, Jefferson County." ..... Jay S. Webb
BURIAL SITE OF JESSE WEBB:
Webb Cemetery, Chestnut Hill, Jefferson, Tennessee
Tombstone reveals name: Jesse Owen Webb
Good morning DeCody,
"It pains me to see so much of this "stuff" spread about. With the advent of computers and the ability to post information on the internet, so much is being concocted, useing a smattering of fact with a lot of speculation, to much misinformation is being passed about.
(1) Jesse Webb did not have a middle name. Owen was a fabrication by a stone mason in what is now still living history.
(2) Jesse and John were living in the Colony of Georgia when the revolution got into full swing. John was in the army and Jesse was with him at Fort Stewart (Stuard). They came to North Carolina (now Tennessee) because they were chased out of Georgia by the British army, Indians and Tories.
(3) Jesse sold some land in Georgia as an Heir of a Thomas Webb.
There was a Thomas Webb who served as a private, then Ensign and later a colonel under Oglethorpe's Regiment in the Colonial Wars. It was the colonial wars that brought men to Georgia under Oglethorpe. It appears that this Thomas Webb may have come from Maryland as there is one listed in Capt. Beall's Co. of Prince George's Maryland earlier on. Since John and Jesse were stationed at Nails Fort, it was likely because their father was serving as an officer- not just a private. A lot of research still has to be done.
(3) The Merry Webb family from Henry County Virginia is "Well" researched and documented. Although some of the children were in what is now east tennessee, no connection with John And Jesse have been established."
1998, Jay S. Webb
________ TIME LINE (Events of Jesse Webb researched & documented by Jay S. Webb] ______
1783 August 14, 1783, Susannah Webb, the second child of John and Elizabeth (McMurtry) Webb is born. Jesse's statement indicates that he did not return from the war and to the home of John and Elizabeth until after their second child was born.
1784 2 February 1784, a certificate was issued which certified that Jesse Webb was an inhabitant of Georgia prior to the war, and was a Refugee from British arms who fought in the revolutionary war and which entitled him to a land grant in Franklin County, Georgia. The Certificate was signed by Col. Elijah Clarke. Land warrant number 1548.
1784 17 May 1784, Order from John Habersham, President, Executive Council to John Gorman, Surveyor for the County of Franklin, to Survey the 287 1/2 acres of the Jesse Webb land grant. (I have a copy of this document)
1784 1 June 1784, from John Gorman to John Habersham certifying the survey of Jesse Webb's land had been made and was accompanied by a plat map. (I have a copy of this plat map)
1785 The State of Georgia land grant issued to Jesse Webb for 287 ½ acres land on Big Shole Creek, Franklin County, Georgia, bounded by Moses Miller north westward and vacant land all other sides was issued on 4 January 1785 and registered 14 January 1785. Jesse Webb's 287-½ acres bounty was registered in book A, folio 12 and recorded Libeer B, folio 133, no. 398.
1790 In Franklin County, Georgia, A deed dated 11 November 1790, recorded 10 January 1791, Jesse Webb (X) of Green County, North Carolina, to William Strong of Wilkes County, Georgia for consideration of 100 (LB's), conveys 287 ½ acres in Franklin County on Big Shole Creek, the waters of the Oconee
River, surveyed 1 June 1784, granted 4 January 1785 (grantee not stated). Witnesses: John Crosby, Stephen Garner. Sworn to by John Crosby before Thomas B. Scott, J. P. on 13 November 1790.
1790-1791 After Jesse sold his land in Georgia, he then returned to what is now Tennessee. The area at
that time was a territory of the U. S. government, called "territory south of the River Ohio". Since no land grants were being issued, and there was lots of vacant land south of the Holston River, Jesse went to the headwaters of Muddy Creek (now Chestnut Hill, Jefferson County, Tennessee) and staked out a claim. He built a house and he and Anna commenced farming and raising their family.
1791 26 May 1791, President George Washington signed into law an act of Congress passed earlier in the month that established the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio. 8 June 1791, President Washington appointed William Blount to a three-year term as Governor of the Territory and Superintendent of Indian affairs.
1791 2 July 1791, the Treaty of Holston was executed between Govornor Blount and the Cherokee Indian Nation which extinguished the indian claim to the land on Muddy Creek where Jesse Webb settled. However, no land grants were issued for these landsat this time.
1807 The Tennessee State Government, in a realization of John Sevier's continued effort's over several years to give these settlers legal claim to their land's, commences surveying the various claims in the Tennessee Surveyors District "The district south of the French Broad and Holston". 23 February 1807 State of Tennessee has land occupied by Jesse Webb family surveyed.
1808 The General Assembly of Tennessee on the 23 November 1809, passed an Act establishing land grant legislation.
1810 3 May 1810, Jesse Webb received Land Grant for Chestnut Hill Property (State of Tennessee land grant # 936 containing 119 acres and 3 rods lying in the COUNTY of JEFFERSON in the District South of the French Broad and Holston on the head of Muddy Creek)
1847 Last Will and Testament of Jesse Webb
familysearch.org in tennessee probate court records 1841 vol 4 a page 37 & 38
Sources: WEBB-L Archives 30 Jul 1999
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WEBB/1999-07/0933381487
Descendant/Researcher: Jay S, Webb
Jesse Webb & The War of Independence
Originally submitted by ppatricia2 to Proctor Family Tree on 25 Dec 2007, Ancestry.com
Jesse and his brother, John Webb, were in Wilkes Co, Colony of Georgia when in 1778 the British landed troops and captured Savannah. Jesse's testimony (S32055) places he and John in a fort at Nail's Ford on the Broad River, Georgia. According to the GA Archives in Atlanta, in the book "Forts of Wilkes County", Neal's or Nail's Fort was built on the Broad River and was destroyed by Indians.
After Col Elijah Clarke's unsuccessful attack on Augusta, GA on 14, 15 & 16 of Sept 1780, he was forced to retreat, gathering his men and their families (four hundred half starved old men, women and children) Col Clarke took them over the mountains to safety on the banks of the Nolachuchy River. They were forced by the British, Tories and Indians across the Savannah River into SC, then across the Blue Ridge and Iron Mountains to the western slopes of the Appalachian Mountains. It is possible that John and Jesse were among this group of refugees, thus this may have been their first time in western NC.
Jesse Webb enters the sevice of the United States sometime prior to Feb 1, 1781 in what is now Greene Co, TN, but was then Washington Co, NC in a company of NC Militia commanded by Capt Lusk, later he was transferred to Capt Mater's company in the regiment commanded by Col Middleton. Although, Jesse refers to the unit as a NC Co., the officers he named were officers in the SC Militia as Gov A Nash on NC had given them permission to recruit in NC.
While in service, he was marched across the Santee River to a place known as Brown's Old Fields in SC, then to Eutaw Springs where he saw action under Maj Gen Nat Greene in the brigade commanded by Col Thomas Sumter in a battle fought there on Sept 8, 1781. He had enlisted in a unit of mounted militia, under "Sumter's law" the plan originated by Col Sumter and provided for 10 months service. Sumter used the title of Colonel, but held no commission. Under "Sumter's law" men were not receiving any government pay or backing, having to furnish their own horses and equipment, they were to be paid from the proceeds of property taken from the Loyalists.
Once his term of service expired, Jesse stayed in SC/GA until after Aug 4, 1783 when he returned to John's and Elizabeth's home in Washington Co (now TN, then NC). Here he met and courted Anna McMurtry, younger sister of Elizabeth. Jesse and Anna married sometime between Aug 14, 1783 and Dec 1785.
Jesse was in GA in Jan 1784 and registered for a land grant, on Feb 2, 1784 a GA certificate was issued that certified that Jesse Webb was an inhabitant of GA prior to the war and was a refugee from British arms which entitled him to a land grant, this was issued by Col Elijah Clarke, warrant number 1548. On May 17, 1784, John Habersham, President, Executive Council wrote out an order to John Gorman, Surveyor for the County of Franklin, to survey the 287 -<< acres for Jesse Webb land grant. By June 1, 1784 Mr. Gorman, sent to John Habersham a certificate, certifying the survey had been made and was accompanied by a plat map. The State of Georgia land land grant issued to Jesse Webb for 287 -<< acres land on Big Shole Creek, Franklin County, GA bounded by Moses Miller north westward and vacant land on all other sides was issued on Jan 4, 1785 and registered Jan 14, 1785, this bounty was registered in book A, folio 12 and recorded Libeer B, folio 133, no 398. It apppears that on Nov 11, 1790 he sells this to Wm Strong, After selling the land, he returns to TN, the area at this time territory of the US government, known as "territory south of the River Ohio". Since land grants were not issued and lots of land was vacant south of the Holston River, Jesse went to the headwaters of Muddy Creek (now Chestnut Hill, Jefferson Co., TN) and staked out a claim. Over time, he constructed a house, as he and Anna set about raising a family and commenced farming. In 1796, the State of Tennessee was formed, the state government realized there were numerous homesteaders on the vacant land's and in 1807 commences to survey all the various claims. Jesse's land was surveyed Feb 23, 1807, on May 3, 1810 the State of TN, awarded Jesse Webb his parcel of land, give or take 119 in Jefferson Co. (TN land grant #936).
1830; Census Place: , Jefferson, Tennessee; Roll 180; Page: 331.
Name: Jesse Webb
Tennessee Census, 1810-91
Name: Jesse Webb
State: TN
County: Jefferson County
Township: Age 74 Southern Division
Year: 1840
Page: 153
Database: TN 1840 Pensioners List
1840; Census Place: , Jefferson, Tennessee; Roll 526; Page: 351.
Name: Jesse Webb
Military service: Veteran
County: Jefferson
State: Tennessee
U.S. Pensioners, 1818-1872
Name: Jesse Webb
Pension Office City/Town: East Tennessee
Pension Office State: Tennessee
Year Range: 1831-1848
National Archives and Records Administration U.S. Pensioners, 1818-1872
PENSION FILE
Jesse Webb
Pension Year: 1834
Application State: Tennessee
Applicant Designation: Survivor's Pension Application File
Archive Publication Number: M804, Archive Roll Number: 2515, Total Pages in Packet: 39, Images 120 - 159, Ancestry.com
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900
1834 Pension File
Image 122, Certificate of Pension #25427
East Tennessee
Jesse Webb of Jefferson in the State of Tennessee who was a privat in the Company commanded by Captian Lusk of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Middleton in the N Carolina Line for 10 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of East Tennessee at the rate of 33 dollars 33 cents per annum to commence on the 12th day of March, 1834
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.
BURIAL
FindAGrave.com (Tombstone Photos)
Find A Grave Memorial# 39294560
Jesse Owen Webb, Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Jefferson, Tennessee (42 people)
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39294560
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 35.92860, Longitude: -83.33830
Jesse Webb, Webb Cemetery, Chestnut Hill, Jefferson, Tennessee (Just two people listed in Cemetery)
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Webb&GScnty=2469&GRid=5149362&
Webb Cemetery, Chestnut Hill, Jefferson, Tennessee
Tombstone Inscriptions:
Jesse Owen Webb
Pvt NC Militia
Rev War
1766
1849
Donor of
This Site
Back of Jesse Webb Tombstone:
Buried with wife Anna McMurtry Webb
1768 - 1849 Approx 1/4 mile S. E. of this site
- Sources:
Book: Cocke County, Tennessee, and its People, Cocke County Heritage Book Committee, (Walsworth Publishing, 1992), 186, 280.
Book: 'Proffitt Family History', Jeff Bridgett, p 7.
Book: Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 58.
Book: 'Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage', 1994, p 261, 381.
Census: 1830
Census: 1840 Census, Jefferson County, Tennessee
Correspondence: Jay Stephen Webb, 230 Harris St., Clinton, TN 37716-4108, webb2705@knox.mindspring.com.
DAR: Daughters of the American Revolution listing WEBB, JESSE Ancestor #: A123807
Gedcom: King.Ged, (Date of Import: Dec 13, 2001), "Electronic."
Gedcom: Williamson.FTW, Date of Import: Jan 26, 2002.
Gedcom: Winch.FTW
Gedcom: Winch.ged, Winch3.ged, Winch4.ged, Winch6.ged, Winch8.ged
Record: Georgia Land Grant Book A, folio 12 & recorded Libeer B, folia 133 #398
RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Winch/Proffitt Genealogy Database
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Ancestry.com Military Page
Jesse Webb, Revolutionary War, North Carolina Militia
http://trees.ancestry.com/view/military.aspx?tid=4931072&pid=-1521591029&gss=seotrees
by DeCody Brad Marble
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3037323&id=I588946204
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Mary Webb, b. 8 Oct 1788, Western Lands, North Carolina, United States 
