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• Name: Ransford Webster
• Born: December 5, 1765 Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut
• Father: Elijah Webster
• Mother: Elizabeth Vincent
• Married: April 2, 1789 North Bolton (now Vernon), Connecticut
• Spouse: Tryphena Vaughn
• Children:
• Betsey Webster
• Elijah Webster
• Chauncey Dutton Webster
• Elijah Webster
• Eli Webster
• Major Webster
• Daniel Webster
• Jane Webster
• Alice Webster
• Eli Harmon Webster
• Died: If he died at the age of 36 then this would be about 1801. However, he appears in records and has children born after this time, until 1805 or 1809.

Sources:

• "Ransford Webster, a farmer, b. Dec. 5, 1765, at Lebanon, Ct., m. April 2, 1789, at North Bolton (now Vernon) Ct., by Ebenezer Kellogg of Vernon, Tryphena Vaughn.

  1793, June 2, Tryphena, wife of Ransford Webster, was baptised at Vernon, Ct., Formerly North Bolton. On the same day they both "owned the covenant" there.

  He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Enlisted Apr. 24, 1782, for three years, in the 4th Troop, Col. Sheldon's 2d Light Dragoons of Conn., and is noted on the rolls as having pay due to Sep., 1782. The rolls do not show how much longer he served, or what became of him. He is described as of Bolton, Ct., a farmer, 5 ft. 9 in. high, light complexion, light eyes, light hair.

  1791, Nov. 9, Ezekiel Richardson of Bolton deeds land there to Ransford Webster and Deborah Newcomb of Bolton.

  1792, March 16, Deborah Newcomb of Bolton deeds land in Bolton (that part which is now Vernon) to Ransford Webster of Bolton.

  1792, March 16, Ransford Webster of Bolton deeds land in North Bolton, now Vernon, to Deborah Newcomb.

  1792, Nov. 28, Ransford Webster of Bolton deeds land there to David King of Bolton.

  1809, Oct. 31, Ransford Webster of the town of Boyle, Ontario Co., N. Y., buys land there of George Dunn and Fanny his wife.

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  It is said that Ransford Webster died at about the age of 36. His widow married James Murray."

  pp. 287–288, History and genealogy of the Gov. John Webster family of Connecticut, by Webster, William Holcomb and Webster, Melville Reuben, 1915, E.R. Andrews Print. Co., Rochester, NY. (Available on the Internet Archive)

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