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Noah WEBSTER (1758 - 1843)
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Noah WEBSTER (1758 - 1843)

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Rebecca GREENLEAF (1766 - 1847)
Noah WEBSTER (1722 - ) Daniel WEBSTER (1693 - 1765) John (II) WEBSTER (1653 - 1694)
Sarah MYGATT ( - 1728)
Miriam Cook KELLOGG



Mercy STEELE ( - 1794)











Six Generation Ancestors Table
Noah WEBSTER Rebecca GREENLEAF

Noah WEBSTER
Noah WEBSTER Rebecca GREENLEAF Noah WEBSTER
b. 16 Oct 1758 at West Hartford, CT
m. 26 Oct 1789 Rebecca GREENLEAF (1766 - 1847) at New Haven, CT
d. 28 May 1843 aged 84
Near Relatives of Noah WEBSTER (1758 - 1843)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Grandfather Daniel WEBSTER 1693 Hartford, CT 1765 CT 72
Grandmother Miriam Cook KELLOGG Y

Father Noah WEBSTER 25 Mar 1722 West Hartford, CT Y
Mother Mercy STEELE 1794

Self Noah WEBSTER 16 Oct 1758 West Hartford, CT 28 May 1843 84

Wife Rebecca GREENLEAF 1766 1847 81

Uncle Daniel WEBSTER 04 Sep 1731 West Hartford, CT 10 Nov 1783 OH 52
Aunt Azubah JUDD Y

Events in Noah WEBSTER (1758 - 1843)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
16 Oct 1758 Noah WEBSTER was born West Hartford, CT
26 Oct 1789 31 Married Rebecca GREENLEAF (aged 23) New Haven, CT eight children
1794 36 Death of mother Mercy STEELE
28 May 1843 84 Noah WEBSTER died
Personal Notes:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -
Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education." His blue-backed speller books taught five generations of children in the United States how to spell and read, and made their education more secular and less religious. In the U.S. his name became synonymous with "dictionary," especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.
Noah Webster was born in West Hartford, Connecticut, to an established Yankee family. His father Noah Sr. (1722–1813) farmed 90 acres (360,000 m2), was justice of the peace and deacon of the local Congregational church, and was captain on the "alarm list" of the local militia. Noah's father was a descendant of Connecticut Governor John Webster; his mother Mercy (née Steele; d. 1794) was a descendant of Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony.[1]
In 1774, at the age of 16, he matriculated at Yale College in New Haven, studying with the learned Ezra Stiles, Yale's president. His four years at Yale overlapped with the American Revolutionary War, and because of food shortages, many of his college classes were held in other towns. He served in the Connecticut Militia. His father had mortgaged the farm to send Webster to Yale, but the son was now on his own and had no more to do with his family.[2] After graduating Yale in 1778, he taught school in Glastonbury, Hartford, and West Hartford. He was admitted to the bar in 1781 and practiced after 1789. Discovering that law was not to his liking, he tried teaching, setting up several very small schools that did not thrive.