Son of William Webster and Susannah Cowperthwaite.
Husband of Sarah Marsh, married in 1753.
Per Annals of our colonial ancestors and their descendants, by Milton Shotwell, page 13;
Hugh Sr. suffered for his peace principals during the French and Indian War. J.W. Daly (History of Woodbridge, pg. 215) says In 1758, High Webster was drafted and taken three miles from his dwelling. Capt. Benjamin Stiles, before whom he was taken, demanded that he go into the service himself or furnish a substitute. Hugh positively refused to do either, so he was led away eight miles further to a spot where the guard expected to find the company assembled. The soldiers however had marched away and was left to take care of himself, he returned to his residence, stopping at Capt. Stiles house to inform him that the soldiers had set him free.
Hugh Webster and brother John Webster, were prominently instrumental in 1788, with locating the present Plainfield Meeting House on the three-acre lot where it stands today. The lot was part of the original Webster farm.
The older Plainfield Meeting house, refereed to the records of 1739, "As in the woods" was no longer a convenient place for a majority of members, and removed from Short Hill (Perth Amboy) to Greenbrook. Source: The Courier-News Bridgewater, New Jersey, 17 Nov 1916, Fri, Page 1, editor O.E. Leonard, local historian.
Husband of Sarah Marsh, married in 1753.
Per Annals of our colonial ancestors and their descendants, by Milton Shotwell, page 13;
Hugh Sr. suffered for his peace principals during the French and Indian War. J.W. Daly (History of Woodbridge, pg. 215) says In 1758, High Webster was drafted and taken three miles from his dwelling. Capt. Benjamin Stiles, before whom he was taken, demanded that he go into the service himself or furnish a substitute. Hugh positively refused to do either, so he was led away eight miles further to a spot where the guard expected to find the company assembled. The soldiers however had marched away and was left to take care of himself, he returned to his residence, stopping at Capt. Stiles house to inform him that the soldiers had set him free.
Hugh Webster and brother John Webster, were prominently instrumental in 1788, with locating the present Plainfield Meeting House on the three-acre lot where it stands today. The lot was part of the original Webster farm.
The older Plainfield Meeting house, refereed to the records of 1739, "As in the woods" was no longer a convenient place for a majority of members, and removed from Short Hill (Perth Amboy) to Greenbrook. Source: The Courier-News Bridgewater, New Jersey, 17 Nov 1916, Fri, Page 1, editor O.E. Leonard, local historian.
Son of William Webster and Susannah Cowperthwaite.
Husband of Sarah Marsh, married in 1753.
Per Annals of our colonial ancestors and their descendants, by Milton Shotwell, page 13;
Hugh Sr. suffered for his peace principals during the French and Indian War. J.W. Daly (History of Woodbridge, pg. 215) says In 1758, High Webster was drafted and taken three miles from his dwelling. Capt. Benjamin Stiles, before whom he was taken, demanded that he go into the service himself or furnish a substitute. Hugh positively refused to do either, so he was led away eight miles further to a spot where the guard expected to find the company assembled. The soldiers however had marched away and was left to take care of himself, he returned to his residence, stopping at Capt. Stiles house to inform him that the soldiers had set him free.
Hugh Webster and brother John Webster, were prominently instrumental in 1788, with locating the present Plainfield Meeting House on the three-acre lot where it stands today. The lot was part of the original Webster farm.
The older Plainfield Meeting house, refereed to the records of 1739, "As in the woods" was no longer a convenient place for a majority of members, and removed from Short Hill (Perth Amboy) to Greenbrook. Source: The Courier-News Bridgewater, New Jersey, 17 Nov 1916, Fri, Page 1, editor O.E. Leonard, local historian.
Husband of Sarah Marsh, married in 1753.
Per Annals of our colonial ancestors and their descendants, by Milton Shotwell, page 13;
Hugh Sr. suffered for his peace principals during the French and Indian War. J.W. Daly (History of Woodbridge, pg. 215) says In 1758, High Webster was drafted and taken three miles from his dwelling. Capt. Benjamin Stiles, before whom he was taken, demanded that he go into the service himself or furnish a substitute. Hugh positively refused to do either, so he was led away eight miles further to a spot where the guard expected to find the company assembled. The soldiers however had marched away and was left to take care of himself, he returned to his residence, stopping at Capt. Stiles house to inform him that the soldiers had set him free.
Hugh Webster and brother John Webster, were prominently instrumental in 1788, with locating the present Plainfield Meeting House on the three-acre lot where it stands today. The lot was part of the original Webster farm.
The older Plainfield Meeting house, refereed to the records of 1739, "As in the woods" was no longer a convenient place for a majority of members, and removed from Short Hill (Perth Amboy) to Greenbrook. Source: The Courier-News Bridgewater, New Jersey, 17 Nov 1916, Fri, Page 1, editor O.E. Leonard, local historian.
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"1815 / H.W."
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Stone per Survey of Plainfield Friends Burial Grounds prepared by Abraham Hornstein and Mary L. Capron in March 1986.
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