TENTH GENERATION

736. Thomas Webber (12868) (12869) was born on 17 May 1629 in Bideford, co. Devon, England. He died in Feb 1687 in Falmouth, Cumberland Co., Maine. He was a fisherman. (12870) He was a mariner. (12871) He was a master of the "Mayflower". (12872) Lived on Kennebec R.1692 - Thomas and Mary flee from Indians, go from Falmouth to
Boston. Mary & son Samuel testified in the Burroughs witchcraft trial about Burrough's
exceptional strength. "Thomas Webber of Maine and Massachusetts. THOMAS WEBBER
was baptized 17 May 1629 at Bideford, a costal town of Devonshire, England, the second
son of Thomas and Phillipa ("Junsen"/Johnson?) Webber, grandson of William and Joan
(Wynslade) Webber and great grandson of Robert Wynslade, all of Bideford. By 1650, he
was in Maine, and by 1656 he married Mary Parker, daughter of John and Mary Parker, and
settled on Parker's Island (now Georgetown) near the Kennebec River mouth. Her father,
"fisherman of Bideford, Devon," had come to this locale as early as 1629, acquiring the
island which subsequently he left to his children, John jr., Thomas and Mary; (curiously, the
Biddeford Church registers contain several Webber entries and none pertaining to the
Parkers). Thomas Webber had served as 2nd mate on the historic "Mayflower" of 1620,
according to Col. Charles E Banks' "Officers and Crew of the Mayflower," (unpublished); the
evidence there seems plausible--yet we note the date disparity. Thomas and Mary Webber
had five sons and one daughter in Maine, and are understood to have been driven from the
area by Indian raids; all of the sons except Samuel accompanied the parents to Charlestown,
MA, where Thomas died before 1692. In this year, according to Wyman's "Charlestown
Estates", widow Mary was 55 years of age. She joined the church there in 1695, and died
after 1700--probably about 1715." He was married to Mary Parker in 1655 in Harwich, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts.(12873) (12874) (12875)(12876)

737. Mary Parker (12877)(12878) was born about 1639 in Bideford, co. Devon, England. (12879)(12880) She died before 14 Feb 1715/16.(12881) (12882) Children were:

child i. John Webber(12883) was born about 1656 in Suffolk, Maine.(12884) He died in 1684.(12885) He was a mariner. (12886)
child368 ii. Samuel Webber.
child iii. Joseph Webber(12887) (12888) was born about 1665.(12889) (12890) He died in 1716. Joseph Webber owned land in Falmouth in 1683. He sold his interest in premises defined by him as "on neck of land called Parker's Neck within ye province of Maine" in 1700. In 1693, he was at Yarmouth, one of three men who took inventory of the estate
of Samuel Hall.
child iv. James Webber(12891) (12892) was born about 1665.(12893) He died on 19 Mar 1729 in Medford, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. (12894) He was a mariner/boatman. (12895)
child v. Lydia Webber was born in 1668.
child vi. Mary Webber(12896) (12897) was born in 1671. She was a seamstress. (12898)
child vii. Nathaniel Webber(12899) (12900) was born in 1671 in Androscoggin Co., Maine. He died about Mar 1731. He was buried in Copps Hill Cem., Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. He was a sawyer.(12901)