Nathan Webb
| Nathan Webb | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 9, 1705 Braintree, Massachusetts Colony, British America |
| Died | March 17, 1772 (aged 66) Uxbridge, Massachusetts Colony, British America |
| Occupation | Pastor, First New Congregational Church in the Great Awakening period |
| Spouse(s) | Ruth Adams of Braintree |
| Children | One daughter, Elizabeth Webb |
| Parent(s) | Benjamin Webb and Susanna Ballentine |
Nathan Webb (April 9, 1705 – March 17, 1772), an early-American Congregational Church minister.
He was born in Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, to Benjamin Webb (1667–1739) and Susanna Ballentine.
He married Ruth Adams in Braintree on November 23, 1731.
Webb was the first called minister of the new Congregational Church in the newly incorporated (1727) Town of Uxbridge. The Uxbridge Congregational Church was officially split from the church at Mendon, Massachusetts. Webb was called on January 6, 1731. This church was the first church to be built in the new town of Uxbridge.
Webb was ordained at the Uxbridge First Congregational Church, then within Suffolk County, on February 3, 1731. The Uxbridge church is the first to be mentioned in a list of 45 new Congregational churches in New England which were started in the decade beginning in 1731. The churches of this period were attributed by the text cited below to the Great Awakening, an early American historical religious movement that sprang up in the Connecticut River Valley, led by ministers such as Jonathan Edwards, another Congregational minister.
Shortly after Webb's ordination, the new town of Uxbridge became part of a newly established Worcester County.
Members of his congregation included America's first woman voter, Lydia Taft; and Lt. Col. Seth Read, who fought at Bunker Hill, was instrumental in adding E Pluribus Unum to U.S. coins, and founded Erie, Pennsylvania. Many members of the early-American Taft family were members of Webb's congregation. Peter Rawson Taft's son, Alfonso, started the Ohio family branch which rose to prominence in American politics. Deacon John Hall and Sarah had four children. Their son Baxter Hall drummed the first musters in the American Revolution.
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