John Webb - Some facts on John Webb b. July 17th, 1705

John Webb was living on land along the Raccoon Creek in Albemarle County, Virginia, when his 8 youngest children were born.
September 5, 1749 Albemarle County, Virginia, John Webb, 225 acres. Albemarle County on both sides of Raccoon Creek on the Rivanna, adjacent George Hilton. 1756, William Moore, 400 acres, Albemarle County, Virginia on the Branches of Raccoon and Cunningham Creeks, adjacent John Webb, Charles Hulsey, George Hilton, Capt. Arthur Hopkins.

Records of the Court of Land Commissioner, appointed by Governor Wright to issue the "Ceded Lands" 1773 - 1775. October 15, 1773, A list of persons who have applied to receive vouchers and have obtained liberty to settle on the Lands Ceded to His Majesty. October 15, 1773, page 5,

John Webb moved from Albemarle County, Virginia to Wilkes County, Georgia with his wife, 5 sons and 2 daughters ( all the children between 20 and 3 years of age ). He settled on a 400 acre tract on the north side of the Broad River at Webb's Creek near Buttrey's Creek, adjacent upper line of John Coleman.

According to his son John's Revolutionary War Pension Claim, his father's farm was 15 to 20 miles up the north side of the Broad River from the Savannah River. This would be between what is now Dove Creek and Falling Creek in Elbert County, Georgia.

John must have been actively involved in "revolutionary" activities because his home and all personal belongings and family papers were burned, and he was killed by the the Tories under Colonel Thomas Brown garrisoned at Augusta, in April of 1781. Colonel Thomas Brown was to take ample revenge against Whigs and their supporters for the tarring and feathering of Brown in Augusta, Georgia in 1775.
John was buried on his farm in what is now Elbert County, Georgia overlooking the Broad River.