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William Edwards Webb, educator, legislator, and first professor of classics at The University of North Carolina, was probably born in the town of Halifax, the son of John and Rebecca Edwards Webb. His mother was the daughter of Colonel William Edwards, of Brunswick County, Va., whose brother Isaac was the private secretary of Governor William Tryon; Rebecca Edwards, the second wife of Colonel Allen Jones, was a sister of Colonel Edwards.
Benjamin Edwards, the brother of Rebecca whom he had married in 1776, was appointed guardian of their only child. Benjamin Edwards was later the father of Weldon Nathaniel Edwards, the noted North Carolina statesman.
In 1804 William E. Webb married Sarah, the daughter of Lewis Williamson of Northampton County, and sister of Priscilla, the wife of his former guardian Benjamin Edwards.
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January 25, 1788
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Gaston County, North Carolina, United States
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1801
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Northampton County, North Carolina, United States
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Brunswick County, Virginia, British Colonial America
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