Thomas Fendel Webster

Thomas Fendel Webster

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    "Thomas Webster, the ancestor of the family in Highland county, was a native of Maryland, where he married Elizabeth Pulse. Soon after their marriage they came to Marshall township, and bought a small tract of land in large part with money he had saved while employed at Washington, D. C. After a few years he moved with his family to Dodson township, where he and his wife both died at the age of about fifty-five years."
    "The County of Highland," 1902
    By J. W. Klise, A. E. Hough, Northwestern Historical Association, Northwestern Historical Association
    
    He was born in VA or MD, and his mother's family may have been Fendall. Elizabeth Fendall married John Beall in 1724, in Prince George's County, MD. One of their sons was John Fendall Beall. Thomas was in Beall's Company of the Maryland Militia in the War of 1812.  I don't know Captain Beall's full name.
    
    Thomas served three terms with the 17th Reg't (Beall's) Maryland Militia in 1814.
    
    Residence: AUG 1814 Piscataway, Prince Georges County, Maryland 2
    
    Residence: 1817 Highland County, Ohio
    
    Occupation: Helped Construct Buildings in Washington D.C., Farmer
    
    Veteran of War of 1812 in the 17th Reg't Maryland Militia under Captain Horatio C. McElderry. Emigrated to Ohio in 1817 with the David Pulse Family. Rumored to be Native of Maryland. All Ohio census states he was born in Virginia. John Webster, son of Thomas F. Webster, has Thomas listed as being born in Maryland.
    
    Born probably in Maryland, maybe Virginia
    Served in War of 1812
    Married: 26 or 28 MAR 1816 in Frederick County, Virginia
    Moved to Highland County, OH with his wife's family (John David Pulse) in 1817
    Burial: Feb 1863 Stroup Cemetery, Highland County, Ohio
    Thomas served three terms with the 17th Reg't Maryland Military in 1814. June 20, 24; July 18; August 2, 20, 31 1814 17th Reg't (Beall's) Maryland Militia, Prince Georges County, Maryland.
    
    Thomas worked on the original consturction of many government buildings in Washington, DC to accumulate money to buy land. He also received a bounty certificate for forty acres for his service in the War of 1812. His son Elijah reported that Thomas traded the Bounty Certificate for a buggy for transportation.
    
    Thomas and Elizabeth came to Highland County, OH around 1817 along with Elizabeth's parents and most of the rest of the David Pulse family. David Pulse was a patriarch for his family and it was said he chose some of the best lands in Highland County for his family members when they sold their land in Virginia and traveled west.
    
    According to the 1850 Highland County Ohio census, page 272, dwelling #878. Thomas occupation was as a farmer, and the value of his land was listed at $2000.
    
    Thomas and Elizabeth are buried in Stroup Cemetery between Lynchburg and Allensburg near David and Sarah Frye Pulse and several of their children and grandchildren.
    
    Residence: AUG 1814 Piscataway, Prince Georges County, Maryland
    Residence: 1817 Highland County, Ohio
    Occupation: Helped Construct Buildings in Washington D.C., Farmer
    
    5-year-old Elizabeth E Webster was listed with him in the 1850 census. It was George Naylor's daughter, Thomas's grand-daughter. Her mother died and she was raised by her grandparents.
    
    In 1850 he was listed as a farmer owning $2000 in real estate.