Early Days in America (Virginia, pre-1780)

Webbs have lived in America since at least the 1660s. This isn't surprising, given that Webb is a common name in England and that their West Country and Suffolk homelands provided plenty of early emigrants to the New World. As would be expected, these Webbs tended to go to the two main English colonies: Virginia and Massachusetts. There are references to Webbs in Massachusetts as early as the 1620s, and one distant relative of ours has speculated that we're descended from a Webb born in the Virginia colony in the 1620s--less than a generation after the Jamestown colony arrived in 1607. One early arrival to Virginia colony was a William Webb, who in 1668 obtained 400 acres in Westmoreland County and who during the subsequent decades sold land to George Washington's grandfather.
The first Webb of whom we're reasonably certain to have descended from is John Webb. According to a man in Georgia named Jack Webb who has spent the most time searching our part of the family tree, John was born between 1705 and 1715 in Virginia. He married a Peggy Claiborne around 1730 in Albemarle County, which today is limited to the area around Charlottesville but in those days took in pretty much everything west of Richmond. They had two children named Lucy and Susannah "Sukey" Webb, at which time Peggy died sometime before 1735.
Around the 1750s, John got married again, this time to Peggy's sister Lucy Claiborne. They produced eight children, among them John Burrell Webb, who was born April 24, 1761, in Albemarle County, Va. He is most likely our ancestor.