Ancestry of
Noah Webster

Published first American Dictionary

Noah Webster Jr.

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Noah Webster 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Steele   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Oct 1758 
  • Birth Location:
  • West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 May 1843 
  • Death Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
  • Notes: 

  • Noah Webster created the first American dictionary. He is credited with changing the English spellings of such words as colour and honour to their American versions of color and honor.

• Marriages for Noah Webster Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Rebecca Greenleaf
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Oct 1789
  • Marriage Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut

• Sources for Noah Webster Jr.

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A047548.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/21/2014).
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2000, Vol. 1.5, pp. 11-15.
  • ⁴ Brainard, Homer Worthington, et. al., The Gilbert Family: Descendants of Thomas Gilbert, 1582(?)-1659 of Mt. Wollaston (Braintree), Windsor, and Wethersfield, Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press (1953), 49.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 226.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Noah Webster", (accessed 02/21/2014).