Shortly after MATTHEW WEBSTER married in 1587, he and his new wife received one-third interest in his father's farm in Cossington, Leicestershire, in central England. He was to receive the remainder of the farm upon the death of his father, but MATTHEW predeceased his father. The farm must have eventually ended up in the ownership of MATTHEW's heirs as his son JOHN IV possessed considerable property in 1634 when he prepared to immigrate to America.

JOHN WEBSTER and ELIZABETH ASHTON were the parents of the fifth Colonial governor of Connecticut (18th term).

(see John Webster (Generation 15) for more detail)

In 1587 Matthew Webster, John's son and heir, married, and his father settled one third of his farm on the young couple, with the remainder to come to them and their issue after his death. John would, of course, give them cattle, sheep and implements at the same time; this should be remembered when considering John's will. Matthew and his father were probably partners before the marriage, for in 1586 they both paid 1s. 4d. for the tax called "the fifteene." Matthew Webster died in 1592, leaving a widow, one son and two daughters. His will appears to have been made hurriedly, but it was witnessed by his father-in-law [John Ashton], the squire and the parson. John Webster died two years later.