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Rev. Wellington Edwin Webb was born on 20 Dec 1816 in London, EnglandG.^4,5,6 He was baptized on 16 Apr 1817 in St. Leonard's Church, Shoreditch, London, EnglandG.¹
     He immigrated in 1828 to the United States, presumably with his parents, since he was only twelve years old. Several otherwise well sourced online trees report, without source citations, that his father died about 1865 in Hanover Court House, Virginia, and his mother died in Paterson, New Jersey, suggesting some sort of family information. But no actual record of either of them in the United States has been found.¹⁷
     Wellington was living in Lowell, MassachusettsG, before he went to college.¹⁸
     Wellington filed a petition for naturalization with the county court of Hartford Co., ConnecticutG, 4 Apr 1840. In it he stated he had resided in the state of Connecticut the last three years of his minority and the year preceding the petition. His petition was granted.²
     Wellington graduated from Washington College, Hartford, ConnecticutG, on 6 Aug 1840 with a B. A. degree. He appears as a sophomore in the 1837-38 term, but not earlier, so apparently entered with advanced standing. Candidates for the freshman class were "examined in the Grammars of the English, Latin, and Greek Languages; in Geography and Arithmetic; in Sallust, Cicero's Select Orations, Virgil, Latin Prosody, and the translation of English into Latin; -- in Jacob's Greek Reader, the Gospels of St. Luke and St. John, and the Acts of the Apostles." Candidates for advanced standing received further examination. The name of the college was changed to Trinity College in 1845.^19,20
     He was ordained in 1844. His first parish was in Danville, VirginiaG.²¹ He was a clergyman in the Protestant Episcopal Church the rest of his life.^22,23,24,25
     Wellington married first Sarah Colman Terry, daughter of Joseph C. Terry, on 17 Dec 1844 in Halifax Co., VirginiaG.^7,8,9
     Wellington and Sarah moved frequently as he was assigned to different parishes. They appeared on the 1850 Federal Census of Dinwidie Co., VirginiaG, enumerated 14 Aug 1850, in the home of Lucy O. Field and her daughters.²⁶ They had a daughter born in Pennsylvania in Apr 1853, and a son born back in Virginia in Aug 1857.
     Wellington and Sarah appeared on the 1860 Federal Census of Fose Camp, Rutherford Co., TennesseeG, enumerated 17 Jul 1860, reporting real estate valued at $50 and personal estate of $500. Their children Edward, Louise, and David were listed as living with them. No record of Fose Camp can be found today except its use in the 1860 census. It was apparently near Murfreesboro, as that was listed as the nearest post office.²⁷ Another son was born in Dec 1860 in Kentucky.
     Wellington was appointed secretary of the executive committee of the Church's Commission of Home Missions to Colored People, which was headquartered in New York, and no doubt caused their move to New Jersey.²⁸ They appeared on the 1870 Federal Census of Harrison, Hudson Co., New JerseyG, enumerated 22 Jul 1870, reporting real estate valued at $2,000 and personal estate of $500. Their children Edward, Louise, David, and Henry were listed as living with them.²⁹
     He was made rector at Halifax Courthouse, VirginiaG, in 1878.²¹ They appeared on the 1880 Federal Census of Halifax Co., Virginia G, enumerated 5 Jun 1880. Their children David and Henry were listed as living with them, as was Maria Thompson, a 21-year-old Black servant.³⁰
     While he considered his primary occupation as being a clergyman, Wellington also owned and operated a farm in Halifax Co. In 1880 he reported it included 60 acres of improved land, 80 of woodlands, and seven of "other unimproved" land. He valued the farm at $2,000, plus $25 worth of implements and $200 in livestock. He had spent $50 repairing fences and $25 for labor the prior year, producing $50 worth of products. He had three horses, two oxen, 2 milch cows, and one other cow, five swine, and six poultry. The farm had produced the prior year 100 lb. of butter, 15 dozen eggs, and 50 cords of firewood worth $25.³¹
     His wife died on 25 Apr 1887.³²
     Wellington married second Maria Louis Toot, daughter of Melcajah Rhum Toot and Mariah Louis Smith, on 12 Feb 1890 in Danville, VirginiaG.^10,11,12
     Wellington died on 1 Apr 1890 in Halifax Co., VirginiaG, at age 73.^13,14,15 He was buried in Ivey Cliff Cemetery, Halifax Co., VirginiaG.¹⁶