Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation . were perfected. He wrote Ben-tons Ordnance and Gunnery, the text bookfor many years at all public military and navalacademies. They had two children: JamesWebb, born 1863, died September 6, 1896;married Sadie Henry, 1890, leaving one graduated from West Point, 1885, secondlieutenant. Eighth Cavalry; first lieutenant,March, 1892: served in the sword bearercampaign, 1887, and in the Sioux campaign,1890-
Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation . were perfected. He wrote Ben-tons Ordnance and Gunnery, the text bookfor many years at all public military and navalacademies. They had two children: JamesWebb, born 1863, died September 6, 1896;married Sadie Henry, 1890, leaving one graduated from West Point, 1885, secondlieutenant. Eighth Cavalry; first lieutenant,March, 1892: served in the sword bearercampaign, 1887, and in the Sioux campaign,1890-91 ; and Mary, married Dr. Sutor,United States army, by whom she has twochildren, Louis Webb and Helen Lispenard;vi. Francis Watson, born February 29. 1832,died October 20, 1832; vii. Watson, men-tioned below; viii. Alexander Stewart, men-tioned below. General Webb married (second) November9, 1849, Laura Virginia Cram, daughter ofJacob and Lydia (Tucker) Cram. She diedFebruary 16, 1890. Five children: i. WilliamSeward, mentioned below; ii. Henry Walter,mentioned below; iii. George Creighton, men-tioned below; iv. Jacob Louis, mentioned be-low ; v. Francis Egerton, mentioned SOUTHERN XEW YORK 1457 Laura \irginia Cram was the daughter ofJacob Cram and Lydia Tucker. ?Jacob Cramof Exeter. New Hampshire, was a descendantof an ancestor who began the planting ofNew Hampshire with John Wheelwright andWilliam \\entworth, the kinsman of Straf-ford. The Exeter combination of 1639. asoriginal and equitable as the Ma\-flower com-pact, bound John Cram and the otherbrethren of the church of Exeter to erect andset up amongst us such government as shallbe to our best serving and agreeable to thewill of God. Jacob Cram was bom at Exe-ter, where he was a classmate of Daniel Web-ster. in 1783, and died in 1S69. He was sixthin descent from John Cram, the first of thefamily in America. Settled in Exeter. XewHampshire. He w^as the son of Joseph Cramand Anne Brown. Lydia Tucker was thedaughter
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