Nathan Webb

Nathan Webb (April 9, 1705 March 17, 1772), an early-American Congregational Church minister. Early life He was born in Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, to Benjamin Webb (1667–1739) and Susanna Ballentine. He married Ruth Adams in Braintree on November 23, 1731. His nephew became President John Adams. John Adams recorded in his diary a visit in Uxbridge with his uncle Nathan Webb in March 1756. Career Webb was the first called minister of the new Congregational Church in the newly incorporated (1727) Town of Uxbridge. The Uxbridge Congregational Church was officially split from the church at Mendon, Massachusetts. Webb was called on January 6, 1731. This church was the first church to be built in the new town of Uxbridge.