Richard Webb (settler)

Richard Webb I (May 5, 1580 – July 1665) was a founding settler of Hartford and Norwalk, Connecticut.

He served as a deputy of the General Court of the Connecticut Colony from Norwalk in the session of May 1656.

He came to America from England in 1626, and originally settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In Hartford he served as a grand-juror in 1643, as a townsman in 1649, and as a surveyor of highways in 1650.

In all likelihood, it was either the younger Richard that followed the Reverend Hooker in the 1636 settlement of Hartford, Conn. or the Richard Webb in the company of an Elizabeth Webb who arrived in the 1630 Winthrop Fleet.