Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Daniel Webster a Character Sketch
It has been well said, that in order to make a great man or woman, we must begin with the preceding generations, and Daniel Webster came of wonderfully good stock.
Among the Puritans who settled in New Hampshire about the year 1636 was a man who bore the name of Thomas Webster. He was said to he of Scotch extraction, but he was a Puritan of the English race, and his wife was a notable woman in her generation. Her maiden name was Susannah Batchelder, and her striking figure, powerful mentality and wonderful dark eyes, commanded the admiration of her neighbors and friends. It is thought that it was from her, that the distinguished grandson inherited a goodly proportion of his taste for literature, and a certain energy of mind for which the grandmother was noted.
Thomas Webster and his wife had several children who afterward scattered through various parts of the new stale, where they earned a somewhat precarious living amidst the founding of new settlements, and among Indians who were often hostile.
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