Henry Y. Webb Explained

Henry Young Webb (August 4, 1784 – September 20, 1823)^{[1] [2]} was an American jurist who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1820 to 1823.

Webb was born in Granville County, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1807.^[3]

Webb served in North Carolina's legislature before being appointed an Alabama territorial judge in 1818.^[4] He was "one of five men who gathered in Cahaba in 1820 to organize the supreme court of Alabama and hold its first term".^[5]

Notes and References

1. Thomas McAdory Owen, History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography (1921), p. 1738.
2. Web site: History of Supreme Court. Alabama Judicial System. December 29, 2022. October 2, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231002131235/https://judicial.alabama.gov/Appellate/SC_History. dead.
3. Kemp Plummer Battle, History of the University of North Carolina (1907), p. 183.
4. Daniel J. Meador, "The Supreme Court of Alabama—Its Cahaba Beginning", 61 Alabama Law Review No. 5 (2010), p. 897.
5. Kimberly R. Jacobson, The Greene County Historical Society, Greene County and Mesopotamia Cemetery (2007), p. 108.