~~ Hempstead, Long Island, Province of New York ~~

--- Third Generation in America ---

 

Family of the Child of John2 Washburn and Mary Butler

 

            John Washburn and Mary Butler had only one child who reached adulthood and left a family, and he died a young man in London leaving only one daughter and one son who reached adulthood and had families, so this is not a large family. This family will be continued into the fourth and fifth generations.

 

 

 

 

 

JohnA Washborne (3rd)

 

 

William1 Washburn

 

 

 

 

MarthaA Timbrell

 

John2 Washburn

 

 

 

 

 

Francis1 Nicholls

 

 

Jane2 Nicholls

 

 

 

 

Frances1 Wimarke

John3 Washburn (Jr.)

 

 

 

 

 

Richard1 Butler

 

 

Mary2 Butler

 

 

 

 

(89.) John3 Washburn (Jr.), only surviving son of (49) John2 Washburn, (30) William1; born in Stratford, Connecticut Colony, on 20 Nov. 1657,[1] married Sarah3 Cornell, daughter of Richard2 and Elizabeth (Jessup[?]) Cornell, of Rockaway, Long Island,[2] in ca. 1679.[3] She was baptized on 4 July 1657 in the New York Dutch Church, a granddaughter of Thomas1 and Rebecca1 Cornell, of Rhode Island.[4] Richard Cornell deeded land to his son-in-law John Washburn on Madnan’s Neck, Flushing, Long Island, in 1686,[5] and in his will, dated 7 Nov. 1693, and probated on 30 Oct. 1694, Richard Cornell of Rockaway gave his daughter Sarah Arnold two cows, and also mentioned children of his “son Washburn,” and “children of John Washburn.”[6] (See Appendix [A] for a full transcription of the Will of Richard Cornell, of Rockaway, Queens County, New York.)

        John Washburn (Jr.) died testate in 1688 in the Parish of St. Biddolph, London, England, presumably while on business.[7] His will was dated in the Parish of St. Buttolph without Allgate, London, on 23 Feb. 1687, and probated in New York City on 19 June 1688, and he mentioned his wife Sarah Washbourne, and his three children, all under age, his son John Washbourne, and his daughters Susanna and Mary Washbourne. He appointed his friend, George Heathcoate, mariner, “now bound on a voyage to New York,” to be his agent and overseer, and appointed his wife and his father-in-law, Mr. Richard Cornwell, as executors.[8] (See Appendix [B] for a full transcription of his will.)

        Sarah (Cornell) Washburn remarried to Col. Isaac Arnold, of Southold, Long Island, as his second wife, on 31 Oct. 1691 in NY.[9] He was born ca. 1640, and was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and a Colonel in the Militia by 1700. They were living in Southold, Long Island, in the 1698 New York census.[10] Sarah (Cornell) Arnold had 2 daughters by Col. Isaac Arnold: Sarah Arnold and Susannah Arnold. He supposedly died on 7 Nov. 1706 in Southold, Suffolk Co., NY.

        John Washburn and Sarah Cornell had 3 children:

+      274       i   Susanna4 Washburn, born ca. 1680.[11] A guardian was appointed for her on 29 Aug. 1698,[12] and she married Samuel3 Conklin, son of Jacob2 and Mary (Youngs) Conklin,[13] in ca. 1702.[14] (Continued in Washburn Fourth Generation.)

        275      ii   Mary Washburn, born ca. 1681, died young, before the 1698 census of Southold.

+      276     iii   John4 Washburn (3rd), born ca. 1683.[15] A guardian was appointed for him on 14 Feb. 1698[/9],[16] and he married 1.) Hannah Hallett, daughter of Samuel and Bridget (Blackwell) Hallett,[17] on 14 Oct. 1704 in Hallett’s Cove, Queens Co., NY,[18] and to 2.) Hannah Thorneycraft, daughter of William and Hannah (Carpenter) Thorneycraft, of Oyster Bay, Long Island, by 1720.[19] (Continued in Washburn Fourth Generation.)

 

 

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    [1] White, Lorraine Cook, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Stratford 1639-1840, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 2000, [hereinafter White, Barbour Index of Stratford VRs], p. 242, taken from Stratford Land Records, Vol. 1, p. 47.

    [2] Cornell, Rev. John, Genealogy of the Cornell Family, New York, 1902, p. 143. The argument that the wife of Richard Cornell may have been a sister of Edward Jessup is in the footnote on p. 143.

    [3] Calculated from the birth of their first child in 1680.

    [4] Cornell, Rev. John, Genealogy of the Cornell Family, New York, 1902; Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1987, [hereinafter Torrey, New England Marriages], p. 183. Rebecca, the wife of Thomas Cornell, was probably a sister of Sarah, the wife of John Briggs, but their surname has not been discovered.

    [5] Cornell, Rev. John, Genealogy of the Cornell Family, New York, 1902, p. 150.

    [6] Cornell, Rev. John, Genealogy of the Cornell Family, New York, 1902, p. 148-149.

    [7] Per email letters of Marilyn W. Powell from Elaine Washburn Olney’s Our Washburn Heritage, 1986, he mentioned in his will a load of goods he is shipping to New York. He was supposedly buried in the churchyard at St. Botolph, Aldergate, London.

    [8] “Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate’s Office, City of New York, Volume II, 1708-1728,” Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1893, p. 390, abstracted from Liber 14, p. 16.

    [9] Cornell, Rev. John, Genealogy of the Cornell Family, New York, 1902, p. 150; Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 21, the marriage date from Haight, Ada C., The Richard Washburn Family Genealogy, Ossining, NY, 1937, p. 11; Latting, J.J., Esq., “New York Marriage Licenses from Vol. IV. of Records of Wills, Surrogate’s Office, N.Y.,” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 4, [Jan. 1873], p. 31, the marriage license dated 30 Oct. 1691; New York Marriages Previous to 1784, reprinted by Clearfield Co., Baltimore, MD, 1999, originally published as Names of Persons for whom Marriage Licenses were issued by the Secretary of the Province of New York, Previous to 1784, Albany, Ny, 1860, [hereinafter New York Marriages Previous to 1784], p. 524.

    [10] Haight, Ada C., The Richard Washburn Family Genealogy, Ossining, NY, 1937, p. 10-11, the Isaac Arnold household included Isaac Arnold, Sarah Arnold, Susannah Washburn, John Washburn, Sarah Arnold, and Susannah Arnold.

    [11] Calculated from her age, of 18, when a guardian was appointed for her.

    [12] Haight, Ada C., The Richard Washburn Family Genealogy, Ossining, NY, 1937, p. 10-11.

    [13] Per Ancestry.com World Family Tree submitted by Steve L. Winter.

    [14] Estimated from the birth of their first child, in 1703, and per the I.G.I. Marriage Records, taken from an FHL [Family History Library] patron family group sheet, microfilm #1553245.

    [15] Calculated from his age, of 15, when a guardian was appointed for him.

    [16] Haight, Ada C., The Richard Washburn Family Genealogy, Ossining, NY, 1937, p. 10-11.

    [17] Her parents from www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hallett-132.

    [18] Haight, Ada C., The Richard Washburn Family Genealogy, Ossining, NY, 1937, p. 9; Gautier, John S., Esq., “New York Marriage Licenses,” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 2, [Jan. 1871], p. 27; New York Marriages Previous to 1784, p. 524.

    [19] When William Thorneycraft wrote his will, in Mar. 1719/20, which mentioned his daughter Hannah Washburn.


[A] APPENDIX A: The Will of Richard Cornell of Rockaway, Queens County, Province of New York (1693) *

In the Name of God Amen the seventh day of November Anno ye Dominy 1693 And in the fifth year of the Reign of our Soveraigne Lord King William over England &c Richard Cornell of Rockway in Queen County In ye Island of Nassaw In America being sick and weake but of Good and Perfect minde & Memory Praise be given to God almighty yet Calling to minde the Uncertainty of this Life & how certain we are to dye and yet the time of our Death most uncertaine do make Publish and Declare this my Last will & Testament In Manner following that is to say ) first and Principally I commend my Soul Into the hands of Almighty God my Creator & my body I commit to the Earth to be Decently buried att the Discreĉon of my Executors here after named and as for touching and concerning all & every such worldly Estate which God of his Infinite goodness hath blest me with all in this Life I give & bequeath and devise in manner & form following Imprimis by this my Last will and Testament I doe binde and make over all my Lands & meadows situated and Lying at Rockway upon the south side of ye Island of Nassaw in the Province of New Yorke In America for the Paying & Satisfying a certain Debt owing by me to the Children of John Washburne Decd and in Case my Executors do not duely Pay and Satisfy the said Debt to ye said Children as it shall become due according to the tennet & the true Intent of the will & Testament of ye said John Washburne Decd It is my minde and will that the overseers of this my will and Testament may and shall sell & alienate the aforesaid Lands for ye Payment of ye said Debt & return the overplus to my four sons William Jacob Thomas & John Cornell. Item I doe give and bequeath unto my son William Cornell & his heirs forever a certain Part of my Lands and meadows situated att Rockway as aforesaid as hereafter is menĉoned (to witt) bounded upon the north with the old Fence upon the south syde of the Last yeares wheat feild so running Easterly to Hempsteed Line southerly by the sea Including all lands brooken Lands marshes beaches Excepting such Preservaĉons as shall be hereafter menĉoned (that is to (say) my now dwelling house with orchard and the Pasture thereunto adjoyning with the barns and Land in tillage about it with the Garden & springs and all other outhouses the which reservaĉons I do give & bequeath to my dear & Loveing Wife Elizabeth Cornell during ye time of her widowhood and my will is that after my said wifes Death or marriage ye said reservaĉons shall descend to my son William Cornell & to his heires forever. Also my will is that the Improvements which he shall make upon that Share or Portion of Land & Meadow bought by Me of John Smith of Hempsted commonly called Little Smith after his entry Upon and Possession of ye above menĉoned reservaĉons shall immediately Descend upon my son Thomas Cornell & his heirs for Ever with all the Lands & Meadows which I bought of the aforesaid John Smith. Item I give & bequeath to my son Thomas Cornell & his heirs forever another Part of my Land & Meadows being bounded southerly with my son William Cornell Line northerly by ye middle of ye Fresh cove that Robert Beadels meadow was Laid out in and so running Easterly to the three raile fence and further if it should happen and my will is that the said gift shall include all meadows bracken meadow & marshes Lying within them Lynes to the middle of the Fresh cove aforesaid. Item I doe give to my sons Jacob & John Cornell all my Lands and meadows & to their heirs for Ever Lying to the northward of Thomas Cornells Lyne situate att Rockway aforesaid bounded northerly with the Great River or cove Easterly by three raile fenc to Equally Divided betwixt the said Jacob and John according to Quantity and Quallity Except such Reservaĉons as shall be hereafter menĉioned (to witt) to my son Richard & to his heirs for Ever I give and bequeath tenn Acres of meadow Joyning to Wells his Lyne to runn north & south upon an equall Lyne. Item I give to my son William Cornell & to his heirs for Ever Tenn Acres of Meadow Joyning to my son Richards Tenn Acres & to runn in the same Manner north and south upon an equall Lyne Item I do give to my daughter Elizabeth Lawrence tenn Acres of meadow Joyning to Williams meadow to run In ye same manner as the Rest North and South upon an Equall Line Item I doe give to my daughter Mary Cornell one hundred Pounds Currt money of the Province of New Yorke or Equivalent to money to be Payd at three Payments (to witt) one third Part at the day of her marriage or when she shall attain to the age of eighteen years & the other two thirds to be paid yearly Successively I doe also give and bequeath to my said daughter Mary The one half of my moveables within doors money Excepted. Item my mind & will is that whilst my wife remains a widow that shee shall have the whole & sole use of all my Lands & meadows att Rockway Excepting such Lands is to be Imployd & Improved for ye Payment of the Debt due to the Children of the aforesaid John Washborn & the maentaining & bringing up of the Children dureing their nonage. Item I doe give & bequeath to my Loving wife whilst she continues unmarried the whole & sole command & use of all my negroes and stock with all Utensills of husbandry now in my Possession to be used & Imployd for ye Payment of all my debts & the maintenance of her children dureing their minority Excepting six Cows & Calves & one Plow share with colter & Chains which I give to my son William as also Excepting twelve two year old heiffers which I give to my twelve grand Children to be delivered when they come of age that is to ye Children of my son Richard my son Washborn & my son John Lawrence Item I do give to my daughter Sarah Arnold two Cows Further my will & mind is that if any of my said sons William Jacob Thomas & John or my Daughter Mary shall happen to dye without heirs male of their own bodys that then the Lands shall return to the Survivors to be Equally divided amongst them Item my mind & will is that if my wife should see cause to marry that then she shall have one hundred pounds Paid by the Executors out of my Estate with one half of the moveable within doors (money Excepted) and one negro girle called by the Name of Jane that she shall not continue Executrix any longer but surrender up the whole Estate personall to my other Executors which I will to be Equally Devided amongst my four sons Willm Jacob Thomas & John Excepting my Negro man James & my Negro woman diana which I give & bequeath to my son William after the Death or marriage of my said Wife and the Lands given by me to Thomas Jacob & John after the Death or marriage of my wife I will that it be returned also to my Executors to be improved for the payment of Debts & bringing them up till they come of age Item my will & mind is that the Lands upon Cowneck & crabmeadow be sold to the vallue thereof and be equally devided amongst all my Children in Generall: Item it is my will that my right to the undevided Land in ye bounds of hempstead shall descent to my five sons to be Equally Divided amongst them. Item my will and mind is that my four sons Richard Thomas Jacob & John shall have Liberty to put on horses upon the beach if They see cause they assisting in maintaining the fence & Thomas shall have Liberty to put on swine upon the beach with his Brother Willm & that Jacob & John if they see cause to build by the Path syde to ye Eastward of my Dwelling house & on ye Land purchase of Little Smith I doe give to Each of them & their heirs two Acres of the said Lands my will is that all the money in the house att my decease and all my debts Due Either by bill or bond or any other Account shall be Imployed to the Payment of ye children of the Decd John Washborn and Captain Charles Lodwick I doe ordain & make my Loving wife Elizabeth Cornell and my sons Richard & Will. Cornell to be my whole & sole Executors of this my Last will & Testament as also my Trusty and Loving friends Coll. Thomas Willet, Leut. Coll Thomas Hicks & Capt Daniell Whitehead as overseers of this my will desireing them to see ye severall Articles & clauses therein mentioned performed according to the true intent and meaning thereof and it is my will that my sayd Executors shall not act as Executors without the advice and approbaĉon of my said overseers hereby revoaking all former wills by me made & declaring this to be my Last will and Testament the Day & Year first above written. In Witnesse whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale. David Jamison D Secry

Recorded for Elizabeth Richard & William Cornwall

 

Presented for probate on 13 Oct. 1694. Letters of Administration on the estate were granted to Elizabeth, Richard and Wm Cornell, the Executors, on 13 Oct. 1694.

 

* Transcribed by John A. Maltby from New York County Probate, Liber 5, p. 45-47.

 

 

[B] APPENDIX B: The Will of John Washbourne of Flushing, Queens County, Province of New York (1687) *

In the name of God Amen The Twenty Third day of February Anno Domi 1687: and in the Fourth year of the reigne of our Souverign Lord King James the Second over Englad. I, John Washbourne of Flushing Bounds on Long Island in America Husbandman now residing in the parish of St. Buttolph without Allgate London being sick and weak but of good and perfect mind and memory (praise be given unto almighty God) yet calling to mind the uncertainty of this life and how certaine wee are to die and yett the time of our death most uncertaine Doe make publish and declare this my last Will & Testamt. in manner following (that is to say) First and principally I comend my sole into the Hands of Allmighty God my Creator & my Body I comit to the Earth to be decently burried at ye discretion of my Executors hereafter named and as for touching and concerning all and every such worldly Estate which God of his infinite goodness hath blessed me with all in this life (after my Just debts funeral Charges & Legacies shall bee First paid & Discharged) I do hereby give & Bequeath the same and every part there of in manner and forme following (that is to say)  Imprimis. I give and bequeath unto my Sonne John Washbourne The sume of One Hundred pounds of lawfull mony of England to bee paid unto him at the age of One and Twenty years Allso I give unto my loving Wife Sarah Washbourne the sume of Sixty Six pounds thirteene Shillings and Four pence of like money being the one third part of the summe of Two Hundred pounds Sterll. Allso I give unto my two Daughters Susanna & Mary Washbourne the Sume of Sixty pounds Thirteen shillings and foure pence of like money to each of them a peice being the other two thirds parts of the said Summe of the said summe of two hundred pounds at there severall ages of Eighteen years or dayes of marriage which first shall happen and where as there will bee a returne of the Summe of fifty pounds of lawfull English money uppon my Wifes Sealing and delivery of a Deed of sale which when receiving I doe give the one Moeity or halfe pt thereof unto my s’d Sonne John Washbourne at his said of agd. one & Twenty years. And the other Moiety or halfe parte thereof I doe give unto and amongst my said Wife (and to my s’d two Daughters to be Equally parted and devided amongst them share and share alike (the parts and portions) the parts & portions of my s’d two daughters to bee paid unto them at there S’d Ages of Eighteene years or dayes of Marriage first happening). And my further Will & minde is, that if Either of my said Sonne or daughters shall happen to depart this life before his or their said ages or days of marriage) as afore said that then the part and portion of him or them soe deceasing shall bee and Remaine & bee paid unto and amongst the Survivor & Survivors of them share and Share alike And for the better manadging & conveying over the same said Summe of Three hundred pounds or the vallue thereof (which now remains here in England) I do hereby nominate and appoint my trusty friend George Heathcoate Marriner now bound in A Voyadge to New Yorke to bee my agent and overseer in disposing and laying out the said Summe of Three hundred pounds in goods Freight Merchandize and other things to the most profitt & advantage of my said Wyfe and Children that hee may or cann And that the said George Heathcoate shall as soon as may bee after my decease ensure the said sume or Vallue of three hundred pounds for the present voyadge to bee made to New Yorke in the good Ship Yorke and that ye same goods be consigned over to my Executor for the use before declared. Item I give and bequeath unto my Said Wife Sarah & to her heires Executors & assignes for Ever all that peice or parcell of Land Lying neere Blark Stump Hallow uppon Flushing Hills And allso I give unto her the One third part of my moveables and personall Estate in Flushing Bounds on Long Island the other full third parte thereof I give unto my said Sonne and the other third parte thereof I give betwene my said two daughters to be Equally divided betwene them (with benyfitt of Survivorshipp to my said Sonne and Daughters as above is directed; And my Will and minde is that my said Wyfe shall and may inhabitt in all that my plantation in Flushing Bounds & have the profitt there of and of all other my lands and Herited whatsoever untill my said Sonne shall attaine the full age & Shee keepe her selfe unmarried, but if shee marry during my Sonns minority that then shee and my other Executor shall bee accountable for the rents & profitts of the same unto my sd sonne at his full age of one and Twenty yeares (Expences of Eudication thereout first deducted Item I doe make and ordain my) said wife & my father in Law Mr Richd Cornwell full & sole Executors of this my last Will Revoking all other Wills  In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seale the day and year above written. Sealed published and declared by the said John Washbourne, as his last will & testament in the Presence of. Edward Marchin, William Gross, Phillip Blancherd, And: Haynes. Set in the Minores London.

 

Citty New Yorke Tuesday ye 19th day of June 1688 att the Court of Record holden for the Said Citty att the Citty Hall The Originall Will of John Washbourne was proved by the Oath of Philip Blancherd & the Testimony of George Heathcott the aforesaid Philip Subscribing As Witness thereto.

                                                                                                                                J. Nicolls D. Cl.

 

* Transcribed by John A. Maltby from New York County Probate, Vol. 14, p. 333-335, copied from Old Liber, p. 16-20.