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Families of the Children of John4 Washburn (Jr.) and Abigail (Phillips) Johnson

 

 

         The children of John Washburn (Jr.) and Abigail (Phillips) Johnson lived in Plymouth, Kingston, and Norton, Massachusetts. Most of these families will be continued on into the sixth generation. The placement of Solomon Washburn as the youngest son of Lt. John Washburn (3rd) is unproven at this point. Even though it appears that the descendants of Solomon believe that he was the son of Lt. John Washburn and his wife Lydia Prince, the Plymouth baptismal record calls him son of John and Rebecca Washburn. Research into the matter is ongoing, but inconclusive at this point, and I will add to this file as more information is uncovered.

 

 

 

 

Philip2 Washburn

 

 

Deacon John3 Washburn

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth2 Irish

 

John4 Washburn (Jr.)

 

 

 

 

 

Isaac3 Billington

 

 

Lydia4 Billington

 

 

 

 

Hannah Glass

Lt. John5 Washburn (3rd)

 

 

 

Abigail5 Washburn

 

 

 

Mary5 Washburn

 

 

 

Marcy Washburn

 

 

 

Seth5 Washburn

 

 

 

Phillip5 Washburn

 

 

 

Thankfull5 Washburn

 

 

 

 

 

 

John2 Phillips (Jr.)

 

 

Benjamin3 Phillips

 

 

 

 

Grace

 

Abigail4 Phillips

 

 

 

 

 

John1 Thomas

 

 

Sarah2 Thomas

 

 

 

 

Sarah Pitney

 

(748.) Lt. John5 Washburn (3rd), eldest son of (194) John4 Washburn (Jr.), (68) Deacon John3, (45) Philip2, (28) John1 (4th); born in Plymouth, MA, on 8 May 1730,[1] married 1.) Lydia Prince, daughter of Benjamin and Abiel (Nelson) Prince, of Duxbury,[2] on 10 Apr. 1755 in Plym­outh.[3] She was born ca. 1735,[4] a granddaughter of Thomas and Ruth (Turner) Prince,[5] a great-granddaughter of John and Mary3 (Brewster) Turner,[6] and a descendant of William1 Brewster, of the “Mayflower.” Lydia Washburn, John’s wife, was admitted to the Plymouth Church on 16 May 1773.[7] She died on 12 May 1782 in Plymouth, aged 46 years,[8] and he remarried to 2.) Mary5 Churchill, supposedly daughter of Ebenezer4 and Mercy (Branch) Churchill,[9] on 25 Nov. 1784 in Plymouth.[10] She was born on 10 Nov. 1763 in Plymouth,[11] a granddaughter of Sgt. John3 and Bethiah (Spooner) Churchill (3rd), of Plymouth,[12] and of Thomas and Experience (Barrow) Branch.[13] They were living in Plymouth, MA, in the 1790 federal census, nearby his sons Abial and Prince Washburn,[14] but he was not a head of household in Plymouth in the 1800 federal census.

        Lt. John Washburn (3rd) served in the Revo­lu­tion­ary War as a Lieu­ten­ant in Capt. Andrew Sampson’s Company from Plymouth, commissioned on 20 June 1777, stationed at Fort Gurnet in Plymouth, promoted to Sergeant in 1781, Commander of the Garrison in late 1781, and was discharged on 1 Apr. 1782.[15] He was probably the John Washburn who died in Feb. 1799 in Plymouth,[16] but no pro­bate records were filed for his estate in Plymouth County.

        Lt. John Washburn had chil­dren by Lydia Prince:[17]

+      2014     i   John6 Washburn (4th), born on 28 Dec. 1755 in Plymouth,[18] baptized on 27 June 1773 in Plymouth,[19] married Experience Totman, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth (Ward) Totman, of Plympton,[20] on 30 Apr. 1778 in Plympton,[21] and they moved to Colrain, Hampshire (now Franklin) Co., MA, in ca. 1785. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

+      2015    ii   Dr. Abial6 Washburn, born on 21 Nov. 1757 in Plymouth,[22] baptized as “Abiel” on 27 June 1773 in Plymouth,[23] married 1.) Olive Finney, of Plymouth, on 4 Dec. 1785 in Plymouth,[24] and 2.) Abigail “Nabby” Briggs, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Cole) Briggs, of Middleborough,[25] on 13 Aug. 1797 in Middleborough.[26] He was a surgeon in the Revolutionary War, and they lived in Plymouth, Middleborough, and East Bridgewater, MA. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

+      2016   iii   Benjamin6 Washburn, born on 14 Aug. 1761 in Plymouth,[27] baptized on 27 June 1773 in Plymouth,[28] married 1.) Bathsheba5 Churchill, daughter of Benjamin4 and Ruth5 (Delano) Churchill, of Plymouth,[29] on 17 Nov. 1785 in Plymouth,[30] and 2.) Abigail6 Bartlett, daugh­ter of Capt. John5 and Mercy (Ellis) Bart­lett,[31] on 16 July 1792 in Plymouth,[32] and they lived in Plymouth. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

+      2017   iv   Prince6 Washburn, born on 9 Sept. 1763 in Plymouth,[33] baptized on 27 June 1773 in Plymouth,[34] married Ruth Stet­son, of Plymouth, on 9 Nov. 1786 in Plymouth,[35] and they lived either in Kingston or Plymouth, MA. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

+      2018    v   Lydia6 Washburn, born on 1 Oct. 1765 in Plymouth,[36] baptized on 27 June 1773 in Plymouth,[37] married David Turner (4th), son of David and Deborah (Lothrop) Turner (3rd), of Plymouth,[38] on 20 June 1793 in Plym­outh,[39] and they lived in Plymouth, then had moved to Barnstable, MA, by 1840. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

+      2019   vi   Thomas6 Washburn, born on 16 Dec. 1767 in Plymouth,[40] baptized on 27 June 1773 in Plymouth,[41] married Hannah Smith, of Plymouth, on 5 Dec. 1793 in Plymouth,[42] and they lived in Plymouth. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

+      2020  vii   Ruth6 Washburn, born on 12 June 1772 in Plymouth, baptized on 27 June 1773 in Plymouth,[43] married Ignatius6 Cushman, son of Josiah5 and Deborah (Ring) Cushman (Jr.), of Plympton,[44] on 17 Oct. 1793 in Plymouth,[45] and they moved to Belmont, Maine. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

+      2021 viii   James6 Washburn, born ca. June 1774 in Plymouth,[46] baptized on 24 July 1774 in Plymouth,[47] possibly the James Washburn who mar­ried Mary Douglass on 29 July 1798 in Boston,[48] and settled in Boston. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

+      2022   ix   Solomon6 Washburn, born in 1777 in Plymouth,[49] baptized on 15 June 1777 in Plymouth as the son of John & Rebecca Washburn,[50] married Hannah Winsor, daughter of Joshua and Olive (Thomas) Winsor, of Duxbury, MA,[51] on 31 Jan. 1805 in Duxbury,[52] and settled in Duxbury, where he was a mechanic,[53] and then a “block maker.”[54] (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

 

 

(749.) Abigail5 Washburn, eldest daughter of (194) John4 Washburn (Jr.), (68) Deacon John3, (45) Philip2, (28) John1 (4th); born in Plymouth, MA, on 17 Feb. 1731/2,[55] married Capt. Abner5 Silvester, son of Solomon4 and Elizabeth (Rider) Silvester,[56] as his second wife, on 29 Oct. 1753 in Plymouth.[57] He was born on 25 Dec. 1723 in Plymouth,[58] a grandson of Joseph3 and Hannah3 (Bartlett) Silvester (Jr.),[59] and of Samuel and Lydia (Tilden) Rider, of Plymouth.[60] He had married first to Jedidah4 Harlow, daughter of Deacon Thomas3 and Jedidah3 (Churchill) Harlow,[61] on 10 Nov. 1748 in Plym­outh.[62] They were living in Plymouth, MA, in the 1790 federal census, next door to his son-in-law, Judah Bartlett, and widowed daughter Lydia Cole.[63]

        Capt. Abner Sylvester died on 9 Oct. 1799 in Plymouth, aged 74 [sic] years,[64] but no probate records were filed for his estate in Plymouth County. Abigail (Washburn) Sylvester died on 20 June 1820 in Plymouth, aged 88 years,[65] but no probate records were filed for her estate in Plymouth County either.

        Capt. Abner Sylvester had one son by Jedidah Harlow:

        2023     i   Nathaniel6 Sylvester, born on 22 Oct. 1749 in Plymouth,[66] supposedly married Alice/Elsie Finney on 28 Oct. 1794 in Plymouth.[67] He was not a head of household in Plymouth, MA, in the 1790 federal census, and may have been living with his father in 1790, but he does not appear to have been a head of household in Plymouth Co., MA, in the 1800 federal census either.[68] He died on 18 Mar. 1830,[69] but no probate records were filed for his estate in Plymouth County.

        Abigail Washburn and Capt. Abner Sylvester had children, order uncertain:[70]

        2024     i   Caleb Sylvester, born on 16 Dec. 1754 in Plymouth, died on 5 July 1756 in Plym­outh.[71]

        2025    ii   Abner6 Sylvester (Jr.), born on 1 Aug. 1756 in Plymouth,[72] marriage not found. He was not a head of household in Massachusetts in the 1790 federal census, and may have been still living with his father in 1790, nor was he a head of household in the 1800 federal census.

        2026   iii   Abigail6 Sylvester, born ca. 1758 in Plymouth,[73] married William5 Doten, son of Isaac4 and Mary (Lanman) Doty/Doten (Jr.),[74] on 15 Dec. 1776 in Plymouth.[75] He was born on 21 July 1751 in Plymouth,[76] a grandson of Isaac3 and Martha3 (Faunce) Doty.[77] She died on 5 July 1783 in Plymouth, aged 25 years,[78] and he remarried to Jean/Jane5 “Jenny” (Bartlett) Churchill, daughter of Lemuel4 and Mary4 (Doten) Bartlett,[79] and widow of Ebenezer Churchill Jr.,[80] on 16 Dec. 1784 in Plymouth.[81] She was born on 28 June 1754 in Plymouth,[82] and they were living in Plymouth, MA, in the 1790 federal census,[83] but he was not a head of household in Plymouth in the 1800 federal census. He was still living in Plymouth in the 1810 federal census.[84] She died on 14 May 1813 in Plymouth, aged 57 years,[85] and he died testate on 12 Oct. 1813 in Plymouth, aged 62 years,[86] his will dated 29 Sept. 1813, and probated on 20 Oct. 1813, mentioned his daughter Mary Doten, grandchildren Martha Churchill and Betsey Bartlett Churchill, and the remainder of his estate to be divided amongst “the remainder of our children viz mine & my late wife’s children,” and he named James Spooner as executor of his estate.[87] (See Appendix [A] for a full transcription of his will.) Abigail (Sylvester) Doten had only two children:[88]

a. Abigail Doten, died unmarried.[89]

b. Martha6 Doten, born say ca. 1779 in Plymouth, married Amaziah6 Churchill (3rd), son of Amaziah5 and Elizabeth6 “Betty” (Bartlett) Churchill (Jr.), of Plymouth,[90] on 17 Feb. 1799 in Plymouth.[91] She died, and he supposedly remarried to Margaret Wallace, of Newbern, NC,[92] then to Mary “Polly” Harlow, of Plymouth, on 8 Apr. 1808 in Plymouth.[93] Martha (Doten) Churchill apparently had two daughters, as named in her father’s will:

1. Martha Churchill

2. Betsey Bartlett Churchill

        2027   iv   Lydia6 Sylvester, born ca. 1760 in Plymouth,[94] married 1.) Samuel Herman Cole, of Kingston, MA, on 21 Apr. 1785 in Plymouth.[95] He died by 1790, but no probate records were filed for his estate in Plymouth County, and she was probably the Lydia Cole living in Plymouth next door to her brother-in-law, Judah Bartlett, and her father, Abner Silvester, in Plymouth, MA, in the 1790 federal census, apparently with a young son.[96] She remarried to 2.) Barnabas5 Chur­chill (3rd), son of Barnabas4 and Lydia4 (Holmes) Chur­chill (Jr.),[97] as his second wife, on 4 Dec. 1803 in Plymouth.[98] He was born on 25 Nov. 1747 in Plym­outh,[99] and had married first to Sarah5 Faunce, daughter of Thomas4 and Sarah5 (Bartlett) Faunce (3rd), on 8 Nov. 1780 in Plym­outh.[100] They were living in Plymouth in the 1810,[101] and 1820 federal censuses.[102] Barnabas Churchill (3rd) died tes­tate on 29 July or Aug. 1821 in Plymouth, aged 73 years,[103] his will dated 23 Oct. 1815, and probated on 17 Sept. 1821, mentioned only his wife Lydia, and son Job Churchill, who was executor of his estate.[104] (See Appendix [B] for a full transcription of his will.) Lydia (Sylvester) (Cole) Churchill died on 19 June 1825 in Plymouth, aged 64 years.[105]

+      2028    v   Jedidah6 Sylvester, a daughter, born on 25 July 1763 in Plymouth, married Capt. Solo­mon Davie, son of Thomas and Sarah (Johnson) Davie, of Plymouth,[106] on 12 Nov. 1786 in Plymouth,[107] and they lived in Plymouth. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

+      2029   vi   Mercy6 Sylvester, born say 1765 in Plymouth, married 1.) Judah6 Bart­lett, son of Capt. William5 and Mary5 (Bartlett) Bartlett, on 10 July 1788 in Plymouth,[108] and 2.) Jabez5 Churchill, son of Elkanah4 and Susanna5 (Bartlett) Churchill (Jr.), in 1803,[109] and she lived in Plymouth. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

+      2030  vii   Mary6 “Polly” Sylvester, born say 1767 in Plymouth, married 1.) Capt. Edward Taylor, son of Jacob and Jemima (Sampson) Taylor (3rd), of Plymouth,[110] on 8 Nov. 1789 in Plym­outh,[111] and 2.) Col. John Blaney Bates, son of Gamaliel and Mary (Carver) Bates, of Hanover, MA,[112] on 14 Jan. 1807 in Plymouth,[113] and she lived in Plymouth. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

        2031 viii   Martha6 Sylvester, born say 1770 in Plymouth, supposedly married an Amaziah Churchill.[114]

+      2032   ix   John6 Sylvester, born say 1772 in Plymouth, married Lydia Edwards, possibly daughter of John and Lydia5 (Sampson) Edwards, of Plymouth, in 1797 in Plymouth,[115] and they lived in Plymouth. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

 

 

(750.) Mary5 Washburn, second daughter of (194) John4 Washburn (Jr.), (68) Deacon John3, (45) Philip2, (28) John1 (4th); born in Plymouth, MA, on 21 Nov. 1734,[116] married Abijah Fisher, son of Israel and Susanna Fisher, of Norton, Bristol Co., MA, on 23 July 1752 in Plymouth.[117] He was born on 8 Apr. 1720 in Norton,[118] a grandson of Daniel and Hannah (Hill) Fisher, of Taunton.[119]

        Abijah and Mary (Washburn) Fisher lived in Norton, Bristol Co., MA, and they may have been living in Warwick, Hampshire (now Franklin) Co., MA, by 1790, but he was not a head of household in Bristol or Hampshire Co., MA, in the 1790 federal census. He died on 6 May 1810 in Warwick, MA,[120] and she supposedly died in 1816 in Warwick, MA.[121]

        Mary Washburn and Abijah Fisher had children:

        2033     i   Seth Fisher, born on 26 Feb. 1753 in Norton,[122] married Patience Peckham, supposedly daughter of Giles and Mary (Kingsley) Peckham,[123] on 21 Mar. 1784 in Providence, RI.[124] She was born ca. 1761.[125] He was not a head of household in Bristol Co., MA, or Rhode Island in the 1790 federal census, but he was living in Providence, Providence Co., RI, in the 1800,[126] 1810,[127] and 1820 federal censuses.[128] He served as a Sergeant from Rhode Island in the Revolutionary War,[129] and he died intestate on 23 Aug. 1823 in Providence, RI, aged 70 years.[130] She died a widow on 13 Feb. 1825 in Providence, aged 63 years.[131] They had at least one daughter, but probably also some sons:[132]

a. Amelia Fisher, born ca. 1797,[133] died on 24 Apr. 1824 in Providence, aged 26 years,[134] presumably unmarried.

        2034    ii   Mary Fisher, born on 30 July 1754 in Norton,[135] marriage not found.

        2035   iii   Abijah Fisher (Jr.), born on 8 Sept. 1757 in Norton,[136] married 1.) Hannah Smith, possi­bly daughter of Timothy and Hannah (Hall) Smith, of Norton,[137] on 25 Jan. 1780 in Norton.[138] She was born on 23 Sept. 1761 in Norton,[139] and they moved to Warwick, Hampshire (now Franklin) Co., MA. She apparently died by 1797, and he remarried to 2.) Lois Hastings, daughter of Nathan and Lois (Rice) Hastings, in 1797 in Warwick, MA.[140] She was born on 24 Apr. 1774 in Warwick, MA.[141] Children not found. They were living in Warwick, Hampshire Co., MA, in the 1790,[142] 1800,[143] and 1810 federal censuses,[144] and in Warwick, Franklin Co., MA, in the 1820 federal census, where he was a farmer,[145] and the 1830 federal census.[146] He was listed with his brother Israel Fisher as an occupier of a house in Warwick in 1798.[147] He died on 4 Apr. 1833 in Warwick, MA, aged 76 years,[148] and Lois (Hastings) Fisher supposedly died on 29 Aug. 1835 in Warwick, MA.[149]

+      2036   iv   Israel Fisher, born on 6 Aug. 1759 in Norton,[150] married Hannah Osgood, daughter of Asael and Hannah (Wilder) Osgood, of Barre, MA,[151] on 7 Jan. 1789 in Warwick, MA,[152] and they lived in Warwick, MA. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

        2037    v   Anna Fisher, born on 1 July 1762 in Norton,[153] marriage not found.

+      2038   vi   Sarah Fisher, born on 20 Feb. 1766 in Norton,[154] married Humphrey Champney, son of Jonathan and Mary (Atherton) Champney, on 19 Aug. 1783 in Warwick, MA,[155] and they also lived in Warwick, MA. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

        2039  vii   Lucy Fisher, born on 14 May 1768 in Norton,[156] marriage not found.

+      2040 viii   Sylvester Fisher, born on 6 Apr. 1770 in Norton,[157] married Hannah Jones, daughter of Joseph and Ruth (Holden) Jones, in ca. 1798 in Windsor Co., VT,[158] and they supposedly moved to Green, Richland (now Ashland) Co., OH. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

        2041   ix   George Fisher, born on 4 Sept. 1773 in Norton,[159] marriage not found.

 

 

(752.) Seth5 Washburn, second son of (194) John4 Washburn (Jr.), (68) Deacon John3, (45) Philip2, (28) John1 (4th); born in Plymouth, MA, on 17 Apr. 1738,[160] married 1.) Fear Howard, of Kingston, MA, on 31 Oct. 1765 in Plymouth,[161] and they moved to Kingston, MA. She was born ca. 1738,[162] and died on 9 Apr. 1782 in Kingston, aged 43 years, of “consumption.”[163] He remarried to 2.) Anna Fullerton, daughter of John and Rebecca4 (Delano) Fullerton,[164] on 15 Dec. 1785 in Kingston.[165] She was born ca. 1747,[166] probably in Marshfield,[167] a granddaughter of Joseph3 and Hannah4 (Bartlett) (Arnold) Delano, of Duxbury,[168] and she also died on 25 Jan. 1786 in Kingston, of “mortification, child bed,” aged 38 years.[169] He remarried again to 3.) Deborah5 (Wright) Churchill, daughter of Joseph4 and Sarah5 (Brewster) Wright,[170] and widow of Nathaniel5 Churchill (Jr.), of Plympton, MA,[171] on 17 Dec. 1792 in Kingston.[172] She was born on 17 Oct. 1749 in Plympton,[173] a granddaughter of Isaac3 and Mary (Cole) Wright,[174] and of Joshua4 and Deborah Brewster.[175] Nathaniel Churchill (Jr.) had died on 18 Nov. 1784, aged 38 years.[176] The will of Joseph Wright, of Plymouth, dated 27 Feb. 1788 and probated 4 Sept. 1804, did not name his daughter Deborah Churchill, widow of Nathaniel Churchill, however.[177]

        Seth Washburn was living in Kingston, MA, in the 1790 federal census,[178] and in Plymouth, MA, in the 1800,[179] 1810,[180] and 1820 federal censuses.[181] He died testate on 27 Apr. 1826 in Plym­outh, aged 88 years,[182] his will dated 23 June 1812, and probated on 19 June 1826, he mentioned his wife Deborah, son Seth, the heirs of son Ichabod, deceased, daughters Phear, Percis and Abigail, and his youn­gest son, Ephraim Washburn, whom he appointed as sole executor of his estate.[183] (See Appendix [C] for a full transcription of his will.) Deborah (Wright) (Churchill) Washburn probably died sometime between 1812 and 1826.

        Seth Washburn had 5 children by Fear Howard, order uncertain, one daughter by Anna Fullerton, and one more son by Deborah (Wright) Chur­chill:

+      2042     i   Fear6 Washburn, born on 15 Sept. 1766,[184] married James Foster, son of Charles and Silvia (Delano) Foster, of Kingston,[185] on 28 Nov. 1792 in Kingston,[186] and they lived in Kingston, MA. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

+      2043    ii   Seth6 Washburn (Jr.), born on 28 Oct. 1768,[187] married (2155) Sarah5 “Sal­ly” Adams, daughter of (801) John4 and Sarah (Drew) Adams (Jr.),[188] on 29 Nov. 1792 in Kingston,[189] and they also lived in Kingston. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

+      2044   iii   Ichabod6 Washburn, born ca. 1770,[190] married Sylvia6 Bradford, daugh­ter of Pa­bodie5 and Welthea5 (Delano) Bradford,[191] on 7 Nov. 1793 in Kingston,[192] and they also lived in Kingston. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

        2045   iv   Persis6 Washburn, born ca. 1774,[193] married John Turner, Jr., of Scit­uate, MA, on 17 Aug. 1795 in Plymouth, MA,[194] and they apparently moved to Turner, Cumberland (now Androscoggin) Co., ME. He was living in Turner, Cumberland Co., ME, in the 1800 federal census,[195] there were two John Turners living in Turner, ME, in the 1810 federal census,[196] and he may have been the John Turner living in Turner, ME, in the 1820 federal census, where he was a farmer,[197] but they were not found in the 1850 federal census in Turner, ME, and although there were also two John Turners living in Turner, ME, in the 1830 federal census, in neither household was the oldest male and female of the right age to be John and Persis Turner, unless John was the head of household and the oldest male was his father.[198] They had at least one daughter:

a. Abigail “Nabby” Turner, baptized on 7 July 1796 in Turner, ME.[199]

b. (Probably others)[200]

        2046    v   Abigail6 Washburn, supposedly married Zenas6 Churchill,[201] son of William5 and Sarah (Rid­er) Churchill, of Plympton.[202] He was born on 28 May 1771 in Plympton,[203] a grandson of David4 and Mary (Magoon) Churchill, of Plympton.[204] He was suppos­edly lost at sea soon after the marriage,[205] but no probate records were filed for his estate in Plymouth County. They probably had no children, and she may have remarried. She was still alive in 1812 when her father wrote his will, but he did not give her surname in his will.

        2047   vi   Anna Washburn, born on 20 Jan. 1786,[206] died on 31 Mar. 1786 in Kingston, aged 2 months, 11 days.[207]

+      2048  vii   Ephraim6 Washburn, born ca. 1794,[208] married 1.) Mary “Polly” Lucas, of Plym­outh, probably daughter of Ephraim and Azubah5 (Pratt) Lucas,[209] on 7 Nov. 1822 in Plym­outh,[210] and 2.) Deborah (Morey) Morton, daughter of Silas and Eunice (Dunham) Morey, and widow of Amasa Morton,[211] on 6 Dec. 1866 in Plymouth,[212] and they lived in Plymouth, MA. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

 

 

(753.) Phillip5 Washburn, third son of (194) John4 Washburn (Jr.), (68) Deacon John3, (45) Philip2, (28) John1 (4th); born in Plymouth, MA, on 5 Sept. 1739,[213] married Silence Davis, of Kingston, MA, on 31 Oct. 1765 in Kingston.[214]

        Philip and Silence Washburn lived in Plymouth and Kingston, MA. They were living in Kingston in the 1790 federal census,[215] and then moved to Reading, Windsor Co., VT, by 1810, where they were living in the 1810 federal census.[216] Phillip Washburn probably died before 1813, but no probate records were filed for his estate in Windsor Co., VT,[217] and Silence was probably the “Widow Washburn” who died in 1813 in Reading, VT, of the “Spotted Fever,”[218] but no probate records were filed for her estate in Windsor Co., VT.

        Philip Washburn and Silence Davis had chil­dren:

+      2049     i   Sarah6 “Sally” Washburn, born on 13 Jan. 1766 in Plymouth,[219] MA, baptized on 8 July 1781 in Kingston,[220] married Nebediah Cady, son of Benjamin and Eliza­beth Cady, of Killingly, CT, as his second wife, on 4 Nov. 1799 in Reading, Wind­sor Co., VT, and they lived in Reading, VT. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

+      2050    ii   Capt. Philip6 Washburn (Jr.), born on 9 Aug. 1767 in Plymouth,[221] baptized on 8 July 1781 in Kingston,[222] married Patience Ransom, probably daughter of Thaddeus and Martha (Drew) Ransom, of Kingston,[223] on 15 Nov. 1795 in Kingston,[224] and they lived in Kingston, MA. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

+      2051   iii   Israel6 Washburn, a twin, born on 20 Feb. 1770 in Plymouth,[225] baptized on 8 July 1781 in Kingston,[226] married Deborah6 Bryant, daughter of Peleg5 and Alice (Sturtevant) Bryant, of Kingston, MA,[227] on 17 Sept. 1795 in Kingston,[228] and they moved to Reading, Windsor Co., VT. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

        2052   iv   Levi Washburn, a twin, born on 20 Feb. 1770, died on 4 Mar. 1770 in Plym­outh.[229]

        2053    v   Grace Washburn, baptized on 8 July 1781 in Kingston,[230] marriage not found.

        2054   vi   William Washburn, born before 1775,[231] baptized on 8 July 1781 in Kingston,[232] marriage not found.

        2055  vii   Abigail Washburn, baptized on 23 Dec. 1783 in Kingston,[233] marriage not found.

 

 

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        [1] Van Antwerp, Lee D., Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Picton Press, Camden, ME, 1993, [hereinafter Plymouth VRs], p. 107.

        [2] Vital Records of Duxbury, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1911, [hereinafter Duxbury VRs], p. 290: marriage of Benjamin Prince and Abiel Nelson on 1 Apr. 1717 in Duxbury.

        [3] Plymouth VRs, pp. 244, 345, married by Rev. Nathaniel Leonard of Plymouth.

        [4] Calculated from her age at death. Her birth was not recorded in the Duxbury vital records.

        [5] Ancestry.com Prince Family Tree file submitted by Kathy J. O’Connor, of Newburyport, MA; Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Marriages From the Files of George Ernest Bowman At the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1990, [hereinafter Roser, Mayflower Marriages], p. 69, which doesn’t give the name of Ruth Turner’s husband, but gives Benjamin Prince as her son; The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 5, p. 41-44, the will of John Turner, of Scituate, husband of Mary Brewster, dated 4 Mar. 1695, mentions his grandson Thomas Prince, among others.

        [6] Plymouth VRs, p. 655, the marriage of John Turner and Mary Brewster on 12 Nov. 1645 in Plymouth; Roser, Mayflower Marriages, p. 61; Davis, William T., Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, reprint, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1994, originally published as Part II of Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, Boston, 1899, [hereinafter Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families], p. 268, but Davis does not list a son Thomas Turner among their children.

        [7] Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, p. 473, published originally as Vol. 22 & 23 by The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, reprinted on CD by The New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 2003.

        [8] Kingman, Bradford, Epitaphs from Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Brookline, MA, 1892, reprint, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1977, [hereinafter Kingman, Epitaphs from Burial Hill], p. 54; “Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections,” online database at NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston; Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Deaths, 1760-1798, p. 411.

        [9] Churchill, Gardner Asaph, and Nathaniel Wiley Churchill, The Churchill Family in America, 1904, p. 37.

        [10] Plymouth VRs, pp. 271, 365, married by Rev. Chandler Robbins of Plymouth; Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Marriages 1760-1798, p. 502.

        [11] Plymouth VRs, p. 9, recorded as “Marcy Churchell.”

        [12] Churchill, Gardner Asaph, and Nathaniel Wiley Churchill, The Churchill Family in America, 1904, p. 17.

        [13] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 40.

        [14] Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts, Bountiful, Utah, 1993, p. 177, Plymouth, Plymouth County, the John “Washbon” household had 1 free white male aged 16 or older, 2 free white males under 16, and 1 free white female.

        [15] Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, 17 Volumes, Boston, Vol. XVI, p. 666-667.

        [16] Plymouth Church Records, Vol. III, Deaths, 1799-1807, p. 621.

        [17] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 275, says they had John 1755, Abiel 1757, Benjamin 1761, Prince 1763, Lydia 1765, and Thomas 1767, whose births are all recorded in the Plymouth vital records. The last three children are from the Plymouth church baptismal records, however see the note on the baptism of Solomon Washburn.

        [18] Plymouth VRs, p. 184.

        [19] Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Baptisms 1732-1787, p. 460.

        [20] Patrie, Lois McClellan, A History of Colrain, Massachusetts, Troy, NY, 1974, [hereinafter Patrie, History of Colrain], pp. 171, 176.

        [21] Vital Records of Plympton, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1923, [hereinafter Plympton VRs], p. 418, under “Warshbon;” Plymouth VRs, p. 265, marriage intentions recorded 18 Oct. 1777 in Plymouth.

        [22] Plymouth VRs, p. 184.

        [23] Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Baptisms 1732-1787, p. 460.

        [24] Plymouth VRs, pp. 272, 365; Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Marriages 1760-1798, p. 502.

        [25] Merrick, Barbara Lambert, and Alicia Crane Williams, Middleborough, Massachusetts, Vital Records, The Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Boston, Volume One: 1986, Volume Two: 1990, [hereinafter Middleborough VRs], Vol. 2, p. 49, marriage intentions of Joseph Brigs of “Barkley” and Abigail Cole of Middleborough recorded on 22 Feb. 1755 in Middleborough.

        [26] Plymouth VRs, p. 285, marriage intentions recorded 22 July 1797 in Plymouth; Middleborough VRs, Vol. 2, p. 129, 159.

        [27] Plymouth VRs, p. 184.

        [28] Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Baptisms 1732-1787, p. 460.

        [29] Churchill, Gardner Asaph, and Nathaniel Wiley Churchill, The Churchill Family in America, 1904, p. 26; Plymouth VRs, p. 149, the marriage of Benjamin Churchell and Ruth Delano, both of Plymouth, on 3 Nov. 1746 in Plymouth.

        [30] Plymouth VRs, pp. 272, 365; Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Marriages 1760-1798, p. 199.

        [31] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 18; Plymouth VRs, p. 355, marriage of John Bartlett 3rd and Mercy Ellis, both of Plymouth, on 2 Dec. 1762 in Plymouth.

        [32] Plymouth VRs, pp. 279, 369; Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Marriages 1760-1798, p. 505, which calls her “wido.”

        [33] Plymouth VRs, p. 184.

        [34] Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Baptisms 1732-1787, p. 460.

        [35] Plymouth VRs, pp. 273, 366, married by Rev. Chandler Robbins in Plymouth; Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Marriages 1760-1798, p. 506.

        [36] Plymouth VRs, p. 184.

        [37] Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Baptisms 1732-1787, p. 460.

        [38] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 268; Plymouth VRs, p. 347, marriage of David Turner, Jr., and Deborah Lothrop, both of Plymouth, on 18 Oct. 1753 in Plymouth.

        [39] Plymouth VRs, pp. 280, 369, married by Rev. Chandler Robbins in Plymouth; Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Marriages 1760-1798, p. 506.

        [40] Plymouth VRs, p. 184.

        [41] Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Baptisms 1732-1787, p. 460.

        [42] Plymouth VRs, pp. 280, 370, “both of Plymouth;” Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Marriages 1760-1798, p. 506.

        [43] Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Baptisms 1732-1787, p. 460.

        [44] Cushman, Henry W., Cushman Genealogy, pp. 137-138, 171-172.

        [45] Plymouth VRs, pp. 280, 369; Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Marriages 1760-1798, p. 506. She was called “of Plymouth” in both the marriage intentions and the marriage record. Henry Wyles Cushman, in his Cushman Genealogy, p. 172, says that she was daughter of Capt. Thomas Washburn of Plymouth, and Cushman, Joseph Augustine, The First Seven Generations of the Cushman Family in New England, Bridgewater, MA, 1964, [hereinafter Cushman, Joseph A., Cushman Family in New England], p. 136, says she was daughter of Capt. Thomas and Mary (Crapo) Washburn, but Capt. Thomas Washburn was of Dartmouth, not Plymouth, and he had no recorded daughter named Ruth born in Dartmouth, there was no other Capt. Thomas Washburn who lived in Plymouth, and Ruth Washburn, the daughter of John and Lydia (Prince) Washburn was born in the right year in Plymouth to have become the wife of Ignatius Cushman.

        [46] Calculated from his age at death in Boston in 1854.

        [47] Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Baptisms 1732-1787, p. 461.

        [48] Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910, online database at www.familysearch.org, taken from FHL microfilm #818093.

        [49] His birth year and parents per the Ancestry.com World Tree file submitted on 29 Oct. 2002 by Red MacDougall, which is not proven by the Plymouth vital records, but may be correct.

        [50] Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Baptisms, 1731-1787, p. 462, the name Rebecca an error by the recording clerk. Solomon is proven as a son of John and Lydia Washburn because on 13 Oct. 1829 Solomon Washburn joined Joseph Lucas, John Washburn, Samuel Barnes, Benjn. Weston, David Turner, Benja. Ingols, Lydia Ingols, Samuel Fickett, Ruth Fickett, and Abigail Nelson as the nearest relatives in a petition to have Priscilla (Drew) Washburn removed as the guardian of her stepdaughters Margaret and Lydia Washburn, minor children of Capt. George Washburn, late of Plymouth, because she was not the mother of the children, and have someone else appointed as their guardian. Capt. George Washburn was the son of Solomon Washburn’s brother Prince Washburn.

        [51] Duxbury VRs, p. 337, marriage of Joshua Winsor and Olive Thomas, of Marshfield, on 2 Sept. 1773 in Marshfield.

        [52] Duxbury VRs, p. 327.

        [53] Per an 1801 deed.

        [54] Per his death record in Duxbury.

        [55] Plymouth VRs, p. 107.

        [56] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 257; Silvester, Albert Henry, “Richard Silvester of Weymouth, Mass., and Some of His Descendants,” Genealogies of Mayflower Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. III, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1985, p. 302.

        [57] Plymouth VRs, pp. 143, 347, married by Rev. Jacob Bacon of Plymouth.

        [58] Plymouth VRs, p. 61.

        [59] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 256.

        [60] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 216.

        [61] Adams, Theodore P., “The Harlow Family,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 14, [July 1860], p. 231.

        [62] Plymouth VRs, pp. 153, 158.

        [63] Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts, Bountiful, Utah, 1993, p. 177, Plymouth Town, Plymouth County, the Abner Silvester household had 3 free white males aged 16 or older and 1 free white female.

        [64] Kingman, Epitaphs from Burial Hill, p. 84. He would have been 75 years old.

        [65] Kingman, Epitaphs from Burial Hill, p. 135.

        [66] Plymouth VRs, p. 20.

        [67] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 257; Plymouth VRs, p. 370; Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Marriages 1760-1798, p. 507; Silvester, Albert Henry, “Richard Silvester of Weymouth, Mass., and Some of His Descendants,” Genealogies of Mayflower Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. III, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1985, p. 302, however this Nathaniel Sylvester seems rather old to have married at age 45 and had 7 children.

        [68] The Nathaniel Silvester living in Halifax, MA, in the 1800 federal census was a younger man who was born after 1755.

        [69] Silvester, Albert Henry, “Richard Silvester of Weymouth, Mass., and Some of His Descendants,” Genealogies of Mayflower Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. III, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1985, p. 302.

        [70] The first two children only were recorded in the Plymouth vital records. Number 3-8 are from Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 256, and from Silvester, Albert Henry, “Richard Silvester of Weymouth, Mass., and Some of His Descendants,” Genealogies of Mayflower Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. III, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1985, p. 302.

        [71] Plymouth VRs, p. 20.

        [72] Plymouth VRs, p. 20.

        [73] Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol. 11, Part I, Edward Doty: His Descendants Through Sons Edward and John, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1996, [hereinafter MF5G: Doty], p. 181, calculated from her age at death.

        [74] MF5G: Doty, p. 52.

        [75] Plymouth VRs, pp. 265, 362; Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Marriages 1760-1798, p. 499.

        [76] Plymouth VRs p. 117.

        [77] MF5G: Doty, p. 16.

        [78] Kingman, Epitaphs from Burial Hill, p. 55, #518.

        [79] MF5G: Doty, p. 54; Roser, Mayflower Marriages, pp. 157, 315.

        [80] Plymouth VRs, pp. 261, 360; Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 20, says Jean, daughter of Lemuel Bartlett, married a Doten, and p. 56, says Ebenezer Churchill Jr. married Jane Bartlett.

        [81] Plymouth VRs, pp. 271, 365; Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Marriages 1760-1798, p. 502.

        [82] Plymouth VRs, p. 127.

        [83] Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts, Bountiful, UT, 1993, p. 177, Plymouth town, Plymouth County, the Wm Doten household had 1 free white male aged 16 or over, 1 free white male under 16, and 7 free white females.

        [84] 1810 Federal Census, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, p. 119, the William Doten household had 1 male aged 16-25 years, 1 male aged 45 or over, 2 females aged 16-25 years, and 1 female aged 45 or over.

        [85] Kingman, Epitaphs from Burial Hill, p. 122, #1009.

        [86] Kingman, Epitaphs from Burial Hill, p. 122, #1009.

        [87] Plymouth Co. Probate Docket #6615, Vol. 45, p. 125, from FHL microfilm #0550903.

        [88] MF5G: Doty, p. 181.

        [89] MF5G: Doty, p. 181.

        [90] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 54; Plymouth VRs, pp. 264, 361, the marriage of Amaziah Churchell Jr. and Elizabeth “Betty” Bartlett, both of Plimouth, on 16 June 1776 in Plymouth.

        [91] Plymouth VRs, pp. 288, 373.

        [92] Per Churchill, Gardner Asaph, and Nathaniel Wiley Churchill, The Churchill Family in America, 1904, p. 64.

        [93] Plymouth VRs, pp. 302, 381; Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 54; Churchill, Gardner Asaph, and Nathaniel Wiley Churchill, The Churchill Family in America, 1904, p. 64, which gives erroneously the year as 1805.

        [94] Calculated from her age at death.

        [95] Plymouth VRs, pp. 271, 365, a note, “Abial Washbn. to pay, “appears in the margin of their marriage intentions; Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Marriages 1760-1798, p. 502.

        [96] Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts, Bountiful, Utah, 1993, p. 177, Plymouth Town, Plymouth County, the Lydia Cole household had 1 free white male under 16 and 1 free white female.

        [97] Plymouth VRs, p. 104, the marriage of Barnabas Churchell Jr. and Lydia Holmes on 13 Nov. 1744 in Plymouth.

        [98] Plymouth VRs, pp. 294, 437; Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 55.

        [99] Plymouth VRs, p. 140.

        [100] Plymouth VRs, pp. 268, 363.

        [101] 1810 Federal Census, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, p. 114, the Barnabs Churchill household had 1 male aged 16-25 years, 1 male aged 45 or over, and 1 female aged 45 or over.

        [102] 1820 Federal Census, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, p. 373, the Barnabas Churchill household had 1 male aged 45 or over, 1 female aged 16-25 years, and 1 female aged 45 or over, no occupation given.

        [103] Plymouth VRs, p. 503, gives the date as 21 July 1821; Kingman, Epitaphs from Burial Hill, p. 139, #1132, gives the date as 21 Aug. 1821.

        [104] Plymouth Co. Probate Docket #3994, Vol. 54, p. 1-2, from FHL microfilm #0550908.

        [105] Kingman, Epitaphs from Burial Hill, p. 148. #1188; Plymouth VRs, p. 476, gives the date as 20 June 1825, aged 65 years, but p. 503 gives the date as 19 June 1825.

        [106] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 81.

        [107] Plymouth VRs, pp. 273, 366; Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Marriages 1760-1798, p. 503.

        [108] Plymouth VRs, pp. 275, 367; Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Marriages 1760-1798, p. 503.

        [109] Plymouth VRs, p. 293, marriage intentions recorded 23 Apr. 1803 in Plymouth.

        [110] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 258.

        [111] Plymouth VRs, pp. 276, 367; Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Marriages 1760-1798, p. 504.

        [112] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 24.

        [113] Plymouth VRs, pp. 300, 439, married by Rev. James Kendall.

        [114] From Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 256; Silvester, Albert Henry, “Richard Silvester of Weymouth, Mass., and Some of His Descendants,” Genealogies of Mayflower Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. III, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1985, p. 302, but I could not find their marriage record or an appropriate Amaziah Churchill in Churchill, Gardner Asaph, and Nathaniel Wiley Churchill, The Churchill Family in America, 1904, unless perhaps he was the widower of Elizabeth “Betty” (Bartlett) Churchill.

        [115] Plymouth VRs, p. 285, marriage intentions recorded 22 Apr. 1797 in Plymouth.

        [116] Plymouth VRs, p. 107.

        [117] Plymouth VRs, pp. 146, 175, married by Rev. Nathaniel Leonard of Plymouth; Norton VRs, p. 329.

        [118] Vital Records of Norton, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1906, [hereinafter Norton VRs], p. 55.

        [119] Bristol County Probate Records, Vol. 6, p. 261-262: agreement between the widow and children of Daniel Fisher, Sr., of Taunton, dated 29 July 1727?, mentioned his widow Hannah Fisher, and a son Israel Fisher, among others. Israel Fisher appeared in court 19 July 1729 to confirm the agreement. Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1987, [hereinafter Torrey, New England Marriages], p. 267: marriage of Daniel Fisher and Hannah Hill.

        [120] Warwick, Mass., Vital Records, 1806-1872, The Corbin Collection, Volume III, Records of Berkshire County and Franklin County, Massachusetts, CD, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Deaths, 1810; Ancestry.com World Family Tree file #160257 of earlep@juno.com, and #174541 of n3kpn8crd@earthlink.net.

        [121] Ancestry.com Booth Family Tree file submitted by azcolin, of Arizona.

        [122] Norton VRs, p. 57.

        [123] Ancestry.com Soper Kline Fletcher Bertilson Heaton Families file submitted by soper2007, and others; Rehoboth VRs, p. 292, the marriage of Giles Peckham of Providence and Mary Kingsley of Rehoboth on 20 May 1753 in Rehoboth. The birth record for Patience Peckham was not found in the vital records of either Providence, RI, or Rehoboth, MA.

        [124] Per the Ancestry.com Soper Kline Fletcher Bertilson Heaton Families file submitted by soper2007, and others; Alphabetical Index of Births, Marriages and Deaths, Providence, RI, 1636-1930, online database at AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, taken from Vol. 1 of Rhode Island Births, Marriages & Deaths; Arnold, James M., Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. X, First Congregational Society, Providence, p. 162.

        [125] Calculated from her age at death.

        [126] 1800 Federal Census, Providence, Providence Co., RI, p. 607, the Seth Fisher household had 3 males under 10, 1 male aged 16-25 years, 1 male aged 45 or over, 1 female under 10, and 1 female aged 26-44 years.

        [127] 1810 Federal Census, South District, Providence, Providence Co., RI, p. 289, the Seth Fisher household had 2 males aged 10-15 years, 2 males aged 16-25 years, 1 male aged 45 or over, 1 female aged 10-15 years, and 1 female aged 45 or over.

        [128] 1820 Federal Census, Providence, Providence Co., RI, p. 162, the Seth Fisher household had 2 males aged 16-25 years, 1 male aged 45 or over, 1 female aged 16-25 years, 1 female aged 45 or over, and included 1 person engaged in agriculture, and 1 person engaged in manufacturing & trade.

        [129] Arnold, James M., Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. XII, Rhode Island Pensioners, Pension Roll of 1820, p. 305.

        [130] Arnold, James M., Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. XII, Providence Journal Deaths published from January 3, 1820 to December 31, 1829, p. 493; Arnold, James M., Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. XIII, The Providence Gazette Deaths, p. 386, “an officer of the Revolution, at Providence;” Index to Probates, Providence, RI, 1646-1899, case number A4801.

        [131] Arnold, James M., Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. XII, Providence Journal Deaths published from January 3, 1820 to December 31, 1829, p. 493; Arnold, James M., Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. XIII, The Providence Gazette Deaths, p. 386, called “widow of Seth.”

        [132] No children were recorded to Seth and Patience Fisher in the vital records of Providence, but in addition to a daughter it appears from the censuses they may have had 4 sons.

        [133] Calculated from her age at death.

        [134] Arnold, James M., Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. XII, Providence Journal Deaths published from January 3, 1820 to December 31, 1829, p. 493; Arnold, James M., Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. XIII, The Providence Gazette Deaths, p. 386, called “daughter of the late Seth.”

        [135] Norton VRs, p. 57.

        [136] Norton VRs, p. 55.

        [137] Norton VRs, p. 313, marriage intentions recorded between Timothy Smith and Hannah Hall “5th”, of Raynham, on 6 July 1751 in Norton.

        [138] Norton VRs, p. 233.

        [139] Norton VRs, p. 130.

        [140] Per the Ancestry.com Booth Family Tree file submitted by azcolin of Arizona.

        [141] Per the Ancestry.com Booth Family Tree file submitted by azcolin of Arizona.

        [142] Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts, Bountiful, Utah, 1993, p. 126, Warwick Town, Hampshire County, the Abijah Fisher household had 1 free white male aged 16 or older, 4 free white males under 16, and 1 free white female.

        [143] 1800 Federal Census, Warwick, Hampshire Co., MA, p. 719, the Abijah Fisher household had 1 male under 10, 1 male aged 16-25 years, 1 male aged 26-44 years, 2 females under 10, and 1 female aged 26-44 years.

        [144] 1810 Federal Census, Warwick, Hampshire Co., MA, p. 695, the Abijah Fisher household had 1 male aged 45 or over, 4 females under 10, 2 females aged 10-15 years, and 1 female aged 45 or over.

        [145] 1820 Federal Census, Warwick, Franklin Co., MA, p. 81, the Abijah Fisher household had 1 male aged 45 or over, 2 females under 10,  female aged 10-15 years, 1 female aged 16-25 years, 1 female aged 45 or over, and had 1 person engaged in agriculture.

        [146] 1830 Federal Census, Warwick, Franklin Co., MA, p. 145, the Abijah Fisher household had 1 male aged 70-79 years, 1 female aged 10-14 years, 1 female aged 15-19 years, 2 females aged 20-29 years, and 1 female aged 50-59 years.

        [147] Warwick, Mass., Vital Records, 1806-1872, The Corbin Collection, Volume III, Records of Berkshire County and Franklin County, Massachusetts, CD, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, p. 228.

        [148] Warwick, Mass., Vital Records, 1806-1872, The Corbin Collection, Volume III, Records of Berkshire County and Franklin County, Massachusetts, CD, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Deaths, 1833.

        [149] Per the Ancestry.com WillisNORTON48 file submitted by WillisNORTON48, of Lee, NY.

        [150] Norton VRs, p. 56.

        [151] Vital Records of Barre, Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1849, Systematic History Fund, Worcester, MA, 1903, [hereinafter Barre VRs], p. 180: marriage of Asael Osgood and Hannah Wilder on 15 Jan. 1767 in Barre.

        [152] Per Barre VRs, p. 136.

        [153] Norton VRs, p. 55, called “Anna” in the church record, and “Anne” in the town record.

        [154] Norton VRs, p. 57.

        [155] FHL Ancestral File, submitted by Belle V. Morrison, of Yuma, AZ.

        [156] Norton VRs, p. 56.

        [157] Norton VRs, p. 57, called “Sylvester” in the church record, and “Silvester” in the town record.

        [158] Per Ancestry.com World Tree file #174541 of n3kpn8crd@earthlink.net.

        [159] Norton VRs, p. 56.

        [160] Plymouth VRs, p. 107.

        [161] Plymouth VRs, pp. 254, 356; Plymouth Church Records, Vol. II, Marriages 1760-1798, p. 494; Vital Records of Kingston, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1911, [hereinafter Kingston VRs], p. 299, marriage intentions recorded 15 Oct. 1765 in Kingston.

        [162] Calculated from her age at death. Her birth was not recorded in Kingston.

        [163] Kingston VRs, p. 391, recorded as “wife of Seth Washburn.”

        [164] Woodworth-Barnes, Esther Littleford, and Alicia Crane Williams, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999, [hereinafter MF5G: Alden, pt. 1], p. 573-574.

        [165] Kingston VRs, p. 299, “Fullenton” in the marriage record.

        [166] Calculated from her age at death.

        [167] MF5G: Alden, pt. 1, p. 574.

        [168] MF5G: Alden, pt. 1, p. 162.

        [169] Kingston VRs, p. 388.

        [170] Plympton VRs, p. 432, marriage of Joseph Wright of Plympton and Sarah Brewster of Duxbury, on 8 Nov. 1748 in Duxbury; Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume 12: Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA, Picton Press, 1996, [hereinafter MF5G: Cooke], p. 475-476; Roser, Mayflower Marriages, p. 114.

        [171] Plympton VRs, p. 431, marriage of Daborah Wright and Nathaniel Churchil Jr. on 27 Dec. 1770 in Plympton.

        [172] Kingston VRs, p. 299.

        [173] Plympton VRs, p. 232.

        [174] MF5G: Cooke, p. 190-191.

        [175] MF5G: Cooke, p. 475.

        [176] Plympton VRs, p. 462.

        [177] Plymouth County Probate Docket #23528; Vol. 40, p. 94, from FHL microfilm #0550901.

        [178] Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts, Bountiful, Utah, 1993, p. 170, Kingston Town, Plymouth County, the Seth Washburn household had 3 free white males aged 16 or older and 1 free white female.

        [179] 1800 Federal Census, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, p. 20, the Seth Washburn household had 1 male under 10, 1 male aged 45 or over, and 1 female aged 45 or over.

        [180] 1810 Federal Census, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, p. 145, the Seth Washburn household had 1 male aged 16-25 years, 1 male aged 45 or over, and 1 female aged 45 or over.

        [181] 1820 Federal Census, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, p. 366, the Seth Washburn household had 1 male aged 26-44 years, 1 male aged 45 or over, and 1 female aged 45 or over.

        [182] Plymouth Church Records, Vol. III, Deaths 1808-1859, p. 674.

        [183] Plymouth County Probate Docket #22095; Vol. 60, p. 425, from FHL microfilm #0550911.

        [184] Kingston VRs, p. 151. Her birth record does not name her parents. She was only called “Fear Washburn, wife of James Foster,” so the actual birth may have taken place in Plymouth, rather than Kingston.

        [185] Kingston VRs, p. 223: marriage of Charles Foster and Silvia Delano on 27 Dec. 1752 in Kingston; Kingsbury, Edith Leonard, “Samuel Foster of Kingston, Mass., Loyalist, and Some of His Descendants,” Genealogies of Mayflower Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. I, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1985, p. 799.

        [186] Kingston VRs, p. 297, married in the First Church of Kingston.

        [187] Kingston VRs, p. 155, taken from a private compilation of Kingston families made in 1796. The birth record does not record the name of his parents, and the birth may not have occurred in Kingston.

        [188] Kingston VRs, p. 166, the marriage of John Adams Jr. and Sarah Drew on 9 Feb. 1769 in Kingston.

        [189] Kingston VRs, p. 299, married in the First Church of Kingston.

        [190] Calculated from his age at death.

        [191] Kingston VRs, p. 181, marriage intentions of Peaboday Bradford, of Duxbury, and Mrs. Wellther Dilano, of Kingston, recorded on 14 Mar. 1760 in Kingston, but the marriage was not found in the vital records of Duxbury or Pembroke; Roser, Mayflower Marriages, p. 49; Fessenden, G. M., “A Genealogy of the Bradford Family,” Genealogies of Mayflower Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. I, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1985, [hereinafter Fessenden, “Bradford Genealogy”], p. 344. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol. 22, Family of William Bradford, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2004, [hereinafter MF5G: Bradford], p. 392, shows that Sylvia Bradford died on 19 Jan. 1778, but this is in error. It was her sister Welthea Bradford who died on that date, as recorded in the Duxbury VRs, p. 354.

        [192] Kingston VRs, p. 297, married in the First Church of Kingston.

        [193] She was at least 26 years of age in the 1800 federal census.

        [194] Plymouth VRs, p. 374, married by Ephraim Spooner, Esq. She was called “Perces Washburn of Plymo.”

[195] 1800 Federal Census, Turner, Cumberland Co., ME, p. 188, the John Turner, Jr. household had 1 male aged 26-44 years, 3 females under 10, and 1 female aged 26-44 years.

        [196] 1810 Federal Census, Turner, Oxford Co., ME, p. 412, the John Turner household had 1 male aged 16-25 years, 1 male aged 26-44 years, 1 male aged 45 or over, 1 female under 10, 1 female aged 16-25 years, and 2 females aged 26-44 years, and the John Turner 2d household had 1 male under 10, 1 male aged 26-44 years, 3 females under 10, 2 females aged 10-15 years, and 1 female aged 26-44 years.

        [197] 1820 Federal Census, Turner, Oxford Co., ME, p. 230, the John Turner household had 1 male aged 16-18 years, 3 males aged 16-25 years, 2 males aged 45 or over, 1 female under 10, 1 female aged 10-15 years, 1 female aged 16-25 years, 1 female aged 45 or over, and included 2 persons engaged in agriculture.

        [198] 1830 Federal Census, Turner, Oxford Co., ME, p. 111, the John Turner household had 1 male aged 15-19 years, 1 male aged 60-69 years, 1 male aged 80-89 years, 1 female aged 15-19 years, and 1 female aged 60-69 years.

        [199] I.G.I. Birth Records, taken from the Record of Births, Deaths, and Marriages of Turner, Maine, 1776-1896, from FHL microfilm #0012262.

        [200] Probably 2 more daughters by the 1800 federal census.

        [201] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 276.

        [202] Neither the marriage nor the marriage intentions were found in Kingston, Plympton, Plymouth, or surrounding towns for Abigail Washburn and Zenas Churchill. I wonder if the marriage actually ever took place.

        [203] Plympton VRs, p. 63.

        [204] Churchill, Gardner Asaph, and Nathaniel Wiley Churchill, The Churchill Family in America, 1904, pp. 31, 73-74.

        [205] Churchill, Gardner Asaph, and Nathaniel Wiley Churchill, The Churchill Family in America, 1904, p. 74. His death is recorded in Plympton VRs, p. 459 with no date. A comment added later indicates he was unmarried, which is evidently incorrect.

        [206] Calculated from her age at death.

        [207] Kingston VRs, p. 388, buried in the Old Burying Ground in Kingston.

        [208] Calculated from his age in the 1850 and 1860 federal censuses.

        [209] Plympton VRs, p. 345, the marriage of Ephraim Lucas of Carver and Azuba Pratt on 20 Nov. 1791 in Plympton; Vital Records of Carver, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1911, [hereinafter Carver VRs], p. 111, marriage intentions between Ephraim Lucas and Mrs. Azubah Pratt of Plymton recorded on 23 Apr. 1791 in Carver.

        [210] Plymouth VRs, p. 446, married by Rev. James Kendall; Plymouth Church Records, Vol. III, Marriages 1799-1822, p. 654.

        [211] Plymouth VRs, pp. 316, 444, the marriage of Amasa Morton and Deborah Morey on 6 Dec. 1818 in Plymouth; Davis, William T., Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 187, for the parents of Deborah Morey.

        [212] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 190, p. 382, online at www.AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, both second marriages, his occupation a farmer, born in Plymouth, son of Seth and Deborah, she was born in Plymouth, daughter of Silas and Eunice, but no surname given for her parents.

        [213] Plymouth VRs, p. 107.

        [214] Plymouth VRs, p. 254, marriage intentions recorded 17 Oct. 1765 in Plymouth; Kingston VRs, p. 298.

        [215] Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts, Bountiful, Utah, 1993, p. 171, Kingston Town, Plymouth County, the Philip Washburn household had 3 free white males aged 16 or older and 3 free white females.

        [216] 1810 Federal Census, Reading, Windsor Co., VT, the Philip Washburn household had 1 male over 45 years, and 1 female over 45 years.

        [217] Philip Washburn was not listed in Scott Andrew Bartley’s Windsor County, Vermont, Probate Index, 1778-1899.

        [218] Death notices published in Spooner’s Journal, a newspaper published by Alden Spooner in Windsor Co., VT, on 10 May 1813, which listed the names of person who died in Reading, VT, of the Spotted Fever.

        [219] Plymouth VRs, p. 229.

        [220] Kingston VRs, p. 148, under “Warshburn,”

        [221] Plymouth VRs, p. 229.

        [222] Kingston VRs, p. 148, under “Warshburn.”

        [223] Kingston VRs, p. 266, the marriage of Thaddeus Ransom and Martha Drew on 17 Dec. 1766 in Kingston; Phillip and Patience Washburn named their eldest son “Thaddeus Ransom Washburn.”

        [224] Kingston VRs, p. 299. He was called “Phillips Washburn Jr. of Reading, Vt.

        [225] Plymouth VRs, p. 229.

        [226] Kingston VRs, p. 148, under “Warshburn.”

        [227] Plympton VRs, p. 272, the marriage of Peleg Bryant and Elice Sturtevant, of Halifax, on 11 Nov. 1767 in Halifax.

        [228] Kingston VRs, p. 297. He was called “Israel Washburn of Reading, Vt.”

        [229] Plymouth VRs, p. 229.

        [230] Kingston VRs, p. 148, under “Warshburn.”

        [231] Aged 16 or older in the 1790 federal census.

        [232] Kingston VRs, p. 148, under “Warshburn.”

        [233] Kingston VRs, p. 148, under “Warshburn.”



[A] The Will of William Doten of Plymouth, Plymouth County, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1813) *

  I William Doten of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth being in low State of Health but sound & disposing Mind, do make my last will & Testament in Manner following ~

  I Give my Soul to God who gave it in Hope of a blessed Immortality & my Body to be decently buried, at the Discretion of my Executor —

   Give to Martha Churchill & Betsy Bartlett Churchill my two Grandchildren ten Dollars each —

   Give to my Daughter Mary Doten one half of the Remainder of my Estate after my just debts & funeral Charges are paid –

   The other half to be equally divided amongst the remainder of our Children viz mine & my late Wife’s Children —

   I appoint James Spooner to be the Executor to this my last Will & Testament –

   In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this 29th day of September A. Domini 1813 in presence of —

        Benja. Warren

        Asa Dike                                                                                                                        William Doten                                   (seal)

        Joseph Johnson

 

Presented for probate on 18 Oct. 1813 by James Spooner, the Executor therein named, and proved by Benjamin Warren and Asa Dike, two of the witnesses thereto subscribed. Letters of Administration were granted to James Spooner, the before named Executor.

 

Nathaniel Spooner, Merchant, Barnabas Otis, Yeoman, and Thomas Spooner, Gentleman, all of Plymouth, were appointed to appraise the estate of William Doten, late of Plymouth, yeoman, on 18 Oct. 1813. The Inventory of the Estate of William Doten, late of Plymouth, dated 19 Oct. 1813, totaled $1187.84, including half a dwelling house and lot with a garden adjoining and barn valued at $750. James Spooner, the Administrator, gave his oath to the inventory on 20 Oct. 1813.

 

* Transcribed by John A. Maltby from Plymouth County Probate Vol. 45, pp. 125-126, 129, from FHL microfilm #0550903.

 

 

[B] The Will of Barnabas Churchill of Plymouth, Plymouth County, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1815): *

                                                In the name of God, Amen. I Barnabas Churchill of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth Yeoman, being sensible of the certainty of death, & uncertain of the time of its approach and being desirous of disposing of the little Estate that God hath graciously given me, do make this my last will and Testament that is to say:

                                                First and principally I resign my soul to God who gave it, trusting in the merits of Jesus Christ the saviour of lost men for eternal salvation. I resign my body to the dust to be decently buried according to the discretion of my Executor herein after named, as to my temporal Estate above named or mentioned, I dispose of in the following manner.

                                                Item. I give to my beloved wife Lydia Churchill during her natural life the free use & improvement of those parts of my dwelling house below mentioned viz, the westerly half of my dwelling house in Plymouth from the top thereof to the bottom of the cellar under the same, and one half of the cellar under the easterly front room of said house which was formerly used as my wood cellar and the wood store next to the kitchen that I have improved for that part of my said house; and also the free use and improvement of the lower floor of my store, and one half the corn room over the chaise house viz the use of it, and the free use & improvement of half my garden from the garden owned by the first precinct in Plymouth to the eastward so far as one half of said garden extends, to run through said garden from my said dwelling house northerly to the middle street so called in said town and the use of one third of my pew in the meeting house in the third precinct in Plymouth, and one share in the Aqueduct that runs through a considerable part of said Town of Plymouth.

                                                Also I give to my said wife the free use & improvement of all my household goods of all kinds & also all my personal Estate during her life or untill her third marriage, furthermore in explanation of the above gifts to my said wife       Churchill I hereby direct that her interest therein & use of the whole thereof shall cease upon her third marriage.

                                                I also hereby give to my son Job Churchill all that is due to me, book accounts & notes of hand he to collect the same and pay all my just debts & funeral charges therefrom.

                                                And I also give to my said son Job all my Estate in Plymouth or elsewhere, to him, his heirs & assigns forever, excepting the use of those parts thereof that I have given to my wife as abovesd during her life or until her third marriage.

                                                Notwithstanding the above gifts I hereby direct that my said wife Lydia Churchill shall have the free use & improvement of one half of those eighteen sheep that I own or if the number should be diminished, in the same manner as I have given her the use of part of my other property above described

                                                In testimony of all which I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Plymouth October the twenty third 1815

Signed, Sealed, & delivered in presence

of us the Subscribers, said Barna-

bas Churchill at the same time

declared said Instrument to be his                                                                                    Barnabas Churchill                        (seal)

last will and Testament

        Ephraim Spooner

        Eliza Spooner

        Sally Spooner

 

Probated on 17 Sept. 1821, and proved by Sally Spooner, the only surviving witness. Job Churchill was granted administration of the estate.

 

 

[C] The Will of Seth Washburn of Plymouth, Plymouth County, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1812) *

In the name of God, amen. I Seth Washburn of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Yeoman, calling to mind the uncertainty of human life, do make & ordain this my last Will & Testament in manner & form following—

        1st I give & bequeath to Deborah my beloved wife one third of the improvement of all my real estate during the term she remains my widow. I also give & bequeath unto her one fourth part of the Grist Mill to be at her own disposal. Also the whole of my household furniture.

        2d. I give & bequeath to my son Seth twenty five cents, to the heirs of my son Ichabod, decd. twenty five cents, to my three daughters Phear, Percis & Abigail twenty five cents each, to be paid within one year of my decease.

        3ly. I give & bequeath to my son Ephraim the residue of my Estate, both real & personal, he paying my just debts & legacies & funeral charges. I also appoint him Sole Executer to this my last Will & Testament provided he arrives to the age of twenty one years before this Will is to be executed otherwise I appoint my son Seth to be the sole Executor to this my last Will & Testament.

        In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty third day of June Anno Domini One thousand eight hundred & twelve 

                                                                                                                                                Seth Washburn                                 (seal)

Signed, Sealed, published & declared

by the said Seth Washburn to be his

last Will & Testament in presence of

us who have subscribed our names

as Witnesses in the presence of the Testator

                Thomas Morton Jr.

                Nathan Whiting

                Lewis Morton

 

Presented for probate on 19 June 1826 by Ephraim Morton, the Executor therein named, and proved by Lewis Morton, one of the witnesses, the other two witnesses Thomas Morton Jr. & Nathan Whiting having since deceased.

 

* Transcribed by John A. Maltby from Plymouth County Probate Vol. 60, p. 425, from FHL microfilm #0550911.