~~ Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts ~~

--- Fourth Generation in America ---

Families of the Children of Joseph³ Washburn and Hannah Latham

The grandchildren of Joseph Washburn and Hannah Latham represent another of the larger branches of the Washburn family, and also contain a number of prominent men of 19th century New England. The children of sons Miles, Jonathan and Ebenezer Washburn are very uncertain at this point, and are subject to change in the future as more information becomes available.

			John^1 Washburn (4th)
		John^2 Washburn (5th)
			Margery^1 Moore
	Joseph^3 Washburn
			Experience^1 Mitchell
		Elizabeth^2 Mitchell
			Jane^2 Cooke
Miles^4 Washburn
Hephzibah^4 Washburn
Jonathan^4 Washburn
Joseph^4 Washburn (Jr.)
Mary^4 Washburn
Ebenezer^4 Washburn
Ephraim^4 Washburn
Rebecca^4 Washburn
Edward^4 Washburn
Hannah^4 Washburn
Benjamin^4 Washburn
		Robert^1 Latham
	Hannah^2 Latham
			John^1 Winslow
		Susanna^2 Winslow
			Mary^2 Chilton

(128.) Miles⁴ Washburn, eldest son of (59) Joseph³ Washburn, (43) John² (5th), (28) John¹ (4th); born in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony, in ca. 1677/8,[1] married 1.) Susanna Perry[?],[2] possibly daughter of Benjamin and Dinah (Swift) Perry, of Sandwich,[3] MA, in ca. 1722.[4] She was born on 27 Dec. 1701 in Sandwich,[5] a granddaughter of Ezra and Elizabeth (Burge/Burgess) Perry,[6] and of William and Ruth Swift, of Sandwich.[7]

Miles Washburn served on a Petit Jury in Plymouth County in Mar. 1698/9,[8] therefore must have been born ca. 1678 or earlier, making him the eldest son of Joseph Washburn.[9] They settled first in Plympton, MA. On 4 Aug. 1723 Joseph Washburn deeded land in Plympton to his loving son Miles Washburn,[10] and on 27 Mar. 1727 Joseph Washburn, blacksmith, deeded to Miles Washburn, blacksmith, his 1/4 part of a meadow in Plympton held in partnership with John Watson, of Plymouth, and Edward Washburn, of Plympton.[11] In June 1725 Joseph Haskall, of Rochester, carpenter, sued Miles Washburne of Plimton, yeoman, over a £30 bond dated 25 May 1724, and an unpaid bill dated 30 Dec. 1723.[12] In Sept. 1726 Miles Washburne of Plympton and John Benson of Roachester, husbandman, sued Isaac Baker, cooper, and Eleazar Hatheway, a blomer, both of Roachester, over an unpaid bond dated 27 Apr. 1726.[13] On 6 Sept. 1738 Miles and Edward Washburn, of Plympton, sold land in Plympton that had been purchased by their father Joseph Washburn on 15 Apr. 1718 from John Benson.[14] In Dec. 1738 Miles Washburne of Plymton, yeoman, brought suit against James Shurtleff of Plymouth, cordwainer, over a bond of £36 dated 21 Sept. 1737, and against Joseph Benson of Middleborough, labourer, and Joshua Benson of Plymton, labourer, over a note for £8.4s. dated 10 May 1738.[15] Miles Washburn and George Barrows agreed on a division of land Miles had received from his father, Joseph Washburn, on 21 Oct. 1741.[16] In Sept. 1743 Miles Washburne of Plymton, labourer, sued Samuel Burge of Warham, husbandman, over a note of £16.10s dated 5 Feb. 1742/3.[17]

In March 1745 Miles Washburne, of Plimton, yeoman, was presented in court for “publishing and uttering the false and Scandalous words following, Maliciously intending to Deceive Others, of and Concerning the Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Ells of Scituate...That he, the said Mr. Ells at Plimouth aforesaid in the month of July A.D. 1744 in the face and hearing of the Superior Court then and there Setting was Guilty of takeing a false oath, whereby his Carecter and Function is Greatly Scandalized and Brought into Contempt Amongst his Majesties Good Subjects and he the said Mr. Ells is Greatly Injured and Damnfied thereby.” Washburn pleaded not guilty to the incident, which had occurred on 20 Feb. 1744/5, but the jury found him guilty, and he was ordered to pay 20 shillings, and obtain sureties for his good behavior in the future. His brother Ephraim Washburn, and Silas Briggs, of Rochester, stood as his sureties.[18]

Miles Washburn moved to Dutchess Co., NY, by 1751, when he mortgaged some land, and was listed in Dutchess County Tax Lists from 1753 to 1768,[19] but he was listed as a witness to a land division in Wareham, Plymouth Co., MA, in 1760.[20] He was chosen as a “Fence Viewer” at the first town meeting for the Precinct of Amenia held in April 1762,[21] and he again mortgaged land in Amenia, NY, on 24 Sept. 1770.[22] His wife Susanna apparently died by 1763, and he remarried to 2.) Reliance⁴ (Gibbs) Tobey, daughter of Benjamin³ and Anne (Tupper) Gibbs, of Sandwich, MA,[23] and widow of Ephraim Tobey,[24] of Sharon, CT, on 24 July 1763 in Sharon,[25] at which time he was called “of Oblong,” NY. She was born on 11 July 1719 in Sandwich, MA,[26] and had married first to Ephraim Tobey in ca. 1737.[27] Miles Washburn died intestate in ca. 1772 in Amenia, NY, and his son Daniel Washburn was supposedly granted administration of his estate in 1772.[28]

Miles Washburn and Susanna Perry had children:[29]

445 i Mary⁵ Washburn, born on 7 May 1724 in Plympton, MA,[30] marriage not found.[31]

+ 446 ii Daniel⁵ Washburn, born on 14 Apr. 1726 in Plympton,[32] supposedly married 1.) (484) Patience⁵ Washburn, his first cousin, daughter of (133) Ebenezer⁴ and Patience (Miles) Washburn, of New Milford, CT,[33] in Feb. 1750 in New Milford,[34] and 2.) Mary (___) in ca. 1753,[35] and they moved to Amenia, Dutchess Co., NY. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

447 iii Hannah Washburn, born on 31 Aug. 1728 in Plympton,[36] marriage not found.

448 iv Dinah Washburn, born on 26 May 1731 in Plympton,[37] marriage not found.

+ 449 v Susanah⁵ Washburn, born ca. 1734, married Josiah Perry, son of Benjamin and Deborah (Johnson) Perry (Jr.), of Stoughton, MA, in 1765 in Oblong District, Dutchess Co., NY,[38] and they supposedly moved to Saratoga Co., NY. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 450 vi Meribah⁵ Washburn, born on 4 Mar. 1736/7 in Plympton,[39] supposedly married Paul Blackmer, son of Joseph and Marcy (Sears) Blackmer, of Rochester, MA,[40] in ca. 1755,[41] and lived in New Marlborough, Berkshire Co., MA. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 451 vii (Probably) Nathaniel⁵ Washburn, born ca. 1739 in Plympton,[42] enlisted during the French and Indian Wars in Capt. Ebenezer Seely Jr.’s Company from New York on 7 Apr. 1758 at the age of 19,[43] and re-enlisted in Capt. Peter Harris’ Company from Dutchess Co., NY, on 1 Apr. 1760 at the age of 21,[44] married Christina Shever/Shaver/Shafer, probably daughter of Hendrick and Maria Shever/Shaver/Shafer, of Albany, NY, in ca. 1764, and they moved to the Minisink Valley in Orange Co., NY, then across the river to Northampton Co., PA, then west to Washington Co., PA, and finally down the Ohio River to the newly formed Adams Co., OH. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

(129.) Hephzibah⁴ Washburn, probably eldest daughter of (59) Joseph³ Washburn, (43) John² (5th), (28) John¹ (4th); born in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony, ca. 1681,[45] married Benjamin³ Leach, Esq., son of Giles² and Anne (Nokes) Leach, of West Bridgewater,[46] on 8 Sept. 1702 in Bridgewater.[47] He was supposedly a grandson of Lawrence¹ and Elizabeth Leach, of Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

On 31 Dec. 1702 Giles Leach deeded land to his “youngest son Benjamin Leach.”[48] Hephzibah (Washburn) Leach died on 4 Apr. 1750 in Bridgewater,[49] and Benjamin Leach, Esq., died on 13 July 1764 in Bridgewater,[50] but no probate records were found for either of them in Plymouth County.

Hephzibah Washburn and Benjamin Leach had children, order uncertain:[51]

+ 452 i Anne⁴ Leach, born on 19 July 1703 in Bridgewater,[52] married Samuel³ Packard, son of Nathaniel² and Lydia (Smith[?]) Packard, of Bridgewater,[53] on 3 July 1722 in Middleborough,[54] and they lived in Bridgewater. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 453 ii Deacon Joseph⁴ Leach, born on 9 Oct. 1705 in Bridgewater,[55] married Anna Harris on 14 Jan. 1735/6 in Bridgewater,[56] and they lived in Bridgewater. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

454 iii Mary Leach, born on 1 May 1708 in Bridgewater,[57] marriage not found.

455 iv (Supposedly) Nathan⁴ Leach, born say 1709 in Bridgewater,[58] possibly married Deborah⁴ (Sampson) Leach,[59] daughter of Joseph³ and Anne³ (Tilson) Sampson,[60] of Plympton, and widow of Ebenezer⁴ Leach, of Bridgewater,[61] on 14 Nov. 1771 in Bridgewater,[62] but they probably had no children. She was born on 22 Aug. 1706 in Plympton,[63] and she may have been the widow Deborah Leach who died on 17 Mar. 1795 in Bridgewater, aged 89 [sic] years.[64] No death or probate records were found for Nathan Leach in Plymouth County.

+ 456 v Sarah⁴ Leach, born on 29 Apr. 1711 in Bridgewater,[65] married Timothy⁴ Leach, her first cousin, son of John³ and Alice Leach,[66] on 5 Dec. 1732 in Bridgewater,[67] and they moved to Amherst, Hampshire Co., MA, before 1776. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 457 vi Benjamin⁴ Leach (Jr.), born on 14 Sept. 1713 in Bridgewater,[68] married (438) Hannah³ Keith, daughter of John² and (127) Hannah⁴ (Washburn) Keith,[69] on 10 Jan. 1739/40 in Bridgewater,[70] and they probably lived in South Bridgewater. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

458 vii Ichabod Leach, born on 8 May 1716 in Bridgewater,[71] died on 11 Dec. 1722 in Bridgewater.[72]

459 viii Benanuel⁴ Leach, a twin, born on 4 May 1718 in Bridgewater,[73] married 1.) Betty Perkins on 26 May 1741 in Bridgewater,[74] but she died on 24 Dec. 1743 in Bridgewater,[75] and he remarried to 2.) Elisabeth⁴ Edson, daughter of Samuel³ and Mary (Dean) Edson (3rd),[76] on 6 June 1745 in Bridgewater.[77] She was born on 16 Dec. 1722 in Bridgewater,[78] and died in 1757 in Bridgewater.[79] He remarried again to 3.) Mehitable Allen, daughter of Benjamin and Mehitable⁴ (Cary) Allen, of East Bridgewater.[80] She was baptized on 27 Feb. 1736/7 in East Bridgewater,[81] a granddaughter of Ephraim³ and Hannah (Waldo) Cary.[82] Benanuel Leach was accused by Sarah Buker, singlewoman of Bridgewater, of being the father of a “Bastard Child born of her Body on the 5th of October last” in January 1760.[83] No death or probate records were found for Benanuel Leach in Plymouth County, and he was not listed as a head of household in Plymouth Co., MA, in the 1790 federal census. He had at least 3 children, presumably by Elizabeth Edson:[84]

a. (Unnamed child), died on 1 Oct. 1756 in Bridgewater.[85]

b. (Unnamed child), died in 1757 in Bridgewater.[86]

c. (Unnamed child), died on 4 Sept. 1758 in Bridgewater.[87]

d. (Possibly others)[88]

460 ix Jerahmeel Leach, a twin, born on 4 May 1718 in Bridgewater,[89] marriage not found. He was not listed as a head of household in Massachusetts in the 1790 federal census, and no probate records were found for him in Plymouth County.

461 x Nokes Leach, born on 30 Mar. 1720/1 in Bridgewater,[90] marriage not found. He was not listed as a head of household in Massachusetts in the 1790 federal census, and no probate records were found for him in Plymouth County.

462 xi Susanna⁴ Leach, born on 25 Oct. 1722 in Bridgewater,[91] married (425) Ezra⁵ Washburn, son of (126) Capt. Benjamin⁴ and Bethiah (Kingman) Washburn,[92] on 20 July 1742 in Bridgewater.[93] He was born ca. 1717, a grandson of (58) Samuel³ and Deborah² (Packard) Washburn.[94] They moved to Oakham, Worcester Co., MA, then to Stafford, Tolland Co., CT. (See the family of Ezra Washburn in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 463 xii Hannah⁴ Leach, born on 4 Mar. 1725 in Bridgewater,[95] married Solomon⁴ Leach, her first cousin, son of John³ and Alice Leach, of Bridgewater, as his third wife,[96] in 1743 in Bridgewater,[97] and they lived in Bridgewater. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 464 xiii (Possibly) Phebe⁴ Leach, born say ca. 1726 in Bridgewater,[98] married Abner⁴ Fobes, son of William³ and Thankful (Dwelley) Fobes,[99] in ca. 1748,[100] and they moved to Uxbridge, Worcester Co., MA. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

465 xiv (Possibly) Eunice Leach, born say 1728 in Bridgewater,[101] marriage not found.[102]

(130.) Jonathan⁴ Washburn, probably second son of (59) Joseph³ Washburn, (43) John² (5th), (28) John¹ (4th); born in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony, in ca. 1683,[103] married 1.) Rebecca Perry, daughter of Ezra and Rebecca (Freeman) Perry (Jr.), of Sandwich, MA,[104] on 24 Dec. 1711 in Sandwich.[105] She was born on 2 Oct. 1689 in Sandwich, a granddaughter of Edmund and Rebecca (Prence) Freeman (Jr.), of Eastham, MA.[106]

In July 1701 Jonathan Washbourne “Junr” of Bridgwater was in court and ordered to pay a fine of £5 and court costs or to be publicly whipped 20 stripes for “his abusive and uncivil behaviour to Elizabeth Canaday Late of said Bridgwater by Thrusting up or putting of a skunk under the Cloaths to her Naked Body And then saying he had Done the office of a midwife.” Isaac Harris Junr, of Bridgwater, was also fined for being an accessory to the act. Both defendants chose the fine over the “stripes.”[107] Samuel Pratt, of Middleboro, and Isaac Harris, of Bridgwater, were sureties for Washbourne and Harris.[108]

Rebecca (Perry) Washburn died in ca. 1718. The will of Ezra Perry, of Sandwich, dated 21 Oct. 1728, mentions “the three children of my daughter Rebecca by her husband Jonathan Washburn.”[109] Rebecca (Freeman) Perry deeded land in Namskaket and Middleborough, MA, to the children of her daughter Rebecca Washburn, deceased, in a deed recorded on 30 Apr. 1733.[110] Jonathan Washburn remarried to 2.) Rebecca Johnson, of Hingham, MA, on 17 Dec. 1719 in Boston, MA.[111] It is not known if he had any other children by Rebecca Johnson, but none were recorded in Plymouth Co., MA.

In March 1735/6 Prince Hawse of Yarmouth, yeoman, filed suit against Jonathan Washburn, yeoman, Silas Washburn, and Lemuell Washburn, labourers, all of Bridgwater, for ejectment from a tract of land in “the Thousand Acres, formerly known as Govenour Princes and Major Josiah Winslows purchase” in Bridgwater that Howse had received in the division of the estate of Jerimiah House of Yarmouth, but that Washburn had entered and refused to yield. The Jury found for the plaintiff, but the Washburns entered an appeal. Cornelius Bennitt of Middleborough, “phisition” entered a similar suit against Jonathan Washburn, yeoman, Silas Washburn and Lemuell Washburn, labourers, for ejectment from the portion he had inherited.[112] In Sept. 1736 Jonathan Washburn of Bridgwater, Innholder, received a license to sell liquor at retail.[113]

No death or probate records were found for Jonathan Washburn in Plymouth County, and he may have died in New York or New Jersey, since both his sons apparently moved to that part of the country.

Jonathan Washburn had three children by Rebecca Perry:[114]

+ 466 i Silas⁵ Washburn, born on 11 Feb. 1712/13 in Bridgewater,[115] married (____), and probably moved to Carmel, Putnam Co., NY. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 467 ii Lemuel⁵ Washburn, born on 18 Aug. 1714 in Bridgewater.[116] In Sept. 1733 Lemuel Washburn and Samuel Edson III, both of Bridgwater, labourers, were presented in court for “prophaning the Sabbath” on 4 June 1733 at the meeting house in South Bridgewater, where they “did Whisper and Laff and divert themselves” during the service.[117] He probably moved to New Jersey, but no marriage record was found for him. He was probably the Lemuel Washburn who was living in Sussex Co., NJ, in the 1740s, but he was not a head of household in New Jersey in the 1790 federal census. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

468 iii Susanna⁵ Washburn, born ca. 1716 in Bridgewater, was still unmarried and living in Bridgewater in Mar. 1739, had a son born out-of-wedlock in ca. 1735,[118] marriage not found. She may have moved to New Jersey with her brother Lemuel Washburn. She had a son:

a. (Unnamed son), born ca. 1735.

(131.) Joseph⁴ Washburn (Jr.), probably third son of (59) Joseph³ Washburn, (43) John² (5th), (28) John¹ (4th); born in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony, in ca. 1686, married Hannah Johnson, daughter of Capt. Isaac and Abiah (Leavitt) (Lazell) Johnson, of West Bridgewater,[119] in ca. 1715.[120] She was born on 17 Jan. 1694/5 in Hingham, MA,[121] a granddaughter of Deacon John and Sarah (Gilman) Leavitt, of Hingham.[122]

Joseph Washburn (Jr.) was a blacksmith, like his father. On 21 Mar. 1731 Joseph Washburn, blacksmith, sold his homestead land in Bridgewater on the eastern side of the Satucket River to John Johnson,[123] and on 11 Dec. 1738 Joseph Washburn and wife Hannah, of Bridgewater, sold their homestead farm in Bridgewater to Robert Latham,[124] and they moved from Bridgewater to Middletown, Hartford Co., CT, in ca. 1739, then to Leicester, Worcester Co., MA, in 1745. On 26 Aug. 1739 Joseph Washburn Jr. and Hannah Washburn from Bridgewater were admitted to the Congregational Church in East Middletown, CT.[125] On 21 May 1740 Joseph Washburn of Middletown purchased 10 acres of land from Philip Judd, which he gave to his son Joseph Washburn of Middletown on 30 June 1740.[126] In Sept. 1741 Nicholas Sever, Esq., of Kingston, sued Joseph Washburne of “Middleton, Coneticut, alias Joseph Washburn Sr. of Bridgwater,” blacksmith, over a £70 bond dated 19 Dec. 1738, which Washburn appealed.[127] On 1 Jan. 1743 Joseph Washburn of Middletown mortgaged land to John Warner.[128]

Joseph Washburn (Jr.) died in 1759 in Leicester,[129] and Hannah (Johnson) Washburn died in 1780 in Leicester, aged 87 [sic] years,[130] but no probate records were found for either of them in Worcester Co., MA.

Joseph Washburn (Jr.) and Hannah Johnson had children,[131] order uncertain:

+ 469 i Joseph⁵ Washburn (3rd), born ca. 1716 in Bridgewater, MA, married Lucia “Lucy” Boardman, daughter of Moses and Silence (Cornwall) Boardman, of Middletown, Hartford Co., CT,[132] on 24 Dec. 1741 in Middletown,[133] and settled in Middletown, CT. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 470 ii Phebe⁵ Washburn, born ca. 1718 in Bridgewater, married 1.) Samuel Kingman (Jr.), son of Samuel and Mary (Mitchell) Kingman,[134] on 3 Feb. 1736/7 in Bridgewater,[135] and 2.) Jonathan Tryon on 28 Nov. 1751 in Middletown, CT.[136] She lived in Lebanon and Middletown, CT. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 471 iii Elijah⁵ Washburn, born ca. 1720 in Bridgewater, married Hannah Taylor on 23 Dec. 1746 in Leicester, MA,[137] and they probably lived near Leicester. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 472 iv Col. Seth⁵ Washburn, Esq., born on 19 May 1723 in Bridgewater,[138] married 1.) Mary Harwood, daughter of Nathaniel Harwood, on 12 Apr. 1750 in Leicester, MA,[139] and 2.) Sarah (Denny) Sargeant, daughter of Daniel and Rebeckah (Jones) Denny,[140] and widow of Thomas Sargeant, of Leicester,[141] on 30 Apr. 1788 in Leicester,[142] and he lived in Leicester, MA. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 473 v Mary⁵ Washburn, born in ca. 1725 in Bridgewater, married Timothy⁴ Clough, of Stafford, Tolland Co., CT, son of Jonathan³ and Hannah (Gile) Clough,[143] on 27 Oct. 1743 in Middletown, CT,[144] and they lived in Stafford, CT. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 474 vi Abiel⁵ Washburn, a daughter, born on 6 Mar. 1725/6 in East Bridgewater,[145] married Jacob Wicker, son of William and Rebecca Wicker,[146] on 15 Jan. 1745/6 in Leicester, MA,[147] and they lived in Leicester. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

475 vii Susannah Washburn, baptized on 9 June 1728 in East Bridgewater,[148] probably died young.[149]

+ 476 viii Sarah⁵ Washburn, baptized on 26 Oct. 1729 in East Bridgewater,[150] married Joseph Cerly/Carly, of Leicester, MA, on 7 Feb. 1749/50 in Leicester,[151] and they lived in Leicester, Spencer and apparently Warren, MA, then moved to Whitingham, Windham Co., VT. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 477 ix Lt. Ebenezer⁵ Washburn, born in 1734, baptized on 1 Sept. 1734 in East Bridgewater,[152] married Dorothy Newhall, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah (Converse) Newhall, of Leicester, MA,[153] on 25 July 1757 in Spencer, MA,[154] and they settled in Hardwick, Worcester Co., MA. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

(132.) Mary⁴ Washburn, probably second daughter of (59) Joseph³ Washburn, (43) John² (5th), (28) John¹ (4th); born in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony, ca. 1689,[155] married Thomas Perkins, son of David and Elizabeth (Brown) Perkins,[156] on 20 Feb. 1716/17 in Bridgewater.[157] He was born on 8 May 1688 in Bridgewater,[158] a grandson of Abraham and Mary (Wyeth) Perkins, of Hampton, NH, and of Francis Brown, of Newbury, MA,[159] and he was a blacksmith in Bridgewater.

This Mary Washburn was placed in Joseph Washburn's family out of the process of elimination, and because of the naming of a daughter “Hephzibah” Perkins, presumably after her sister, Hephzibah Leach, however because of the following deed Thomas Perkins is show to have had ties with at least one son of Samuel³ Washburn, and Thomas’ sister Mary Perkins married Gideon⁴ Washburn, son of James³ Washburn.

On about 30 Mar. 1720 Thomas Perkins of Bridgewater, purchased a small tract of land in Bridgewater from Eleazer Carver of Bridgewater, blacksmith, adjoining land he already owned, witnessed by Samuel Washburn and Benjamin Washburn.[160] On 21 Feb. 1727/8 Thomas Hayward of Bridgewater, Gentleman, and Constant Hayward sold to Thomas Perkins of Bridgewater, yeoman, 2 acres of land in the southerly part of Bridgewater in the Titicut Great Lots.[161] On 25 May 1737 Abraham Perkins of South Kingston, Kings County, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation, son to David Perkins, late of Bridgewater, County of Plymouth, Gentleman, sold to his younger brother Thomas Perkins of Bridgewater for £90 all his right in the estate of his father David Perkins, deceased.[162] On 5 Nov. 1744 Benjamin Washburn of Bridgewater, Gentleman, sold to Thomas Perkins of Bridgewater, yeoman, 17 acres of land in the south part of Bridgewater in the Titicut Great Lots adjoining Thomas Perkins’ land.[163] On 12 Dec. 1746 Thomas Perkins of Bridgewater, Yeoman, purchased 3 more parcels of land in the South Precinct of Bridgewater from James Keith of Bridgewater, Yeoman, and Lydia his wife, for £300 with a house, barn and shop.[164]

In March 1737/8 David Perkins of Bridgwater, Bloomer, and Jonathan Perkins of Bridgwater, husbandman, “for themselves and in the name and behalf of Abraham Perkins of South Kingston, Rhoad Island, blacksmith, Gideon Washburne, husbandman, and Mary his wife, Joseph Byram, Physician, and Martha his wife, Solomon Leonard, yeoman, and Elizabeth his wife, and Abraham Perkins, husbandman, Susanna Allen, Widdow, and Sarah Perkins, Spinster, all of Bridgwater, John Perkins, Eleazer Perkins, Mercy/Mary Perkins and Elizabeth Perkins, of Middleboro, Minors and Children of John Perkins late of Plymton, Deceased,” sued Thomas Perkins of Bridgwater, blacksmith,[165] and in Sept. 1738 Thomas Perkins sued Gideon Washburn of Bridgwater, husbandman, over an £8 bond dated 19 Apr. 1728,[166] and also in Sept. 1738 Thomas Perkins of Bridgwater, yeoman, executor of the estate of his father David Perkins, late of Bridgwater, Gentleman, sued Ephraim Leonard of Bridgwater, Inholder, over a £21 bond dated 1 June 1730.[167] In addition to raising their own children, Mr. Thomas Perkins, of Bridgewater, was appointed as guardian of Timothy, Martha, James, and Silence Perkins on 13 May 1729, children of his brother Nathan Perkins, who died in Bridgewater in 1723.[168]

Mary (Washburn) Perkins died on 23 Apr. 1750 in Bridgewater, aged 60 years,[169] and Mr. Thomas Perkins died testate on 5 June 1761 in Bridgewater, aged 73 years.[170] His will was dated 18 Mar. 1758, witnessed by Josiah Edson Jr., John Woods, and Benjamin Sprague, and probated on 3 Aug. 1761. He named his son Thomas Perkins as sole executor, and divided his homestead farm between his sons Ebenezer Perkins and Francis Perkins, as well as giving them other lands containing his grist mill, saw mill, his interest in the forge and the Cedar swamp. He also mentioned 2 granddaughters and a grandson, children of his deceased daughter Mary Howard, late wife of Josiah Howard Jr., and 200 acres of land at Cork Hill in the township of Wells that had been purchased by his father.[171] (See Appendix [A] for full transcription of his will as recorded for probate.)

Mary Washburn and Thomas Perkins had children:[172]

+ 478 i Mary Perkins, born on 10 Jan. 1717/18 in Bridgewater,[173] married (572) Josiah⁵ Hayward (Jr.), son of Josiah⁴ and (151) Sarah⁴ (Kinsley) Hayward,[174] on 11 Feb. 1741 in Bridgewater,[175] and they lived in Bridgewater. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 479 ii Hephzibah Perkins, born on 15 Feb. 1719/20 in Bridgewater,[176] married 1.) Lt. Eleazer Carver (3rd), son of Deacon Eleazer and Katharine (Elmes) Carver (Jr.),[177] on 3 Apr. 1746 in Bridgewater,[178] and 2.) Ebenezer³ Keith, son of Samuel² and Bethiah³ (Fobes) Keith, as his second wife,[179] on 6 Nov. 1759 in Bridgewater,[180] and she lived in Bridgewater. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 480 iii Thomas Perkins (Jr.), born on 25 June 1722 in Bridgewater,[181] married Mary Pratt, daughter of Deacon Solomon and Sarah (Johnson) Pratt,[182] on 5 Apr. 1748 in Bridgewater,[183] and they also lived in Bridgewater. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

481 iv Charles Perkins, born on 11 Jan. 1724/5 in Bridgewater,[184] died on 1 Oct. 1726 in Bridgewater.[185]

+ 482 v Ebenezer Perkins, born on 20 Apr. 1727 in Bridgewater,[186] married Experience⁵ Holmes, daughter of Thomas⁴ and Mary³ (Sprout) Holmes, of Middleborough,[187] on 28 Feb. 1750/1 in Bridgewater,[188] and they also lived in Bridgewater. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 483 vi Lt. Francis Perkins, born on 8 Sept. 1729 in Bridgewater,[189] married 1.) Susanna Waterman, daughter of Deacon Robert and Martha⁵ (Cushman) Waterman (Jr.), of Halifax, MA,[190] on 14 Dec. 1762 in Halifax,[191] and 2.) (1217) Philibert⁴ Keith, daughter of Ephraim³, Esq., and (417) Sarah⁵ (Washburn) Keith,[192] on 2 Mar. 1775 in Bridgewater.[193] He also lived in Bridgewater. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

(133.) Ebenezer⁴ Washburn, probably fourth son of (59) Joseph³ Washburn, (43) John² (5th), (28) John¹ (4th); born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts Colony, in ca. 1693, married Patience Miles, daughter of Stephen and Patience (Wheeler) Miles,[194] on 29 June 1721 in New Milford, Litchfield Co., CT.[195] She was born on 20 Sept. 1704 in Derby, CT,[196] a granddaughter of Samuel and Hannah (Wilmot) Miles, of New Haven, CT,[197] and of Joseph and Patience (Holbrook) Wheeler.[198]

Ebenezer Washburn was a blacksmith, like his father, and they lived in New Milford and Kent, CT. On 6 May 1720 Joseph Washburn gave a deed of gift to a field in “Poor Meadow,” in Bridgewater, to his son Ebenezer Washburn, which Ebenezer sold to Timothy Washburn, tanner, on 13 July 1720.[199] On 28 Apr. 1722 Ebenezer Washburn, blacksmith, purchased 37 acres of land in New Milford, CT, from David Griswold, of Farmington, CT, but in 1723 he was unable to pay for the land, and relinquished it back to Griswold.[200] He was living in Dover, Dutchess Co., NY, in 1725, when he signed a quitclaim to Martha Prime, of New Milford, for land in New Milford,[201] but he was back in New Milford, CT, in 1726,[202] and is mentioned in land transactions there in 1733, 1735, and 1743.[203] Patience Washburn was admitted to the church in Kent, CT, on 21 July 1741.[204] His name was listed in the tax records of Kent, CT, from 1744 to 1754.[205]

Ebenezer Washburn died intestate in 1762 in Monmouth Co., NJ.[206] On 5 Mar. 1762 Jonathan Washburn, of Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ, was granted administration of the estate of his father, Ebenezer Washburn, after his widow, Patience, declined the administration.[207]

Ebenezer Washburn and Patience Miles had 15 children:

484 i Patience⁵ Washburn, born on 2 May 1722 in New Milford, CT,[208] supposedly married (446) Daniel⁵ Washburn, her first cousin, son of (128) Miles⁴ and Susanna (Perry[?]) Washburn,[209] in Feb. 1750 in New Milford, CT,[210] and they lived in New Milford. He was born on 14 Apr. 1726 in Plympton, MA.[211] She apparently died soon after the birth of their first daughter, and he remarried to Mary (___) in ca. 1753,[212] and moved to Amenia, Oblong District, Dutchess Co., NY. He died testate in ca. 1809 in Northfield, Saratoga Co. NY. (See the family of Daniel Washburn in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 485 ii Susanna⁵ Washburn, born on 9 May 1725 in New Milford, CT,[213] married William Drinkwater, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Haskell) Drinkwater, of Taunton, MA,[214] as his second wife, on 14 Mar. 1751 in New Milford,[215] and they lived in New Milford. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 486 iii Joseph⁵ Washburn, born on 16 May 1727 in New Milford, CT,[216] probably married 1.) (397) Mary⁵ Washburn, daughter of (120) Timothy⁴ and Hannah Washburn, of Coventry, CT, on 14 May 1752 in Sharon, Litchfield Co., CT,[217] and 2.) Elizabeth Waller on 31 May 1775 in Kent, CT,[218] and moved to Luzerne Co., PA.[219] (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

487 iv Eunice Washburn, born on 26 Apr. 1729 in New Milford, CT,[220] marriage not found.

₊ 488 v Miles⁵ Washburn, born on 10 Jan. 1730/1 in New Milford, CT,[221] married Sarah Lyon, daughter of Moses and Rachel (Jackson) Lyon,[222] on 12 Oct. 1752 in Kent, CT.[223] He lived in Kent, CT, then moved to “Murrayfield,” or Norwich, Hampshire Co., MA, then to Saratoga, Albany Co., NY. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

489 vi Jonathan⁵ Washburn, born on 20 Feb. 1732/3 in New Milford, CT,[224] married Hannah Drake, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Taylor) Drake,[225] on 4 Feb. 1762 in the Presbyterian Church, Rombout, Dutchess Co., NY.[226] She was born on 27 May 1739 in Fishkill, Dutchess Co., NY,[227] and they moved to Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ, where he was living when he was granted administration of the estate of his father in 1762, but he was not a head of household in New Jersey in the 1790 federal census, and he may have moved to Delaware Co., NY, after settling his father’s estate. He may have been the Jonathan Washburn living in Middletown, Delaware Co., NY, in the 1800 federal census.[228]

+ 490 vii Stephen⁵ Washburn, born on 19 Feb. 1734/5 in New Milford, CT,[229] married Martha Tabor[?] in ca. 1759,[230] and moved to Manchester, Bennington Co., VT. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 491 viii Rebeckah⁵ Washburn, born on 5 Mar. 1736/7 in New Milford, CT,[231] supposedly married Timothy Carver,[232] son of Eleazer and Katharine (Elmes) Carver (Jr.), of Middleborough, MA,[233] in ca. 1752.[234] (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

492 ix (Unnamed son), died on 16 Apr. 1741 in Kent, CT.[235]

493 x Mercy Washburn, baptized on 26 July 1741 in Kent, CT,[236] probably died young.

+ 494 ix Mary⁵ Washburn, baptized on 11 July 1742 in Kent, CT,[237] married Jacob Bull on 17 Nov. 1762 in Kent, Litchfield Co., CT,[238] and lived in Kent. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

495 xii Hepsibah Washburn, baptized on 2 May 1744 in Kent, CT,[239] supposedly married Richard Stanley.[240]

496 xiii Ebenezer⁵ Washburn (Jr.), baptized on 21 Sept. 1746 in Kent, CT,[241] probably was the Ebenezer Washburn who settled first in Fredericksburgh on the Phillips Patent in what was then Dutchess Co., NY, and married Mary (___),[242] and had 8 children before the Revolutionary War. He was an Ensign in Capt. Mead’s Company, Col. Henry Luddington’s 7th Regiment of the New York Militia at the start of the Revolutionary War, but deserted by May of 1778, and joined the British Army.[243] His house was burned by the Patriots and his property confiscated, and was forced to move to Nova Scotia in 1782. They arrived in Annapolis on 19 Oct. 1782, with the expectation of receiving land there either in the Amos Botsford grant, or at Annapolis Digby. He supposedly answered a muster roll at Annapolis Digby township in July 1784.[244] Eventually he was able to locate at Gillivers Hole, which is on Gullivers Cove, NS, but by 1786 Ebenezer began selling his land in preparation for a move back to New York. His claim for relief, filed on 8 Mar. 1786 had been rejected,[245] and he found that he could not comfortably support his family in Nova Scotia. It appears that probably his wife Mary and some or all of their children were back in Dutchess Co., NY, by 1788, when his daughter Susannah was married there to Gilbert Drew.[246] Ebenezer was not listed as a head of household in New York in the 1790 federal census, but he may have sold all his land in Nova Scotia and settled his family in Middletown, in newly created Delaware Co., NY, by the 1800 federal census.[247]

497 xiv Annice “Anna” Washburn, baptized on 21 Aug. 1748 in Kent,[248] supposedly married 1.) Samuel Ferrand, and 2.) David Ferrand, and died on 20 Feb. 1813 in Hinesburg, Chittenden Co., VT.[249] Children not found.

498 xv David⁵ Washburn, baptized on 8 July 1750 in Kent, CT,[250] supposedly married Phebe Terrill on 31 May 1774 in Washington, CT.[251] He was a Loyalist during the Revolutionary War, and was supposedly convicted of high treason in Oct. 1779 in Fairfield Co., CT, and sentenced to death,[252] but the sentence was suspended until Mar. 1780, and he was released in May 1780, through a prisoner exchange.[253] They supposedly moved to Canada via Lake Champlain.[254]

(134.) Ephraim⁴ Washburn, probably fifth son of (59) Joseph³ Washburn, (43) John² (5th), (28) John¹ (4th); born in ca. 1695 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts Colony, married Mary Polden/Polland, daughter of John and Lydia³ (Tilson) Polden/Polland (Jr.), of Plymouth,[255] on 13 Jan. 1725/6 in Plymouth, MA.[256] She was born on 28 Feb. 1706 in Plymouth,[257] a granddaughter of John and Mary² (Leonard) Polland/Pollard, and of Ephraim² and Elizabeth² (Hoskins) Tilson, of Plymouth.[258]

Ephraim Washburne bound himself to his cousin, Thomas Washburne Jr., of Bridgewater, to learn the trade of a blacksmith from 6 Nov. 1721 to 20 Mar. 1722/3. Part of the agreement was that Thomas would provide Ephraim with “Meat, Drink, Cloathing, Washing, and Lodging and at the End of his Apprenticeship find him two Compleat Suits of apparrell, one for Common and the other for Special Wear, and allow him a Vice, Bickhorn, Tongs, Hammers, and Sledge and Buttress and Pincers fit for his Work,” but in March 1723/4 Ephraim sued Thomas, claiming that he had failed to perform on part of his agreement, to “find for and allow the said Apprentice the Suit of Cloathing for Special Wear and the said Bickhorn, Tongs, Hammers, Sledge, and Pincers.” Ephraim won the suit for £12 plus court costs because Thomas did not appear in court.[259] In Sept. 1733 Isaac Churchell of Plympton, husbandman, sued Ephraim Washburne of Plympton, blacksmith, over a £20 bond dated 8 June 1731.[260] In March 1738/9 Samuel Bradford of Plimton, Gentleman, sued Ephraim Washburne of Plymton over a bond for £60 dated 2 Mar. 1735,[261] and James Shurtleff of Plymouth, cordwainer, administrator of the estate of Abiel Shurtleff, late of Plymton, carpenter, sued Ephraim Washburn of Plymton, blacksmith, for ejectment from a 16½ acre parcel of land in Plympton which was granted to Abiel Shurtleff in 1707, and passed on to James Shurtleff in 1732 as administrator of the estate of Abiel Shurtleff, stating that in 1733 Washburne “Entred into the Possession of the premisses and without Judgment Disseized the Plaintiff,”[262] but Washburne countersued, and received judgement for £130 from Shurtleff in Dec. 1741.[263]

Ephraim Washburn died intestate in 1755 in Plympton, and his eldest son, William Washburn, was appointed as administrator of his estate on 16 July 1755, with Joshua Benson, of Middleborough, and John Bishop, of Wareham, as sureties. His inventory was taken on 25 Sept. 1755 by John Bishop, Ebenezer Briggs, and Joshua Benson, and his estate was divided and distributed on 24 Apr. 1758 to his heirs: his widow Mary Washburn, his eldest son William Washburn, sons Stephen Washburn, Isaac Washburn, Japhet Washburn, and John Washburn, and daughters Lydia Norris, wife of Samuel Norris, Elizabeth Benson, wife of Consider Benson, Marcy Washburn, Phebe Washburn, and Jemima Washburn.[264] Mary (Polden) Washburn died before 1784.

On 9 Sept. 1784 William Washburn, of Plympton, Consider Benson, Elizabeth Benson, David Vaughan, Phebe Vaughan, and Mercy Washburn, all of Middleborough, and Isaac Washburn, of Rochester, sold to Asa Hunt, of Middleborough, a meadow in Plympton, being part of four acres our father Ephraim Washburn bought of Nathaniel Thomas, being the meadow set off to our mother Mary Washburn in the division of our said father's estate, excepting 2/11ths which belongs to our brother John Washburn, and the heirs of our late sister Jemima Randell, deceased.[265] On 4 Mar. 1786 Stephen Washburn of Middleborough, yeoman, sold to Asa Hunt, of Middleborough, his one eleventh part of the meadow in Plympton set off to his mother Mary Washburn in the division of his father Ephraim Washburn’s estate,[266] and on 22 Feb. 1788 Thomas Randall of Duxborough, yeoman, and Ephraim Randall of Pembroke, Housewright, sold to Asa Hunt, of Middleborough, their one eleventh part of the fresh meadow in Plympton that they inherited from their grandmother Mary Washburn of Plympton in the division of the estate of their grandfather Ephraim Washburn.[267] All three deeds were recorded at the same time on 6 Aug. 1789.

Ephraim Washburn and Mary Polden had children:

+ 499 i William⁵ Washburn, born on 25 Oct. 1726 in Plympton,[268] MA, married Sarah Bates, probably daughter of Thomas and Lydia (Savery) Bates,[269] of Wareham, MA, on 8 Nov. 1759 in Wareham,[270] and settled in Carver, MA. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 500 ii Lydia⁵ Washburn, born on 4 May 1728 in Plympton,[271] married Samuel Norris, son of Benjamin and Mary (Woodin) Norris, of Plymouth,[272] on 21 Dec. 1749 in Plympton,[273] and they lived in Wareham, MA, then moved to New Sandwich, ME. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 501 iii Elizabeth⁵ Washburn, born on 9 Mar. 1732 in Plympton,[274] married Lt. Consider⁵ Benson, son of Samuel⁴ and Kezia (Barrows) Benson, of Middleborough,[275] on 3 Dec. 1751 in Plympton,[276] and they lived in Middleborough. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

502 iv Marcy/Mercy⁵ Washburn, born in 1734 in Plympton,[277] was still unmarried at the division of her father's estate in 1758, probably never married. She lived in Middleborough. On 9 Sept. 1784 she joined her brothers and sisters William Washburn, Consider and Elizabeth Benson, David and Phebe Vaughan, and Isaac Washburn, in selling their shares of the estate of their father Ephraim Washburn, late of Plympton, to Asa Hunt, of Middleborough,[278] and on 1 Apr. 1787 she sold her one eleventh share of her mother’s dowry in her father’s estate in Plympton to her brother-in-law Consider Benson, of Middleborough.[279]

+ 503 v Stephen⁵ Washburn, born on 24 Sept. 1736 in Plympton,[280] married 1.) Hannah Norris, supposedly daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Bump[?]) Norris,[281] on 11 May 1757 in Wareham, MA,[282] and 2.) Sarah (Craigie) Harmon, widow of Benjamin Harmon, of New Gloucester, ME, on 12 July 1788 in New Gloucester, ME.[283] He lived in Middleborough, then moved to Shepherdsville or New Gloucester, Cumberland Co., ME. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 504 vi Isaac⁵ Washburn, born on 12 Nov. 1738 in Plympton,[284] married 1.) Mary⁵ Benson, daughter of Caleb⁴ and Deborah (Barrow) Benson, of Middleborough,[285] on 23 Nov. 1758 in Middleborough,[286] and 2.) Cloe/Chloe Combs, daughter of Ithamar and Hannah (Andrews) Combs, of Rochester, MA,[287] in 1769.[288] They moved to Plainfield, Caledonia Co., VT. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 505 vii Phebe⁵ Washburn, born on 27 Jan. 1740 in Plympton,[289] married Capt. David Vaughan, son of John and Jerusha (Wood) Vaughan, of Middleborough,[290] on 24 Mar. 1762 in Middleborough,[291] and they lived in Middleborough. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 506 viii Jemima⁵ Washburn, born in ca. 1742 in Plympton,[292] married John Randall, a “resident of Middleborough,” son of Thomas and Faith (Winslow) Randall,[293] of Pembroke, MA, on 11 Oct. 1764 in Middleborough,[294] and they lived in Pembroke. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 507 ix Japheth⁵ Washburn, born on 11 Sept. 1746 in Plympton, was placed under the guardianship of his oldest brother, William Washburn, in 1763, after his father died,[295] and he married Priscilla Coombs, daughter of Ithamer and Hannah (Andrews) Coombs, of Rochester, MA,[296] in 1768 in Rochester,[297] and they moved to Wayne, Kennebec Co., ME. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 508 x John⁵ Washburn, the youngest son, born ca. 1753,[298] probably in Plympton, no guardianship was found for him, but he was listed in the division of his father's estate in 1758, and in the sale of his mother's meadow in Plympton in 1784, married 1.) Huldah⁶ Cushman, daughter of Caleb⁵ and Sarah (Barrows) Cushman, of Carver,[299] on 23 Nov. 1775 in Plympton,[300] and 2.) Azubah⁶ Fuller, daughter of Barnabas⁵ and Rebecca⁶ (Cushman) Fuller, on 11 Apr. 1793 in Oxford Co., ME.[301] (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

(135.) Rebecca⁴ Washburn, probably third daughter of (59) Joseph³ Washburn, (43) John² (5th), (28) John¹ (4th); born in Bridgewater, MA, in ca. 1695, married Capt. David Johnson, son of Capt. Isaac and Abiah (Leavitt) (Lazell) Johnson, of West Bridgewater,[302] on 7 Jan. 1719/20 in Bridgewater.[303] He was born ca. 1692,[304] probably in Hingham, MA, and grandson of Deacon John and Sarah (Gilman) Leavitt, of Hingham.[305]

On 11 June 1729 David Johnson of Bridgewater, yeoman, purchased 20 acres of land and meadow from Timothy Washburn, of Bridgewater, Husbandman, that was part of the homestead of his father, Thomas Washburn, in Bridgewater, including the dwelling house of his father on the other side of the way opposite to the farm,[306] and on 17 June 1730 Capt. Isaac Johnson, of Bridgewater, deeded several tracts of land in Bridgewater to his son David Johnson, of Bridgewater, for love, goodwill and affection.[307] On 6 Oct. 1738 David Johnson, John Johnson, John Kingman, and several others signed an agreement to build a dam, furance and coal house on the northwesterly side of the road which leads from John Johnson’s dwelling house to Zechariah Snells on Salisbury Plain River in Bridgewater.[308] On 27 Mar. 1741 David Johnson, of Bridgewater, Gent., sold the quarter acre of land where the house of Thomas Washburn once stood on the other side of the way from his land to his neighbor David Leach, of Bridgewater, yeoman,[309] and on 7 Oct. 1743 David and Elizabeth Leach, of Bridgewater, Husbandman, sold several parcels of land totaling 36½ acres in Bridgewater to David Johnson, of Bridgewater, Gentleman.[310] On 21 Jan. 1742/3 David Johnson, of Bridgewater, Gentleman, purchased 50 acres of land in Bridgewater on the Easton town line along with 2¾ acres of meadow from John Green, of Boston, for £410,[311] which he and his wife Rebekah Johnson sold to William Barclay, of Easton, Blacksmith, on 13 Apr. 1744 for £500.[312] On 18 Mar. 1752 David Johnson, of Bridgewater, Gentleman, deeded several parcels of land in Bridgewater totaling about 60 acres including part of the land he purchased from Timothy Washburn to his son, Isaac Johnson,[313] and on 22 June 1754 David Johnson, of Bridgewater, Gentleman, sold several parcels of land totaling 45 acres in Bridgewater to his son David Johnson Jr., of Bridgewater, where the dwelling house of David Johnson Jr. now stands.[314]

Capt. David Johnson died on 22 Feb. 1773 in West Bridgewater, aged 80 years,[315] but no probate records were found for either of them in Plymouth County.

Rebecca Washburn and Capt. David Johnson had children:[316]

+ 509 i Maj. Isaac Johnson, born on 9 Aug. 1721 in Bridgewater,[317] married (588) Mary⁴ Willis, daughter of Capt. Thomas³ and (153) Mary (Kinsley) Willis,[318] in 1744 in Bridgewater,[319] and they lived in Bridgewater. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 510 ii David Johnson (Jr.), born on 8 Aug. 1724 in Bridgewater,[320] married 1.) Susanna⁵ Willis, daughter of John⁴, Esq. and Patience⁴ (Hayward) Willis (4th),[321] on 26 May 1743 in Bridgewater,[322] and 2.) Parnel⁴ Packard, daughter of Joseph³ and Susanna⁴ (Mitchell) Packard,[323] on 2 Oct. 1751 in Bridgewater,[324] and he lived in West Bridgewater. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

511 iii Mary Johnson, born on 29 [sic] Aug. 1729 in Bridgewater,[325] baptized on 24 Aug. 1729 in West Bridgewater,[326] married Robert⁴ Latham, son of Capt. Chilton³ and Susanna (Kingman) Latham,[327] on 12 June 1751 in Bridgewater.[328] He was born on 16 Aug. 1711 in Bridgewater,[329] a grandson of Robert² and Susanna² (Winslow) Latham.[330] Mary (Johnson) Latham died on 20 Apr. 1752 in East Bridgewater, aged 22 years,[331] probably of childbirth complications, and Robert Latham remarried to Bethiah⁴ (Hayward) Harris, daughter of Deacon Thomas³ and Bethiah³ (Brett) Hayward, and widow of Arthur Harris,[332] on 17 Apr. 1753 in Bridgewater.[333] She died on 28 Aug. 1778 in East Bridgewater,[334] and he remarried again to Jerusha Hooper, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Packard) Hooper,[335] on 18 Nov. 1778 in East Bridgewater.[336] Robert Latham died intestate on 9 Dec. 1788 in East Bridgewater, aged 77 years, “suddenly,”[337] and Hezekiah Hooper was granted administration of his estate, which was found insolvent.[338] Jerusha (Hooper) Latham was living in Bridgewater, MA, in the 1790 federal census,[339] and she remarried to Jacob⁵ Mitchell, son of Seth⁴ and Ann (Latham) Mitchell, as his third wife,[340] on 14 Apr. 1791 in East Bridgewater.[341] Jacob Mitchell was born on 24 Mar. 1740 in Bridgewater,[342] and had married first to Rebecca Loring on 26 Jan. 1763 in Bridgewater,[343] and secondly to Sarah (Sturtevant) Whitman, daughter of Caleb and Patience (Cushman) Sturtevant, of Halifax, and widow of Josiah Whitman,[344] on 4 Sept. 1783 in Bridgewater.[345] He died on 19 June 1827 in East Bridgewater, aged 87 years,[346] and Jerusha (Hooper) (Latham) Mitchell died a widow on 2 Apr. 1829 in East Bridgewater, aged 85 years,[347] but no probate records were found for either of them in Plymouth County. Mary (Johnson) Latham had one child:

1. Robert Johnson Latham, born on 10 Apr. 1752 in Bridgewater,[348] died on 15 Mar. 1756 in East Bridgewater, aged 4 [sic] years.[349]

+ 512 iv Sarah Johnson, born on 19 July 1732 in Bridgewater,[350] baptized on 23 July 1732 in West Bridgewater,[351] married Joseph⁴ Packard (Jr.), son of Joseph³ and Mary (Willis) Packard,[352] on 27 Dec. 1748 in Bridgewater,[353] and they lived in West Bridgewater. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 513 v Rebecca Johnson, born on 22 June 1734 in Bridgewater,[354] baptized on 23 June 1734 in West Bridgewater,[355] married Ezra⁴ Edson, son of Samuel³ and Mary (Dean) Edson (3rd),[356] on 18 Nov. 1756 in Bridgewater,[357] and they lived in Bridgewater. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

(136.) Edward⁴ Washburn, probably sixth son of (59) Joseph³ Washburn, (43) John² (5th), (28) John¹ (4th); born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts Colony, in ca. 1699, married Judith⁴ Rickard, daughter of Eleazer³ and Sarah³ (Eaton) Rickard, of Plympton, MA,[358] on 20 Apr. 1732 in Plympton,[359] and they lived in Plympton. She was born on 1 Feb. 1701/2 in Plymouth, MA,[360] a granddaughter of Giles² and Hannah² (Dunham) Rickard (Jr.),[361] and of Benjamin² and Sarah (Hoskins) Eaton,[362] and a great-granddaughter of Francis¹ Eaton, who came to Plymouth Colony in 1620 aboard the “Mayflower,” and his third wife, Christian Penn.[363]

In May 1729 Samuel Bartlett of Plymouth sued Edward Washburne of Plympton, labourer, over a £26 unpaid debt.[364] On 6 Sept. 1738 Miles and Edward Washburn, of Plympton, sold land in Plympton that their father Joseph Washburn had purchased from John Benson on 15 Apr. 1718,[365] and on 27 Apr. 1741 Edward Washburn, of Plympton, sold a parcel of land that had originally belonged to his father-in-law, Eleazer Rickard, to William Strobridge.[366] In Dec. 1734 Edward Washburn of Plimton was summoned to appear before a Grand Jury but he did not appear, and a “special warrant” was issued for him.[367] On 27 Apr. 1741 Edward Washburn of Plympton sold a 1/4 share of a cedar swamp formerly his father-in-law’s, Eleazer Rickard.[368]

Edward and Judith Washburn moved to East Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT, in ca. 1741. He died intestate in 1758 in Middletown, CT, and David Sage was appointed as administrator of his estate on 6 Nov. 1758,[369] but his death record has not been found. His estate was probated in Middletown, CT, but only an accounting, dated 15 Dec. 1758, and a partial inventory of claims against his estate survive.[370]

Edward Washburn and Judith Rickard had children:

514 i Sarah Washburn, born say ca. 1733, baptized on 15 Aug. 1736 in Plympton, MA,[371] marriage not found.

514a ii John⁵ Washburn, baptized on 15 Aug. 1736 in Plympton,[372] married Anna (Mattocks) Chipman, as her second husband, before 1765, but they probably had no children. On 19 Apr. 1765 John Washburn and wife Ann purchased land east of the Connecticut River from David Hale, of Middletown,[373] and they were living in Chatham, Middlesex Co., CT, in the 1790 federal census.[374] He died on 16 Sept. 1797 in Portland, CT, aged 63 years,[375] but no probate records were found for him in Connecticut. On 4 Apr. 1798 Anna Washburn, of Chatham, gave his parcel of land in Chatham to her nephew, Timothy Chipman, of Berlin, CT,[376] and she remarried to Thomas Shepard in May 1798 in Chatham.[377]

+ 515 iii Phebe⁵ Washburn, born on 27 Mar. 1738,[378] baptized on 14 May 1738 in Plympton,[379] married Benjamin Stocking, son of Samuel and Abiel (Boardman) Stocking,[380] in ca. 1755,[381] and they lived in Portland and Chatham, CT. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 516 iv Noah⁵ Washburn, baptized on 15 June 1740 in Plympton,[382] married Bathsheba Saxton on 14 Nov. 1765 in Hartford, CT.[383] (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

516a v Eleazer⁵ Washburn, baptized on 24 Oct. 1742 in East Middletown, CT,[384] died in ca. 1764, presumably unmarried. The inventory of his estate was filed on 27 Jan. 1764 in Middletown, CT.[385]

+ 517 vi Isaac⁵ Washburn, baptized on 3 Nov. 1745 in East Middletown, CT,[386] married Bethiah Lathley, daughter of James and Elizabeth Lathley, on 3 Dec. 1767 in Cromwell, Middlesex Co., CT.[387] (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

(137.) Hannah⁴ Washburn, probably youngest daughter of (59) Joseph³ Washburn, (43) John² (5th), (28) John¹ (4th); born in Bridgewater, MA, in say ca. 1701-1703, probably married Nathan⁴ Bassett, son of William³ and Sarah (Sweetland) Bassett,[388] of West Bridgewater, on 15 Mar. 1733 in Bridgewater.[389] He was born on 5 Sept. 1702 in Bridgewater,[390] a grandson of Joseph² and Mary (Lapham) Bassett.[391] On 4 Feb. 1733/4 Joseph Pratt of Bridgewater sold to Nathan Bassett, of Bridgewater, Yeoman, 5 acres of land to be laid out in Bridgewater on the purchase right which was formerly Guido Bailey’s,[392] and on 5 Feb. 1733/4 Joshua Fobes of Bridgewater, Yeoman, sold to Nathan Bassett of Bridgewater, Yeoman, 2½ acres of land to be laid out in Bridgewater on the purchase right which was formerly belonged to Deacon Edward Fobes.[393] On 7 Feb. 1734 Benjamin Snow of Bridgewater, Cordwainer, sold to Nathan Bassett of Bridgewater 3 acres to be laid out in Bridgewater and one third of an acre which had belonged to William Snow,[394] and on 2 Sept. 1735 Thomas Wade of Bridgewater, Joyner, sold to Nathan Bassett of Bridgewater, Husbandman, a large tract of land adjoining to William Bassett’s homestead in Bridgewater.[395] On 15 Dec. 1835 Moses Wade of Bridgewater, Housewright, sold to Joseph Bassett Junr. and Nathan Bassett, both of Bridgewater, Husbandmen, a 12½ acre tract of land lying near the dwelling house of Nathan Bassett in Bridgewater that Wade had inherited from his father.[396] On 10 Jan. 1738/9 Nathan Bassett of Bridgewater, Husbandman, sold to his brother Joseph Bassett of Bridgewater, Husbandman, a 7 acre piece of land on the northerly end of land which was formerly Joseph Bassett Sr.’s on the east side of Joseph Bassett’s land,[397] and on the same day Joseph Bassett, of Bridgewater, Husbandman, sold to his brother Nathan Bassett of Bridgewater, Husbandman, his one half interest in the tract of land in Bridgewater that he owned in common with Nathan which they had purchased from Moses Wade on 14 Dec. 1735.[398] On 26 Mar. 1747 Nathan and Hannah Bassett of Bridgewater sold their homestead farm with the dwelling house and 45 acres of land to Joseph Cowing of Scituate, Joyner.[399]

Hannah (Washburn) Bassett died in 1756 in Bridgewater,[400] and was buried in Scotland Graveyard in Bridgewater. Nathan Bassett probably moved to Norton, Bristol Co., MA, after her death, and he died intestate in 1762 in Norton, MA. His son-in-law, Josiah King, of Norton, was granted administration of his estate on 6 Aug. 1762, with John King, Gent., and William Bassett Junr., yeoman, both of Norton, as sureties.[401]

Nathan Bassett and Hannah Washburn had children:[402]

1192 i John⁵ Bassett, born on 29 Aug. 1734 in Bridgewater,[403] married Sarah⁶ Cushman, daughter of Jabez⁵ and Sarah (Paddleford) Cushman, of Middleborough,[404] supposedly on 25 Jan. 1757,[405] or in 1764.[406] She was a granddaughter of Benjamin⁴ and Sarah⁴ (Eaton) Cushman, of Plympton.[407] He may have been one of the several John Bassetts who served as a private from Massachusetts in the Revolutionary War.[408] On 28 Sept. 1759 John Bassett and Joseph Carver, of Bridgewater, purchased a lot in Providence, RI, but Bassett did not move to Providence, and on 5 Feb. 1774 John Bassett and wife Sarah sold their half interest in the lot in Providence to Joseph Carver. John Bassett, of Bridgewater, purchased a farm in Scituate, RI, from Barnard Haile in 1767, and they then moved to Scituate. On 8 Mar. 1777 John Bassett, of Scituate, RI, purchased 53 acres of land on Quinebog River, Killingly, CT.[409] They were living in Killingly, CT, in the 1790 federal census,[410] and he died testate in Killingly, CT, on 14 Jan. 1799, and was buried in the Old Westfield Cemetery in Killingly, CT.[411] His will was dated 8 Jan. 1799, and probated on 9 Mar. 1799, and he mentioned his son John, son Oliver, son David, and children of his daughter Eunice Warren, deceased, namely Oliver, Benjamin, Roxanna, Isaac and Eunice Warren, all minors.[412] John Bassett and Sarah Cushman supposedly had children, order uncertain:[413]

a. Eunice⁶ Bassett, born ca. 1765,[414] married Isaac Warren,[415] son of Capt. Ephraim and Susanna (Hubbard) Warren, of Killingly, CT,[416] in Aug. 1784 in Pomfret, Windham Co., CT.[417] He was born ca. 1764 in Killingly, CT.[418] She died on 10 Mar. 1796 in Palmer, Hampden Co., MA, aged 30 years,[419] leaving 5 children named in her father’s will, and was buried in Palmer Center Cemetery in Palmer, MA. He remarried to Mary “Polly” Breckenridge on 18 Oct. 1797 in Palmer, MA.[420] She was born ca. 1776.[421] He died on 14 Sept. 1829 in Sheds Corners, DeRuyter, Madison Co., NY, aged 65 years,[422] and she died on 6 Dec. 1836,[423] they were both buried in Sheds Cemetery in Sheds, Madison Co., NY.

b. John⁶ Bassett (Jr.), married Eunice Day.[424]

c. Oliver⁶ Bassett, married (___) Chrissey.[425]

d. David⁶ Bassett, mentioned in his father’s will.

e. Sarah⁶ Bassett, born on 27 Aug. 1775, married 1.) Benjamin Whitney in ca. 1796.[426] He was born on 17 Oct. 1755 in CT, and died on 27 Aug. 1801 in Granville, Washington Co., NY.[427] She remarried to 2.) John Farnsworth, who was born in 1766 in Granville, NY.[428] She supposedly died on 27 Mar. 1861 in French Creek, Chautauqua Co., NY.[429]

f. Joseph Bassett, probably died young, before his father’s will.

1193 ii Nathan Bassett (Jr.), born on 4 Sept. 1737 in Bridgewater,[430] died in 1756 in Bridgewater,[431] unmarried.

1194 iii Ruth⁵ Bassett, born on 11 May 1740 in Bridgewater,[432] married Capt. Josiah King, son of John and Margaret King, on 7 Jan. 1762 in Norton, MA.[433] He was born on 2 Oct. 1739 in Norton,[434] and he was appointed as administrator of the estate of his father-in-law, Nathan Bassett, on 6 Aug. 1762. She died by 1789, and he remarried to Elizabeth Morey on 15 Dec. 1789 in Norton, MA.[435] No death or probate records were found for him in Bristol Co., MA. Ruth (Bassett) King had children:

a. Josiah King Jr., born on 22 Apr. 1762 in Norton, MA,[436] married Miriam Cobb, daughter of Silas and Deliverance (Hodges) Cobb,[437] on 29 May 1787 in Norton.[438] She was born on 23 Oct. 1764 in Norton.[439] He died on 6 Apr. 1845 in Norton, aged 82 years, 11 months, 14 days, of “old age,”[440] but no probate records were filed for his estate in Bristol Co., MA.

b. Ruth King, born on 18 Mar. 1764 in Norton,[441] married Timothy Hodges Jr., of Taunton, on 24 Oct. 1786 in Norton.[442]

c. Hannah King, born on 10 Oct. 1766 in Norton.[443]

d. Calvin King, born on 13 Aug. 1768 in Norton,[444] married Sally Tucker on 23 Nov. 1789 in Norton.[445]

e. Margaret “Peggy” King, born on 15 Aug. 1770 in Norton,[446] married John Prior, son of Nathaniel and Mary Prior, on 31 Mar. 1791 in Mansfield, MA.[447] He was born on 24 Apr. 1764 in Norton.[448]

f. John King, born on 5 Aug. 1772 in Norton,[449] married Ruth Bassett, possibly a cousin, on 31 Mar. 1795 in Norton.[450]

1195 iv David Bassett, born on 27 Feb. 1742/3 in Bridgewater,[451] died in 1756 in Bridgewater.[452]

1196 v Hannah Bassett, born on 5 May 1745 in Bridgewater,[453] marriage not found.

1197 vi Joseph⁵ Bassett, Esq., born on 27 Oct. 1747 in Bridgewater,[454] married Hannah Lathrop, daughter of Josiah and Sarah (Church) Lathrop,[455] on 6 June 1776 in West Bridgewater.[456] She was born on 6 Aug. 1753 in Bridgewater,[457] a granddaughter of Edward and Hannah (Wade) Lathrop.[458] They were living in Bridgewater, MA, in the 1790 federal census.[459] Joseph Bassett, Esq., died testate on 13 Mar. 1817 in Bridgewater,[460] his will dated 12 June 1815, and probated on 1 Apr. 1817, mentioned his unnamed wife, sons William, Jonathan, Joseph, George, Nathan, Josiah and Paschal, and two daughters Sally Keith and Hannah Fobes, and he named four of his sons, William, Jonathan, Joseph and George as joint executors of his estate.[461] (See Appendix [B] for a full transcription of his will.) Hannah (Lathrop) Bassett died a widow on 9 Sept. 1834 in Bridgewater, aged 81 years, of “old age and dropsy.”[462] They had children:

a. William⁶ Bassett, born on 29 Mar. 1777 in Bridgewater,[463] married Abiah Williams, of Raynham, on 23 Oct. 1800 in Raynham.[464] She was born on 14 July 1782.[465] He died on 20 Dec. 1843 in Bridgewater, of cancer, aged 67 years,[466] and she died a widow on 14 May 1860 in Bridgewater, aged 77 years, 10 months, “paralytic,”[467] but she was not found in the 1850 federal census in Bridgewater.

b. Nathan⁶ Bassett, born on 26 Oct. 1778 in Bridgewater,[468] married “Mrs.” Sybil (Thompson) Daniels, daughter of Nathaniel and Hannah (Thomas) Thompson,[469] on 14 Jan. 1827 in Bridgewater.[470] She was born on 27 Apr. 1780 in Middleborough, MA,[471] and they were still living in Bridgewater, MA, in the 1850 federal census, next door to his brother-in-law, Ezra Fobes, where he was a farmer.[472] She died on 4 Mar. 1860 in Bridgewater, aged 79 years, 10 months, 18 days,[473] and he was living with his sister and brother-in-law Ezra and Hannah Fobes in Bridgewater in the 1860 federal census, where he was a “Gentleman.”[474] He died testate on 9 Aug. 1864 in Bridgewater,[475] and they were both buried in the Scotland Grave Yard in Bridgewater. His will was dated 22 Feb. 1849, and left all his estate to his wife Sybel T. Bassett, and named her and Ozias D. Daniels as executors of his estate, but since his wife was already deceased, and Ozias D. Daniel of Randolph, County of Norfolk, declined as executor, Josiah L. Bassett, of Bridgewater, was granted administration with the will annexed of the estate of Nathan Bassett, late of Bridgewater, on 9 Jan. 1865, with Josiah W. Bassett and Abiel Bassett as sureties.[476] (See Appendix [C] for a full transcription of his will.)

c. Sarah⁶ “Sally” Bassett, born on 15 June 1781 in Bridgewater,[477] married Hampden Keith, son of Simeon and Molly (Cary) Keith,[478] in 1800.[479] He was born on 15 July 1776 in Bridgewater.[480] Daughter Sally Keith was mentioned in the 1815 will of her father. He was not found in the 1850 federal census in Bridgewater, no probate records were filed for Hampden Keith in Plymouth Co., MA, and they probably moved to Kennebec Co., ME. He was probably living in Winslow, Kennebec Co., ME, in the 1810 federal census.[481]

d. Josiah⁶ Bassett, born on 22 Feb. 1783 in Bridgewater,[482] married Lucretia⁵ Mitchell, daughter of Bradford⁴ and Persis (Warner) Mitchell,[483] on 1 Oct. 1820 in Bridgewater.[484] She was born ca. 1788 in Cummington, MA,[485] a granddaughter of Col. Edward³ and Elizabeth (Cushing) Mitchell (Jr.), of East Bridgewater.[486] He served as a private from Bridgewater in Capt. Sears Washburn’s Company, Lt. Col. Caleb Howard’s Plymouth County Regiment of Massachusetts Militia in 1814 during the War of 1812.[487] They were living in Bridgewater, MA, in the 1850 federal census, where he was a farmer.[488] He died on 9 Oct. 1858 in Bridgewater, aged 75 years, 8 months, 20 days.[489] She died a widow on 14 Oct. 1879 in Bridgewater, aged 91 years, 1 month, 16 days, of “dropsy.”[490]

e. Jonathan⁶ Bassett, born on 16 Mar. 1785 in Bridgewater,[491] married 1.) Sarah⁶ “Sally” Leonard, daughter of David⁵ and Mary (Hall) Leonard,[492] on 6 June 1813 in Bridgewater.[493] She was born on 25 Apr. 1786 in Bridgewater,[494] a granddaughter of Joseph⁴ and Mary (Packard) Leonard (Jr.), of Bridgewater.[495] He also served as a private from Bridgewater in Capt. Sears Washburn’s Company, Lt. Col. Caleb Howard’s Plymouth County Regiment of Massachusetts Militia in 1814 during the War of 1812.[496] She died on 17 Oct. 1818 in Bridgewater,[497] and he supposedly remarried to 2.) (___) Fobes, a daughter of John Fobes.[498] He was not found in Bridgewater, MA, in the 1850 federal census, and no death records were found for him in Bridgewater, MA.

f. Hannah⁶ Bassett, born on 15 July 1787 in Bridgewater,[499] married Deacon Ezra⁶ Fobes (Jr.), son of Ezra⁵ and Mary (Shaw) Fobes,[500] on 19 June 1810 in Bridgewater.[501] He was born on 31 Dec. 1785 in Bridgewater,[502] a grandson of Josiah⁴ and Freelove (Edson) Fobes, of Bridgewater.[503] Daughter Hannah Fobes was mentioned in the 1815 will of her father. They were living in Bridgewater, MA, next door to her brother, Nathan Bassett, in the 1850 federal census, where he was also a farmer,[504] and her brother Nathan Bassett was living with them in Bridgewater in the 1860 federal census.[505] She died on 10 Dec. 1866 in Bridgewater, aged 79 years, 6 months,[506] and he died a widower on 12 Oct. 1872 in Bridgewater, aged 86 years, 10 months.[507]

g. Paschal⁶ Bassett, born on 5 June 1789 in Bridgewater,[508] married Mary Hooper, daughter of Winslow and Mary “Polly” (Latham) Hooper,[509] in 1811.[510] She was born on 29 Apr. 1792 in Bridgewater,[511] a granddaughter of Chilton and Mary (Howard) Latham, of Bridgewater.[512] Paschal Bassett was administrator of the estate of his father-in-law, Winslow Hooper, in 1835.[513] He died intestate on 20 Dec. 1849 in Bridgewater, of “consumption,” aged 60 years,[514] and his widow Mary Bassett was granted administration of his estate on 30 Jan. 1850.[515] She was still living in Bridgewater, MA, in the 1850,[516] and 1860 federal censuses.[517] She died a widow on 6 Aug. 1875 in Bridgewater, aged 86 years, 3 months, of paralysis.[518]

h. Joseph⁶ Bassett (Jr.), born on 4 Oct. 1791 in Bridgewater,[519] called “Joseph Bassett 2d,” married Hannah Williams, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Williams, of Raynham,[520] on 2 May 1816 in Raynham.[521] She was born ca. 1793 in MA.[522] They were living in Bridgewater, MA, in the 1850 federal census, next door to his brother George Bassett, where he was a farmer.[523] He died testate on 27 Sept. 1854 in Bridgewater, aged 63 years, of “disease of the brain,”[524] his will dated 29 Jan. 1845, and probated in Oct. 1854, mentioned his wife Hannah W. Bassett, his son Joseph Milton Bassett, his daughter Hannah W. Bassett, and his son Albigence Waldo Bassett, whom he appointed as executor of his estate.[525] (See Appendix [D] for a full transcription of his will.) She was still living in Bridgewater in the 1860 federal census,[526] and she died a widow on 16 Nov. 1867 in Bridgewater, aged 75 years, 2 months, of paralysis.[527]

i. George⁶ Bassett, born on 9 Dec. 1795 in Bridgewater,[528] married Hannah⁶ Mitchell, daughter of Major Theodore⁵ and Ruhamah (Newton) Mitchell,[529] on 7 Dec. 1819 in Bridgewater.[530] She was born on 12 Nov. 1799 in Bridgewater,[531] a granddaughter of Edward⁴ and Jane (Latham) Mitchell (Jr.), of Bridgewater.[532] They were living in Bridgewater, MA, in the 1850 federal census, next door to his brother Joseph Bassett,[533] and in the 1860 federal census,[534] where he was a farmer. He died intestate on 23 Dec. 1866 in Bridgewater, aged 71 years, of “dropsy,”[535] and his son George W. Bassett, of Bridgewater, was granted administration of his estate on 14 Jan. 1867.[536] She died a widow on 15 Dec. 1872 in Bridgewater, aged 73 years, of “Brights Disease.”[537]

1198 vii Jonathan⁵ Bassett, born on 25 May 1750 in Bridgewater,[538] supposedly moved to Killingly, CT,[539] but Jonathan Bassett was not listed as a head of household in Connecticut in the 1790 federal census, and no marriage or children were recorded to Jonathan Bassett in the Killingly town records.[540]

(138.) Benjamin⁴ Washburn, probably youngest son of (59) Joseph³ Washburn, (43) John² (5th), (28) John¹ (4th); born in Bridgewater, MA, in say ca. 1701-1703, married Zerviah⁴ Packard,[541] daughter of Israel³ and Hannah (Crossman) Packard, of Bridgewater,[542] on 1 Sept. 1740 in Middleborough, MA.[543] She was born on 22 May 1713 in Bridgewater,[544] a granddaughter of Zacheus² and Sarah² (Howard) Packard.[545]

The will of Israel Packard (Jr.), of Bridgewater, dated 18 Apr. 1752, named his brothers and sisters, including a sister Zerviah Washburn.[546]

Benjamin Washburn was a housewright in Bridgewater, and was apparently called Benjamin Washburn “2^d” after his cousin died in 1740. Benjamin and Zerviah Washburn died after the 1752 will of her brother, Israel Packard (Jr.), but Benjamin Washburn was probably dead by 1760. No death or probate records were found for either of them in Plymouth County.

Benjamin Washburn and Zerviah Packard had children:[547]

523 i Zerviah Washburn, baptized on 1 June 1741 in North Bridgewater,[548] MA, marriage not found, possibly the unnamed child of Benjamin Washburn who died on 19 Jan. 1744 in Bridgewater.[549]

523a ii Benjamin Washburn (Jr.), baptized on 24 Oct. 1742 in North Bridgewater,[550] possibly died in 1747. No marriage, death, or probate records were found for him in Plymouth County.

524 iii Hannah⁵ Washburn, born on 19 Jan. 1743/4 in Bridgewater,[551] married James Carkis Woodwiss on 12 Feb. 1770 in North Bridgewater,[552] and they lived in Bridgewater. He was not a head of household in Massachusetts in the 1790 federal census, and no death or probate records were found for either James C. or Hannah Woodwiss in Plymouth County. They had children:

a. Sarah Woodwiss, born on 3 Dec. 1770 in Bridgewater,[553] never married, died on 27 Mar. 1816 in East Bridgewater, aged 43 years, in the “poor house.”[554]

b. John Woodwiss, born on 29 Jan. 1772 in Bridgewater,[555] marriage not found.

c. Mary “Polly” Woodwiss, born on 14 Sept. 1773 in Bridgewater,[556] probably married Abner Morse, son of Jonathan and Priscilla (Darling) Morse (Jr.), of Middleborough, on 4 July 1804 in Bridgewater.[557] He was born on 27 Jan. 1773 in Middleborough,[558] a grandson of John and Elisabeth (Bennett) Darling, of Middleborough.[559] They were not found in the 1810, 1820, or 1830 federal censuses in Middleborough, nor in the 1850 federal census in Plymouth or Bristol Co., MA, nor in the 1855 state census in Middleborough, and no death or probate records were found for either of them in Plymouth County. They had at least one son who died young:

1. Benjamin Morse, died on 26 Jan. 1810 in Middleborough.[560]

2. (Probably others)

524a iv Susanna Washburn, baptized on 3 Aug. 1746 in North Bridgewater,[561] marriage not found.

525 v Sarah⁵ Washburn, born on 19 Apr. 1748 in Bridgewater,[562] baptized on 2 Oct. 1748 in North Bridgewater,[563] married Daniel Bryant on 16 July 1767 in Bridgewater.[564] Children not found. No death or probate records were found for either of them in Plymouth County, and he was not listed as a head of household in Plymouth Co., MA, in the 1790 federal census.

525a vi Ebenezer⁵ Washburn, born on 18 Dec. 1750 in Bridgewater,[565] baptized on 30 June 1751 in North Bridgewater,[566] probably the Ebenezer Washburn who married Mary Leach on 27 Apr. 1772 in Bridgewater.[567] Children not found. No death or probate records were found for either of them in Plymouth County.

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[1] Miles Washbourn served on a jury in Plymouth Colony in Mar. 1698/9, so he was presumably born in early 1678.

[2] Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, The First Five Generations, published as Volume 12 of “Mayflower Families Through Five Generations,” Picton Press, Rockport, ME, 1996, [hereinafter MF5G: Cooke], p. 256.

[3] Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1987, [hereinafter Torrey, New England Marriages], p. 573; MF5G: Cooke, p. 256.

[4] Estimated from the birth of their first child, in 1724.

[5] MF5G: Cooke, p. 256, taken from Bowman, George Ernest, “Sandwich, Mass., Vital Records,” The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 29, p. 30.

[6] Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 573, which gives her name as Elizabeth Burge or Burgess; “Abstracts of the Barnstable County, Mass., Probate Records,” The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 11, p. 26-27, the will of Ezra Perry, of Sandwich, dated 16 Oct. 1689, and probated on 18 Apr. 1690, mentioned “my well beloved Son Benjamin Perry” among others, wife Elizabeth Perry was his executrix, and it was witnessed by Jacob Burge and James Steuart.

[7] Brownson, Lydia B. (Phinney), and Maclean W. McLean, “Ezra Perry of Sandwich, Mass. (c. 1625-1689)” Genealogies of Mayflower Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. III, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1985, p. 16; Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 724, which lists her maiden name as doubtful.

[8] Konig, David Thomas, ed., Plymouth Court Records 1686-1859, 16 Volumes, Pilgrim Society, May 1978, republished on a CD-ROM, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 2002, [hereinafter Plymouth County Court Records], Vol. 1, General Sessions of the Peace, Session 6, p. 147-148.

[9] MF5G: Cooke, pp. 105, 256.

[10] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 18, p. 109.

[11] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 24, p. 140.

[12] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 5, Court of Common Pleas, Session 2, p. 71.

[13] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 5, Court of Common Pleas, Session 2, p. 150.

[14] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 36, p. 189.

[15] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 6, Court of Common Pleas, Session 7, p. 26.

[16] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 48, p. 147. George Barrows, of Plympton, had married first to Patience Simmons in 1695, and secondly to Anna (___) Ransom, widow of Robert Ransom, in 1724. Anna had first married Robert Ransom in ca. 1690, so she was too old to have been a daughter of Joseph Washburn. George and Patience Barrows' son George, born in 1698, married Desire Doty. No relationship has yet been discovered between either of the George Barrowses and Miles Washburn.

[17] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 6, Court of Common Pleas, Session 8, p. 439.

[18] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 2, General Sessions of the Peace, Session 9, p. 215.

[19] MF5G: Chilton, p. 92-93.

[20] MF5G: Cooke, p. 257, the division dated 21 Jan. 1760, referencing Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 24, p. 140, Vol. 36, p. 189, Vol. 38, p. 147, and Vol. 48, p. 147.

[21] Smith, James H., History of Duchess County, New York, 1991, Chapter XXVIII: History of the town of Amenia, p. 343.

[22] MF5G: Chilton, p. 93.

[23] Brownson, Lydia B. (Phinney), and Maclean W. McLean, “Thomas Gibbs, of Sandwich, Mass. (ca. 1615-1693),” Genealogies of Mayflower Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume II, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1985, [hereinafter Brownson & McLean, “Thomas Gibbs, of Sandwich, Mass.”], p. 10-13.

[24] Brownson & McLean, “Thomas Gibbs, of Sandwich, Mass.,” p. 13; Family History Library [FHL] Ancestral File, submitted by Kimball G. Everingham, of Richmond, CA, and David A. Hills, of Abington, MA.

[25] Schott, Barbour Index of Sharon VRs, p. 336, married by John Williams, he was “of Oblong;” Brownson & McLean, “Thomas Gibbs, of Sandwich, Mass.,” p. 13.

[26] Sandwich, Mass., Vital Records, The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 29, 1931, p. 75; Brownson & McLean, “Thomas Gibbs, of Sandwich, Mass.,” p. 13.

[27] FHL Ancestral File, submitted by Kimball G. Everingham, of Richmond, CA, and David A. Hills, of Abington, MA. Children listed as being born to Ephraim Tobey and Reliance Gibbs are 1. Elisha Tobey, born on 2 Jan. 1738/9, 2. Jesse Tobey, born on 26 Jan. 1740/1, 3. Mehitabel Tobey, born on 10 June 1743, 4. George Tobey, born on 2 Sept. 1745, 5. Benjamin Tobey, born on 11 Jan. 1747/8, 6. Martha Tobey, born on 29 Jan. 1753, and 7. Ephraim Tobey (Jr.), born on 16 Aug. 1755, all in Sharon, Litchfield Co., CT; Brownson & McLean, “Thomas Gibbs, of Sandwich, Mass.,” p. 13.

[28] MF5G: Chilton, p. 93, but his name is not in the index to Surrogate Court Records for Dutchess County, NY.

[29] Children are uncertain. Mitchell, Nahum, History of the Early Settlement of of Bridgewater, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Boston, 1840, reprint, Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1983, [hereinafter Mitchell, History of Bridgewater], does not list the children of Miles Washburn.

[30] Vital Records of Plympton, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New Engand Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1923, [hereinafter Plympton VRs], p. 217, under “Warshborn.”

[31] She was probably too young to have been the wife of George Barrows in 1741, although it has been speculated that she may have been Barrows’ wife because of the 1741 land agreement with Miles Washburn.

[32] Plympton VRs, p. 217, under “Warshborn.”

[33] Vital Records of New Milford, CT, from the Barbour Collection, p. 166, marriage of Ebenezer Washburn and Patience Miles on 29 June 1721 in New Milford.

[34] The marriage date from the I.G.I. Marriage Records, taken from an FHL patron family group sheet, from microfilm #0820401, but the marriage was not listed in Barbour’s Index to New Milford Vital Records.

[35] Calculated from the estimated birth year of their son Joel Washburn, who appears to have been the second son of Daniel Washburn from the order the children were named in his will, working backwards from the 1762 birth year of son Daniel Washburn Jr., which was calculated from his age at death. So far I have found very little information on Mary, the wife of Daniel Washburn.

[36] Plympton VRs, p. 217, under “Warshborn.”

[37] Plympton VRs, p. 217, under “Warshborn.”

[38] I.G.I. Marriage Records, taken from LDS temple records, from microfilm #1985575.

[39] Plympton VRs, p. 217, under “Warshborn.”

[40] Per Art Loux email letter of 17 Sept. 1999, his mother’s maiden name from the FHL Ancestral File, submitted by Ted A. Brewster, of Provo, UT, and Mildred A. Blackmer, of St. George, UT.

[41] Calculated from the birth of their first child, on 11 Dec. 1755.

[42] Estimated from his age at his enlistment in 1758.

[43] “New York Muster Rolls,” New York Historical Society Publications, Vol. 24, p. 90.

[44] “New York Muster Rolls,” New York Historical Society Publications, Vol. 24, p. 254.

[45] Calculated from the date of her marriage in 1702.

[46] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 229.

[47] Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1916, 2 volumes, [hereinafter Bridgewater VRs], Vol. 2, p. 386.

[48] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 5, p. 6.

[49] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 515.

[50] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 513.

[51] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 230, says they had Anne 1703, Joseph 1705, Mary 1708, Sarah 1711, Benjamin 1713, Ichabod 1716, Jerathmael and Benanuel 1718, Nokes 1720, Susanna 1722, Hannah 1725, Phebe, Nathan, and Eunice.

[52] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 206.

[53] Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 549, for Nathaniel Packard’s wife. Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 253, says Nathaniel probably married a daughter of John Kingman; MF5G: Cooke, p. 244, gives her name as Lydia Smith?/Kingman?, apparently unsure which is correct.

[54] 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. 1, p. 26, married by Jacob Tomson, Justice of the Peace, in Middleborough.

[55] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 209.

[56] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 236.

[57] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 210.

[58] Estimated from the age of his wife, but I’m not certain that Nathan Leach was a son of Benjamin and Hephzibah Leach.

[59] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 232, says the this was Nathan Leach, son of Timothy and Sarah (Leach) Leach, but this Nathan Leach was born in 1746, and would have been much too young to have married a woman born in 1706.

[60] Van Antwerp, Lee D., Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Picton Press, Camden, ME, 1993, [hereinafter Plymouth VRs], p. 88, marriage of Joseph Samson and Ann Tilson on 22 Apr. 1706 in Plymouth.

[61] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 230, which says that Deborah married Nathan Leach in 1771, but I’m not sure if this was the right Nathan Leach.

[62] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 238.

[63] Plympton VRs, p. 175.

[64] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 514.

[65] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 211.

[66] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 230.

[67] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 238.

[68] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 206.

[69] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 208.

[70] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 233.

[71] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 208.

[72] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 515.

[73] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 206.

[74] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 233.

[75] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 516.

[76] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 152; Vital Records of Taunton, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1929, [hereinafter Taunton VRs], Vol. 2, p. 170, marriage of Samuel Edson and Mary Dean on 1 Jan. 1707/8 in Taunton.

[77] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 233.

[78] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 101.

[79] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 516.

[80] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, pp. 95, 231, but no marriage date is given, and the marriage was not recorded in the vital records of Bridgewater or East Bridgewater; “A Branch of the Allen Family in New England,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 10, [July 1856], p. 226, also says Mehitable married Benanuel Leach, but gives no year.

[81] Vital Records of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1917, [hereinafter East Bridgewater VRs], p. 15.

[82] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 131.

[83] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 3, General Sessions of the Peace, Session 2, p. 369.

[84] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 231, doesn’t list any children for Benanuel Leach.

[85] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 516.

[86] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 516, unless this is the same as the child whose death was recorded as 1 Oct. 1756.

[87] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 517.

[88] Apparently the bastard child of Sarah Buker was fathered by Benanuel Leach.

[89] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 209.

[90] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 210.

[91] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 212.

[92] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 325.

[93] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 239.

[94] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 323.

[95] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 208.

[96] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 230, 231.

[97] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 235, marriage intentions recorded 6 Aug. 1743 in Bridgewater.

[98] She is listed as a daughter of Benjamin and Hephzibah Leach by Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 230, but her mother would have been about 45 years old in 1726.

[99] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 160.

[100] Calculated from the birth of their first child on 20 June 1749.

[101] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 230. By 1730 Hephzibah (Washburn) Leach would have been about 49 years of age, and for most women, past her child-bearing years, so Eunice couldn’t have been born any later, if she was actually a daughter of Hepzibah.

[102] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, pp. 208, 230, says that Eunice married William Keith, son of Ephraim and Sarah (Washburn) Keith, in 1767, however William Keith wasn’t born until 1746, and would have been about 16 years younger than Eunice. Much more likely is that William Keith’s wife was Eunice Leach, daughter of Deacon Joseph and Anna (Harris) Leach, and niece of this Eunice Leach.

[103] MF5G: Cooke, p. 258. In Sept. 1702 Jonathan Washbourne Jr., of Bridgewater, was in court for abusive and uncivil behavior towards Elizabeth Canaday, late of Bridgewater, found guilty and ordered to be whipped or pay a fine, which suggests that he was probably at least in his late teens at the time.

[104] Brownson, Lydia B. (Phinney), and Maclean W. McLean, “Ezra Perry of Sandwich, Mass. (c.1625-1689),” Genealogies of Mayflower Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. III, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1985, pp. 9-11.

[105] Vital Records of Sandwich, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, p. 85.

[106] Brownson, Lydia B. (Phinney), and Maclean W. McLean, “Ezra Perry of Sandwich, Mass. (c.1625-1689),” Genealogies of Mayflower Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. III, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1985, p. 9.

[107] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 1, General Sessions of the Peace, Session 6, p. 179. He was given the designation “Junr” to differentiate him from his uncle, Jonathan Washburn.

[108] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 1, General Sessions of the Peace, Session 6, p. 221.

[109] Barnstable Co. Probate Records, Vol. 4, pp. 518, 535.

[110] MF5G: Cooke, p. 258, from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 115, p. 92-93.

[111] Per Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 388; Boston Marriages from 1700-1809, Municipal Printing Office, originally published as A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Boston Marriages from 1700-1751, reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1977, p. 86, married by Sam. Checkley Esq., J.P.

[112] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 5, Court of Common Pleas, Session 5, p. 495-496.

[113] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 2, General Sessions of the Peace, Session 9, p. 75.

[114] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 324, says he had Silas 1713 and Lemuel 1714, born in East Bridgewater.

[115] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 336.

[116] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 331.

[117] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 2, General Sessions of the Peace, Session 9, Sept. 1733, p. 7.

[118] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 2, General Sessions of the Peace, Session 9, March 1735/36, case #6, p. 56, Susanna Washburn of Bridgwater, daughter of Jonathan Washburn of said Town, Single woman, in court for fornication, “for having…a Bastard Child born of her body some time within five months.”

[119] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 204.

[120] Calculated from the birth of their first child in ca. 1716, and the birth of Hannah Johnson, in 1695.

[121] History of the Town of Hingham, Mass., Hingham, MA, 1893, Vol. 2, p. 385.

[122] Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 458. Sarah Gilman was the second wife of Deacon John Leavitt.

[123] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 27, p. 79. Acknowledged 21 Mar. 1732, and recorded on 27 Apr. 1732.

[124] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 14, p. 256.

[125] MF5G: Chilton, p. 91, from Middletown Church Records published in The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 44, p. 152.

[126] MF5G: Chilton, p. 92, from Middletown, CT, Land Records, Vol. 10, pp. 287, 523.

[127] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 6, Court of Common Pleas, Session 8, p. 96.

[128] MF5G: Chilton, p. 92, from Middletown, CT, Land Records, Vol. 10, p. 171.

[129] Systematic History Fund, Vital Records of Leicester, Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1849, Worcester, MA, 1903, [hereinafter Leicester VRs], p. 280.

[130] Leicester VRs, p. 280. She is listed as “Hannah J. Washburn, wife of Joseph.”

[131] Hoskins, Anthony, “The Washburns of Middletown, Connecticut, and the Children of Joseph⁴ and Hannah (Johnson?) Washburn,” The American Genealogist, Vol. 75, No. 3 [July 2000], pp. 215-222, the list of children on p. 222; Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 324, says they had 5 sons, viz. Elijah, Joseph, Seth, Ebenezer, and one who died young.

[132] Her maiden name from the I.G.I. birth record of their daughter Lucy Boardman, and from the FamilySearch Pedigree Resource File, submitted by William LeRoy Bradley, of New Bedford, MA.

[133] Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, citing Middletown VRs, Vol. 2, p. 16.

[134] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 217.

[135] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 390.

[136] Hoskins, Anthony, “The Washburns of Middletown, Connecticut, and the Children of Joseph⁴ and Hannah (Johnson?) Washburn,” The American Genealogist, Vol. 75, No. 3 [July 2000], p. 216.

[137] Leicester VRs, p. 226.

[138] Hoskins, Anthony, “The Washburns of Middletown, Connecticut, and the Children of Joseph⁴ and Hannah (Johnson?) Washburn,” The American Genealogist, Vol. 75, No. 3 [July 2000], p. 222, his birth not recorded in the vital records of Bridgewater.

[139] Leicester VRs, p. 226.

[140] Leicester VRs, p. 142, marriage intentions of Daniel Denney and Rebakah Jones recorded 10 Nov. 1722 in Leicester.

[141] Leicester VRs, p. 143, marriage intentions of Sarah Denny and Thomas Sargeant recorded on 17 Jan. 1778 in Leicester.

[142] Leicester VRs, p. 226.

[143] Per email letter of Millie Clough, of 19 Nov. 2002.

[144] Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, citing Middletown VRs, Vol. 2, p. 41.

[145] East Bridgewater VRs, p. 135.

[146] Per letter of Jeanne Doty Cady, of San Diego, CA.

[147] Leicester VRs, p. 226.

[148] East Bridgewater VRs, p. 137, baptized in the First Church of East Bridgewater.

[149] MF5G: Cooke, p. 259, with no further explanation. No marriage record was found for Susannah Washburn in Middletown, CT, or Leicester, MA.

[150] East Bridgewater VRs, p. 137, baptized in the First Church of East Bridgewater.

[151] Leicester VRs, p. 226.

[152] East Bridgewater VRs, p. 136.

[153] Leicester VRs, p. 188, marriage intentions recorded between Jonathan Newhall and Hannah Convers on 17 Oct. 1731 in Leicester.

[154] Spencer VRs, p. 212, under “Washbone”; Leicester VRs, p. 225, marriage intentions recorded 10 July 1757 in Leicester, at which time Ebenezer Washburn is called “of Spencer.”

[155] Calculated from her age at death.

[156] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 265; Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 571, for the first wife of David Perkins; New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 39, Jan. 1885, p. 81.

[157] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 389; Roser, Mayflower Marriages, p. 122.

[158] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 262, under “Pirkins.”

[159] New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 39, Jan. 1885, p. 81; Noyes, Libby, Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, p. 541; Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 571.

[160] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 31, p. 198, the date very hard to decipher, recorded on 8 Mar. 1737.

[161] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 51, p. 65-66, signed by Thomas Hayward and Constant Hayward, witnessed by Eliab Hayward and Robert Hayward, acknowledged by Thomas Hayward on 16 Oct. 1765, and recorded on 19 Oct. 1765.

[162] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 31, p. 198-199, witnessed by David Johnson and Benjamin Johnson, acknowledged on 25 May 1737 by Abraham Perkins.

[163] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 37, p. 142, witnessed by Abraham Perkins and David Johnson Jr., and acknowledged by Benjamin Washburn on 17 May 1745. That Benjamin Washburn, Gentleman, was a son of Samuel Washburn, and not Joseph Washburn.

[164] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 41, p. 74, witnessed by John Keith Jr. and Hannah Leach, acknowledged by James Keith and Lydia Keith on 4 May 1747, and recorded on 30 Apr. 1751.

[165] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 6, Court of Common Pleas, Session 6, p. 302.

[166] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 6, Court of Common Pleas, Session 6, p. 465.

[167] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 6, Court of Common Pleas, Session 6, p. 465.

[168] Plymouth County Probate Vol. 5, p. 561, 564-565. Martha (Leonard) Perkins, the widow of Nathan Perkins, had remarried to Isaac Hayward in 1728, so Thomas Perkins was appointed to look after the interests of his nieces and nephews.

[169] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 537, buried in the Old Graveyard, Bridgewater.

[170] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 538, buried in the Old Graveyard, Bridgewater; Plymouth County Probate Docket #15659.

[171] Plymouth County Probate Docket #15659; Vol. 16, p. 158-160, from FHL microfilm #0551543.

[172] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 265, says they had Mary 1718, Hepzibah 1720, Thomas 1722, Ebenezer 1727, and Francis 1729.

[173] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 256.

[174] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 179.

[175] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 291.

[176] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 254.

[177] Jones, William, “Robert Carver of Marshfield, Mass., 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. 449.

[178] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 289.

[179] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 207, 208.

[180] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 73.

[181] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 259.

[182] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, pp. 266, 276.

[183] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 293.

[184] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 252.

[185] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 536.

[186] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 252.

[187] Middleborough VRs, Vol. 1, p. 47, marriage of Thomas Holmes and Mary Sprout, both of Middleborough, on 1 Apr. 1731.

[188] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 288.

[189] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 253.

[190] Plympton VRs, p. 421, marriage of Robert Waterman Jr., of Halifax, and Martha Cushman, of Plympton, on 8 Apr. 1734 in Plympton.

[191] Per Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 289.

[192] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 208.

[193] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 289.

[194] Sherman, Robert Moody, and Vincent, Verle Delano, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume 2: James Chilton of the Mayflower, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA, 1978, [hereinafter MF5G: Chilton], p. 76; MF5G: Cooke, p. 260.

[195] White, Lorraine Cook, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: New Milford 1712-1860, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 2000, [hereinafter White, Barbour Index of New Milford VRs], p. 221, taken from New Milford Land Records, Vol. 4, p. 20.

[196] White, Barbour Index of Derby VRs, p. 267, taken from Vol. 3, p. 1, of the Derby Land Records.

[197] Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. V, p. 1182; Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 508, for the second wife of Samuel Miles, of New Haven.

[198] Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. V, p. 1182.

[199] Washburn, Rev. George T., Ebenezer Washburn, His Ancestors and Descendants, p. 58.

[200] MF5G: Cooke, p. 260, from New Milford Land Records, Vol. 5, p. 139; Washburn, Rev. George T., Ebenezer Washburn, His Ancestors and Descendants, p. 58.

[201] MF5G: Cooke, p. 261, from New Milford Land Records, Vol. 1, p.232.

[202] Washburn, Rev. George T., Ebenezer Washburn, His Ancestors and Descendants, p. 58.

[203] Washburn, Rev. George T., Ebenezer Washburn, His Ancestors and Descendants, p. 59.

[204] Washburn, Rev. George T., Ebenezer Washburn, His Ancestors and Descendants, p. 60.

[205] MF5G: Cooke, p. 261, from Kent Land Records.

[206] MF5G: Cooke, p. 260, from his probate records in Monmouth Co., NJ.

[207] MF5G: Cooke, p. 261, from New Jersey Wills, Vol. H, p. 77. Billie Mumma, of Tulsa, OK, reported that Linda Smith had the probate records of Ebenezer Washburn researched in New Jersey, and they found no list of the heirs of Ebenezer in the docket papers.

[208] White, Barbour Index of New Milford VRs, p. 221, taken from New Milford Land Records, Vol. 4, p. 20.

[209] MF5G: Cooke, p. 256.

[210] The marriage date from the I.G.I. Marriage Records, taken from an FHL patron family group sheet, from microfilm #0820401, but the marriage was not listed in Barbour’s Index of New Milford town and land records.

[211] Plympton VRs, p. 217, under “Warshborn.”

[212] Calculated from the estimated birth year of their son Joel Washburn, who appears to have been the second son of Daniel Washburn from the order the children were named in his will, working backwards from the 1762 birth year of son Daniel Washburn Jr., which was calculated from his age at death. So far I have found very little information on Mary, the wife of Daniel Washburn.

[213] White, Barbour Index of New Milford VRs, p. 221, taken from New Milford Land Records, Vol. 4, p. 20.

[214] His parents per the FHL Ancestral File, submitted by Mrs. V. Leroy Oaks, of Orem, UT, Eva C. Smith, of Phoenix, AZ, Littleton Strong, of Las Vegas, NV, and several others.

[215] White, Barbour Index of New Milford VRs, p. 221, taken from New Milford Land Records, Vol. 6, p. 7, married by Samuel Canfield, J.P.

[216] White, Barbour Index of New Milford VRs, p. 221, taken from New Milford Land Records, Vol. 4, p. 20; MF5G: Cooke, p. 261, gives the birth date as 10 May 1727.

[217] Schott, Nancy E., The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Sharon 1739-1865, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 2000, [hereinafter Schott, Barbour Index of Sharon VRs], p. 336, married by John Williams.

[218] White, Barbour Index of Kent VRs, p. 150, under “Wahyfood(?),” taken from Vol. 2, p. 123, of the Kent town records.

[219] Washburn, Rev. George T., Ebenezer Washburn, His Ancestors and Descendants, p. 61, says he died before 1786, but this is apparently an error, he had moved out of Litchfield Co., CT, by 1786.

[220] White, Barbour Index of New Milford VRs, p. 221, taken from New Milford Land Records, Vol. 4, p. 20.

[221] White, Barbour Index of New Milford VRs, p. 221, taken from New Milford Land Records, Vol. 4, p. 20.

[222] Her parents from the FHL Ancestry File, submitted by Margaret W. Mikkelsen, of Davis, CA, and Ronald J. Riley, of Muskegon, MI.

[223] Early Connecticut Marriages: Kent, p. 20, not listed in Barbour’s index of Kent town records.

[224] White, Barbour Index of New Milford VRs, p. 221, taken from New Milford Land Records, Vol. 4, p. 20.

[225] Her parents per the FamilySearch Pedigree Resource File, submitted by Patricia Nelson Loftus, of West Valley City, UT, however Billie Mumma, of Tulsa, OK, gives her parents as William Drake and Magdelena Brower.

[226] Record of Marriages of the Presbyterian Churches in Rumbout and Poughkeepsie, New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol 69, p. 290.

[227] Per the FamilySearch Pedigree Resource File, submitted by Patricia Nelson Loftus, of West Valley City, UT.

[228] 1800 Federal Census, Middletown, Delaware Co., NY, p. 271, the Jonathan Washburn household had 1 male aged 45 or over, 1 female aged 26-44 years, and 1 female aged 45 or over. They were living next door to the family of Ebenezer G. Washburn.

[229] White, Barbour Index of New Milford VRs, p. 221, taken from New Milford Land Records, Vol. 4, p. 20.

[230] Her maiden name from the I.G.I. Marriage Records, presumably from LDS temple records, but her surname may be a guess because of the naming of a son “Tabor” Washburn, the date calculated from the approximate birth year of Tabor Washburn in circa 1760.

[231] White, Barbour Index of New Milford VRs, p. 221, taken from New Milford Land Records, Vol. 4, p. 20.

[232] Per email letter of Jackie D. of 21 June 2000.

[233] Middleborough VRs, Vol. 1, p. 25, marriage of Eleazer Carver and Katherine Elmes, both of Middleborough, on 2 Dec. 1719 in Middleborough; Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 129.

[234] Estimated from the birth of their eldest child and the birth of Rebeckah Washburn.

[235] Connecticut Church Records, Kent First Congregational Church, 1741-1859, Hartford Connecticut State Library, 1934, p. 170, from Vol. 1, p. 122, of the church records.

[236] Connecticut Church Records, Kent First Congregational Church, 1741-1859, Hartford Connecticut State Library, 1934, p. 170, from Vol. 1, p. 84, of the church records, “daughter of Patience Washburn.”

[237] MF5G: Cooke, p. 261, her birth not listed in Barbour’s index of Kent town records.

[238] White, Lorraine Cook, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Kent 1739-1852, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1999, [hereinafter White, Barbour Index of Kent VRs], p. 151, married by John Ransom, J.P. Another Mary Washburn married Jabez Chappel, of New London, CT, probably as his second wife, on 22 May 1760 in New London, CT. Chappel had married first to an Ann (___) in ca. 1745. Mary (Washburn) Chappel, the wife of Jabez Chappel, possibly had no children, so she may have been a widow.

[239] Connecticut Church Records, Kent First Congregational Church, 1741-1859, Hartford Connecticut State Library, 1934, p. 170, from Vol. 1, p. 85, of the church records.

[240] Per Billie Mumma, of Tulsa, OK, the source not cited.

[241] Connecticut Church Records, Kent First Congregational Church, 1741-1859, Hartford Connecticut State Library, 1934, p. 170, from Vol. 1, p. 86, of the church records.

[242] Her name is reportedly listed at least twice, first on a letter from the Town Fathers of Fredericksburgh, NY, to the Governor of New York, requesting that Zuba Bates, wife of John Bates, and Mary Washburn, wife of Ebenezer Washburn, and children be allowed to pass through the enemy lines during the Revolutionary War, and secondly on a deed where Ebenezer Washburn sold property in Gulliver’s Hole, Digby, Annapolis Co., Nova Scotia, in 1788.

[243] Per research of Billie Mumma, of Tulsa, OK, citing, in part, Mather, New York in the Revolution, p. 258, Public Papers of George Clinton, p. 358, and the Supplement to the History of Annapolis, p. 116.

[244] Per research of Billie Mumma, of Tulsa, OK, the source not cited.

[245] Coldham, Peter Wilson, American Loyalist Claims, Volume I, Washington D.C., 1980, p. 515. His claim was filed 8 Mar. 1786 in Digby, NS, for lost furniture, horses, etc.

[246] Per research of Billie Mumma, of Tulsa, OK.

[247] 1800 Federal Census, Delaware Co., NY, p. 271, the Ebenezer Washburn household had 2 males under 10, 2 males aged 10-15 years, 1 male aged 16-25 years, 1 male aged 45 or over, 1 female under 10, 2 females aged 10-15 years, and 1 female aged 45 or over. He was living next door to his presumed son, David Washburn, and near by Thomas Washburn, Jonathan Washburn, and Ebenezer G. Washburn.

[248] Connecticut Church Records, Kent First Congregational Church, 1741-1859, Hartford Connecticut State Library, 1934, p. 170, from Vol. 1, p. 87, of the church records.

[249] Per Billie Mumma, of Tulsa, OK, the source not cited.

[250] Connecticut Church Records, Kent First Congregational Church, 1741-1859, Hartford Connecticut State Library, 1934, p. 170, from Vol. 1, p. 89, of the church records.

[251] Per Billie Mumma, of Tulsa, OK, taken supposedly from records of Washington, CT, which at that time was still part of New Milford, CT; Washburne, Brenton P., The Washburn Family in America, 1983, n.p.

[252] Per research of Billie Mumma, of Tulsa, OK, citing Calhoon, Robert M., Loyalist in Rev. America, Vol. 20, pp. 17, 315.

[253] Per research of Billie Mumma, of Tulsa, OK, citing Public Records of the State of Connecticut, 1778-1780, Vol. 11, p. 466, where David Washburn was exchanged for Solomon Dunham junr, who was being held at Long Island, in New York.

[254] Per Billie Mumma, of Tulsa, OK, citing, Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, Knickerbocker Press, New York, NY, 1911, p. 181-182.

[255] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 208, under “Pollard.”

[256] Plymouth VRs, p. 94; MF5G: Cooke, p. 261.

[257] Plymouth VRs, p. 31.

[258] 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. 263.

[259] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 5, Court of Common Pleas, Session 1, case #13, p. 386.

[260] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 5, Court of Common Pleas, Session 5, p. 15.

[261] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 6, Court of Common Pleas, Session 7, p. 167.

[262] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 6, Court of Common Pleas, Session 7, p. 177.

[263] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 6, Court of Common Pleas, Session 8, p. 133.

[264] Plymouth County Probate Docket #21965; Vol. 13, pp. 487, 554, Vol. 14, p. 512.

[265] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 69, p. 144-145, witnessed by Noah Fearing and David Burges, and recorded on 6 Aug. 1789.

[266] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 69, p. 145, witnessed by Consider Benson and Foxwell Thomas, and recorded on 6 Aug. 1789.

[267] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 69, p. 145, witnessed by William Washburn and Consider Benson, and recorded on 6 Aug. 1789.

[268] Plympton VRs, p. 217, under “Warshborn.”

[269] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 25.

[270] Per Plympton VRs, p. 419.

[271] Plympton VRs, p. 217.

[272] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 195; Rochester VRs, Vol. 2, p. 225, marriage of Benjamin Norris of Plimouth and Mary Wooden on 18 July 1717 in Rochester.

[273] Plympton VRs, p. 418, under “Washborn.”

[274] Plympton VRs, p. 217.

[275] Merritt, Grace Hufford and Thomas H. Roderick, “Samuel and Keziah (Barrows) Benson of Middleborough, Mass.,” The American Genealogist, Vol. 51, No. 4, [Oct. 1975], p. 216.

[276] Plympton VRs, p. 418, under “Warshborn.”

[277] Plympton VRs, p. 217. The date is given as “____ 5, 1734.”

[278] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 69, p. 144, from FHL microfilm #0559127, witnessed by Noah Fearing and David Burges.

[279] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 70, p. 242, from FHL microfilm #0559128, witnessed by Asa Hunt and Miriam Hunt.

[280] Plympton VRs, p. 217.

[281] Her parents from her I.G.I. Birth Record, taken from an FHL patron family group sheet, microfilm #1396217, however this may not be correct. William T. Davis does not list a daughter Hannah born to Benjamin and Mary Norris in Plymouth in Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 195, and the wife of Benjamin Norris was Mary Wooden, not Bump.

[282] Marriage date from the I.G.I. Marriage Records, taken from an FHL patron family group sheet, microfilm #1553373.

[283] Vital Records of New Gloucester, Maine, 1771-1892, from FHL microfilm #0011586.

[284] Plympton VRs, p. 217.

[285] Plympton VRs, p. 254, marriage of Caleb Benson of Middleborough and Deborah Barrow of Plympton on 11 Jan. 1732 in Rochester, MA.

[286] Middleborough VRs, Vol. 1, p. 120, he was “of Plymton.”

[287] Rochester VRs, Vol. 2, p. 89, the marriage of Ithamer Combs and Hannah Andrews on 4 Nov. 1731 in Rochester.

[288] Rochester VRs, Vol. 2, p. 311, marriage intentions recorded on 26 Feb. 1769 in Rochester.

[289] Plympton VRs, p. 217.

[290] Middleborough VRs, Vol. 1, p. 25, marriage of John Vaughan and Jerusha Wood, both of Middleboro, on 19 Feb. 1717/18 in Middleborough.

[291] Middleborough VRs, Vol. 1, p. 122.

[292] Calculated from her age at death and the date of her marriage in 1764. Her birth was not recorded in the Plympton Vital Records.

[293] Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1909, [hereinafter Scituate VRs], Vol. 2, p. 246, marriage of Thomas Randall and Faith Winslow on 11 Dec. 1729 in Scituate.

[294] Middleborough VRs, Vol. 1, p. 149.

[295] Plymouth County Probate Docket #22009.

[296] Vital Records of Rochester, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1914, 2 volumes, [hereinafter Rochester VRs], Vol. 2, p. 89, marriage of Ithamer Combs and Hannah Andrews on 4 Nov. 1731 in Rochester.

[297] Rochester VRs, Vol. 2, p. 311, marriage intentions recorded 24 Sept. 1768 in Rochester, he was “of Plimtown.”

[298] Calculated from his age at his enlistment in the Continental Army from Plympton in 1779 at age 26.

[299] Cushman, Henry W., Cushman Genealogy, pp. 132, 163.

[300] Plympton VRs, p. 418.

[301] I.G.I. Marriage Records, taken from LDS temple records, from microfilm #458012.

[302] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 204.

[303] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 390; Roser, Mayflower Marriages, p. 122.

[304] Calculated from his age at death.

[305] Lazell, Theodore Studley, “John Lazell of Hingham, Mass., and Some of His Descendants,” Genealogies of Mayflower Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. II, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1985, p. 578.

[306] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 24, p. 118-119, acknowledged by Timothy Washburn on 11 June 1729, and witnessed by Josiah Cotton, the registrar, and Mary Cotton.

[307] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 25, p. 173-174, witnessed by Solomon Johnson and Daniel Johnson, acknowledged by Capt. Isaac Johnson on 25 June 1730, and recorded on 26 June 1730.

[308] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 33, p. 131, the owners being James Packard, Henry Kingman, Josiah Snell junr., Jabez Field, Josiah Churchell, John Johnson, Jno. Kingman 2d, David Johnson, Daniel Haward, Robert Haward, Richard Thayer, and Benja. Edson, the witnesses being Danl. Johnson, Isaac Kingman, William Brett, and Ebenezer Whitman, acknowledged by all the owners on 29 June 1738, and recorded on 25 Apr. 1740.

[309] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 34, p. 56, witnessed by Daniel Johnson and Daniel Johnson Jr., and acknowledged by David Johnson on 27 Mar. 1741. Judge Daniel Johnson was the brother of Capt. David Johnson.

[310] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 36, p. 123-124, witnessed by Thomas Perkins and John Willis, and acknowledged by David and Elizabeth Leach on 7 Oct. 1743.

[311] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 36, p. 195, acknowledged on 24 Jan. 1742, and recorded on 12 July 1744.

[312] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 37, p. 28-29, witnessed by Joseph Josselyn and Hugh Orr, acknowledged by Rebekah Johnson, wife of David Johnson, and David Johnson on 13 Apr. 1744.

[313] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 49, p. 72, witnessed by Josiah Johnson and Jonathan Snow Jr., acknowledged by David Johnson on 15 Dec. 1755, and recorded on 25 May 1764.

[314] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 43, p. 201-202, witnessed by Isaac Johnson and Jonathan Snow Jr., acknowledged by David Johnson on 23 Feb. 1756, and recorded on 4 Mar. 1756.

[315] Vital Records of West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1911, [hereinafter West Bridgewater VRs], p. 205, buried in the Old Grave Yard, South Street, West Bridgewater.

[316] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 204, says they had Isaac 1721, David 1724, Mary 1729, Sarah 1732, and Rebecca 1734.

[317] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 177.

[318] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 348.

[319] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 203, marriage intentions recorded 21 June 1744 in Bridgewater.

[320] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 177.

[321] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 348.

[322] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 203.

[323] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 255.

[324] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 203.

[325] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 177.

[326] West Bridgewater VRs, p. 69.

[327] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 222, 223.

[328] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 203.

[329] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 201.

[330] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 222; MF5G: Chilton, pp. 13-15, 35.

[331] East Bridgewater VRs, p. 369, buried in the Old Central Cemetery in East Bridgewater; Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 510.

[332] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 178.

[333] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 228, which has the marriage date as 17 Apr. 1752, but the marriage intentions as 31 Mar. 1753. The marriage obviously occurred in 1753, not 1752.

[334] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 511.

[335] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 189.

[336] East Bridgewater VRs, p. 246.

[337] East Bridgewater VRs, p. 369, buried in the Old Central Cemetery, East Bridgewater; Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 511.

[338] Plymouth County Probate Docket #12365; Vol. 27, p. 287, Vol. 30, p. 519.

[339] Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts, Bountiful, Utah, 1993, p. 165, Bridgewater Town, Plymouth County, the Jerusha Latham household had only 2 free white females.

[340] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, pp. 244, 245.

[341] East Bridgewater VRs, p. 246.

[342] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 226, under “Mitchel.”

[343] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 258.

[344] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, pp. 245, 341.

[345] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 259.

[346] East Bridgewater VRs, p. 373.

[347] East Bridgewater VRs, p. 373.

[348] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 201.

[349] East Bridgewater VRs, p. 369.

[350] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 178.

[351] West Bridgewater VRs, p. 69.

[352] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 253-254.

[353] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 204.

[354] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 178.

[355] West Bridgewater VRs, p. 69.

[356] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 152; Taunton VRs, Vol. 2, p. 170, marriage of Samuel Edson and Mary Dean on 1 Jan. 1707/8 in Taunton.

[357] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 204.

[358] Van Antwerp, Lee Douglas, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Nine, Family of Francis Eaton, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1996, [hereinafter MF5G: Eaton], pp. 14, 39, for the maiden name of Sarah, wife of Eleazer Rickard; MF5G: Chilton, p. 78; MF5G: Cooke, p. 262; Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 624, which don’t give the maiden name of Sarah.

[359] Plympton VRs, p. 418, under “Warshbourn.”

[360] Plymouth VRs, p. 28.

[361] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 213; MF5G: Eaton, p. 14.

[362] MF5G: Eaton, p. 7.

[363] MF5G: Eaton, p. 3.

[364] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 5, Court of Common Pleas, Session 4, p. 114.

[365] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 36, p. 189.

[366] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 39, p. 65.

[367] Plymouth County Court Records, Vol. 2, General Sessions of the Peace, Session 9, p. 28.

[368] MF5G: Chilton, p. 95.

[369] MF5G: Eaton, p. 40, from Middletown Probate Records, Vol. 1, p. 104.

[370] Middletown, CT, Probate Docket #3731.

[371] Plympton VRs, p. 217.

[372] Plympton VRs, p. 217.

[373] MF5G: Eaton, p. 122, taken from Middletown Land Records, Vol. 20, p. 343.

[374] Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Connecticut, Bountiful, Utah, 1993, p. 80, Chatham Town, Middlesex County, the John Washbourn household had 1 free white male aged 16 or older and 2 free white females.

[375] MF5G: Eaton, p. 122.

[376] MF5G: Eaton, p. 122, taken from Chatham Land Records, Vol. 9, p. 408.

[377] MF5G: Eaton, p. 122, taken from records of the First Church of Portland, CT, Vol. 5, p. 98; Bailey, Frederic W., Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800, New Haven, CT, Vol. 4, p. 103.

[378] Her date of birth from her gravestone in Portland, CT.

[379] Plympton VRs, p. 217.

[380] MF5G: Eaton, p. 123.

[381] Calculated from the birth of their first child in ca. 1755.

[382] Plympton VRs, p. 217.

[383] Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1977, [hereinafter Barbour, Families of Early Hartford], pp. 501, 635; per his www.findagrave.com memorial #40488211.

[384] Portland, CT, Church Records, (formerly East Middletown), Vol. 5, p. 14.

[385] Middletown Probate Docket #3732, from MF5G: Eaton, p. 40.

[386] Portland, CT, Church Records, (formerly East Middletown), Vol. 5, p. 15.

[387] Connecticut Church Records, Cromwell First Congregational Church, 1715-1875, Connecticut State Library, 1954, p. 180; I.G.I. Marriage Records, taken from an LDS patron family group sheet, from microfilm #0820401.

[388] Mitchell, Nahum, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Boston, 1840, reprint, Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1983, [hereinafter Mitchell, History of Bridgewater], p. 112-113; Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1987, [hereinafter Torrey, New England Marriages], p. 51.

[389] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 382; 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. 122.

[390] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 42.

[391] Torrey, New England Marriages, pp. 50, 51: the first wife of Joseph Bassett was Mary Lapham, who died in 1676 at the age of 35 years. Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 111, says Joseph married Martha, daughter of Edmund Hobart, of Hingham, in 1677, but this was Joseph’s second marriage, and son William, born ca. 1667, was by Joseph’s first wife, Mary Lapham.

[392] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 38, p. 249, from FHL microfilm #0558827, witnessed by James Richards and Sarah Ames, and recorded on 12 Aug. 1747.

[393] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 38, p. 249, from FHL microfilm #0558827, witnessed by Joseph Jenning and Daniel Johnson, and recorded on 12 Aug. 1747.

[394] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 38, p. 249, from FHL microfilm #0558827, witnessed by Elizabeth Hayward and Huldah Edson, and recorded on 12 Aug. 1747.

[395] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 38, p. 249, from FHL microfilm #0558827, witnessed by Joseph Bassett and David Dunbar, and recorded on 12 Aug. 1747.

[396] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 38, p. 250, from FHL microfilm #0558827, witnessed by Joshua Fobes and Nathaniel Willis, and recorded on 12 Aug. 1747.

[397] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 37, p. 155, from FHL microfilm #0558826, witnessed by Jonathan Bassett and Mary Bassett, and recorded on l8 Aug. 1745.

[398] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 38, p. 250, from FHL microfilm #0558827, witnessed by Seth Bassett and Mary Bassett, and recorded on 12 Aug. 1747.

[399] Plymouth County Land Records, Vol. 40, p. 199, from FHL microfilm #0558828, witnessed by John Fobes and Ebenezer Keith, and recorded on 8 Mar. 1749.

[400] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 434, taken from a private record of burials in the Scotland Graveyard in Bridgewater.

[401] Bristol County Probate File “Nathan Bassett, Norton, 1762,” online at www.AmericanAncestors.org.

[402] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 112, says they had John 1734, Nathan 1737, Ruth 1740, David 1743, Hannah 1745, Joseph 1747, and Jonathan 1750.

[403] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 43.

[404] Cushman, Joseph Augustine, The First Seven Generations of the Cushman Family in New England, Bridgewater, MA, 1964, pp. 38, 98; Van Antwerp, Lee Douglas, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Nine, Family of Francis Eaton, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1996, [hereinafter MF5G: Eaton], p. 104.

[405] The marriage date per the Ancestry.com World Tree file submitted on 24 Feb. 2004 by Dave Robison, but this date may not be correct, because their marriage intentions, recorded in Middleborough, MA, were not recorded until 30 June 1764.

[406] Middleborough VRs, Vol. 2, p. 60, marriage intentions recorded between John Bassett of Bridgewater and Sarah Cushman of Middleborough on 30 June 1764.

[407] MF5G: Eaton, p. 33.

[408] Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War, 17 Volumes, Vol. 1, p. 759.

[409] All per the Ancestry.com World Tree file submitted on 24 Feb. 2004 by Dave Robison, from information accumulated by Jeffrey Bassett.

[410] Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Connecticut, Bountiful, UT, 1993, p. 144, Killingley town, Windham County, the John Bassitt household had 4 free white males aged 16 or over, 1 free white male under 16, and 3 free white females.

[411] Per the Ancestry.com World Tree file submitted on 24 Feb. 2004 by Dave Robison.

[412] His will per the Ancestry.com World Tree file submitted on 24 Feb. 2004 by Dave Robison.

[413] Per the Ancestry.com World Tree file submitted on 24 Feb. 2004 by David Robison, and per his will. No children were recorded to John Bassett in the Barbour index of Killingly town vital records.

[414] Per the LDS Ancestral File, submitted by cdperry.

[415] Per the Ancestry.com World Tree file submitted on 24 Feb. 2004 by Dave Robison.

[416] Per the LDS Ancestral File, submitted by cdperry; per his www.findagrave.com memorial #38915997.

[417] Per the LDS Ancestral File, submitted by cdperry.

[418] Per his www.findagrave.com memorial #38915997.

[419] Palmer VRs, p. 239; per the LDS Ancestral File, submitted by cdperry; www.findagrave.com, memorial #126316241, from her gravestone in Palmer Center Cemetery in Palmer, Hampden Co., MA.

[420] Palmer VRs, p. 190; per the LDS Ancestral File, submitted by cdperry.

[421] Per her www.findagrave.com memorial #46224022.

[422] Per the LDS Ancestral File, submitted by cdperry; www.findagrave.com, memorial #38915997, from his gravestone in Sheds Cemetery in Sheds, Madison Co., NY, “in the 66^th year of his age.”

[423] www.findagrave.com, memorial #46224022, from her gravestone in Sheds Cemetery in Sheds, Madison Co., NY.

[424] Per the Ancestry.com World Tree file submitted on 24 Feb. 2004 by Dave Robison.

[425] Per the Ancestry.com World Tree file submitted on 24 Feb. 2004 by Dave Robison.

[426] Calculated from the birth of their first child in ca. 1797.

[427] Per the Ancestry.com World Tree file submitted on 2 Nov. 2001 by Richard Olson.

[428] Per the Ancestry.com World Tree file submitted on 2 Jan. 2004 by Phillip Hunt.

[429] Per the Ancestry.com World Tree files submitted on 2 Jan. 2004 by Phillip Hunt, and on 24 Feb. 2004 by Dave Robison, who reports that she was buried in West Mina Cemetery, Mina, Chautauqua Co., NY.

[430] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 44.

[431] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 435, from a record of burials in Scotland Graveyard in Bridgewater.

[432] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 44.

[433] Vital Records of Norton, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1906, [hereinafter Norton VRs], p. 187.

[434] Norton VRs, p. 87.

[435] Norton VRs, p. 263.

[436] Norton VRs, p. 87.

[437] Norton VRs, p. 214, the marriage of Silas Cobb and Deliverance Hodges on 24 May 1764 in Norton.

[438] Norton VRs, p. 263.

[439] Norton VRs, p. 40.

[440] Norton VRs, p. 379.

[441] Norton VRs, p. 87.

[442] Norton VRs, p. 264.

[443] Norton VRs, p. 86.

[444] Norton VRs, p. 86.

[445] Norton VRs, p. 263.

[446] Norton VRs, p. 87.

[447] Per Norton VRs, p. 263.

[448] Norton VRs, p. 121.

[449] Norton VRs, p. 87.

[450] Norton VRs, p. 263.

[451] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 43.

[452] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 434, from a record of burials in Scotland Graveyard in Bridgewater.

[453] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 43.

[454] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 43.

[455] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 225.

[456] Vital Records of West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1911, [hereinafter West Bridgewater VRs], p. 122.

[457] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 202.

[458] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 225; Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 202: birth of Josiah Lathrop on 4 Feb. 1726 in Bridgewater.

[459] Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts, Bountiful, Utah, 1993, p. 166, Bridgewater Town, Plymouth Co., MA, the Joseph Bassett, “Jur” household had 2 free white males aged 16 or older, 5 free white males under 16, and 4 free white females.

[460] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 435, buried in Mount Prospect Cemetery in Bridgewater.

[461] Plymouth County Probate Docket #1437, Vol. 48, p. 411-413, from FHL microfilm #0550905.

[462] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 434, buried in Mount Prospect Cemetery in Bridgewater.

[463] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 44.

[464] Raynham VRs, pp. 40, 96, married by “Mr. Fale;” Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 44, marriage intentions recorded 29 June 1800 in Bridgewater.

[465] Per Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 42, taken from her gravestone in Mount Prospect Cemetery, Bridgewater.

[466] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 435.

[467] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 139, p. 283, online at www.AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, her birth place Raynham, and her parents given as Abial & Abiah Bassett [sic?].

[468] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 44.

[469] Her father’s name from her death record; Middleborough VRs, Vol. 2, p. 88, the marriage intentions of Nathaniel Tomson ye 2d and Hannah Thomas recorded on 15 July 1775 in Middleborough.

[470] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 44. Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 112, says Nathan married “a Daniels or a Snow.”

[471] Middleborough VRs, Vol. 1, p. 232.

[472] 1850 Federal Census, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA, p. 16, dwelling #189, family #229:

Nathan Bassett, 71, male, farmer, born MA

Sybil T. Bassett, 70, female, born MA

[473] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 139, p. 283, online at www.AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, her birth place Middleborough, and her father Nathaniel Thompson; Latham, Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater, p. 125.

[474] 1860 Federal Census, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA, Page No. 290, dwelling #1883, family #2423:

Ezra Fobes, 74, male, Gentleman, $4000, $5090, born MA

Hannah Fobes, 73, female, born MA

Susan Fobes, 81, female, born MA

Dwelling #1883, family #2424:

Nathan Bassett, 82, male, Gentleman, $3000, born MA

[475] Latham, Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater, p. 125.

[476] Plymouth County Probate Docket, #1444, Vol. 105, pp. 131-132, 136, from FHL microfilm #0555647, and Vol. 114, p. 270 (266).

[477] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 44.

[478] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, pp. 212-213; Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 218: marriage of Simeon Keith and Molley Cary on 15 June 1775 in Bridgewater.

[479] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 44, marriage intentions recorded 8 Mar. 1800 in Bridgewater.

[480] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 184.

[481] 1810 Federal Census, Winslow, Kennebec Co., ME, p. 756, the Hampden Keith household had 2 males under 10, 1 male aged 26-44 years, 1 female under 10, and 1 female aged 26-44 years.

[482] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 44.

[483] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 245.

[484] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 44.

[485] Calculated from her age in the 1850 federal census, her birth place from Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 245.

[486] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 243.

[487] Pearson, Brig. Gen. Gardner W., Records of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia Called out by the Governor of Massachusetts to suppress a Threatened Invasion during the War of 1812-1814, Boston, 1913, reprint, Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1999, p. 51.

[488] 1850 Federal Census, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA, p. 13, dwelling #153, family #185:

Josiah Bassett, 67, male, farmer, $3000, born MA

Lucretia Bassett, 62, female, born MA

Georgianna Bassett, 5, female, born MA, attending school

[489] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 121, p. 229, online at www.AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, his occupation a farmer, his birth place Bridgewater, and his parents Joseph & Hannah Bassett.

[490] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 311, p. 263, online at www.AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, her birth place Bridgewater, and her parents Bradford and Persis Mitchell, born respectively in Bridgewater and Hardwick.

[491] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 43.

[492] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, pp. 236-237.

[493] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 43.

[494] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 218.

[495] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 236.

[496] Pearson, Brig. Gen. Gardner W., Records of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia Called out by the Governor of Massachusetts to suppress a Threatened Invasion during the War of 1812-1814, Boston, 1913, reprint, Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1999, p. 51.

[497] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 435, from her gravestone in Mount Prospect Cemetery, Bridgewater.

[498] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 112.

[499] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 43.

[500] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 161; Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 134, marriage intentions of Ezra Fobes and Mary Shaw, of Raynham, in 1776.

[501] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 43.

[502] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 114.

[503] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 160.

[504] 1850 Federal Census, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA, p. 16, dwelling #189, family #228:

Ezra Fobes, 65, male, farmer, $3000, born MA

Hannah Fobes, 63, female, born MA

Susan Fobes, 71, female, born MA

[505] 1860 Federal Census, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA, Page No. 290, dwelling #1883, family #2423:

Ezra Fobes, 74, male, Gentleman, $4000, $5090, born MA

Hannah Fobes, 73, female, born MA

Susan Fobes, 81, female, born MA

Dwelling #1883, family #2424:

Nathan Bassett, 82, male, Gentleman, $3000, born MA

[506] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 193, p. 298, online at www.AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, her birth place Bridgewater, and her parents Joseph & Hannah Bassett, of Bridgewater.

[507] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 248, p. 378, online at www.AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, his occupation a farmer, his birth place Bridgewater, and his parents Ezra and Mary Fobes.

[508] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 44.

[509] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 190; Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 188: marriage of Winslow Hooper and Polly Latham on 13 Nov. 1791 in Bridgewater.

[510] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 44, marriage intentions recorded 24 Aug. 1811 in Bridgewater.

[511] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 164.

[512] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 223.

[513] Plymouth County Probate Docket #10670, Vol. 71, p. 290.

[514] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 435.

[515] Plymouth County Probate Docket #1445, Vol. 12C, p. 162, with Wm. H. Davis, of Milton, and Sarah C. Bassett, of Bridgewater, as sureties.

[516] 1850 Federal Census, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA, p. 25, dwelling #319, family #371:

Mary Bassett, 58, female, $5000, born MA

Sarah C. Bassett, 36, female, born MA

Mary J. Craigan, 20, female, born MA, attending school

Franzes A. Clapp, 24, female, born MA, attending school

John Buder, 25, male, laborer, born Holland

[517] 1860 Federal Census, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA, Page No. 303, dwelling #1977, family #2535:

Mary Bassett, 68, female, widow, $4000, $2000, born MA

Sarah Bassett, 46, female, born MA

Augusta Sears, 34, female, born MA

Alfred Sears, 7, male, born MA

Mary E. Sears, 4, female, born MA

[518] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 275, p. 290, online at www.AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, her birth place Bridgewater, and her parents Winslow & Polly Hooper, of Bridgewater.

[519] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 43.

[520] Her parents’ names from her death record.

[521] Raynham VRs, p. 65, married by “Mr. Hall;” Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 43, marriage intentions recorded 23 Mar. 1816 in Bridgewater, married in May 1816 according to a Bassett family bible.

[522] Calculated from her age in the 1850 federal census.

[523] 1850 Federal Census, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA, p. 14, dwelling #164, family #198:

Joseph Bassett, 58, male, farmer, $7300, born MA

Hannah W. Bassett, 57, female, born MA

Albigence W. Bassett, 31, male, farmer, born MA

Hannah W. Bassett, 26, female, born MA

Mary J. Bassett, 6, female, born MA, attending school

Patrick Campton, 22, male, laborer, born Ireland, cannot read or write

Benjamin F. Prescot, 17, male, laborer, born MA

[524] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 85, p. 195, online at www.AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, his occupation a farmer, his birth place Bridgewater, and his parents Joseph & Hannah Bassett.

[525] Plymouth County Probate Docket #1433, Vol. 96, p. 394-394, from FHL microfilm #0555642, witnessed by Franklin Leach, Benjamin Keith, and Isaac Fobes.

[526] 1860 Federal Census, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA, Page No. 294, dwelling #1914, family #2455:

Hannah W. Bassett, 67, female, widow, $1000, born MA

Hannah W. Bassett 2^nd, 37, female, $1000, born MA

Mary J. Bassett, 15, female, born MA, attending school

[527] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 203, p. 286, online at www.AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, her birth place Raynham, and her parents Jonathan & Mary, of Raynham.

[528] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 43.

[529] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 246.

[530] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 43.

[531] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 228.

[532] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 244.

[533] 1850 Federal Census, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA, p. 14, dwelling #165, family #199:

Geo. Bassett, 54, male, farmer, $8500, born MA

Hannah Bassett, 50, female, born MA

Mary F. Bassett, 18, female, born MA

Edward N. Bassett, 11, male, born MA, attending school

Lysander R. Hall, 21, male, farmer, born MA

Mary Calighan, 17, female, born Ireland

[534] 1860 Federal Census, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA, Page No. 294, dwelling #1912, family #2453:

Geo. Bassett, 64, male, farmer, $9000, $6000, born MA

Hannah M. Bassett, 61, female, born MA

Ed. N. Bassett, 21, male, farmer, born MA

Mary Ryon, 18, female, servant, born Ireland

[535] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 193, p. 298, online at www.AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, his occupation a farmer, his birth place Bridgewater, but his parents’ names not given.

[536] Plymouth County Probate Docket #1424, Vol. 119, p. 402, with Josiah L. Bassett and Caleb Hobart, of Bridgewater, as sureties.

[537] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 248, p. 379, online at www.AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, widow of George Bassett, her birth place Bridgewater, but her parents’ names not given.

[538] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 43.

[539] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 112.

[540] Per the Barbour Index of Killingly town vital records.

[541] Bowman, George Ernest, “Benjamin Washburns of Bridgewater,” Pilgrim Notes and Queries, Vol. 5, No. 1, [Jan. 1917], p. 2.

[542] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 254; Taunton VRs, Vol. 2, p. 349, marriage of Israel Packard and Hannah Crosman on 16 July 1701 in Taunton; MF5G: Cooke, p. 263.

[543] Middleborough VRs, Vol. 1, p. 64. He was called “Benjam Washburn the 3^rd” in the marriage record, being the youngest of the three Benjamin Washburn cousins of Bridgewater; Bowman, George Ernest, “Benjamin Washburns of Bridgewater,” Pilgrim Notes and Queries, Vol. 5, No. 1, [Jan. 1917], p. 2, which sorts out the different Benjamin Washburns of Bridgewater.

[544] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 250.

[545] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 253.

[546] Plymouth County Probate Docket #15104; Vol. 13, pp. 10, 217.

[547] Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 328, says they had Hannah 1744, Sarah 1748, and Ebenezer 1750.

[548] Vital Records of Brockton, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1911, [hereinafter Brockton VRs], p. 151, baptized in the Fourth Church of Christ in North Bridgewater.

[549] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 575, from a private record of deaths kept by Oliver Alden of Bridgewater.

[550] Brockton VRs, p. 150, baptized in the Fourth Church of Christ in North Bridgewater.

[551] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 329. Her baptism was not found in North Bridgewater.

[552] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 386; Brockton VRs, p. 299.

[553] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 359.

[554] East Bridgewater VRs, p. 404; Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 586.

[555] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 358.

[556] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 359.

[557] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 417. The marriage record calls her “Polly Woods,” but in the marriage intentions she is recorded as “Mary Woodwiss.”

[558] Middleborough VRs, Vol. 1, p. 196.

[559] Middleborough VRs, Vol. 1, p. 26, the marriage of John Darling and Elisabeth Bennet, both of Middleborough, on 17 Oct. 1721 in Middleborough.

[560] Middleborough VRs, Vol. 2, p. 14.

[561] Brockton VRs, p. 151, baptized in the Fourth Church of Christ in North Bridgewater.

[562] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 335.

[563] Brockton VRs, p. 151, baptized in the Fourth Church of Christ in North Bridgewater.

[564] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 391.

[565] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 328.

[566] Brockton VRs, p. 151, baptized in the Fourth Church of Christ in North Bridgewater.

[567] Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 385; Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 328.

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[A] The Will of Thomas Perkins, of Bridgewater, County of Plymouth, Province of the Massachusetts Bay (1758): *

[Note: In addition to being a difficult will to transcribe because of the poor handwriting, the clerk probably made several errors copying it into the probate book as evidenced by the erasure and omission of part of a line, the duplication of words throughout the will, and what appears to be the omission of words in other parts of the will.]

In the name of God Amen March 18^th. 1758

I Thomas Perkins of Bridgwater in the County of Plymouth in New Engl^d. Yeoman being at present in a State of health and of a Sound & Disposing mind and memory which I thank God for But Calling to mind the mortality of my Body Do make and ordain this my Last Will & Testament that is To Say princapally and first of all I give and Recommend my Soul into the hands of the great god who gave it hooping through the merrets mediation and Intercession of Christ to obtain the Pardon of all my Sins and Inherit Eternal Life. and my body I Commit to the Earth to in a Decent Manner at the Descresion of my Executor hereafter named and as Touching My worldly Estate I Give & Dispose thereof in the following manner. In the first Place my will is that all my Debts and Funeral Charges be Paid in a Conveniant Time after my Decease by my Executor out of that Part of my Estate which I have Given To my 3 sons to be Devided between them

Item I Give and bequeath unto my Son Tho^s his heirs and assigns, forever, [part of a line which has been erased] and fences there on Together with other appurtences wher he now Dwels whome I appoint Sole Executor of This my Last will & Testament

Item I Give and bequeath unto my Son Ebenezer his heirs and assigns forever That Part of my homestead which Lyeth on the Southerly Side of the high way by my Dwelling house Excepting what is particularly other wise hereafter Disposed of in this my Last Will

Item I give and bequeath unto my Son Francis his heirs and assigns forever all that Part of my homestead which lyeth on the northerly Side of the of the high way by my Dwelling House together with a Seperte Piece of Land Lying on the Southerly Side of Said high way on which Standeth my barn &c Bounded as follows, Beginning at a Plum Tree Standing by and on the Southerly Side of Said way about five Rods from a Large Rock Close by the River from s^d from s^d Plumb Tree runing South Twelve Degrees East Nine Rods and five Links To a Rok thence Runing East Six Degrees South Twenty four Rods To a Stak & Stones by Said way then by the Said way To the bounds first mentioned Together also with a small Pece of Land on the westerly Side of the River by my house on the northerly Side of s^d Way

Item I give and bequeath unto my Said Son Ebenezer and francis them & their heirs and assigns forever my Tract of Land Lying below Eleazer Aldens Adjoyning To the Thousand acres (so Called) To be Equally Devided between Them in y^e following manner V^~~. The Deviding Line to begin at a great white oak Tree Standing near the Southerly Range of Said Tract and the Line of the Said 1000 Acres and from Said Tree To Extend Such a Point northerly as will Devide Said Tract into Equal Shears for Quantity and the Said Ebenezer his heirs & Assigns the Easterly half and the Said Francis his heirs and assigns To have the westerly half. But it is To be under stood that the Iron Oar that is or may be found in both the halfs aforesaid is To be Equally Devided between—That is To Say The Said Ebenezer his heirs & Assigns are To have one half of the Iron oar on Francis’ half of the Said Land and s^d Francis his heirs and assigns are To have one half of the Iron oar on Ebenezers Half of the Land also I give unto the Said Francis and Ebenezer and Francis their heirs and assigns forever my Grist mill & Saw mill and all my Interest in the forge Together with the Tools and utensils & Stream and all Privelidges thereto belonging the yard Privelidge belonging to Said Saw mill is bounded in the following manner begining at the Plum Tree before mentioned and from thence runing South Twelve Degrees East Eleven Rods & five Links then Runing South westerly till the line will will intersect a Line Run from a hornbine Tree Standing about three Rods below Said Saw mill To the Northwesterly Corner of Said Ebenezer Dwelling house one Rod and a half From Said house then Keeping the Range of the last Line to Said hornbine by the River near to which there is also a Red oak Tree then bounded by the River up Stream To the Said high way then by the way to the Said Plum Tree as also a Lot of Cedar Swamp being the ninth Lot in the Little Cedar Swamp So Called Equally Devided between Them

Item I give & bequeath unto my Two Grand Daughters the Children of my Daughter Mary Late wife of Josiah Howard Jun^r. Deceased To Each of them a fether bed and furniture apece I give unto them & my grandson child of the Said Mary 1 Cow & Two pound Thirteen Shillings and four pence Lawfull money To be Equaly Devided between the the Said three grandChildren the Said Two pounds Thirteen Shillings & four pence to be Paid by my Said Son Thomas out of that Part of my Estate given to him.

Item I give & bequeth unto my Said Sons Thomas Ebenezer and Francis my Two hundred acres Land lying at a Place Called Cork hill at the Slear[?] of the Township of wels which my father purchased of Harlikington Simmons also a ninth Part of a Purchase Right in the undevided Lands in Bridgwater as also all my other Real Estate wheresoever Lying not before Disposed to be Equally Devided between them—also I give unto them my negro boy Ceaser fire armes wearing apparel Cash bonds notes Book amounts and the Remainder of my Quick Stok—Book Provitions besides what will be necessary for my famaly’s Use to Carry the year about to be To be Devided Equaly between them and if there be any Hay at my Decease to be Devided according To the Quick Stock

Item I give unto my Son Francis my Smith Tools but the Shop one half To him and the other half To my Said Son Ebenezer

In witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the Day & year afores^d.

Signed Sealed pronounced published and Declared by the Tho. Perkins (seal)

Said Thomas Perkins To be his Last Will In Presence of

Josiah Edson Jun: John Woods: Benja Sprage

Probated on 3 Aug. 1761, presented in court by Thomas Perkins of Bridgwater, the executor, and proved by Josiah Edson jun^r. Esq., and Benjamin Sprague.

* Transcribed by John A. Maltby from Plymouth County Probate Vol. 16, p. 158-160, from FHL microfilm #0551543.

[B] The Will of Joseph Bassett, Esq., of Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1815) *

Be it remembered that I Joseph Bassett of Bridgwater in the County of Plymouth Gentleman, being weak of Body but of sound Mind & memory do this twelfth day of June one thousand eight hundred & fifteen make & publish my last Will and Testament in manner following that is to say ~~

Imprimis I give to my beloved Wife one half of the Dwelling house in which I live (the south east part) with a privilege to use the oven & Well together with all my household Furniture, of every Description including my Clock & my Chaise, with a privilege to keep it in the Chaisehouse. & I likewise give her two hundred & ten Dollars to be paid to her annually during her Lifetime by my Sons as I shall hereafter direct —

Item I give to my Son William all the Homestead which I bought of Simeon & Seth Snow & the north Lot in the Old Swamp (so called) which I bought of Seth Snow & the south Lot in s^d. old Swamp which I bought of Daniel Snow, & one third part of the Meadow lying north of the old River which runs out of the Pond beginning at the north east End next to Clifford Carver’s Meadow & extending to a Run of Water near Beach Island which runs out of the Swamp & one half of the Swamp Lots adjoining said Meadow & running northerly to the great Lots so called. —

Item I give to my Son Jonathan the Land known by the Name of the “Ames Place”, & all the Lots of Land adjoining the same, & a Lot of Swamp which I bought of Winslow Hooper lying in the little Swamp, & the South Lot of Swamp which I bought of Seth Snow & the north Lot of Swamp which I bought of Daniel Snow lying in the old Swamp, & one half of a Lot I bought of Nathan Leach lying in said little Swamp, & two thirds of the Meadow of which I have given William one third as abve described lying in the great Meadows so called. I likewise give to my son Jonathan one half of those Lots of Swamp adjoining s^d. Meadow last described of which I have given William the other half as may be seen in page first. —

Item I likewise give & bequeath to my Sons Joseph & George all my other Lands of every Description or name lying either in Bridgwater or Raynham in common for them to divide equally between them, or improve together as they may judge proper, excepting those Lands I have before mentioned as given to William & Jonathan.—

Item I give to My Sons Nathan, Josiah & Paschal two thousand Dollars to each of them to be paid in one year after my decease the above to be paid in Money or good Securities.

Item I give to my two Daughters Sally Keith & Hannah Fobes six hundred Dollars to each of them to be paid in one year after my decease in Money or good Securities.

Item I give & bequeath to my Sons William, Nathan, Josiah, Jonathan, Paschal Joseph & George, all the Stock of Cattle, Horses, Sheep & Swine of which I may die seized & all my farming utensils of every Description to be divided equally between them after selling so much of said Stock or utensils as may be found necessary to pay all my just Debts & funeral Charges before such Division is made, & all other property of every name or nature I give to my above named seven Sons, not herein disposed of (excepting what my Wife may want of the provisions which I may leave in my House & Granaries for her comfortable support for one year next after my decease) to be divided equally between them. And I hereby order my Executors to see that this last clause respecting the one years provision for my Wife be granted her. & I hereby order my seven Sons above named to pay to my Wife & their Mother, each & every one of them, thirty Dollars annually which will make in the whole two hundred & ten Dollars to be paid in Money, & the first payment to be made to her at the Expiration of one Year after my decease to be continued during her natural Life —

Lastly I do constitute & ordain four of my Sons, viz William, Jonathan Joseph & George joint Executors of this my last Will & Testament. In Testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand & Seal the day & Year above written. —

Signed, sealed, published, pronounced & declared N.B. the word “whole” interlined near the

by the said Joseph Bassett as & for his last Will and Top of this page, was done before this

Testament in presence of us, who at his request & was witnessed. —

in his presence hereunto set our Names as Witnesses

to the same ~~~ Joseph Bassett (seal)

George Chipman

Caleb F. Leonard

Asaph Andrews

Presented for probate on 1 Apr. 1817 by William Bassett, Jonathan Bassett, Joseph Bassett and George Bassett, the Executors therein named, and proved by George Chipman and Caleb F. Leonard, two of the witnesses.

No inventory of his estate was filed.

* Transcribed by John A. Maltby from Plymouth County Probate Vol. 48, p. 411-413, from FHL microfilm #0550905.

[C] The Will of Nathan Bassett of Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1849) *

In the name of God Amen. I Nathan Bassett of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being of sound and disposing mind and memory do make this my last Will and Testament. I commit my soul to God the Author of it, and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executor hereinafter mentioned.

As to my worldly estate I hereby dispose of the same in the following manner.

First. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Sybel T. Bassett my pew in the Scotland Meeting house in Bridgewater numbered 21 – together with all the other property of which I may died seized of whatever name or nature after paying my just debts excepting my undivided shares and rights in said meeting house hereinafter disposed of.

Second. All my shares and rights in said Scotland meeting-house in Bridgewater I give bequeath and devise to the Congregational Church now weekly worshipping in the said Scotland meeting-house under the ministry of the Rev. Stetson Raymond to their use and benefit forever in maintaining the public worship of God – And I hereby appoint Deacon Isaac Fobes and his successor or successors in that office in said church forever to take the care thereof and see to the same – always excepting the said pew No. 21 hereinbefore given to my wife.

Finally I hereby appoint said Sybel T. Bassett and Ozias D. Daniels to be Executors of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former Wills by me made and declaring this and this only to be my last Will and Testament.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand this twenty second day of February in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine

Signed published pronounced and

declared by the said Nathan Bas-

sett to be his last Will and Testament

in presence of the subscribers who in Nathan Bassett (seal)

his presence and in presence of each

other and at his request hereunto

set our hands as witnesses.

Benjamin Keith

Franklin Leach

Isaac Fobes

Calvin Southworth

To the Hon. William H. Wood Esquire, Judge of Probate, in & for the County of Plymouth,

I Ozias D. Daniels of Randolph in the County of Norfolk, one of the persons named Executors in the Will of Nathan Bassett late of Bridgewater in said County of Plymouth, deceased, hereby decline & refuse to accept that trust -- & have no objection to the appointment of Josiah L. Bassett to that office & do hereby resign said trust.

Randolph, Dec. 12, 1864

Ozias D. Daniels

Josiah L. Bassett, of Bridgewater, was granted administration with will annexed of the estate of Nathan Bassett, late of Bridgewater, on 9 Jan. 1865, with Josiah W. Bassett and Abiel Bassett as sureties, the executor named having refused.

Philander Leach, Royal Keith, and Adin Alger were appointed to appraise the estate of Nathan Bassett, late of Bridgewater, on 12 Aug. 1864. His real estate was valued at only $70, and his personal estate totaled $1041.68. Josiah L. Bassett, the administrator with will annexed, gave his oath to the inventory on 9 Jan. 1865.

* Transcribed by John A. Maltby from Plymouth County Probate Vol. 105, pp. 131-132, 136, from FHL microfilm #0555647, Vol. 114, p. 270 (266), and Vol. 109, p. 108.

[D] The Will of Joseph Bassett 2d, of Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1845) *

In the name of God, Amen. I Joseph Bassett 2^d of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being of sound and disposing mind and memory do make this my last Will and Testament.

I commit my soule to God the author of it and my body to the earth to be buried in a christian manner at the discretion of my executor.

As to my Worldly estate I hereby dispose of the same in the following manner.

First. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Hannah W. Bassett all my household furniture excepting my clock, desk and book-case and one feather bed with suitable apparel for the same. I also give to my said wife the right for her to occupy the Westerly half of my dwelling house during her natural life as also the necessary privileges in and to the cellar and Well with the right to pass to and from the same at all times. And also the right to a proper support and maintenance with suitable meat, drink, apparel, medicine and nursing and all other things necessary and convenient for her comfort during her natural life. All of which is to be furnished to her by my executor hereinafter named.

Second. I give and devise to my son Joseph Milton Bassett the farm on which he now lives in the town of Grafton in the County of Worcester with all the privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging to him his heirs and assigns to his and their use and behoof forever.

Thirdly. I give and bequeath to my daughter Hannah W. Bassett the sum of Two Thousand dollars to be paid to her by my Executor hereinafter named in one year after my decease, in money or good securities.

Fourthly. I give, bequeath and devise to my son Albigence Waldo Bassett all of my property not herein before disposed of whether real or personal of which I may die seized or possessed wherever the same may be found to him his heirs and assigns to his and their use and behoof forever on the conditions that he the said Albigence Waldo pay the foregoing legacy of two thousand dollars to my said daughter Hannah W. Bassett in one year after my decease and also well and truly maintain and support my beloved wife Hannah W. Bassett during her natural life with proper and suitable meat, drink, apparel, medicine and nursing and all other things convenient for her comfort as herein before mentioned in my devise to my said wife.

Finally. I hereby appoint my son Albigence Waldo Bassett to be my executor of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all other former Wills by me made and declaring this and this only to be my last Will and Testament.

In Witness whereof I the said Joseph Bassett 2^d hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty ninth day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty five.

Joseph Bassett 2^d (seal)

Signed, published, pronounced and declared by the said Joseph Bassett 2^d. to be his last Will and Testament in presence of us the subscribers who in his presence and at his request and in presence of each other hereunto set our hands as Witnesses.

Franklin Leach

Benjamin Keith

Isaac Fobes

Presented for probate on the first Tuesday of Oct. 1854 by Albigence W. Bassett, the Executor therein named, and proved by Benjamin Keith and Isaac Fobes, two of the Witnesses. Letters Testamentary were granted to Albigence W. Bassett, the Executor.

* Transcribed by John A. Maltby from Plymouth County Probate Vol. 96, p. 392-394, from FHL microfilm #0555642.