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Family of the Child of Isaac5 Washburn and Deborah Conant

 

 

            The only child of Isaac Washburn and Deborah Conant who I have been able to trace is son Elijah Washburn, but unfortunately I have not been able to gather any information about his two children.

 

 

 

 

 

James3 Washburn

 

 

Gideon4 Washburn

 

 

 

 

Mary Bowden

 

Isaac5 Washburn

 

 

 

 

 

David Perkins

 

 

Mary Perkins

 

 

 

 

Martha3 Howard

Elijah6 Washburn

 

 

 

Nathaniel Washburn

 

 

 

Edmund Washburn

 

 

 

Isaac Washburn (Jr.)

 

 

 

 

 

Nathaniel3 Conant

 

Lot4 Conant

 

 

 

Hannah3 Mansfield

 

Deborah5 Conant

 

 

 

 

Deborah Goodspeed

 

 

 

(2032.) Elijah6 Washburn, eldest son of (700) Isaac5 Washburn, (175) Gideon4, (65) James3, (43) John2 (5th), (28) John1 (4th); born in Bridgewater, MA, on 1 Dec. 1753,[1] moved to Hardwick, MA, and married Mary Winchester, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Pratt) Winchester,[2] on 1 Jan. 1778 in Hardwick.[3] She was born on 10 Apr. 1753 in Hardwick,[4] a granddaughter of Benjamin Winchester.[5] Elijah and Mary Washburn possibly moved to Wilmington, Windham Co., VT, but they had moved back to Ludlow, MA, by 1790. On 1 June 1798 Elijah Washburn, of Ludlow, Hampshire Co., Blacksmith, sold to David Bullard, of Ludlow, Husbandman, a house and blacksmith’s shop in Ludlow where Elijah Washburn was living, near where Joseph Munger lives, for £50.[6] They were living in Ludlow, Hampshire (now Hampden) Co., MA, in the 1790 federal census,[7] and in the 1800,[8] and 1810 federal censuses.[9] He died intestate in 1812 in Ludlow, Hampshire Co., MA, and Josiah Sims was granted administration of his estate on 7 Apr. 1812.[10] The inventory of his estate was appraised by Noah Clark, Avartus Damon, and Erastus Dickinson, and totaled only $114.43, including a cow and a hog, but no real estate.[11]

            Elijah Washburn and Mary Winchester had children:

        4338     i   Hannah Washburn, born on 2 Sept. 1780 in Wilmington, Windham Co., VT,[12] marriage not found.

        4339    ii   Thomas7 Washburn, born on 17 Apr. 1782 in Wilmington, VT,[13] marriage not found. On 20 Feb. 1804 Jonathan Carver, of Ludlow, Hampshire Co., yeoman, sold to Thomas Washburn, of Ludlow, Blacksmith, a dwelling house in Ludlow near where Joseph Munger lives, which David Bullard, of Ludlow, had conveyed to Carver on 12 Nov. 1798, for $160,[14] and on 15 Mar. 1804 Thomas Washburn, of Ludlow, Hampshire Co., Blacksmith, sold to Timothy Root, of Ludlow, Yeoman, the dwelling house in Ludlow where Jonathan Carver now lives near Joseph Munger’s, which Carver conveyed to Washburn on 20 Feb. 1804, for $100.[15] He had left Massachusetts by Mar. 1805. He may have been the Thomas Washburn who died on 5 Aug. 1857, aged 75 years,[16] and was buried in Fort Street Cemetery in Nelsonville, Athens Co., OH, but he was not found in the 1830, 1840 or 1850 federal censuses living in Athens Co., OH.

        4340   iii   (Probably others.)[17]

 

 

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    [1] Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1916, 2 volumes, [hereinafter Bridgewater VRs], Vol. 1, p. 328.

    [2] Paige, Lucius R., History of Hardwick, Massachusetts, with a Genealogical Register, Boston, 1883, [hereinafter Paige, History of Hardwick], p. 540; I.G.I. Marriage Records, marriage of Thomas Winchester and Mary Pratt on 24 Nov. 1748, taken from LDS temple records, from microfilm #458924.

    [3] Baldwin, Thomas W., Vital Records of Hardwick, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1917, [hereinafter Hardwick VRs], p. 260. The marriage record calls her “Sarah” Winchester, but the marriage intentions call her “Mary” Winchester, Paige’s History of Hardwick, p. 540, calls her “Mary,” and the birth records of her children give their mother’s name as “Mary.” Mary Winchester had a cousin named Sarah Winchester who was her same age, the daughter of Joshua and Mary Winchester.

    [4] Hardwick VRs, p. 126.

    [5] Paige, History of Hardwick, p. 540.

    [6] Hampden County Land Records, Vol. 37, p. 582, from FHL microfilm #0845741, witnessed by Olive Bullard and Cynthia Bullard, acknowledged before Wm. Pynchon, Justice of the Peace, and recorded on l3 Nov. 1798.

    [7] Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts, Bountiful, Utah 1993, p. 116, Ludlow Town, Hampshire County, the Elijh Washburn household had 1 free white male aged 16 or older, 1 free white male under 16, and 5 free white females.

    [8] 1800 Federal Census, Ludlow, Hampshire Co., MA, the Elijah Washburn household had 1 male aged 16-25 years, 1 male aged 26-44 years, 2 females aged 10-15 years, 1 female aged 16-25 years, and 1 female aged 26-44 years.

    [9] 1810 Federal Census, Ludlow, Hampshire Co., MA, the Elijah Washburn household had 1 male aged 45 or over, and 1 female aged 45 or over.

    [10] Hampshire County Probate Vol. 28, p. 134, from FHL microfilm #0879199.

    [11] Hampshire County Probate Vol. 28, p. 181-182, from FHL microfilm #0879199. After expenses, the balance of the estate valued at $104.63 was given to the unnamed widow of Elijah Washburn.

    [12] Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954, online index card database at www.FamilySearch.org, daughter of Elijah and Mary Washburn.

    [13] Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954, online index card database at www.FamilySearch.org, son of Elijah and Mary Washburn.

    [14] Hampden County Land Records, Vol. 44, p. 116, from FHL microfilm #0845746, witnessed by Edward Pynchon and Wm. Pynchon, acknowledged before Wm. Pynchon, Justice of the Peace, and recorded on 25 May 1804.

    [15] Hampden County Land Records, Vol. 44, p. 612, from FHL microfilm #0845746, witnessed by William Root and Nancy Root, acknowledged in Norfolk, MA, by William Root, one of the witnesses, in Mar. 1805, because Thomas Washburn had gone out of the Commonwealth, and recorded on 11 Mar. 1805.

    [16] www.findagrave.com, memorial #151003811, from his gravestone in Fort Street Cemetery in Nelsonville, Athens Co., OH.

    [17] Probably some more daughters, as indicated by the 1790 federal census in Ludlow, MA, but unfortunately the vital records of Ludlow, MA, have not yet been published.