Mayflower Treasure Hunt - James Washburn (1672-1749) - Descendant of Francis Cooke [closed]

Question

Mayflower Treasure Hunt - Help improve Mayflower Project profiles, by cleaning up profiles and finding the primary sources or reliable secondary sources for this Mayflower descendant.

James Washburn was a fourth generation descendant of Mayflower passenger, Francis Cooke, and the son of John Washburn a Puritan Great Migration immigrant.

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• Sources for these Massachusetts events are needed. Can you help?
• Birth?
• Marriage?
• Children?
• Death and burial?
• James left a will. Want to learn how to locate the original? Guide to locating wills at Family Search.
• Anything else?
• Want something easy? The profile needs reorganization and some cleanup.

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Thank you to everyone who helped with last weeks profile Shubael Tinkham.

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The Francis Cooke Silver Book, edition of 2014, has him and his family well documented. It cites primary Bridgewater vital records.

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Hi George, Thank you. We have the information from the Silver book. The object is to get citations for the original sources. The Mayflower project's long term goal is to write bios that cite not only the Mayflower Families books but to add citations for the original (or as close as possible) sources. Take a look at last weeks profile to see what I mean. Facts have the Mayflower Families citations and church, vital, probate etc. records, also.

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Thank you to everyone who helped with James' profile. This weeks treasure hunt is Joseph Bradford.

Answer 1

Early Vital Records of Massachusetts from 1600-1850 (Tan Books); Vital Records of Bridgewater, MA to the end of the year 1849; Bridgewater Births; https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Plymouth/Bridgewater/ Bridgewater Births: also @  https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofbr01brid/page/326/mode/2up 

https://books.google.com/books?id=baN4AAAAMAAJ

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001262121

ch of Washburn: James and Mary

Mary 28 Oct 1694 (p333)

Anna 1 Feb 1695-6 (p326)

James 6 Oct 1698 (p330)

Edward 8 Dec 1700 (p328)

Moses 9 Sep 1702 (p333)

Gideon 16 Aug 1704 (p329)

Sarah 2 Oct 1706 (p335)

Martha 10 Jan 1708-9 (p332)

Elizabeth 5 Apr 1710 (p328)

The list of children linked to profile Washburn-365 has missed daughter Sarah.

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Thank you.

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I found the missing Sarah she was attached to James wife, but not James.

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Great catch, Anne B!

Answer 2

I've got his death & burial sourced. I found an old book of Bridgewater epitaphs, printed 1882, that shows what the gravestone said then, since it's begun to wear away some.

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That's very cool Bobbie. Thank you.

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I also note that the Findagrave photo contributor, "EOB" specifically gives blanket approval to use their photos: 

Use my photos, please. Especially on Ancestry.com. Headstones and people. Really. Just not for personal or professional profit. All I ask is that you please give credit to this website and the photographer. "Used with permission of proud Find a Grave member, eobfindagrave (#46779688)." 

So we *could* use the photo, altho the image is not that great.

Answer 3

HI I do have the marriage records on my ancestry tree. As mentioned this family is on  the Francis Cooke line. The Silver Books are a wealth of information. If needed I can scan a copy of the pages as I bought the book last fall.

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Hi Patricia,

We're trying to locate the original records that are cited as proof in the silver books. If you have a copy, then see if you can find some of the birth, marriage, land, children's records, etc. to add depth to the sources on the profile.

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HI I am still new to this page How do I get the citation from Ancestry?  I see it mentions the Barber Collection index, That would be located at the CT State Library, however I might be able to get it. I will attach what I have. Thanks

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HI I added a record let me know if I did right please, Thanks

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Thanks Patricia!

That is a page from Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700. Unfortunately the Ancestry image doesn't provide the sources that he cited that accompanies the data. The AmericanAncestors.org version provides a bigger picture, which includes these sources (some of which might contain more added information):

Reg. 50:37; MD 26:38; Bridgewater 323; Morris-Converse 123; Paul Anc. 152; Richmond Gen. 30; Gen. Adv. 1:2; Bailey: Early MA Mar. 2:115

I've linked to the full Source List here on American Ancestors. 

It appears that their marriage was recorded in the published Bridgewater and East Bridgewater Vital Records. 

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I've updated the marriage statement in the bio with the Bridewater & East Bridgewater (published) VRs. Since East Bridgewater wasn't established as a town until the 1800s, it's pretty clear that Bridgewater was the likely location of the marriage, so I've adjusted the marriage location to reflect that. The Bridgewater VRs mention that the entry comes from the Plymouth Colony Records, so if someone were so inclined to really dig ... that would be a project in itself.

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Thank you!!

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Great, Thank you so much.