William Washburn (1669 - 1741)

Born 16 Mar 1669 in Stratford, Connecticut Colony, New England

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Wooster) Washburn — married 20 Aug 1696 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 18 Jan 1741 at age 71 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, New England

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Biography

William WASHBURN ^[1][2][3] was born ^[4][5] 16 Mar 1669 in Derby, New Haven, CT. He died ^[6][7][8] 18 Jan 1741 in Derby, New Haven, CT and was buried ^[9][10][11] in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT. William married ^[12][13][14] Hannah WOOSTER on 20 Aug 1696.

The post by John Maltby, on April 13, 2002, on the forum shown in Sources, verifies this Williams' parent's, Hope and Mary (Stiles) Washburn.

Connecticut Colony and Hempstead, Long Island

• From John Maltby:

William Washburn, second son of Hope Washburn, born in Stratford, Connecticut Colony, on 16 Mar. 1668/9,^[15] married Hannah Wooster, daughter of Edward and Tabitha (Tomlinson) Wooster, of Derby, CT,^[16] on 20 Aug. 1696 in Derby.^[17] She was baptized on 31 Oct. 1675 in Milford, CT.^[18] They settled in Derby, New Haven County, Connecticut, where his name was often spelled “Washbon” in the town records of Derby.

Wm Washborn, Saml Washborn and Jno. Jnoson signed an undated agreement of Derby landowners made in about 1696 in Derby regarding additional land granted to Jno. Davies Senior to build a barn on,^[19] William Washbon was chosen as a fence viewer in Derby on 28 Sept. 1696,^[20] on 29 Apr. 1698 William Washbon, John Johnson and Samuel Washbone signed an agreement with other landholders in Derby to allow Ebenezer Harger a rod of land in Derby,^[21] on 21 Nov. 1698 the town of Derby granted a home lot to John Grifin that was originally granted to Wiliam Washbon,^[22] in Jan. 1699 John Johnson, William Washbon, and Samuel Washbon again signed an agreement for John Davis Senior to receive half a rod of land in Derby to build a barn on,^[23] and at the same time they signed an agreement for Josiah Baldwin to receive a homestead of 3 acres of land in Derby,^[24] on 18 Jan. 1700/1701 Wm Washborn, Jno. Jnoson, and Saml Washborne signed a petition to allow Theophilus Miles to receive 5 acres of pasture on the north side of further Horse Hill Brook near Ebenezer Hardyear’s pasture,^[25] Wm Washborn drew lot 40 in the division of extra lands in Derby on 12 Mar. 1701/2,^[26] Wm Washborn and David Worster were chosen as fence viewers on 22 Dec. 1703,^[27] and the bounds of the lots of William Wasbon and John Johnson were recorded on 19 Dec. 1704.^[28] John Johnson, Sa. Wasbon, and William Wasbon were among 15 Derby residents who filed a protest against a bill of charge that John Bowers brought into the town on 1 Jan. 1704/5, but the bill passed anyway,^[29] and Wm Washbon and John Johnson were among other landowners in Derby who approved a small land grant to Thomas Woster on 17 Feb. 1707/8.^[30] William Washburn took the oath as a freeman in Derby, CT, in 1705,^[31] and his name was on a list of Freeman of Derby on 7 Mar. 1708/9.^[32] William Washborn and his son, Ephraim Washborn, filed a suit against the proprietors of the town of Stratford, which was decided against them in Oct. 1726.^[33] Samll Washbon, Wm Washbon, and John Johnson were all listed as proprietors in Quakers Farms in Mar. 1727/28.^[34]

Hannah (Wooster) Washburn died on 17 Apr. 1737 in Derby, CT,^[35] and William Washburn died on 18 Jan. 1741 in Derby, CT, aged 72 years, 10 months, 16 days,^[36] and they were both buried in Old Derby Uptown Burying Ground in Derby, CT.

William Washburn and Hannah Wooster had children, order uncertain:

• Ruth Washburn, born on 6 July 1697 in Derby, CT, married Abriam/Abiram Canfield, son of Thomas and Rebecca (Atkinson) Canfield (Jr.), on 12 Sept. 1717 in Derby. She died on 24 Sept. 1784 in Derby, CT.

+ 280 ii Ephraim4 Washburn, born in 1701 in Derby, CT,[26] married Marian/Merriam Bowers, daughter of Samuel and Lydia (French) Bowers, of Derby,[27] on 7 Oct. 1722 in Derby, CT.[28] (Continued in Washburn Fourth Generation.)

• Joseph Washburn, born supposedly on 7 Jan. 1703/4 in Derby, CT, died on 23 Jan. 1742 in Derby, presumably unmarried.

+ 282 iv John4 Washburn, born ca. 1705 in Derby, CT,[31] married Sarah Gunn on 5 Nov. 1722 in Derby.[32] (Continued in Washburn Fourth Generation.)

+ 283 v Edward4 Washburn, born on 17 June 1708 in Derby, CT,[33] married Mary Prindle/Pringle, daughter of John and Hannah (Boxford/Botsford) Prindle/Pringle, of Derby,[34] on 31 Dec. 1730 in Derby, CT.[35] (Continued in Washburn Fourth Generation.)

• Hannah Washburn, born ca. 1711 in Derby, CT, died on 1 Apr. 1727 in Derby, CT, aged 16 years.

+ 285 vii Gideon4 Washburn, born say ca. 1714 in Derby, CT, married Esther Allin on 6 Oct. 1743 in Derby, CT.[38] (Continued in Washburn Fourth Generation.)

• Sarah Washburn, born say ca. 1716 in Derby, CT, married Joseph Lum, son of Jonathan and Sarah (Riggs) Lum, of Derby, on 29 Apr. 1741 in Derby, CT. She was still living in 1790.

Sources

1. ↑ Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 604.
2. ↑ Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 600.
3. ↑ Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901.), pp. 270-1. . Will of Hope's wife Mary. Internet Archive
4. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 1, p 649.
5. ↑ Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of CT Families, vol 3, p 590. "b. at Stratford 16 Mar. 1668/9."
6. ↑ Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, p. 258. http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan258.html.
7. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield, vol 1, p 649.
8. ↑ Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of CT Families, vol 3, p 590.
9. ↑ Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, p. 258. http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan258.html.
10. ↑ Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 814. "Here lyes ye body of | Mr William Washbond | aged 72 years 10 mo | 16 days Deceased Jan 18 1741."
11. ↑ Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT. http://oxfordpast.net/cem204.html.
12. ↑ Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of CT Families, vol 3, p 590.
13. ↑ Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 319.
14. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield, vol 1, p 649.
15. ↑ White, Lorraine Cook, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Stratford 1639-1840, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 2000, p. 242, taken from Stratford Land Records, Vol. 1, p. 55
16. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines, “Edward Wooster of Derby, CT., and Some of His Descendants,” Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. III, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1983, p. 590; Orcutt, Samuel, The History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880, Springfield, MA, 1880, p. 774.
17. ↑ White, Lorraine Cook, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Derby 1655-1852, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, p. 311, taken from Vol. 2, p. 25, of the Derby Town Records; Phillips, Town Records of Derby, p. 291, both of Derby.
18. ↑ Abbot, Susan Woodruff, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1979, p. 818. Tabitha Wooster joined the church in Milford with her husband, Edward Wooster, on 27 Dec. 1669, so she must have been the mother of Hannah Wooster, born in 1675. Edward and Tabitah Wooster later removed from Milford to Derby, CT.
19. ↑ Phillips, Nancy O., Town Records of Derby, Connecticut, 1655-1710, Derby, 1901, p. 179-180.
20. ↑ Phillips, Town Records of Derby, p. 183.
21. ↑ Phillips, Town Records of Derby, p. 185-186.
22. ↑ Phillips, Town Records of Derby, p. 193.
23. ↑ Phillips, Town Records of Derby, p. 312-313.
24. ↑ Phillips, Town Records of Derby, p. 313-314.
25. ↑ Phillips, Town Records of Derby, p. 325-326.
26. ↑ Phillips, Town Records of Derby, p. 278-279.
27. ↑ Phillips, Town Records of Derby, p. 224.
28. ↑ Phillips, Town Records of Derby, p. 364.
29. ↑ Phillips, Town Records of Derby, p. 232.
30. ↑ Phillips, Town Records of Derby, p. 324.
31. ↑ Colonial Connecticut Records, Vol. 4, p. 511.
32. ↑ Phillips, Town Records of Derby, p. 425.
33. ↑ Colonial Connecticut Records, Vol. 7, p. 78
34. ↑ Sharpe, William C., History of Oxford, Seymour, CT, 1885, p. 86.
35. ↑ www.findagrave.com, memorial #115067617, submitted by Richard Rhode, placed in Old Derby Uptown Burying Ground, Derby CT, but no gravestone exists for her today, her death not listed in Barbour’s index to Derby town records.
36. ↑ Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 818, not listed in Barbour’s index to Derby town records; www.findagrave.com, memorial #19362222, submitted by Jan Franco, from his gravestone in Old Derby Uptown Burying Ground, Derby, CT.

• Maltby on GenForum

• John A. Maltby Genealogies - William Washburn

• "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7KB-5V9 : 16 September 2020), Ruth Washbond, 1738.