John Washburn Jr. (1657 - abt. 1687)

Born 20 Nov 1657 in Stratford, Connecticut Colony, New England

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Died about Feb 1687 at about age 29 in London, England [uncertain]

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Biography

John Washburn Jr, only surviving son of John Washburn, was born in Stratford, Connecticut Colony on 20 Nov. 1657. ^[1]

He married Sarah Cornell, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Jessup Cornell, of Rockaway, Long Island,^[2] about 1679. She was baptized on 4 July 1657. in the New York Dutch Church. She was a granddaughter of Thomas and Rebecca Cornell of Rhode Island.^[3] Richard Cornell deeded land to his son-in-law John Washburn on Madnan’s Neck, Flushing, Long Island, in 1686,^[4] and in his will, dated 7 Nov. 1693, probated on 30 Oct. 1694, Richard Cornell gave his daughter Sarah Arnold two cows, and also mentioned children of his “son Washburn,” and “children of John Washburn.”^[5]

John Washburn Jr. died testate in 1688 while in London on business. A burial site is being sought.

His will was dated London, on 23 Feb. 1687, and probated in New York City on 19 June 1688. He mentioned his wife Sarah Washbourne, three children, all under age, his son John Washbourne and his daughters Susanna and Mary Washbourne. He appointed his friend, George Heathcoate, mariner, “now bound on a voyage to New York,” to be his agent and overseer, and appointed his wife and his father-in-law, Mr. Richard Cornwell, as executors.^[6]

Sarah (Cornell) Washburn married second Col. Isaac Arnold, of Southold, Long Island as his second wife on 31 Oct. 1691 in NY.^{[7] [8]}

They were living in Southold, Long Island, in the 1698 New York census.^[9] The Isaac Arnold household included Isaac Arnold, Sarah Arnold, Susannah Washburn, John Washburn, Sarah Arnold, Rachel Arnold and Susannah Arnold. Sarah (Cornell) Arnold had 3 daughters by Col. Isaac Arnold: Sarah, Rachel and Susannah Arnold. He died on 7 Nov. 1706 in Southold, Suffolk Co., NY.

John Washburn and Sarah Cornell had 3 children:

• Susanna Washburn born ca. 1680.^[10] A guardian was appointed for her on 29 Aug. She married Samuel Conklin, son of Jacob and Mary (Youngs) Conklin about 1702.

• Mary Washburn born ca. 1681, died young, before the 1698 census of Southold.

• John Washburn'3rd, born ca. 1683. A guardian was appointed for him on 14 Feb. 1698[/9],^[11] He married first Hannah Hallett, daughter of Samuel and Bridget (Blackwell) Hallett on 14 Oct. 1704 in Hallett’s Cove, Queens Co., NY,^[12] He married second Hannah Thorneycraft, daughter of William and Hannah (Carpenter) Thorneycraft, of Oyster Bay, Long Island, by 1720.

Uncertain burial site

The place of John Washbourn’s death and burial cannot be verified. The listed source could not be found. According to Find a Grave, he died at Biddulph, Staffordshire Moorlands District, Staffordshire, England And was buried at New York City Marble Cemetery Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York. BURIAL, New York City Marble Cemetery Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York. ^[13] Maltby’s site says “John Washburn (Jr.) died testate in 1688 in the Parish of St. Biddolph, London, England, presumably while on business.”. ^[14] There is no parish of St. Biddolph in London. One exists in Staffordshire.

Sources

1. ↑ White, Lorraine Cook, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Stratford 1639-1840, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 2000, [hereinafter White, Barbour Index of Stratford VRs], p. 242, taken from Stratford Land Records, Vol. 1, p. 47.
2. ↑ Cornell, Rev. John, Genealogy of the Cornell Family, New York, 1902, p. 143.
3. ↑ Cornell, Rev. John, Genealogy of the Cornell Family, New York, 1902; Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1987, [hereinafter Torrey, New England Marriages], p. 183.
4. ↑ Cornell, Rev. John, Genealogy of the Cornell Family, New York, 1902, p. 150.
5. ↑ Cornell, Rev. John, Genealogy of the Cornell Family, New York, 1902, p. 148-149
6. ↑ Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate’s Office, City of New York, Volume II, 1708-1728. Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1893, p. 390, abstracted from Liber 14, p. 16.
7. ↑ Cornell, Rev. John, Genealogy of the Cornell Family, New York, 1902, p. 150; Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 21.
8. ↑ Haight, Ada C., The Richard Washburn Family Genealogy, Ossining, NY, 1937, p. 11; Latting, J.J., Esq., “New York Marriage Licenses from Vol. IV. of Records of Wills, Surrogate’s Office, N.Y.,” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 4, [Jan. 1873], p. 31.
9. ↑ Haight, Ada C., The Richard Washburn Family Genealogy, Ossining, NY, 1937, p. 10-11.
10. ↑ Calculated from her age, of 18, when a guardian was appointed for her.
11. ↑ Haight, Ada C., The Richard Washburn Family Genealogy, Ossining, NY, 1937, p. 10-11.
12. ↑ Haight, Ada C., The Richard Washburn Family Genealogy, Ossining, NY, 1937, p. 9; Gautier, John S., Esq., “New York Marriage Licenses,” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 2, [Jan. 1871], p. 27.
13. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158784827
14. ↑ https://www.maltbyfamily.net/genealogies/washburn/washburn_hempstead_2.html

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acknowledgments

This person was created on 14 September 2010 through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged.

Edit on 10/16/14: removing Mary Butler as mother. John Washburn most likely married a different Mary Bulter.