Susanna (Leach) Washburn (1722 - 1764)

Born 25 Oct 1722 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Ezra Washburn Sr. — married 20 Jul 1742 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 1764 at about age 41 in Oakham, Worcester, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Name

Name: Susanna Leach

Birth

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Born October 25, 1722 in West Bridgewater

Marriage

Husband: Ezra Washburn

Wife: Susanna Leach

Marriage: ^[1]

Date: 20 JUL 1742

Place: Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Child: Susanna Washburn

Family

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Name: Ezra Washburn

Gender: Male

Relationship: Self (Head)

Spouse's Name: Susanna Leach

Household Members:

Ezra Washburn Self (Head)

Susanna Leach Wife

Ezra Washburn Child

Susanna Washburn Child

Massachusetts Colony

From John Maltby:

Ezra Washburn, probably second son of Capt. Benjamin Washburn, born probably in Bridgewater, Massachusetts Colony, in, say ca. 1717, married Susanna Leach, daughter of Benjamin and Hephzibah (Washburn) Leach,^[2] on 20 July 1742 in Bridgewater.^[3] She was born on 25 Oct. 1722 in Bridgewater,^[4] a granddaughter of Giles and Anne (Nokes) Leach,^[5] and of Joseph and Hannah (Latham) Washburn.^[6] They were second cousins.

They lived in Bridgewater until about 1746, when they moved to Middleborough, MA, then to Oakham, Worcester Co., MA, in ca. 1772, then to Stafford, Tolland Co., CT, in ca. 1781.

On 13 July 1772 Ezra Washburn, cordwinder, sold his homestead farm in Middleborough to Sylvanus Eaton, with his wife, Susanna Washburn, signing.^[7]

In the 1790 federal census Ezra Washburn was living in Stafford, CT,^[8] but he was not a head of household in Connecticut in the 1800 federal census.

Susanna (Leach) Washburn may have died while they were living in Oakham, MA.

Ezra Washburn and Susanna Leach had children, order uncertain:^[9]

• Susanna Washburn, born in ca. 1742, probably in Bridgewater, married Zadock5 Leach, son of Jesse and Alice Leach, of Bridgewater, on 6 Dec. 1763 in Bridgewater.

• Hepzibah Washburn, born say ca. 1744, probably in Bridgewater, married 1.) Benjamin Perkins on 28 July 1761 in Bridgewater. They moved to Oakham, Worcester Co., MA, and he died there intestate in 1780. She remarried to 2.) Philip Lee in 1781.

• Ezra Washburn (Jr)., born in ca. 1745, probably in Bridgewater, married Lucy Fuller, daughter of Dr. Jabez and Hannah (Pratt) Fuller, of Middleborough, on 3 Nov. 1767 in Middleborough.

• Ruth Washburn, born say ca. 1749, probably in Middleborough, married Calvin Leach, possibly son of Jesse and Alice Leach, in 1779, and they moved to Stafford, Tolland Co., CT.

• Wealthea/Wealthy Washburn, born in ca. 1751, probably in Middleborough, married Benjamin Dunbar, son of James and Hannah (Benson) Dunbar (Jr.), of Bridgewater. They also moved to Oakham, Worcester Co., MA, then to Stafford, Tolland Co., CT.

• Libeus Washburn, born say ca. 1753, probably in Middleborough, served in the Revolutionary War as a private in Capt. John Packard’s Company from Oakham, in 1775, and was killed in the Battle of White Plains, NY, in 1776, presumably unmarried, but no probate records were filed for his estate in Worcester Co., MA.

• Keziah Washburn, died young. She was possibly the “Neighbor Ezra Washburn’s child died last Thursday” noted in the Diary of Rev. Isaac Backus on Saturday, April 3, 1756.

• William Washburn, born ca. 1759, probably in Middleborough, married Lurana Darling, daughter of Thomas and Ruth (Howland) Darling (Jr.), of Oakham, MA.

• Noah Washburn, born ca. 1764, probably in Middleborough, married Eunice Blodgett, daughter of Capt. Paul and Elisabeth (Warner) Blodgett, in ca. 1791 in Stafford, Tolland Co., CT.

Death

Date: 1764

Place: Oakham, Worcester, Massachusetts

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Town Marriage Records
2. ↑ 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. 230.
3. ↑ Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1916, 2 Volumes, [hereinafter Bridgewater VRs], Vol. 2, p. 386.
4. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 212.
5. ↑ Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 229.
6. ↑ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume 12: Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA, 1996, [hereinafter MF5G: Cooke], p. 257.
7. ↑ Plymouth Co. Land Records, Vol. 63, p. 72.
8. ↑ Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Connecticut, Bountiful, Utah, 1993, p. 137, Stafford Town, Tolland County, the Ezra Washbourn household had 2 free white males aged 16 or older, 5 free white males under 16, and 3 free white females.
9. ↑ Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 328, says only that Ezra married Susanna, daughter of Benjamin Leach, 1742, and “went to Mid’o,” and his daughter Susanna married Zadock Leach in 1763.

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Acknowledgments

• Iak Family Tree.ged on Jun 14, 2011 by William Iak.