Benjamin Washburn Sr. (1688 - 1740)

Born 17 Jan 1688 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Dominion of New England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 25 Aug 1740 at age 52 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Name

Name: Benjamin Washburn

Birth

• Mayflower Births & Deaths shows:

Born January 17, 1688 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Massachusetts Town and Vital Records 1620-1988 has:

Name: Benjamin Washburn

Father: Jonathan Washburn

Mother: Mary Washburn

Birth: 17 Jan 1687 - Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Family

• From Mayflower Births & Deaths;

Name: Benjamin Washburn

Relationship: Self (Head)

Spouse's Name: Martha Kingman

Parent's Name: Jonathan

Household Members:

Benjamin Washburn Self (Head)

Martha Kingman Wife

Mary Washburn Child

Martha Washburn Child

Benjamin Washburn Child

Marriage:

Date: 06 AUG 1729 ^[1]

Place: West Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Parents Marriage

Father: Jonathan Washburn

Mother: Mary Vaughan

Marriage:

Date: 1683

Place: Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Household Members:

Jonathan Washburn Self (Head)

Mary Vaughan Wife

Elizabeth Washburn Child

Josiah Washburn Child

Benjamin Washburn Child

Ebenezer Washburn Child

Martha Washburn Child

Joanna Washburn Child

Washburn Child

Nathan Washburn Child

Jonathan Washburn Child

Cornelius Washburn

The above is from the 1897 Nahum Mitchell, History of Bridgewater and says they had Elizabeth 1684, Josiah 1686, Benjamin 1688, Ebenezer 1690, Martha 1692, Joanna 1693, Nathan 1699, Jonathan 1700, and Cornelius 1702

Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts

Families of the Children of Jonathan Washburn and Mary Vaughan

* From John Maltby:

The grandchildren of Jonathan Washburn and Mary Vaughan began to spread out from Bridgewater, with the families of daughters Martha and Mary living in Rehoboth and Attleborough. The family of daughter Joanna seems incomplete. I have listed the families of Martha’s stepson and stepdaughter, even though they are not Washburn descendants, because three of Mary’s grandchildren married step-grandchildren of Martha, and because Martha’s stepdaughter Rebeckah Barney and her family moved to the same town in Vermont as three of Mary’s sons, providing an important link in the proving that Mary belongs in this family.

~~ Fourth Generation in America ~~

Benjamin Washburn, second son of Jonathan Washburn, born in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony, on 17 Jan. 1687/8,^[2] married Martha Kingman,^[3] daughter of Henry and Bethiah (Haward) Kingman,^[4] on 6 Aug. 1729 in Bridgewater.^[5] She was born on 10 July 1699 in Bridgewater,^[6] a granddaughter of John and Elizabeth Kingman, and of John and Martha (Hayward) Haward, of Bridgewater.^[7]

Benjamin Washburn was granted administra­tion of his father's estate on 10 Jan. 1725/6, and of his brother Ebenezer Washburn’s estate on 3 Apr. 1728.

Benjamin Washburn died intestate on 25 Aug. 1740 in Bridgewater, aged 42 [sic] years,^[8] and administration of his estate was granted to his brother, Cornelius Washburn, in 1740, after his widow, Martha Washburn, declined. Final distribution was made on 25 Apr. 1763 to his heirs: Martha Washburn, widow, Joseph Washburn, Jr. and Mary his wife, Jonathan Leonard and Martha his wife, and Benjamin Washburn “3rd.”^[9] In March 1741/2 Cornelius Washburne, administrator of the estate of Benjamin Washburne late of Bridgwater, yeoman, sued Joseph Packard of Bridgwater, husbandman, over debt from a £70.10s bond dated 7 Feb. 1739.^[10]

On 18 Nov. 1749 Martha Washburn, widow, as heir to Henry Kingman, of Bridgewater, joined other heirs in selling a lot in Bridgewater to the heirs of Jonathan Packard, of Bridgewater.^[11]

On 22 Sept. 1755 Mary Washburn and Martha Washburn, spinsters, daughters of Benjamin Washburn, deceased, sold their rights in the homestead and outlands of their father to their brother, Benjamin Washburn, witnessed by Josiah Edson Jr. and Cornelius Washburn.^[12] On 12 Mar. 1757 Benjamin Washburn, 3rd, yeoman, Joseph Washburn, Jr., laborer, and Mary, his wife, and Martha Washburn, Jr., spinster, all of Bridgewater, sold a cedar swamp partly in Halifax and Pembroke, to Edmund Curtis, laborer, “derived from our grandfather Jonathan Washburn, deceased, to our father Benjamin Washburn, deceased.”^[13]

Martha (Kingman) Washburn never remarried, and died on 15 Feb. 1793 in Bridgewater, aged 96 years.^[14]

Benjamin Washburn and Martha Kingman had three children:^[15]

• Mary Washburn, born on 24 Mar. 1729/30 in Bridgewater, married Joseph Washburn Jr., on 23 Sept. 1755 in Bridgewater. He was her second cousin once removed. They moved to New Braintree, Worcester Co., MA.

+ 538 ii Martha5 Washburn, born on 23 Oct. 1731 in Bridgewater,[69] married Jonathan5 Leon­ard, son of Joseph4 and Mary3 (Packard) Leonard (Jr.),[70] on 25 Apr. 1758 in Bridgewater.[71] (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 539 iii Benjamin5 Washburn (Jr.), born on 6 July 1735 in Bridgewater,[72] married Desire5 Sears, daughter of Edward4 and Desire (Holmes) Sears,[73] of Halifax, MA, on 29 Apr. 1762 in Halifax.[74] (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

Death

• From Mayflower Births & Deaths:

Died August 25, 1740 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Probate

Benjamin died intestate and on 3 November 1740, Cornelius Washburn of Bridgewater was granted the administration of his estate.^[16]

His inventory was taken on 21 November 1740 in Bridgewater.^[17]

In 1763, an account of his estate by Cornelius Washburn was recorded which included debts paid, things to the widow, and administration fees.^[18]

In 1763, his heirs, viz., his widow, Martha Washburn, Mary, wife of Joseph Washburn, Jr., Martha, wife of Jonathan Leonard, and Benjamin Washburn, signed an acknowledgment that they for consideration received their share of his estate.^[19]

Sources

1. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 384
2. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 326.
3. ↑ Bowman, George Ernest, “Benjamin Washburns of Bridgewater,” Pilgrim Notes and Queries, Vol. V, No. 1, [Jan. 1917], [hereinafter Bowman, “Benjamin Washburns of Bridgewater”], p. 2, which corrects the confusion in Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 325, and sorts out which Benjamin Washburn married which Kingman sister.
4. ↑ Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 217
5. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 384
6. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 197.
7. ↑ Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, pp. 191-192, 216.
8. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 569, buried in the Old Graveyard in Bridgewater; Latham, Williams, Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1882, reprint, Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1986, [hereinafter Latham, Epitaphs], p. 90, buried next to his wife, Martha Washburn.
9. ↑ Plymouth Co. Probate Docket #21925; Vol. 8, p. 261, Vol. 16, pp. 408, 413
10. ↑ Konig, David Thomas, ed., Plymouth Court Records 1686-1859, 16 Volumes, Pilgrim Society, May 1978, republished on a CD-ROM, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 2002, [hereinafter Plymouth Co. Court Records], Vol. 6, Court of Common Pleas, Session 8, p. 180.
11. ↑ Plymouth Co. Land Records, Vol. 42, p. 148.
12. ↑ Plymouth Co. Land Records, Vol. 48, p. 68
13. ↑ Plymouth Co. Land Records, Vol. 43, p. 269.
14. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 573; Latham, Epitaphs, p. 90, buried with her husband, Benjamin Washburn, in the Old Graveyard in Bridgewater.
15. ↑ Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, pp. 327-328, says they had Mary 1730, Martha 1731, and Benjamin 1735.
16. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97D-NK4F : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1738-1742 vol 8 > image 144 of 288; State Archives, Boston.
17. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997D-NVHS : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1738-1742 vol 8 > image 168-169 of 288; State Archives, Boston.
18. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897D-6SVL : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1758-1764 vol 15-16 > image 548 of 623; State Archives, Boston.
19. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897D-6SC3?cc=2018320&wc=M6BX-Q68%3A337797401 : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1758-1764 vol 15-16 > image 551 of 623; State Archives, Boston.

• John A. Maltby Genealogies - Benjamin Washburn

• "Mayflower Births & Deaths"

• Massachusetts Town Marriage Records

• Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850

• Nahum Mitchell History of Bridgewater Resident Families, p. 323.

• Massachusetts Town and Vital Records 1620-1988

Acknowledgments

• Chester Southworth Washburn & Family Rev. Daniel Washburn Jones

• Thank you to Cheryl Caudill