Cornelius Washburn Sr. (1702 - 1779)

Born 6 May 1702 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Experience (Richards) Washburn — married 1727 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 12 Feb 1779 at age 76 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Biography

• From Mayflower Births & Deaths:

Born May 6, 1702 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Died February 12, 1779 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Father: Jonathan Washburn

Mother: Mary Vaughan

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 Child

Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts

• From John Maltby:

Cornelius Washburn, youngest son of Jonathan and Mary (Vaughan) Washburn, born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts Colony, on 6 May 1702,^[1] married Experience Richards, daughter of Joseph and Anna (Carver) Richards (Jr.), of Weymouth,^[2] MA, in ca. 1727.^[3] She was born on 8 Jan. 1705/6 in Weymouth,^[4] a granddaughter of Joseph and Susanna Richards, and of John and Millicent (Ford) Carver,^[5] and they settled in Bridgewater.

In Dec. 1738 Jonathan Peterson of Pembroke, “Practitioner of Physick” sued Solomon Perkins of Bridgwater, Joyner, and Cornelius Washburn of Bridgwater, husbandman, for debt on a bill of £20 dated 14 May 1737.^[6] Cornelius Washburn was appointed as administrator of the estate of his brother, Benjamin Washburn, in 1740.

Cornelius Washburn died testate on 17 Feb. 1779 in Bridgewater, aged 76 years.^[7] His will was dated 11 Apr. 1774, witnessed by Benjamin Willis junr, Jacob Washburn, and Josiah Mahurin, and it was probated on 5 Apr. 1779. He named his only surviving son, Daniel Washburn, as executor, and mentioned his wife, Experience, daughter Experience, to whom he gave 28 acres of land he purchased from William Davenport, daughter Joanna, to whom he gave 18 acres on which Daniel Conant was then living, and grandson Cornelius Washburn, to whom he gave his homestead farm. His inventory was taken 8 Apr. 1779 by Benjamin Willis, Seth Pratt, and Hezekiah Hooper, of Bridgewater.^[8] (See Appendix (B) for a full transcription of his will.) Experience (Richards) Washburn died on 1 Apr. 1786 in Bridgewater, aged 80 years.^[9] His inventory was taken on 8 April 1779 in Bridgewater.^[10]

Cornelius Washburn and Experience Richards had children, including: ^[11]

• Nathan Washburn, born on 25 Dec. 1728 in Bridgewater, died on 25 Sept. 1747 in Bridgewater, aged 18 years.

+ 550 ii U Daniel5 Washburn, born on 21 July 1730 in Bridgewater,[276] married Experience4 Harlow, daughter of William3 and Joanna (Jackson) Harlow (3rd), of Bridgewater,[277] on 4 June 1752 in Bridgewater,[278] and they lived in Bridgewater. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

• Ebenezer Washburn, born ca. 1733, baptized on 14 July 1734, died on 12 Oct. 1747 in Bridgewater, aged 14 years.

• Robert Washburn, born on 6 Feb. 1735 in Bridgewater, died on 12 Feb. 1736 in Bridgewater.

• Robert Washburn, born on 25 Jan. 1736 in Bridgewater, died on 11 June 1737 in Bridgewater.

554 vi (Unnamed child), died on 10 June 1739 in Bridgewater.[286]

• Cornelius Washburn Jr., born on 29 Dec. 1739 in Bridgewater, died on 22 or 27 Sept. 1747 in Bridgewater, aged 8 [sic] years.

556 viii Experience Washburn, born on 1 Feb. 1743,[289] died on 10 Feb. 1743 in Bridgewater.[290]

+ 557 ix Experience5 Washburn, born on 8 Mar. 1744 in Bridgewater,[291] married Jonathan5 Alden, son of John4 and Hannah (Kingman) Alden, of East Bridgewater,[292] on 26 Nov. 1766 in Bridgewater,[293] and they lived in East Bridgewater. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)

+ 558 x Joanna5 Washburn, born on 28 May 1747 in Bridgewater,[294] married Daniel6 Conant, son of Jeremiah5 and Martha4 (Packard) Conant, of Bridgewater,[295] on 2 Aug. 1767 in Bridgewater.[296]

Cornelius was born in 1702. He passed away in 1779.

Research Notes

• From Mildred Gordon:

Cornelius Washburn 1702-17795th great-grandfather Daniel Washburn 1730-1801 Son of Cornelius Washburn Ebenezer Washburn 1764-1800 Son of Daniel Washburn Harriet Washburn 1804-1878 Daughter of Ebenezer Washburn Abagail Louise Washburn 1830-1915 Daughter of Harriet Washburn Harriet Matilda Gordon 1869-1957 Daughter of Abagail Louise Washburn Francis Gordon 1904-1997 Son of Harriet Matilda Gordon Ancestry

Sources

1. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 327.
2. ↑ MF5G: Cooke, p. 268.
3. ↑ Barclay, Mrs. John E., “The Ancestry of Experience, Wife of Cornelius Washburn of Bridgewater, Mass.,” The New England Historic Genealogical Register, Vol. 119, pp. 22-25.
4. ↑ Ibid, p. 24.
5. ↑ Ibid, pp. 23-24.
6. ↑ Plymouth Co. Court Records, Vol. 6, Court of Common Pleas, Session 7, p. 36.
7. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 570, buried in the Old Graveyard in Bridgewater.
8. ↑ Plym­outh Co. Probate Docket #21943; Vol. 25, p. 258‑261.
9. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 571, buried in the Old Graveyard in Bridgewater.
10. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997D-Z3LL : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1775-1780 vol 24-25 > image 416-417 of 568; State Archives, Boston.
11. ↑ Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 326, says they had Nathan 1728, Daniel 1730, Ebenezer, Robert 1736, Robert 1737, Cornelius 1739, Experience 1745, Joanna 1747, and Cornelius.

• "Mayflower Births & Deaths"

• 1897 Nahum Mitchell History of Bridgewater Resident Families.

• John A. Maltby Genealogies - Cornelius Washburn

Acknowledgements

• 124-DeCoursey.ged 14 September 2010

• Chester Southworth Washburn & Family Rev. Daniel Washburn Jones