Harriet D. (Washburn) Packard (abt. 1840 - aft. 1880)

Born about 1840 in Sharon, Massachusetts [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Asa Packard — married 28 Sep 1872 in Stoughton, Massachusetts

Died after 1880 after about age 40 in Massachusetts [uncertain]

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Biography

Massachusetts

• From John Maltby:

Joseph Washburn and Clarissa White had two daughters, including:

Harriet D. Washburn, born ca. 1840 in MA,^[1] was still unmarried and living with her widowed mother Clarisa Washburn in Stoughton, MA, in the 1870 federal census with a son born apparently out-of-wedlock, married Asa Packard, of North Bridgewater, son of Oliver and Anna/Amey Packard, as his second wife, on 28 Sept. 1872 in Stoughton, MA.^[2] He was born ca. 1804 in Warwick, RI.^[3] He had married first to Patience B. Allen, of Hanson, MA, daughter of Pratt and Nancy Allen, on 18 Sept. 1850 in Hanson.^[4] He died on 19 Apr. 1880 in Brockton, MA, aged 76 years, 6 months, of “phlebitis,”^[5] and she was living in Stoughton, MA, in the 1880 federal census with her mother Clarissa Robinson.^[6]

She had a son by an unidentified James A. Washburn: ^[7]

• James A. M. Washburn, born ca. 1868 in Stoughton, married Ada B. Daniels, daughter of Asaph D. and Hattie A. Daniels, on 29 Sept. 1889 in West Bridgewater.

Sources

1. ↑ Calculated from her age in the 1855 state census and 1860 federal census.
2. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 245, p. 378, online at www.AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, his second marriage, her first, his occupation a farmer, aged 68, his birth place Warwick, his parents Oliver & Amey, her birth place Sharon, and her parents Joseph & Clarissa.
3. ↑ Calculated from his age at both marriages, and his birth place in his first marriage given as Harwich, but his birth was not recorded in the Harwich vital records, his birth place in his second marriage given as Warwick, and in his death as Warwick, RI.
4. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 46, p. 210, online at www.AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, both first marriages, he was of N. Bridgewater, a laborer, aged 46, his birth place Harwich, his parents Oliver & Anna Packard, she was of Hanson, aged 47, her birth place E. Bridgewater, and her parents Pratt & Nancy Allen; Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 248, p. 405, online at www.AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, the death of Patience (Allen) Packard on 9 Apr. 1872 in North Bridgewater, aged 69 years, of pneumonia.
5. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 320, p. 273, online at www.AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, his occupation a laborer, his birth place Warwick, RI, and his parents Oliver & Anna, born in Brockton and Stoughton.
6. ↑ 1880 Federal Census, Stoughton, Norfolk Co., MA, Page No. 3, Supervisors Dist. 60, Enumeration Dist. 531, dwelling #31, family #33: Clarassa Robinson, white, female, 62, married, keeping house, born MA, father born MA, mother born MA Harriet D. Packard, white, female, 40, daughter, widow, ass’t housekeeper, born MA, father born MA, mother born MA James Washburn, white, male, 12, son, single, attending school, born MA, father born MA, mother born MA
7. ↑ His name from the 1889 marriage record of her son James Washburn.

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