Miles Washburn (bef. 1678 - 1772)

Born before 21 Mar 1678 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony, New England

Ancestors

Husband of Susannah (Perry) Washburn — married about 1722 (to 1740) in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, New England

Husband of Reliance (Gibbs) Washburn — married 24 Jul 1763 in Sharon, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 21 Jan 1772 after age 93 in Amenia, Dutchess Co., Province of New York

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MILES WASHBURN (4) (XV) – BLACKSMITH, HUSBANDMAN and YEOMAN of BRIDGEWATER and PLYMTON, PLYMOUTH COLONY and DUCHESS CO., PROVINCE of NEW YORK

Biography

Miles was born probably in Bridgewater before 21 March 1677/8, presuming he was the Miles Washbourn who served on a March 1698/9^[1] petit jury an would have been at least age 21.^[2]. He was the son of Joseph Washburn and Hannah Latham.

He died in Dutchess Co. New York about 1772 when administration of his estate occurred is said to have occurred.^[2]

Name

Name: Miles /Washburn

Birth

• "Mayflower Births & Deaths" says birth was before 1678.

Residence

Residence:

Date: 1699

Place: Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Chosen as a petty juror.

Marriage 1

Husband: Miles Washburn

Wife: Susanna Perry

Marriage:

Date: ABT 1723.

Marriage 2

Husband: Miles Washburn

Wife: Reliance Gibbs

Marriage:

Date: July 24, 1763.

Death

• "Mayflower Births & Deaths" says only that death was after 6 Sep 1738.

Plymouth Colony

• John Maltby genealogies - Fourth generation Americans

Miles Washburn, eldest son of Joseph Washburn, born in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony, in ca. 1677/8,^[3] married:

1.) Susanna Perry[?],^[4] possibly daughter of Benjamin and Dinah (Swift) Perry, of Sandwich, MA,^[5] in ca. 1722.^[6] She was born on 27 Dec. 1701 in Sandwich,^[7] a granddaughter of Ezra and Elizabeth (Burge) Perry.^[8]

Miles Washburn served on a Petit Jury in Plymouth County in Mar. 1698/9,^[9] therefore must have been born ca. 1678 or earlier, making him the eldest son of Joseph Washburn.^[10] They settled first in Plympton, MA.

On 4 Aug. 1723 Joseph Washburn deeded land in Plympton to his loving son Miles Washburn,^[11] and on 27 Mar. 1727 Joseph Washburn, blacksmith, deeded to Miles Washburn, blacksmith, his 1/4 part of a meadow in Plympton held in partnership with John Watson, of Plymouth, and Edward Washburn, of Plympton.^[12]

In June 1725 Joseph Haskall, of Rochester, carpenter, sued Miles Washburne of Plimton, yeoman, over a £30 bond dated 25 May 1724, and an unpaid bill dated 30 Dec. 1723.^[13]

In Sept. 1726 Miles Washburne of Plympton and John Benson of Roachester, husbandman, sued Isaac Baker, cooper, and Eleazar Hatheway, a blomer, both of Roachester, over an unpaid bond dated 27 Apr. 1726.^[14]

On 6 Sept. 1738 Miles and Edward Washburn, of Plympton, sold land in Plympton that had been purchased by their father Joseph Washburn on 15 Apr. 1718 from John Benson.^[15]

In Dec. 1738 Miles Washburne of Plymton, yeoman, brought suit against James Shurtleff of Plymouth, cordwainer, over a bond of £36 dated 21 Sept. 1737, and against Joseph Benson of Middleborough, labourer, and Joshua Benson of Plymton, labourer, over a note for £8.4s. dated 10 May 1738.^[16]

Miles Washburn and George Barrows agreed on a division of land Miles had received from his father, Joseph Washburn, on 21 Oct. 1741.^[17]

In Sept. 1743 Miles Washburne of Plymton, labourer, sued Samuel Burge of Warham, husbandman, over a note of £16.10s dated 5 Feb. 1742/3.^[18]

In March 1745 Miles Washburne, of Plimton, yeoman, was presented in court for “publishing and uttering the false and Scandalous words following, Maliciously intending to Deceive Others, of and Concerning the Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Ells of Scituate...That he, the said Mr. Ells at Plimouth aforesaid in the month of July A.D. 1744 in the face and hearing of the Superior Court then and there Setting was Guilty of takeing a false oath, whereby his Carecter and Function is Greatly Scandalized and Brought into Contempt Amongst his Majesties Good Subjects and he the said Mr. Ells is Greatly Injured and Damnfied thereby.” Washburn pleaded not guilty to the incident, which had occurred on 20 Feb. 1744/5, but the jury found him guilty, and he was ordered to pay 20 shillings, and obtain sureties for his good behavior in the future. His brother Ephraim Washburn, and Silas Briggs, of Rochester, stood as his sureties.^[19]

Miles Washburn moved to Dutchess Co., NY, by 1751, when he mortgaged some land, and was listed in Dutchess County Tax Lists from 1753 to 1768,^[20] but he was listed as a witness in a land division in Wareham, MA, in 1760.^[21]

He was chosen as a “Fence Viewer” at the first town meeting for the Precinct of Amenia held in April 1762,^[22] and he again mortgaged land in Amenia, NY, on 24 Sept. 1770.^[23]

His wife Susanna apparently died by 1763, and he remarried to:

2.) Reliance (Gibbs) Tobey, daughter of Benjamin and Anne (Tupper) Gibbs, of Sandwich, MA,^[24] and widow of Ephraim Tobey,^[25] of Sharon, CT, on 24 July 1763 in Sharon,^[26] at which time he was called “of Oblong,” NY. She was born on 11 July 1719 in Sandwich,^[27] and had married first to Ephraim Tobey in ca. 1737.^[28]

Miles Washburn died intestate in ca. 1772 in Amenia, NY, and his son Daniel Washburn was supposedly granted administration of his estate in 1772.^[29]

Miles Washburn and Susanna Perry had children: ^[30] The births of five children to Miles and Susannah Washburn were recorded in the vital records of Plympton, but they supposedly had at least two additional children that have not been proven.

• Mary Washburn, born on 7 May 1724 in Plympton, MA, marriage not found.

• Daniel Washburn, born on 14 Apr. 1726 in Plympton, supposedly married 1.) Patience Washburn, his first cousin, daughter of Ebenezer and Patience (Miles) Washburn, of New Milford, CT, in Feb. 1750 in New Milford, and 2.) Mary (___) in ca. 1753, and they moved to Amenia, Dutchess Co., NY.

• Hannah Washburn, born on 31 Aug. 1728 in Plympton, marriage not found.

• Dinah Washburn, born on 26 May 1731 in Plympton, marriage not found.

• Susanna Washburn, born ca. 1734, married Josiah Perry, son of Benja­min and Deborah (Johnson) Perry (Jr.), of Stoughton, MA, in 1765 in Oblong District, Dutchess Co., NY,[37] and they supposedly moved to Saratoga Co., NY.

• Meribah Washburn, born on 4 Mar. 1736/7 in Plympton, supposedly married Paul Blackmer, son of Joseph and Marcy (Sears) Blackmer, of Rochester, MA, in ca. 1755, and lived in New Marlborough, Berkshire Co., MA.

• (Supposedly) Joel Washburn, born say ca. 1740 in Plympton, no further record found.

• Nathaniel Washburn, born ca. 1739 in Plympton, married Christina Shaver/Shafer, and they moved to the Minisink Valley in Orange Co., NY.

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Sources

1. ↑ Plymouth County, Records Sessions of the Peace, 1686-1721, p. 147. FamilySearch.org
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Francis Cooke, Vol. 12 (Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 1996) p. 259. AmericanAncestors.org (by $ubscription.)
3. ↑ Miles Washbourn served on a jury in Plymouth Colony in Mar. 1698/9, so he was presumably born in early 1678.
4. ↑ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, The First Five Generations, published as Volume 12 of “Mayflower Families Through Five Generations,” Picton Press, Rockport, ME, 1996, [hereinafter MF5G: Cooke], p. 256.
5. ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1987, [hereinafter Torrey, New England Marriages], p. 573; MF5G: Cooke, p. 256.
6. ↑ Estimated from the birth of their first child, in 1724.
7. ↑ MF5G: Cooke, p. 256, taken from Bowman, George Ernest, “Sandwich, Mass., Vital Records,” The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 29, p. 30.
8. ↑ Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 573, which gives he name as Elizabeth Burge or Burgess; “Abstracts of the Barnstable County, Mass., Probate Records,” The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 11, p. 26-27, the will of Ezra Perry, of Sandwich, dated 16 Oct. 1689, and probated on 18 Apr. 1690, mentioned “my well beloved Son Benjamin Perry” among others, wife Elizabeth Perry was his executrix, and it was witnessed by Jacob Burge and James Steuart.
9. ↑ 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. 1, General Sessions of the Peace, Session 6, p. 147-148.
10. ↑ MF5G: Cooke, pp. 105, 256.
11. ↑ Plymouth Co. Land Records, Vol. 18, p. 109.
12. ↑ Plymouth Co. Land Records, Vol. 24, p. 140.
13. ↑ Plymouth Co. Court Records, Vol. 5, Court of Common Pleas, Session 2, p. 71.
14. ↑ Plymouth Co. Court Records, Vol. 5, Court of Common Pleas, Session 2, p. 150.
15. ↑ Plymouth Co. Land Records, Vol. 36, p. 189.
16. ↑ Plymouth Co. Court Records, Vol. 6, Court of Common Pleas, Session 7, p. 26.
17. ↑ Plymouth Co. Land Records, Vol. 48, p. 147. George Barrows, of Plympton, had married first to Patience Simmons in 1695, and secondly to Anna (___) Ransom, widow of Robert Ransom, in 1724. Anna had first married Robert Ransom in ca. 1690, so she was too old to have been a daugh­ter of Joseph Washburn. George and Patience Barrows' son George, born in 1698, married Desire Doty. No relationship has yet been discovered between either of the George Barrowses and Miles Washburn.
18. ↑ Plymouth Co. Court Records, Vol. 6, Court of Common Pleas, Session 8, p. 439.
19. ↑ Plymouth Co. Court Records, Vol. 2, General Sessions of the Peace, Session 9, p. 215.
20. ↑ MF5G: Chilton, p. 92-93.
21. ↑ MF5G: Cooke, p. 257, the division dated 21 Jan. 1760, referencing Plymouth Co. Land Records, Vol. 24, p. 140, Vol. 36, p. 189, Vol. 38, p. 147, and Vol. 48, p. 147.
22. ↑ Smith, James H., History of Duchess County, New York, 1991, Chapter XXVIII: History of the town of Amenia, p. 343.
23. ↑ MF5G: Chilton, p. 93
24. ↑ Brownson, Lydia B. (Phinney), and Maclean W. McLean, “Thomas Gibbs, of Sandwich, Mass. (ca. 1615-1693),” Genealogies of Mayflower Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume II, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1985, [hereinafter Brownson & McLean, “Thomas Gibbs, of Sandwich, Mass.”], p. 10-13.
25. ↑ Brownson & McLean, “Thomas Gibbs, of Sandwich, Mass.,” p. 13; Family History Library [FHL] Ancestral File, submitted by Kimball G. Everingham, of Richmond, CA, and David A. Hills, of Abington, MA.
26. ↑ Schott, Barbour Index of Sharon VRs, p. 336, married by John Williams, he was “of Oblong;” Brownson & McLean, “Thomas Gibbs, of Sandwich, Mass.,” p. 13.
27. ↑ Sandwich, Mass., Vital Records, The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 29, 1931, p. 75; Brownson & McLean, “Thomas Gibbs, of Sandwich, Mass.,” p. 13.
28. ↑ FHL Ancestral File, submitted by Kimball G. Everingham, of Richmond, CA, and David A. Hills, of Abington, MA. Children listed as being born to Ephraim Tobey and Reliance Gibbs are 1. Elisha Tobey, born on 2 Jan. 1738/9, 2. Jesse Tobey, born on 26 Jan. 1740/1, 3. Mehitabel Tobey, born on 10 June 1743, 4. George Tobey, born on 2 Sept. 1745, 5. Benjamin Tobey, born on 11 Jan. 1747/8, 6. Martha Tobey, born on 29 Jan. 1753, and 7. Ephraim Tobey (Jr.), born on 16 Aug. 1755, all in Sharon, Litchfield Co., CT; Brownson & McLean, “Thomas Gibbs, of Sandwich, Mass.,” p. 13.
29. ↑ MF5G: Chilton, p. 93, but his name is not in the index to Surrogate Court Records for Dutchess County, NY
30. ↑ Children are uncertain. Mitchell, Nahum, History of the Early Settlement of of Bridgewater, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Boston, 1840, reprint, Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1983, [hereinafter Mitchell, History of Bridgewater], does not list the children of Miles Washburn.

• Mayflower Families Vol. 15 p. 92-93

• "Mayflower Births & Deaths"

• John Maltby genealogies - Miles Washburn
• Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)

• Mayflower Deeds and Probates, 1600-1850
• Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2

Acknowledgements

• grant2.ged on 07 February 2011.

• Beverly Knauer 5 Oct 13.

• Chester Southworth Washburn & Family Rev. Daniel Washburn Jones

• Arik Russell, firsthand knowledge. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Arik and others.