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594 SOUTHEASTERN" MASSACHUSETTS
company commanded by Capt. Myles Standish.
In about 1665 he removed to Bridgewater, of
which town he and his son John were original
proprietors, and they and Philip became
residents and settlers in South Bridgewater.
His wife Margery, aged forty-nine years, with
sons John, aged fourteen years, Philip, aged
eleven years, came to New England in 1635 in
the "Elizabeth and Ann," being certified from
Eversham, Worcestershire, England. The children
of John and Margery Washburn were :
John (2), born in Eversham, England, about
1621 and ; Philip, bom in Eversham, about
162-1, who died unmarried.
This John Washburn (2) is the "ancestor
of most if not all of the name in the United
States." From John, through his son Samuel,
came Israel, late governor of Maine; Cadwalader
C, who in the early seventies was governor
of Wisconsin; Elihu B., at one time
minister to France; and Charles A., a former
minister to — Paraguay all brothers and sLxth
in descent from John Washburn. And from
John through his son Joseph came Emory
Washburn, former governor of Massachusetts,
fifth in descent from John; William B. Washburn,
also former governor of Massachusetts,
sixth in descent from John, and the late
Peter Thacher Washburn, former governor
of Vermont, sixth in descent from John.
stitution of Massachusetts in 1780. [See be-
low.]
(II) John Washburn (2), son of John and
Margery, was born in Eversham, England,
about 1621. He came to Duxbury with his
mother and brother Philip (aged eleven) in
1635. He is mentioned in the Plymouth records
in December, 1638. He served as agent
for the Narragansett Indians in 1645. On Dec.
6, 1645, in Duxbury, he married Elizabeth
Mitchell, daughter of Experience Mitchell, one
of the forefathers of the Colony, who was with
the Pilgrims at Leyden, and who came to Plymouth
on the third ship, the "Anne," in 1623.
Experience Mitchell married Jane Cooke,
daughter of Francis Cooke, the "Mayflower"
Pilgrim. To John and Elizabeth Washburn
were born children as follows : John married
Rebeckah Lapham; Thomas married
(first) Abigail Leonard and (second) Deliverance
Packard; Joseph married Hannah Latham;
Samuel, born in 1651, married Deborah
Packard; Jonathan married Mary Vaughn, of
Middleboro, Mass. ; Benjamin died in Phipps's
expedition against Canada ; Mary married Samuel
Kinsley in 1694; Elizabeth married (first)
James Howard and (second) Edward Sealey;
Jane married William Orcutt, Jr. James mar-
;
ried Mary Bowden in 1693 and Sarah married
;
John Ames in 1697. John Washburn (2), the
father, died at Bridgewater before 1690.
(III) Jonathan Wa.shburn, son of John (2)
and Elizabeth (Mitchell), married about 1683
Mary, daughter of George Vaughn, of Middle-
boro, and their children were : Elizabeth, born
1684, who marfied John Benson in 1710;
Josiah, born 1686 ; Benjamin, bom 1688 ; Ebenezer,
born 1690; Martha, born 1692; Joanna,
born 1693; Nathan, born 1699; Jonathan, born
1700; and Cornelius, born 1702.
(IV) Benjamin Washburn, son of Jonathan
and Mary, born in 1688, married in 1714 Be-
thiah, daughter of Henry Kingman. He settled
his father Jonathan's estate in 1725, and
his brother Ebenezer's in 1728. His children
were: Isaac, Jonathan, Henry, Benjamin
The latter, Hon. Peter Thacher Washburn,
says his biographer, "became one of the most
marked characters that have figured in the
politics of Vermont." Liberally educated, a
graduate of Dartmouth with the class of 1835,
he became a lawyer of ability; was from 1844
to 1855 reporter of decisions of the Supreme
court of Vermont; served as lieutenant colonel
on the 1st Vermont Volunteers in the early
part of the Civil war, and was elected governor
of Vermont in September, 1871.
Israel Washburn, of Raynham, was a member
of the convention which framed the con-
(married in 1742 Susanna Battles), Ezra, and
perhaps others. Isaac Washburn went to Dartmouth,
where he was a tanner. He enlisted in
the French war under General Winslow in
1755. Bethiah Washburn married Nehemiah
Bryant in 1741.
(V) Jonathan Washburn, son of Benjamin
and Bethiah (Kingman), married Judith,
daughter of Elnathan Wood, of Middleboro,
Mass. Their children were : Jonathan, Benjamin,
Isaac, Salmon, and perhaps others.
(VI) Isaac Washburn, son of Jonathan and
Judith (Wood), came from Middleboro to
Taunton in the earlier part of the century but
recently closed, and through life was one of
the highly esteemed and respected citizens of
his adopted town. He had been a soldier of the
Revolution— one of the "minute-men" of 1776.
He founded at Taunton the business— that of
furniture, hardware and house-furnishings in
general —now conducted by his grandsons, and
with which he and his sons, John Nicholas and
Salmon Washburn, in turn, for years were
identified. Isaac Washburn died in 1832. He
had been three times married, and was the
father of eighteen children. He married (first)
Mary Phillips, (second) Eunice Carey, of Mid-