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Sd Regiment of Bristol county. He also served
a short time in the Revolutionary army.
(VI) Israel Washburn, son of Israel and
Leah (Fobes), was born in Raynham, Mass.,
Jan. 30, 1755. He died at Raynham Jan. 8,
1841, aged a few days less than eighty-six years.
He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution,
and the following is an official abstract of a
of his service : "Commonwealth of Massa-
weHS an ardent temperance man and Abolitionist.
He married Dec. 25, 1825, Nancy Dean
Norton, who was born at Mansfield, Mass., Aug.
28, 1806. He died at Raynham July 28, 1852,
and she died at Taunton May 26, 1873. Their
children were: Thomas J., born Jan. 6, 1827,
died July 8, 1870 ; Emily, born April 28, 1828,
died Aug. 11, 1896; Nathan, born Dec. 29,
1829, died Dec. 4. 1904; Mary, born Oct. 37,
1832, died Nov. 4, 1855; Lucy, born Oct. 8,
1834, died Nov. 5, 1855 ; Laura, born Aug. 28,
1836, died May 21, 1887; Camilla, born :March
17, 1838, died Nov. 2, 1855 ; Arthur, born April
36, 1840, died Aug. 24, 1892; Miriam, born
Feb. 5, 1842, died Dec. 30, 1855; Jane, born
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March 23, 1844, died Oct. 30, 1855; Juliet,
born April 5, 1846; and Martha, born Sept.
13, 1851, died Sept. 14, 1854.
(VIII) Thomas J. Washburn, son of Eli
King and Nancy Dean (Norton), was bom
Jan. 6, 1837, and died in the old Washburn
home at Raynham July 8, 1870. In 1849 he
went to California and remained there until
1863, during which time he made one trip back
home. On Nov. 25, 1866, at Taunton, he mar-
part
chusetts, Office of the Secretary: Revolutionary
War Service of Israel Washburn, Jr. :
Israel Washburn, Jr., appears with rank of
private on Lexington Alarm roll of James Williams,
Jr.'s Company, which marched on the
alarm of April 19, 1775, from Taunton to
Roxbury." Israel Washburn was a tall, largeframed
man, and when in the prime of life
was very straight and strong, but much bowed
in old age. He served in the General Court
of Massachusetts several years, and was a member
of the convention that adopted the first
constitution of the Commonwealth. He talked
but little and it is said that in all his legislative
experience he made but one speech. On
one occasion, a member having made a speech
that greatly pleased him, he arose and said :
"I like what that man said, because— I do like
it." Israel Washburn married in 1783 Abiah
King, daughter of Benjamin and Deliverance
(Eddy) King. She was born in Raynham
June 29, 1762, and died May 25, 1842. Their
children, all born in Raynham, were: Israel,
bom Nov. 18, 1784; Molly, Nov. 14, 1786;
Sidney, Nov. 14, 1788; Benjamin, Feb. 10,
1791; Reuel, May 21, 1793; Elihu, July 22,
1795; Philander, June 28, 1799; Eli King,
July 22, 1802; Lydia King, Feb. 24, 1805; and
Cornelia, Jan. 7, 1807.
(VII) Eli King Washburn, son of Israel and
Abiah (King), was born at Raynham July 32,
1802. He spent his life on the old Washburn
homestead at Raynham. He represented bis
ried Mary
town in the Legislature of Massachusetts, and
Bowers Hall, born Jan. 13, 1834,
daughter of Andrew H. and Hannah W.
(Crane) Hall. To this union was born one
son, Harry Thomas, Nov. 34, 1868. Mrs. Washburn
and lier son reside in a modem home
recently erected on the old Hall property on
Dean street, Taunton.
SANFORD WINTER, for fifty years a resident
of North Bridgewater and Brockton, active
in business, proprietor of the "Hotel Belmont,"
president of the Brockton Savings Bank,
and former selectman and councilman, died at
his home. No. 31 Belmont street, Nov. 9, 1909,
in the eighty-third year of his age. He was
a native of Maine, born in Carthage, Franklin
county, Nov. 16, 1836, son of Joseph and
Phebe (Gray) Winter.
The name Winter is an early one in New
England, Christopher Winter appearing in
Plymouth in 1639, "where he was fined ten
shillings for publishing himself in marriage to
Jane Cooper, contrary to order and custom of
this ; government" whether Jane ever became
Mrs. Winter does not seem to be recorded. Winter
succeeded John Bradford in the occupancy
of Governor's island in 1660. At a still earlier
period, in 1636, John Winter was a proprietor
in Watertown, and died there in 1662; in his
will dated March 4, 1661, and proved in June,
1662, he mentions sons Richard and Thomas,
late of London, daughter Alice Lockman, of
London, and son John of Watertown, to whom
he gave his landed property. In 1683 the son
liad land assigned him in Cambridge Farms,
whither he went, and there died in 1690 in his
;
will of 1689 he speaks of his children, John,
Thomas, Samuel, Sarah, Hannah and Mary.
Cambridge Farms, it should be understood, became
Lexington. Of these two early Massachusetts
Winters, Christopher and John, the
former, so far as we have ascertained, left no
male issue. The Winter family with which this
article especially deals have it that their earliest
forbear of whom there is definite knowledge,
.Joseph Winter, was a native of Truro, in Barnstable
county, this Commonwealth. But the vital
records of the town do not record his birth or