Ephraim Washburne bound himself to his cousin, Thomas Washburne Jr., of Bridgewater, to learn the trade of a blacksmith from 6 Nov. 1721 to 20 Mar. 1722/3. Part of the agreement was that Thomas would provide Ephraim with “Meat, Drink, Cloathing, Washing, and Lodging and at the End of his Apprenticeship find him two Compleat Suits of apparrell, one for Common and the other for Special Wear, and allow him a Vice, Bickhorn, Tongs, Hammers, and Sledge and Buttress and Pincers fit for his Work,” but in March 1723/4 Ephraim sued Thomas, claiming that he had failed to perform on part of his agreement, to “find for and allow the said Apprentice the Suit of Cloathing for Special Wear and the said Bickhorn, Tongs, Hammers, Sledge, and Pincers.” Ephraim won the suit for £12 plus court costs because Thomas did not appear in court. [229] In Sept. 1733 Isaac Churchell of Plympton, husbandman, sued Ephraim Washburne of Plympton, blacksmith, over a £20 bond dated 8 June 1731. [230] In March 1738/9 Samuel Bradford of Plimton, Gentleman, sued Ephraim Washburne of Plymton over a bond for £60 dated 2 Mar. 1735, [231] and James Shurtleff of Plymouth, cordwainer, administrator of the estate of Abiel Shurtleff, late of Plymton, carpenter, sued Ephraim Washburn of Plymton, blacksmith, for ejectment from a 16½ acre parcel of land in Plympton which was granted to Abiel Shurtleff in 1707, and passed on to James Shurtleff in 1732 as administrator of the estate of Abiel Shurtleff, stating that in 1733 Washburne “Entred into the Possession of the premisses and without Judgment Disseized the Plaintiff,” [232] but Washburne countersued, and received judgement for £130 from Shurtleff in Dec. 1741. [233]
Ephraim Washburn died intestate in 1755 in Plympton, and his eldest son, William Washburn, was appointed as administrator of his estate on 16 July 1755, with Joshua Benson, of Middleborough, and John Bishop, of Wareham, as sureties. His inventory was taken on 25 Sept. 1755 by John Bishop, Ebenezer Briggs, and Joshua Benson, and his estate was divided and distributed on 24 Apr. 1758 to his heirs: his widow Mary Washburn, his eldest son William Washburn, sons Stephen Washburn, Isaac Washburn, Japhet Washburn, and John Washburn, and daughters Lydia Norris, wife of Samuel Norris, Elizabeth Benson, wife of Consider Benson, Marcy Washburn, Phebe Washburn, and Jemima Washburn. [234] Mary (Polden) Washburn died before 1784.
On 9 Sept. 1784 William Washburn, of Plympton, Consider Benson, Elizabeth Benson, David Vaughan, Phebe Vaughan, and Mercy Washburn, all of Middleborough, and Isaac Washburn, of Rochester, sold to Asa Hunt a meadow in Plympton, being part of four acres our father Ephraim Washburn bought of Nathaniel Thomas, being the meadow set off to our mother Mary Washburn in the division of our said father's estate, excepting 2/11ths which belongs to our brother John Washburn, and the heirs of our late sister Jemima Randell, deceased. [235]
Ephraim Washburn and Mary Polden had children:
+ 499 i William5 Washburn, born on 25 Oct. 1726 in Plympton, [236] MA, married Sarah Bates, probably daughter of Thomas and Lydia (Savery) Bates, [237] of Wareham, MA, on 8 Nov. 1759 in Wareham, [238] and settled in Carver, MA. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)
+ 500 ii Lydia5 Washburn, born on 4 May 1728 in Plympton, [239] married Samuel Norris, son of Benjamin and Mary (Woodin) Norris, of Plymouth, [240] on 21 Dec. 1749 in Plympton, [241] and they lived in Wareham, MA, then moved to New Sandwich, ME. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)
+ 501 iii Elizabeth5 Washburn, born on 9 Mar. 1732 in Plympton, [242] married Lt. Consider5 Benson, son of Samuel4 and Kezia (Barrows) Benson, of Middleborough, [243] on 3 Dec. 1751 in Plympton, [244] and they lived in Middleborough. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)
502 iv Marcy5 Washburn, born in 1734 in Plympton, [245] was still unmarried at the division of her father's estate in 1758, marriage not found.
+ 503 v Stephen5 Washburn, born on 24 Sept. 1736 in Plympton, [246] married 1.) Hannah Norris, supposedly daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Bump[?]) Norris, [247] on 11 May 1757 in Wareham, MA, [248] and 2.) Sarah (Craigie) Harmon, widow of Benjamin Harmon, of New Gloucester, ME, on 12 July 1788 in New Gloucester, ME. [249] He lived in Middleborough, then moved to Shepherdsville or New Gloucester, Cumberland Co., ME. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)
+ 504 vi Isaac5 Washburn, born on 12 Nov. 1738 in Plympton, [250] married 1.) Mary5 Benson, daughter of Caleb4 and Deborah (Barrow) Benson, of Middleborough, [251] on 23 Nov. 1758 in Middleborough, [252] and supposedly 2.) Bethiah Lathley on 31 Dec. 1767 in Cromwell, Middlesex Co., CT. [253] He probably moved to Plainfield, Caledonia Co., VT. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)+ 505 vii Phebe5 Washburn, born on 27 Jan. 1740 in Plympton, [254] married Capt. David Vaughan, son of John and Jerusha (Wood) Vaughan, of Middleborough, [255] on 24 Mar. 1762 in Middleborough, [256] and they lived in Middleborough. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)
+ 506 viii Jemima5 Washburn, born in ca. 1742 in Plympton, [257] married John Randall, a “resident of Middleborough,” son of Thomas and Faith (Winslow) Randall, [258] of Pembroke, MA, on 11 Oct. 1764 in Middleborough, [259] and they lived in Pembroke. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)
+ 507 ix Japheth5 Washburn, born on 11 Sept. 1746 in Plympton, was placed under the guardianship of his oldest brother, William Washburn, in 1763, after his father died. [260] He married Priscilla Coombs, daughter of Ithamer and Hannah (Andrews) Coombs, of Rochester, MA, [261] in 1768 in Rochester, [262] and they moved to Wayne, Kennebec Co., ME. (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)
+ 508 x John5 Washburn, the youngest son, born ca. 1753, [263] probably in Plympton. No guardianship was found for him, but he was listed in the division of his father's estate in 1758, and in the sale of his mother's meadow in Plympton in 1784. He moved to Shepardsfield, ME, with his brother Stephen Washburn before 1783, and married Azubah6 Fuller, daughter of Barnabas5 and Rebecca6 (Cushman) Fuller, on 11 Apr. 1793 in Oxford Co., Maine. [264] (Continued in Washburn Fifth Generation.)
[225] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 208, under “Pollard.”
[226] Plymouth VRs, p. 94; MF5G: Cooke, p. 261.
[227] Plymouth VRs, p. 31.
[228] Davis, William T., Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, reprint, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1994, originally published as Part II of Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, Boston, 1899, [hereinafter Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families], p. 263.
[229] Plymouth Co. Court Records, Vol. 5, Court of Common Pleas, Session 1, case #13, p. 386.
[230] Plymouth Co. Court Records, Vol. 5, Court of Common Pleas, Session 5, p. 15.
[231] Plymouth Co. Court Records, Vol. 6, Court of Common Pleas, Session 7, p. 167.
[232] Plymouth Co. Court Records, Vol. 6, Court of Common Pleas, Session 7, p. 177.
[233] Plymouth Co. Court Records, Vol. 6, Court of Common Pleas, Session 8, p. 133.
[234] Plymouth Co. Probate Docket #21965; Vol. 13, pp. 487, 554, Vol. 14, p. 512.
[235] Plymouth Co. Land Records, Vol. 69, p. 144.
[236] Plympton VRs, p. 217, under “Warshborn.”
[237] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 25.
[238] Per Plympton VRs, p. 419.
[239] Plympton VRs, p. 217.
[240] Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 195; Rochester VRs, Vol. 2, p. 225, marriage of Benjamin Norris of Plimouth and Mary Wooden on 18 July 1717 in Rochester.
[241] Plympton VRs, p. 418, under “Washborn.”
[242] Plympton VRs, p. 217.
[243] Merritt, Grace Hufford and Thomas H. Roderick, “Samuel and Keziah (Barrows) Benson of Middleborough, Mass.,” The American Genealogist, Vol. 51, No. 4, [Oct. 1975], p. 216.
[244] Plympton VRs, p. 418, under “Warshborn.”
[245] Plympton VRs, p. 217. The date is given as “____ 5, 1734.”
[246] Plympton VRs, p. 217.
[247] Her parents from her I.G.I. Birth Record, taken from an FHL patron family group sheet, microfilm #1396217, however this may not be correct. William T. Davis does not list a daughter Hannah born to Benjamin and Mary Norris in Plymouth in Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, p. 195, and the wife of Benjamin Norris was Mary Wooden, not Bump.
[248] Marriage date from the I.G.I. Marriage Records, taken from an FHL patron family group sheet, microfilm #1553373.
[249] Vital Records of New Gloucester, Maine, 1771-1892, from FHL microfilm #0011586.
[250] Plympton VRs, p. 217.
[251] Plympton VRs, p. 254, marriage of Caleb Benson of Middleborough and Deborah Barrow of Plympton on 11 Jan. 1732 in Rochester, MA.
[252] Middleborough VRs, Vol. 1, p. 120, he was “of Plymton.”
[253] I.G.I. Marriage Records, taken from an FHL patron family group sheet, from microfilm #0820401.
[254] Plympton VRs, p. 217.
[256] Middleborough VRs, Vol. 1, p. 122.
[257] Calculated from her age at death and the date of her marriage in 1764. Her birth was not recorded in the Plympton Vital Records.
[258] Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1909, [hereinafter Scituate VRs], Vol. 2, p. 246, marriage of Thomas Randall and Faith Winslow on 11 Dec. 1729 in Scituate.
[259] Middleborough VRs, Vol. 1, p. 149.
[260] Plymouth Co. Probate Docket #22009.
[261] Vital Records of Rochester, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1914, 2 volumes, [hereinafter Rochester VRs], Vol. 2, p. 89, marriage of Ithamer Combs and Hannah Andrews on 4 Nov. 1731 in Rochester.
[262] Rochester VRs, Vol. 2, p. 311, marriage intentions recorded 24 Sept. 1768 in Rochester, he was “of Plimtown.”
[263] Calculated from his age at his enlistment in the Continental Army from Plympton in 1779 at age 26.
[264] I.G.I. Marriage Records, taken from LDS temple records, from microfilm #458012.
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