Ebeneezer Washburn; his ancestors and descendants, with some connected families : a family story of 700 years . Irahe carried on an extensive business in iroa casting andforging to meet the various wants of a Urge rural com-numity of that day; stoves, hardware, plows, carts, wagonsand simple machinery. In 1818 he extended his businessto Lenox village, then the county seat, and was very suc-cessful there also. Keligiously also the family was typical of NewEngland of that period. Mr. W. seems to have broughtinto the new homo a quarto Bible carefully inscribed withthe records of his fathers famil
Ebeneezer Washburn; his ancestors and descendants, with some connected families : a family story of 700 years . Irahe carried on an extensive business in iroa casting andforging to meet the various wants of a Urge rural com-numity of that day; stoves, hardware, plows, carts, wagonsand simple machinery. In 1818 he extended his businessto Lenox village, then the county seat, and was very suc-cessful there also. Keligiously also the family was typical of NewEngland of that period. Mr. W. seems to have broughtinto the new homo a quarto Bible carefully inscribed withthe records of his fathers family. To this was added indue time the larger and more ancient Northrup family Bible;and before his death these had been flanked on the oneside by 6 quarto volumes of Scotts Commentaries, and onthe other by the Pilgrims Progress with numerous aweinspiring wood cuts, a Manual of Arms and Tactics withmore wood cuts, and several other religious and devotionalbooks whose backs and covers were more familiar than theircontents. Not many men were members of the churchesin those days. But that dees not mean that they. Samuki, Washhurn EBENEZER^, ^[ILES^, .TACOB^ 81 Tvere negligent of the and obseivance of sons used to tell how, going down to the Housatonicone summer Sunday inorning for a wash, they found alarge fish stranded in a pool left hy the receding water,and gleefully captured it and triumphantly bore it that was too much like Sunday fishing for their father,who sternly required thorn to carry it back and put it inthe river again. Towards the close of his life Mr. \V. wasnot on good terms with Rev. Dr. Shepard, pastor of theCong. Ch.,and in 182:^) he united with the Episcopal Ch. ofLenox. In the year after the great revival of 1815, hiswife and her mother Phebe B. W. Gates, his dr. Laura andthe wives of Samuel and Ira were received into Chui-cli, and the children of Ira were baptised,thus at the same time connecting 4 generations with the
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