Ebeneezer Washburn; his ancestors and descendants, with some connected families : a family story of 700 years . butions offamily pedigrees to the work. Savages Genealogical Dictionary, 4 vols.; and amongtown histories Davis Landmarks of Plymouth; MitchellsHistory of Bridgewater, Mass.; Paiges Hardwick, Mass.;Washburns Leicester; Temples North Brookfield, Mass.;Barrus Goshen, Mass.; Orcutts New Milford, Conn., giverecords of the earlier generations of the Duxbury family;while Orcutts Stratford, Derby and Seymour, Conn., giverecords of the Stratford and Derby branches of the Hemp-stead Long Isla
Ebeneezer Washburn; his ancestors and descendants, with some connected families : a family story of 700 years . butions offamily pedigrees to the work. Savages Genealogical Dictionary, 4 vols.; and amongtown histories Davis Landmarks of Plymouth; MitchellsHistory of Bridgewater, Mass.; Paiges Hardwick, Mass.;Washburns Leicester; Temples North Brookfield, Mass.;Barrus Goshen, Mass.; Orcutts New Milford, Conn., giverecords of the earlier generations of the Duxbury family;while Orcutts Stratford, Derby and Seymour, Conn., giverecords of the Stratford and Derby branches of the Hemp-stead Long Island family of William and Jane. Many town histories of Eastern and Central New Yorkchronicle the post Kevolutionary migrations from NewEngland into New York and the same is true of many ofthe carefully prepared County histories of both New Yorkand Northern New Jersey. Of county histories the fullestof information is E. B. Grains History of the County ofWorcester, Mass., 4 vols., 1907. Powers History of San-gamon County, 111., has a couple of pages given to theWashburn stock. II THE EARLIEST KNOWN WASHBTJRNS. WASHBURNE The Washhurn Arms 17 IIThe Earliest Known Washburns William, Soxxe dv Samisum Loru of Wassecoukne Barke in his Commoners ILI, pp. (ili-I, says: TheWashbournes or Washbornes were generation after genera-tion of knightly degree pi-evious to the time of EdwardI. [1274-Ju07J and ranked in point of descent with theluosc ancient families of the kingdom. The Book ofFamily Crests, I. 51, speaks of the Washbournes as aname of Norman descent, the founder having been knight-ed on the field of battle by the Conqueror and endowed byhim with the lands and manors of Great and Little Wash-bourne. Dr. A. B. (Irosart goes back further and speaksof the family as reaching back into the Saxon period inEdv/ard the Confessors time before the Concjuest. Per-haps there-is not so much contradiction in tliis as any rate, it would seem as if the Domesday Book shouldthrow some light
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