Ebeneezer Washburn; his ancestors and descendants, with some connected families : a family story of 700 years . fforts,along Avith those of othersled to the establishment of public worship andthe setting off of Norwich from Murrayfield,He sold his land in 1778, but remained there*abouts till 1783 or 4. There Avas a familytradition that in selling out he lost most of hisproperty. The facts of history go to confirmthis tradition; for a few months after he soldout, the continental congress issued $140,000,000of paper money. This almost at once fell to acoin value of •$700,000, ; to the value
Ebeneezer Washburn; his ancestors and descendants, with some connected families : a family story of 700 years . fforts,along Avith those of othersled to the establishment of public worship andthe setting off of Norwich from Murrayfield,He sold his land in 1778, but remained there*abouts till 1783 or 4. There Avas a familytradition that in selling out he lost most of hisproperty. The facts of history go to confirmthis tradition; for a few months after he soldout, the continental congress issued $140,000,000of paper money. This almost at once fell to acoin value of •$700,000, ; to the value of halfa cent per dollar. Another family traditionrecited that about this time or a little later, heand the younger members of his family emi-grated to Luzerne in North-Eastern Searchfailed to find traces of him there; but a histoi-yof Wan-ou Co., states that ^in the electionheld in (^eensbury, a town pei-liaps 10 of Lu/.eruo, on May 2, 178(), amongresidents (pialihed to vote for senator andassemhlyiiiaii were Miles Washburn and perhaps sufficiently (its in with the Laura \V. Blosshm EBENEZER*, ^, ABRAHAM^ 65 In the first census of 1790 Miles and liis sonIsaac are registered as heads of families livingin Saratoga, some 15 miles S. of Luzerne. Hisliouseliold consisted of 3 men above 16 and 8females; apparently himself and his sons,Ozias aiid Miles, and his Avife and two unmar-ried daughters, Sarah and Patience. About1803 his son, Miles jr., emigrated to Exeter,Otsego Co., and he being now 73 yearsold probably accompanied his sons family ontheir removal. At any rate, 30 years later aletter from Miles jr. to his uncle Abrahamstates that his father is still living and in goodhealth, while his health Avas far from satis-factory. Nothing is said of the mother, andprobably she was not living. The death ofthe elder Miles occurred in that or the follow-ing year, 1833 or 1834. Children of Miles and Sarah Lyon W 13. i. Abraham^, b.
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