[The Mayflower Descendant, 15[1913]:251]

  Washburn Notes 251

 

   [1:86]   "An Inventory of the Goods and Chattels of John Washburne of the Town of Bridgwater deceased ye 12th day of November 1686 . . . . Taken by us ye 19th day of november 1686 . . . . John ffield John Leonard"   The total value was £142, 8s.   No real estate is mentioned.


[ELIZABETH WASHBURN TO SAM JAMES — 1694]

   [Plym. Co. Deeds, 10:1:333]   "Elizabeth Washburn Widow of the Town of Bridgewater" for £5 current money "paid unto me by an Indian known by the name of Sam James of sd Bridgewater" sold to him "All that my twenty acre Lot of Land being Situate within the Confines of sd Bridgewater and at a Place called & known by the name of Setucket Pond and being about Fourty Poles in breadth and about eighty Poles in Length & on the Southern Side of said Pond It being the Sixth Lot from Pimkin Bridge of that Division of twenty acre Lots & lying between the Land of mr James Keith and the Land of Thomas Hayward Senr . . . . and I sd Elizabeth Washburn . . . . Covenant . . . . yt I at the time of making over & Passing away the sd Land . . . . Stood truly & lawfully Seized & Possessed with the Same . . . . by vertue of my first Husband viz : Samuel Packard his Will"

   The deed was dated 27 October, 1694, and signed by a mark, and was acknowledged the same day before Thomas Hayward, Justice of the Peace.   It was witnessed by Samuel Packard, Thomas Washburn and Edward Fobes, and was recorded 22 October, 1713.


[WASHBURN ET AL. TO WASHBURN — 1694]

   [Plym. Co. Deeds, 14:267]   "Know all men by these Presents that We John Washburne Thomas Washburne Joseph Washburne Jonathan Washburne James Washburne Edward Seely Samuel Kingsley William Orcutt Sarah Washburne all Inhabitants of the Town of Bridgewater in ye County of New Plymouth in New England, Have Given Granted & by these Presents do Give Grant Bargain Sell Enfeoffe Confirm & forever Make over Twenty five acres of Land be it more or less whereof We are the true Owners & rightfull Proprietors unto Samuel Washburne Inhabitant in sd Town of Bridgewater, Which sd Twenty five acres is Situate lying & being in sd Town of Bridgewater near to a Place known by ye Name of South Brook lying on the head of sd Jonathan & James Washburne's Lands where their Houses stands; it being a Parcell of Land left unwilled by our Father & ffather in law John Washburne Deceased, Bounded at foot by a heap of Stones

 

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