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North and South
Stories and Genealogy of Theodore Charles Anderson and Sara Carlene Shuttleworth
Sir Roger de Washbourne
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The Bayeux Tapestry
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Sir Roger de Washbourne
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The year was 1227. Henry III was King of England. It was the time of Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Richard the Lionheart had died less than 20 years before.
Roger de Washbourne (1227-1299) (Sara's 19th Great Grandfather) was born in Little Washbourne, Worcestershire. The first names of his forbearers are lost in antiquity, but what is known is that the original founder of the Washbourne line was knighted on the battlefield by William the Conqueror in 1066 and endowed with the lands of the Little Washbourne and the Great Washbourne in the counties of Worcester and Gloucester. Little Washbourne (sometimes called Knight’s Washbourne) is located in Overbury in the southwestern part of Worcestershire. Great Washbourne is located nearby in Gloucestershire.
They also had lands and lived in the towns of Witchenford and Bengeworth, which are in Worcestershire, and Stanford, which is in Gloucestershire.
Sir Roger married Joan in about 1258. They had one child, John, who was born about 1259 in Little Washbourne. He was known during his father’s life as John de Dufford, taken from the name of his estate. After his father’s death in 1299, he became known as John de Washbourne (1259-1319).
He married Isabella Cassey about 1290. They had one son whom they named John, who married and in due course had a son named Peter, who had two sons named John and William.
Numerous Johns and Williams followed after that up to a John who was born on July 2, 1597 and a William who was born on November 9, 1601. Both were born in Bengeworth, Worcestershire.
Researchers consider that all the American Washburns descended from these two; hereafter, referred to as John1 and William1.
Both married in Bengeworth and raised families there, but this was a time of great exploration and immigration to the new world of America and both immigrated to the Americas in the 1630’s.
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John1 Washburn (1597-1670)
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John1 Washburn was baptized on the 2nd of July 1597 in Bengeworth. He married Margery Moore on the November 23, 1618. She was baptized November 3, 1588, the daughter of Robert Moore and Ellen Taylor.
On October 3, 1619, Mary, the first daughter of John1 Washbourne and Margery, was baptized. No further record of her is found, and as she did not accompany her parents to America in the 1630’s, she had probably died before then.
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On November 26, 1620 John2 and on June 2, 1622 Phillip1 were born. Unfortunately, Phillip1 only lived 5 days and died June 7, 1622.
A blank of about 30 years occurs after 1622, which is not unusual. In the early 17th century England record keeping was very poor. A second Phillip2 seems to have been born about 1624 and based on his age, it must have been this Phillip who came to America in 1635 with his mother Margery and his older brother John2.
We do know for sure that John1 was a churchwarden in Bengeworth in 1625 and that he was 26 years old when his father died in August 1624. His mother died two years later. As the eldest son, John1 was made executor of the estates and was required to settle them both by 1630.
His father (also a John by the way) was a successful businessman of considerable wealth, including vast holdings of real estate and over 200 Pounds Sterling worth of chattels and goods. His will stipulated that cash legacies be paid to each of his other children including his 2nd son William1, while John1 took possession of all the lands and buildings.
Meanwhile on the other side of the Atlantic, the Plymouth Colony was growing rapidly. The large group that had been left behind in Holland because of the leaks in the Speedwell came over in 1621, arriving one week after the first Thanksgiving. An additional thirty-five families arrived from Leiden, Holland in 1629. Sixty more came over in 1630.
It is not certain when John1 actually arrived at the Plymouth Colony, but it was clearly before January 1632 because he had been living there long enough by then to get involved in a civil court case on that date.
By 1631 the crowding had so increased at Plymouth, that owners of livestock were obliged to move them out of the town, at first only for the summer, and later permanently.
Duxbury, the first Plymouth offshoot, began to be settled in 1632 and was incorporated in 1637. In 1634, John1 Washburn purchased a homestead from Edward Bumpus known as "The Eagles Nest," with lands beyond Eaglenest Creek.
On 3 April 1635, his wife, Margery, and his two sons, John2 and Philip2, received emigration certificates and permission to sail on the Elizabeth and Ann, and joined John1 in Duxbury.
Several years later, in 1644, when the population of Duxbury was estimated at over 400, plans were made to open up another settlement further inland that was to be named Bridgewater.
John1 Washburn and his son John2, Miles Standish, John Alden, William and John Bradford, Love Brewster, Experience Mitchell, Edmond Chandler, William and John Paybody were among the 54 purchasers of the Bridgewater land from the Indians.
The group paid 7 coats (1 and 1/2 yards in a coat), 9 hatchets, 8 hoes, 20 knives, 4 moose skins and 10 and 1/2 yards of cotton cloth for the land. Massasoit, the chief of the local Indian tribe at the time, and Myles Standish, Samuel Nash, and Constance Southworth for the colonists signed the Bill of Sale on March 23, 1649.
The Washburns did not actually move to Bridgewater for several years. John1 and his two sons were still registered as able to bear arms in Duxbury in 1643, and John1 himself as a road surveyor in 1649 and 1650. They had, however, settled in Bridgewater before 1665 where John1 died between 1666 and 1670.
Nothing is known about the death of his wife, Margery. Most of the Duxbury town records as well as those of the Duxbury Church were destroyed by Indians when they burned several buildings to the ground in 1666. A few of the first leaves of the Plymouth records were worn off and also lost, so that much of the early information about the colony and individuals in it has been irretrievably lost.
The descendants of John1 and Margery continued to live primarily in Bridgewater, with some moving to nearby Plympton, Taunton, Easton, Compton, and Kingston. Their grandson Joseph Washburn married Hannah Latham, the granddaughter of John Winslow and Mary Chilton. Mary had come over with her parents on the Mayflower in 1620 and is supposed to have been the first white woman to set foot on Plymouth Rock.
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William1 Washburn (1601-1658)
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William1 Washburn was born in Bengeworth, Worcestershire in 1601. He did not follow his older brother John1 right away to the Americas when he went over to the Plymouth Colony in 1631. Rather, William1 remained in England where he raised a large family. He finally did sail with his whole family, his wife Jane Nichols, his 11 children and even his in-laws Francis Nichols and Frances Wimarke, to Stratford, Connecticut in about 1640.
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In about 1645 William1Washburn moved to Hempstead, Long Island. The earliest record of him in Hempstead is in 1646 when he testified in court that he had sold a sow to a certain Mr. Stickley, the defendant, in a lawsuit brought by Tonis Nyssen, which was settled on October 18, 1646 at Fort Amsterdam in the New Amsterdam Colony.
As one of the first landowners in Hempstead, William1 was chosen as its deputy, along with several other men, to appeal to the British about the Dutch government from the Colony of New Netherlands (now New York) assuming jurisdiction over Long Island. In 1653, he carried a remonstrance regarding the English colonists’ concerns to the Dutch Governor, Peter Stuyvesant, in New Amsterdam,
In 1653, William1 Washburn and his son, John3 (yes, yet another John Washburn. There are 23 of them in the genealogy database), purchased land at Oyster Bay, Long Island from the Indians. The deed was recorded 27 March 1667 in New York.
Also in 1653, William1 Washburn was a witness to an Indian Deed in Oyster Bay, Long Island. In 1654 he was called "of Hempstead" in a New Haven Colony court record and in 1654-1655 he was a member of the Assembly at Hempstead.
William1 Washburn died in 1659 in Hempstead, Long Island. His will was dated 29 September 1657, and was presented for probate by his widow Jane on 11 June 1659. He mentioned his sons Hope (Sara's 7th Great Grandfather) and John3, daughters Patience, Hester, and Phebe, none of whom were yet married, his son-in-law Robert Williams’ children who was the husband of his daughter Sara, his son-in-law Edward Titus, Sara the daughter of Robert Jackson, husband of his daughter Agnes and his son-in-law Richard Willets, husband of his daughter Mary
William1 Washburn’s offspring were more adventurous than those of his brother John1 who didn’t stray far from Bridgewater, Massachusetts for many years. In stark contrast, William1’s descendants roamed all over the Americas, right from the beginning.
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John9 Washburn (1703-1779)
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One of those descendants was yet another John9 Washburn (Sara's 5th Great Grandfather), this one the son of William4 Washburn, who was the son of Hope Washburn, William1’s 2nd son.
John9 Washburn was born in Derby, New Haven County, CT. in 1703. He spent his youth in Connecticut, but showed up in Culpeper County, Virginia in 1726 at the age of 23.
There is considerable disagreement about which John Washburn actually went to Virginia, but by process of elimination, he has to have been the son of William3, the son of Hope, the son of William1. Nobody else fits.
All other John Washburns descended from John1 Washburn of about the right age are accounted for in Massachuetts - born there, married there and died there.
There are no other John Washburns descended from William1 of the right age around the turn of the 18th century whose marriage and death is not well documented elsewhere in New England, New York, Connecticut or Pennsylvania.
There is also considerable question about where he was born. Some say it was Culpeper Co, Virginia, but that's not likely since there were no Washburns in Virginia prior to 1726! (The early settlers of Virginia are very well documented, but they didn’t always include where they came from.
Others suggest he may have been born in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, or even Pennsylvania, but nobody else fits the time frame that isn’t accounted for elsewhere.
The John who moved to Virginia has to be the one born in 1703 in Derby, New Haven County, Connecticut. His father has to have been William3 Washburn, son of Hope
Washburn, son of William1. No doubt about it.
We know for sure that John9 was in Virginia by June 26, 1726. On that date he received the deed for 425 acres of land, according to the Spotsylvania County Land Office Patents & Grants/ No. 12, Page 482. (Culpeper was subsequently formed from a section of Spotsylvania Co.). He was 23 years old at the time.
John9 seems to have been a land speculator, involved in a number of land deals, but mainly made his living by operating a slave trading post in Culpeper.
He married Susanna Suchy in about 1738 in Culpeper. They had at least 11 children (possibly 12), all boys except for Sarah:
 Eley (1739-after 1785)
Sarah (about 1742-after 1760)
Charles (1744-1782)
Isaac (1746-1778)
James (1748-1778)
Stephen (1750-1778)
Benjamin Austin (1752-1847) (Sara’s 4th great grandfather)
Philip (about 1754-1826)
Reuben (1761-after 1803)
Moses3 (1763-1841)
Lewis (1765-after1790), and possibly
Eli (1767-about 1825) (Eli was probably the son of Eley, not John9)
John9 Washburn died February 15, 1779, in Culpepper, Virginia. He left his estate to his wife Susannah, and after her death it was to be divided equally among all his children except Lewis to whom he give only one shilling sterling. His first son Eley was executor of the estate.
Eley Washburn, John9’s eldest son served during the American Revolution, in what capacity is unknown, but he did received a land grant as compensation for his service from Virginia in 1787. Eley married Haney Washburn who was the daughter of Thomas3 Washburn and Lucy Smith. Thomas3 was the younger brother of John9 so Eley and Haney were first cousins.
"The History of Harrison County" (West Virginia) records that Indians killed Isaac, James and Stephen in 1778 during the Revolution. Each of them had served in Dunmore's War and as scouts for General George Rogers Clark (visit Indians!)
According to his application for a pension, Charles Washburn and his brother, Moses3,
also served two, six month enlistments during the Revolution. Both survived and received land grants from Virginia.
Lewis Washburn, probably the youngest of the brothers, apparently was the "black sheep" of the family. In his will, John9 left him only 1 shilling. Obviously John9 was not too pleased with Lewis.
There is considerable debate about Eli Washburn. It is difficult to imagine two sons, 'Eley' and 'Eli' in the same family, at the same time. So, it is quite possible that Eli was not the son of John9 but that of Eley. The time frame is about right, but the Virginia records show that Eley's name might really have been "Elias". If so, that might give some credence to Eli being a son of John9 after all. We’ll never know.
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Patriot Benjamin Austin Washburn (1751-1841)
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Benjamin Austin Washburn (Sara’s 4th great grandfather), enlisted in the Virginia Militia in 1777 when he was 25 years old and served in George Washington's Army of the Potomac. He was present at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781.
After the Revolution, Virginia granted large bounties of land to the solders who had served, including Benjamin A. and several of his surviving brothers. All of these lands were in Kentucky, which was still part of Virginia at that time.
Benjamin Austin married Mary Beason in 1784 in Culpeper. Shortly thereafter, with his bride, he followed Daniel Boone's trail through the wilderness to Kentucky and settled near Paris, KY. Four years later he moved on to Shelby County, KY.
In 1788, he built a huge, two-story federal-style stone house, which stood near Shelbyville, KY until about 1986 when it was lost to fire. The deed to this old homestead was issued from Richmond, VA in 1785 and was signed by the Patriot Patrick Henry, who was the Governor of Virginia at the time.
The Shelby County Washburn family oral history relates that the Culpeper Washburn's mainly made their living by operating a slave trading post and that Benjamin A. and one of his brothers (probably Moses 3) brought 26 slaves with them to Kentucky in 1784. This is how they were able to build such a large stone house. The size and scale of quarrying that much stone between 1787 and 1791, which they used to build the house while clearing the land and growing survival crops at the same time, supports that oral history.
Benjamin Austin Washburn and Mary Beason had 7 sons in Kentucky:
Delaney,
James Benjamin (Sara’s 3rd great grandfather),
Benjamin9 (Benj), Jr.,
John B (John’s middle name is the letter "B" because his parents could not agree. Father wanted Benjamin, but mother wanted Beason, her maiden name, so they settled on just plane B),
Lewis,
Moses5, and
Samuel.
James Benjamin Washburn (1786-1840) (Sara’s 3rd great grandfather) married Rebecca Finley (1793-1870) in Jefferson County, KY in 1819. They had 2 children: a boy and a girl; James7 and Martha Ann.
James7 Washburn (1829-1904) was born in Jefferson County, KY, but lived in Kent County, Michigan (Grand Rapids area) for at least 25 years before migrating to Tennessee.
It has never been firmly established why he left Kentucky as a young man but family legend has it that he was apprenticed out for work as a teen-ager in the Owensboro, KY area. He suffered mistreatment at the hands of his overseer and fled to Michigan were he took work on a farm.
He worked on a farm belonging to William Myers of Cortland, Michigan. It was there that he met his future wife, Pamela Wall, who also worked in the farmhouse for Mrs. Myers.
They were married at the Myers farm on May 25th, 1851.
Civil War records show that he volunteered at Cannonsburg, Michigan for enlistment in the Union Army on August 12th, 1862 for a period of three years. He was assigned to Company H of the 21st Michigan Infantry and received a $25.00 bounty for enlisting.
James7 served as a wagoner for the company for the entire extent of his service. The 21st Michigan Infantry participated in many encounters with the enemy including:
Perryville, KY, October 8, 1862;
Lavergne, TN, December 27, 1862;
Stewart’s Creek, TN, December 29, 1862;
Stones River, TN, December 29, 1862 thru January 3, 1863;
Tullahoma, TN, June 24, 1863;
Elk River, TN, July 1, 1863;
Chickamauga, GA, September 19 thru 21, 1863;
Chattanooga, TN, October 6, 1863;
Brown’s Ferry, TN, October 27, 1863;
Mission Ridge, TN, November 26, 1863;
Savannah, GA, December 11 thru 21, 1864;
Averysboro, NC, March 16, 1865;
Bentonville, NC, March 19, 1865.
He was captured by the Confederates at Chickamauga on September 19, 1863 but was paroled ten days later. He was mustered out of the Army in Washington, D.C. on June 8, 1865. Upon mustering out he was paid $75.00 bounty.
In 1888, he applied for and was granted a disability pension based upon illness and injuries incurred during his Civil War service.
Martha Ann Washburn (1819-1900) (Sara’s 2nd great grandmother) married Joshua J. Jarrett in Jefferson County, KY in 1840. They had two children, Joshua, Jr. and Susan Rebecca who was named after her grandmother.
Little is known about Joshua Jarrett, Jr. The only record we have found indicates he married a woman named Julia H, date and location unknown. That’s all!
Susan Rebecca Jarrett (1841-1905) (Sara’s great grandmother) married Philo Hilyer Sandefur (1838-1900) in Henderson County, KY in 1860. Philo, the son of Charles Tandy Sandefur (1792-1852), was born February 22, 1838, Henderson Co., KY. He too was in the Civil War in Company G, 10th Kentucky Cavalry, CSA. He volunteered September 7, 1861 in Henderson County for a period of 3 years. His thumb was shot off in The Battle of Shiloh in April 1862 where he was taken prisoner by the Union Forces (visit A Family Divided).
Their daughter Annye Mae Sandefur (1875-1960) (Sara’s grandmother) married Jesse Thomas Shuttleworth (1875-1959) (Sara’s grandfather) in Henderson, KY in 1899 (visit The Rifleman). Thier children were:
Lenore Jarrett (1900-),
Jessemae (1903-1987),
Thomas Henderson (1905-1983) (Sara’s father),
Philip Southerland (1907-),
Eugene Gaston (1909-1991),
Washburn Finley (1911-2000) ("Uncle Wash", named after his great-great grandparents, James4 Benjamin Washburn and Rebecca Finley), and
Josie Elizabeth (1913)
Jesse Thomas Shuttleworth, Lenore and Anne Mae Sandefur
(circa 1903)
For Thomas Henderson Shuttleworth's story visit Gremlins.
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The Sons of Israel5 Washburn
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(There were a lot of Israel Washburns so, in order to tell them apart, they are numbered too.)
In the 1856, there were 3 Washburn brothers serving in the US Congress at the same time. They were all Sara’s 7th cousins, 3 times removed. They were three of Israel5 Washburn’s (1784-1876) seven sons, all of whom were important men in the history if the United States.
Israel6 Washburn, Jr. (1813-1887) was a lawyer. He was elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1842 and to the US Congress in 1851. He was influential in forming the Republican Party and a great friend of Abraham Lincoln. During the 1860’s, he served as the Governor of Maine.
Algernon Sidney Washburn (1814-1879), was a prosperous Boston Merchant. He founded The First National Bank of Hallowell.
Elihu Benjamin Washburn (1816-1887) was the US Representative from Illinois from 1852 to 1869. He was also great friend of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. He served briefly as Grant’s Secretary of State and later as his Ambassador to France.
Cadwalladen Colden Washburn (1818-1882), settled in Wisconsin. In 1855, he was elected to the US Congress where his older brothers Israel, Jr. and Elihu were already serving. During the Civil War he rose to the rank of Major General and served under Ulysses S. Grant in the Western Theater including the Battles of Shiloh and Vicksburg and Sherman’s “March to the Sea” through South Carolina and Georgia. He returned to congress for 2 more terms after the war and was subsequently elected Governor of Wisconsin. He also founded the Gold Medal Flour Company.
Charles Ames Washburn (1822-1889) joined the California Gold Rush in 1849. The gold he found financed his career first as a writer and later as the publisher/editor of the San Francisco Daily Times and the Alta California. The Alta California was the first newspaper on the Pacific Coast to support the Republican Party. He then became the US Ambassador to Paraguay, wrote a two-volume history of Paraguay and invented the Remington Typewriter.
William Drew Washburn (1831-1912) was a millionaire who lived in Minnesota where he constructed dams, flour and saw mills. He founded the SOO Railroad, which was created on September 29, 1883 by a consortium of flourmill owners in Minneapolis to provide a rail link between Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie and the Atlantic Railway thus avoiding sending shipments through Chicago. His flourmill eventually became the Pillsbury Flour Company. He later became a Congressman and Senator from Minnesota.
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Tune "Perseguir"
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The introductory tune used on this page is the Gregorian Chant "Perseguir" from the Middle Ages. "Perseguir is a Spanish verb which means "to follow" or "to pursue".
The Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song of the Roman Catholic Church. It developed mainly in France during the 9th and 10th centuries. Legend credits Pope Gregory the Great with inventing it, but historians believe it really came later.
Gregorian chants are organized into eight scalar modes. Typical melodic features include characteristic incipits and cadences, the use of reciting tones around which the other notes of the melody revolve, and a vocabulary of musical motifs woven together through a process called centonization to create families of related chants.
Instead of octave scales, six-note patterns called hexachords define the modes. These patterns use elements of the modern diatonic scale as well as what would now be called B flat. Gregorian melodies are transcribed using neumes, an early form of musical notation from which the modern five-line staff developed during the 16th century.
Gregorian chants were traditionally sung by a choir of men and boys in churches, or by Monks and Nuns in their chapels.
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This page and all genealogical data contained on it are Copyrighted © 2007/2008
by Theodore C. Anderson
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