Person:John Washburn (16)

The house they lived in was described thus:

The house was one story with an attic above the latter used for lodging rooms, granary and general storeroom. The ground floor contained a "hall" or common living room, a kitchen and a "chamber" or bedroom. The hall was furnished with "one table board and his frame", one little table, forms, benches and a "join chair", one cupboard, shelves for cheeses, pewter and brass vessels and other furnishings and implements which included 18 pewter platters, 12 pairs of small pewters, 3 basins, one ewer and 6 cushions.

The bedroom adjoining the hall was furnished with a bedstead, one feather bed with boulster and pillows, a clothespress, a chest of drawers and three coffers. There were three other flock beds in the house, a good store of sheets of Holland, flax and hemp, napkins and two towels. In the kitchen was one table, three brass pots and pans, kettles, ironware, one posnet-porringer, one dabnet, pails, etc. The attic or loft above the kitchen, hall and chamber contained four beds and furnishings and besides serving as a granary and cheesery served for a storage place for articles in occasional use.

The house had a rear yard with barns, ricks and a place for storing timber and fuel; that the windows, at least in the hall and chamber were glazed.

Source: WASHBURN Ancestors and Descendants of William and Mary Etta Southwick Washburn, Compiled by Beverly Davis Anderson, Oak Ridge, TN 1993

1. ↑ Research of John A. Maltby
   http://genforum.genealogy.com/washburn/messages/611.html, Apr. 6, 1999.

   "I have examined the St. Peter's Parish Registers on microfilm very carefully, and there was no John Washborne baptized in 1566. The only one around that time period was John Washborne baptized on 31 Jan. 1551 in St. Peter's, which would make him a son of Jone Bushell, who was buried on 4 April 1557. It does not appear that the older John Washborne had any children by Jone Whitehead."