Hi Listers ~ I found a great book "Inheriting the Revolution" by Joyce Appleby.....It traces the lives of the "first Americans".....that first generation born after the revolution.....and one of those mentioned is Ichabod Washburn.....apparently one of the author's sources for information on him was an autobiography and there is quite a bit of detail on his life in this book. I *think* he's a cuz of mine back around Philip Washburn and Elizabeth Irish......but any of you that descend from closer lines might be interested in the book too. :-) It says he "was b. in Kingston, MA in 1798, his seafaring father having died from yellow fever the year of his birth, leaving twins and and infant to be supported by his widow at her loom"......... I checked briefly on FamilySearch and there was one Ancestral file that seemed to be the right one, but I have no idea how accurate it is. Hope he belongs to one of us :-) Dianne