Susan, all Family Search has a Ephraim Washburn listing at http://www.familysearch.org/Search/PRF/pedresource_file_frame.asp?recid=110685467 that would seem to be a match -- with parents and g-parents. B. = 1 Oct 1789 P.B. = Hebron, ME D. = ~ 1815 P.D. = at sea Father = Manassah Washburn G-Father = Ephraim Washburn Mother = Sylvia Caswell G-Father = Elijah Caswell G-Mother = Mary ? GG-father = Elizjah Caswell GG-Mother = Hannah Freeman Spouse = Sally Perkins M. = 5 Nov 1812 - Doug Washburn On Monday, August 07, 2000 9:39 AM, SUSANLB@aol.com [SMTP:SUSANLB@aol.com] wrote: : I submit this information in hopes that for someone it may be a missing link : I can not identify Ephraim Washburn's parents but it is a mystery I hope to : find a solution to. : : This Ephraim Washburn married after the 1810 census and he died before the : 1820 census. He had 2 young children, I suspect daughters if Almarine is the : name of a girl. His widow remarried before 1820 and all track of this : family seems lost. : : All information is from the War of 1812 pension record placed on behalf of : the minor children of Ephraim Washburn and later reinstatement of a widow's : pension. : : : Ephraim Washburn died 27 Jan 1815 lost at sea aboard the Privateer DASH : : He married Sarah Perkins 5 Nov 1812 sometimes called Sally : and she remarried 1 Feb 1817 to Simon Staples : : Simon Staples died 15 Jan 1858 : : The 2 minor children of Ephraim & Sarah Washburn are: : : Charlotte Washburn born 6 Feb 1813 : Almarine Washburn born 28 Apr 1815 : : The application for pension of the minor children was made on 26 Jul 1819 : from Hebron, Oxford Co., ME [then MA] : : Joseph Perkins was appointed as their guardian [resides Hebron, ME] : : : A Selection of Documents : : Cumberland SS : October 6, 1825 : I Luther Perkins of Hebron in the county of Oxford being duly sworn depose : and say that I am well acquainted with Joseph Perkins guardian as mentioned : in the within papers and that he still continues & now is the legal guardian : to the children of Ephraim Washburn within mentioned and that said children : are now living. : : : State of Maine : County of Oxford SS : : Be it know that before me, the undersigned a judge of probate duly authorized : by law to administer oaths within and for the County aforesaid, personally : appeared Sally STAPLES and made oath in due form of law that she is the : identical Sally Washburn who drew a pension under Act of Congress of March 3 : 1817 and at the rate of $48 per annum on account of the naval services of her : former husband Ephraim Washburn & his death in service on board the Privateer : DASH war of 1812 : That she makes this affidavit for the purpose of obtaining a renewal of said : pension under Act of Feb 3d 1852 section 1st also Act June 9 1858 .....Having : forfeited her said pension for the time being by her intermarriage with one : Simon Staples who died on the fifteenth day of January 1858 and being again a : widow she hereby claims a renewal of her former pension as above granted her : by reason of her former husbands naval services and death in service : sworn to and subscribed on the 20 day of March A.D. 1860 : : : ....ON this 24th day of March 1860 personally appeared before me ...Frederick : Dennen and Elon Chadbourne and made oath in due form of law that they were : personally acquainted with Sally Staples formerly of Hebron and late of Oxford : : : I hereby certify whom it may concern, that on the fifth day of November in : the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Twelve Ephraim Washburn & : Sally Perskins both of Hebron in the county of Oxford and commonwealth of : Massachusetts were joined n lawful wedlock by me the subscriber according to : the laws of the commonwealth aforesaid. A true extract from my records of : Marriage : : William C. Whitney, Justice of the peace : : : I don't know who this Ephraim Washburn is, or whether Sally Perkins was his : one and only wife. I don't know his age so don't know when he was born, but : supposing he was at least 22 at his marriage in 1812 he would have been born : before 1790. : : I am interested in others comments. : : Susan Bingler : Fairfax, VA :