In a message dated 08/04/2000 12:13:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jamaltby@creative.net writes: <<>Bill you mentioned looking for parents of a David Washburn born in Vermont. >I can check my files but I need a little background on David. Where do you >find him? I assume you are getting the birthplace from the 1850 census - >where was he living? who was his wife and children. There were many >Washburn families in Vermont and I have done a bit of research on some of >them. I look forward to seeing your post>>> John, always good to hear from you. We had some correspondence a while back on Mary Ann Washburn, who was listed in an obituary in the Muscatine Iowa newspaper as having died in L******an, New York on 28 Jan. 1856, who was listed as the mother of my great grandfather Arthur Washburn who came to Muscatine Iowa from NY in the summer of 1835. As we had previously discussed Brenton Washburn has him as the son of a Zephaniah which as we had disseised is incorrect. I finally figured out that the location of her death was in LEBANON, NY. Once I solved that I found the records of the Campbell Burying Grounds in the Town of Lebanon on the Internet, and there she was with her husband, as follows: Washburn, David b. Bershire, Vt. d. 10 Dec. 1814 age 36yr, Mary A. M Conihe, wf b. Merrimack N.H. 2 Feb 1777 d. 28 Jan 1856. S. Jan d. 14 Oct 1846 age 33yr. So I am fairly certain that these are my great-great grandparents. I just returned from Madison County, NY, and in a book of pioneer settlers of Madison count appear "David and his wife Mary Ann and children Isaac 1810, Samuel 1812, [apparently buried at Campbell], David,Jr., Sarah, 1813." But no mention of Arthur who was born in 1809. The 1810 Federal census however lists David Washburn with 2 free white males under 10 years, which must be Arthur and Isaac. I examined the estate records of 1814 and found only a bunch of handwritten receipts which I am still trying to decipher. No list of children. I found nothing for Mary Ann in 1856. Brenton Washburn has this family (without Arthur) listed at X317A as unattached.