First 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. Luther Washburn Being warned out of Bennington was the only reference I found to any Washburn family in the town records of Bennington, VT LDS film 0027813 the reference is on page136 of the town records. Several families were being warned out on that date. What was really frustrating was that in all the other families the wife and children were named but for Luther Washburn it just said wife and 2 children. I don't know why, but it makes me suspect that Luther Washburn was relatively new in town and that perhaps they didn't have a firm recollection of their names. Luther was not a freeman and didn't have the right to vote, probably didn't go to the town meetings. He never shows up in the list of tax payers, or town positions. No reference is made to the births of any of his children. I suspect he kept to himself. There is one other film of Benningtion records that I have ordered from LDS which hopefully will be in next week. I don't remember off hand what dates it covers but I think it was 1786-1840 so the beginning of the reel has some possibility of having some mention of him. I will keep you posted as to what I find. Susan Bingler Fairfax,VA

Thank you, Susan. Too bad Luther didn't get into some kind of trouble in Bennington or at least leave us a little more to go on... John Maltby Redwood City, CA jamaltby@creative.net At 09:48 PM 8/3/2000 EDT, you wrote: >First >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. > >Luther Washburn Being warned out of Bennington was the only reference I found >to any Washburn family in the town records of Bennington, VT >LDS film 0027813 the reference is on page136 of the town records. Several >families were being warned out on that date. What was really frustrating was >that in all the other families the wife and children were named but for >Luther Washburn it just said wife and 2 children. > >I don't know why, but it makes me suspect that Luther Washburn was relatively >new in town and that perhaps they didn't have a firm recollection of their >names. Luther was not a freeman and didn't have the right to vote, probably >didn't go to the town meetings. He never shows up in the list of tax payers, >or town positions. No reference is made to the births of any of his >children. I suspect he kept to himself. > >There is one other film of Benningtion records that I have ordered from LDS >which hopefully will be in next week. I don't remember off hand what dates >it covers but I think it was 1786-1840 so the beginning of the reel has >some possibility of having some mention of him. I will keep you posted as >to what I find. > >Susan Bingler >Fairfax,VA > >