When Phebe Washburn was born about 1641, in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, William Washburne, was 41 and her mother, Jane Nichols, was 39. She married John Ashman in 1654, in Hempstead, Nassau, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 11 December 1664, in Hempstead, Nassau, New York, United States, at the age of 24.
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English: habitational name from Great and Little Washbourne (Gloucestershire), or Washbourne in Halwell (Devon). The Gloucestershire placename derives from Old English wæsse (genitive wæssan) ‘wet place, swamp, marsh’ + burna ‘spring, stream’. The Devon placename derives from Old English wæsce ‘place for washing’ + burna.
History: John Washburn came to MA in 1626 and settled in Duxbury, MA, in 1632.
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