When Gilbert Washburn was born in 1785, in New York, United States, his father, William Washburn, was 29 and his mother, Mrs William Washburn, was 26. He married Mary Bilyea II about 1810, in Westchester, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Plainfield, Otsego, New York, United States in 1850. He died in 1867, in Orwell, Oswego, New York, United States, at the age of 82.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Historical Boundaries 1791: Otsego, New York, United States
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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