Brief Life History of Experience
When Experience Washburn was born on 8 March 1744, in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Cornelius Washburn, was 41 and her mother, Experiance Richards, was 39. She married Jonathan Alden on 26 November 1766, in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 21 December 1776, in her hometown, at the age of 32, and was buried in Central Cemetery, East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Experience Washburn, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Experience Washburne, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Experience Alden, "BillionGraves Index"
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1774
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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