FOURTEENTH GENERATION

8192. John WASHBOURNE XI was baptized on 31 Jan 1551 in Bengeworth, Evesham, Worchester, England. He was born on 1 Aug 1566 in Bengeworth, Evesham, Worchester, England. He died In the Spring of 2003 on 3 Aug 1624 in Bengeworth, Evesham, Worchester, England.
John Washbourne was an esteemed man of weight and worth in Bengeworth. He was one on the first board of Burgesses appointed by King James when he first granted a charter to Evesham, including Bengeworth in it as a suburb in 1605, and granted the town two representatives in Parliament. Towards the close of his life, John was blind, as we learn from the following passages in his will: "In witness of all which, John Washbourne, being blind and not able to set his hand, hath authorized his brother John Tymbrell for him and in his stead to subscribe to these presents with his name and mark." August 3 1624. He was married to Martha (Trimbell) STEPHENS on 6 Jul 1596 in Bengeworth, Evesham, Worchester, England.

8193. Martha (Trimbell) STEPHENS died In the Spring of 2003 on 29 Sep 1625 in Bengeworth, Evesham, Worchester, England. Children were:

4096 i. John WASHBURNE (The Immigrant).
ii. Jane WASHBOURNE was born on 2 Dec 1599 in Bengeworth, Evesham, Worchester, England. She died In the Spring of 2003 in Dec 1624 in Bengeworth, Evesham, Worchester, England.
iii. William WASHBOURNE was born on 9 Nov 1601 in Bengeworth, Evesham, Worchester, England. William Washbourne was an early emigrant to New England and the ancestor of a large body of descendants. He first emerges in colonial history in 1647 at Hempstead, Long Island, when he received an allotment of land as one of the original settlers. He did not belong to the first batch of Colonists from Stamford, CT. in 1643-4 but was probably among those joining the colony in 1645-6. It is to be taken for granted that he and his family sailed from England to one of the Massachusetts ports, and sufficient time must be allowed him for becoming acquainted with the spirit and character of the institutions and people where he happened to be, and for discovering another more congenial; for each colony had characteristics of a very distinctive sort. Allowing time for all this, there would be ample leeway granted if we suppose him to have emigrated in the late 1630's. It would seem, therefore, there is nothing inconsistent in time with William Washbourne of Hempstead being, William, the brother of John of Bengeworth, whose daughter Marthathea was baptized there on Dec. 18, 1637. Besides Marthathea, William of Bengeworth had a daughter Sarah and another Martha. When we compare the Hempstead family with these, we find that William and his wife, Jane had the following: John, Mary, Martha, Sarah, Hope, Phebe and Agnes. The older of these were at least of marriageable age, Mary born in 1629, and John having married into the best families of the settlements before 1650 and in 1655. Martha, born in 1627, married in 1657. One or two more facts may have some bearing on the question of William's ancestry and relationship to John Washbourne (the immigrant). The Duxbury and Hempstead families so far as we know never fraternized at all. This is a small matter for our knowledge of those times is very incomplete. The records as they exist seem to show William in an active public and business career that suggests more the Londoner than countryman and colonist. John, son of John and grandson of William went over to London on business in 1685-6 and died there in Feb. of 1687. His will was made in "St. Beedulph" Parish, London, Feb 23, 1687 and proved in New York in 1688. This John, who was Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, has been confused with John The Emigrant; but a comparison the their hand writing has proven that their identities are unquestionably different.
iv. Joan WASHBOURNE was born in Apr 1604. She died In the Spring of 2003 on 20 Oct 1636 in Bengeworth, Evesham, Worchester, England.