Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JUDGE A. W. BENSON. founded a numerous and sturdy family. Lieut. Consider Benson may possibly have been the son of Consider Benson, who married Elizabeth (born 1732), the daughter of Ephriam and Mary Washburn, of Plympton. Judge Benson’s mother, Hannah Washburn, was born April 17, 1804, died October 14, 1873, and married Peleg Benson, March 5, 1831. Judge Benson was the fifth and youngest child. She was the daughter of William Washburn, who was born May 9, 1767, died July 26, 1851, and was married at Wendell, Mass., to Huldah Clark, on August 21, 1788. Huldah Clark was born on May 24, 1768, in Vermont, as was William Washburn. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and enlisted March, 1781, for three years as a private in Capt. Killam’s company of Col. Rufus Putnam’s Massachusetts regiment. He was only fourteen years old when he enlisted. William Washburn was descended from John Washburn, the immigrant who came to Plymouth, Mass., in 1632, from Evesham, County Worcester, England, and was followed in 1635 by his wife, Margaret, then aged 49, with sons John, aged 14, and Philip, who came in the ship Elizabeth and Ann from London. John Washburn was an original settler of Bridge- water, Mass., and died before 1670. He founded a large family and many of his name have come to distinction in the New World. The Bensons seem to have left Massachusetts for New York about a century ago, and the Washburns came to Carroll, in Chautauqua county, New York, in 1820 or 1821. Thus Judge Benson was descended from two sturdy Massachusetts families and was the grandson of two Revolutionary warriors. Nobly did he, in turn, enrich his patriotic ancestry for his descendants. Judge Benson was reared on the farm of his father and educated at the ordinary district schools of the country, and at the…
