1686 On 13 August, Richard Cornell, of Cornbury in Flushing, granted land on Madnan's Neck, Flushing, Long Island, to son-in-law John Washborne. [1] [2]
1687/88 John Washbourne wrote his will on February 23. Pelletreau's abstract of John's will states, [3]
Page 16.—In the name of God, Amen. February 23, 1687. I, John Washbourne, of Flushing, on Long Island, husbandman, but now residing in the Parish of St. Bidulph, London, England, being sick. I leave to my son John £100 when of age. To my wife Sarah £66 13s. 4d. To my two daughters, Susanah and Mary, £60 13s. 4d. each when they are of age or married. "I appoint my trusty friend George Heathcote, mariner, now bound on a voyage to New York, to be my agent and overseer." I leave to my wife all that piece of land lying near Black Stump Hollow upon Flushing Hills and 1/3 of my movables. The other 2/3 to my son and daughters, and my wife is to have the use of all that my Plantation in Flushing and all of my lands till my son is of age. I make my wife and my father in law, Mr. Richard Cornell, executors.
Witnesses, Edward Marvin, William Cross, Philip Blanchard. Proved in New York, June 19, 1688, at Court of Record.
1688 A John Washburne was buried on November 9 at St Sepulchre, London. (St Sepulchre borders St Boltolph Aldersgate on the northwest edge of London.) [4]
[1] John Cornell, Genealogy of the Cornell family: being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth R.I. (1902), 150, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[2] Charles T Gritman, Historical Miscellany (NY?: 1920?), 1-388, citing QR179, Liber A-40, [AncestryImage].
[3] William S. Pelletreau, Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate's office: city of New York, Vol. 2, 1708-1728 (New York: The New York Historical Society, 1894), 390, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[4] London Metropolitan Archives, St Sepulchre Holborn, Composite register: baptisms 1678/9-1692/3, marriages 1678/9-1701, burials 1677-1691/2, P69/SEP/A/001/MS07219, Item 002, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, image 208, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].