The opening chapter of a narrative by William B. Darrow tracing the story of the Putney Washburn family.
The Washburn brothers were grandchildren of Asa and Sally (Upham) Washburn, early Putney settlers present for the first United States Census in 1790. For four or five generations members of the family did extraordinary things. It is worth a few pages to trace the family’s history in Vermont. Click here to read their history from the Revolutionary War to 1842.
