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Chapter 2 is Bill Darrow’s second installment on the Washburn family traces the fortunes of the large family as many children spread from Vermont across the country. Their mother/stepmother Patty returned to Putney with seven young children during a time of religious and social turmoil during the Second Great Awakening of the first half of the 19th century. Amidst this religious fervor John Humphrey Noyes Perfectionist teachings were becoming controversial in Putney and some members of the family were caught up in the controversy.
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Chapter 1 began with Asa and Sally (Upham) Washburn settling in Putney in 1785. That chapter touched on some of Asa and Sally’s children, including Judge Reuben Washburn and General Jacob Washburn, as well as the Judge’s son, Vermont Governor Peter T. Washburn. Finally, Chapter 1 focused on Asa and Sally’s son Seth Washburn and his wife Rebecca Paine, who moved to a farm in Randolph Center, Vermont. Rebecca had eight sons with Seth before dying of Tuberculosis in 1828 at age 41. The following year Seth returned to Putney and married Martha “Patty” Campbell. Seth and Patty had seven more sons on the Randolph Center farm. Chapter 1 closed as Seth and Patty’s large family enjoyed it’s last year together in 1840.
