Name |
Josiah OSBORNE |
Prefix |
Rev. |
Birth |
6 Mar 1750 |
South Fork of South Branch of Potomac River, Virginia [1] |
Gender |
Male |
Occupation |
1773 |
Yogohania County, Virginia [1] |
Constable |
- This area is now southwestern Pennsylvania.
|
Milit-End |
1774 |
Yogohania County, Virginia [1] |
Discharged after Dunmore's War at Fort Pitt |
Residence |
Between 1774 and 1793 |
Lost River, Hardy, Virginia, United States [1] |
Occupation |
1778 |
Hardy County, Virginia [1] |
Became Baptist minister |
Misc |
1794 |
Greenbrier County, Virginia, United States [1] |
Relocated from Hardy County, Virginia |
Misc |
9 Nov 1812 |
Greenbrier County, Virginia, United States [2] |
Land Grant in Greenbrier County |
- Description: 170 acres in the Big Bend of New River adjoining the land of Charles and Robert Harra. Source: Land Office Grants No. 63, 1812-1813, p. 302 (Reel 129). Part of the index to the recorded copies of grants issued by the Virginia Land Office. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia. Other Format: Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Grants A-Z, 1-124, reels 42-190; Virginia State Land Office. Grants 125- , reels 369
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Misc |
1822 |
Logan County, Ohio, United States [1] |
Relocated from Greenbrier County, Virginia |
Will |
7 Jun 1838 |
Logan County, Ohio, United States |
- Will of Josiah Osborne
Logan Co., OH Administrator's Dockets Vol. D/380 (SLFHL 0545337)
I Josiah Osborne of Logan county in the State of Ohio being in good Health
of body and of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding considering
the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof and being
desirous to settle my worldly affairs and thereby to better prepared to
leave this world when it shall please God to call me. Hence do therefore
make and publish this my last will and Testament, in manner and form
following. That is to say. First and principally I commit my soul into the
hands of Almighty God my body to the Earth to be decently buried at the
descretion of my executors herein after named and after my debts and funeral
charges are paid I devise and bequeth as follows.
Item First I give and
devise unto Thomas Osborne my grandson a son of Jacob Osborne my son two
hundred dollars to be paid by my executor when it comes into his hands by
virtue of said office.
Item second I give and devise unto George Osborne my
grandson a son of Jacob Osborn[sic] my son two hundred dollars to be paid by
my executor when it comes into his hands by virtue of said office.
Item 3d I give and devise unto Jacob J. Osborn my grandson a son of Jacob Osborn my son two hundred dollars to be paid by my Executor when it comes into his hands by virtue of said office.
Item 4th I give and devise unto John Osborn
my grandson a son of Jacob Osborn my son One Hundred dollars to be paid by
my executor when it comes into his hands by virtue of said office.
Item 5th I give and devise unto Sarah Stanang my granddaughter a daughter of Jacob Osborn one Hundred dollars to be paid by my executor when it comes into his hands by virtue of said office.
Item 6th I give and Devise unto Marquis Osborn my grandson two hundred dollars to be paid by my executor when it comes into his hands by virtue of said office.
Item 7th I give and devise unto Elizabeth Munsal my granddaughter a daughter of
John Kelly One Hundred Dollars to be paid by my Executor when it comes into
his hands by virtue of said office.
Item 8th I give and Devise unto Josiah Kelly my Grandson a son of John Kelly One Hundred Dollars to be paid by my Executor whin it comes into his hands by virtue of said office.
Item 9th I give and Devise unto Harriet Kelly my granddaughter a Daughter of John Kelly One Hundred Dollars to be paid by my Executor when it comes into his hands by virtue of said office.
Item 10th I give and devise unto Margaret Osborn my Great granddaughter a daughter of Marquis Osborn One hundred dollars to be paid by my executor when it comes into his hands by virtue of said office.
Item 11th I give and devise unto Josiah Osborn my Grandson a son of
Jacob Osborn one hundred dollars to be paid by my executor when it comes
into his hands by virtue of said office.
Item 12th I give and devise unto William Osborn my grandson a son of Jacob Osborn One Hundred dollars to be paid by my Executor when it comes into his hads by virtue of said office.
Item 13th After all charges is paid if there should be any money left it
shall be equally divided between John Kelly as my son-inlaw and Mary W.
Osborn as wife of Marquis Osborn to be paid by my Executors.
Item 14th I give and devise the all Books that is in George McColloch's hands for his own use.
Item 15th I give and devise all the personal property of mine that is in my children or grandchildren's hands at my Decease to them where it is at that time.
And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint William Henry to be my sole executor of this my last will and testament Revoking and annulling all former wills by me heretofore made. Ratifying and confirming this and none other to be my last will and testament. In testimony whereof I Josiah Osborn have to this my will consisting of one sheet of paper set my hand and seal this the Seventh day of June in the year of one thousand Eight Hundred and thirty Eight. Josiah Osborn
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Signed sealed and delivered and declared by Josiah Osborn the above named
testator as for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his
request and in his presence have subscribed our names as witnesses thereunto
George Henry, Joel Henry. The State of Ohio Logan County --. Personally
appeared in open court George Henry and Joel Henry the two subscribing
witnesses to the will of Josiah Osborn have produced in open court for
probate who being duly sworn says that the said Josiah Osborn signed the
same in their presence and at his request as witnesses that said Osborn was
at the time of sound mind and of disposing memory of lawful age and not
under any restraint.
George Henry
Joel Henry
Sworn to and Subscribed in open court June 3, 1845
|
Residence |
1 Jun 1840 |
Monroe Township, Logan, Ohio, United States [3] |
Will |
27 May 1843 |
Logan County, Ohio, United States |
- Codicil
Whereas I Josiah Osborn of Logan County hath made and duly executed my last
will and Testament in writing bearing date the seventh day of June one
Thousand Eight hundred and thirty eight which said last will and testament
and every clause bequest and Devise therein contained I do hereby ratify and
confirm saving and excepting such clauses bequest and devises therein
mentioned as are by me herein after revoked and made void and being desirous
to alter some parts thereof and of making additions thereto do therefore
hereby make this my codicil which I will and direct shall be taken and held
as part of my said will and testament in manner and form following that is
to say. 1st Whereas since making of my said will my grandson William Osborn
son of Jacob Osborn has left the county and gone to parts unknown therefore
the one hundred dollars that I did will to said William Osburn I give to my
grandson Josiah Kelly son of John Kelly. 2nd also since making of my said
will my grandson Marquis Osborn has since died and I willed him two hundred
dollars for the purpose of building a mill and the said mill is not built
and therefore I revoke the same. 3d I also gave to Josiah Kelly my grandson
son of John Kelly One hundred Dollars of the money that I willed to Marquis
Osborn my grandson I also agreed in my said will after the several portions
were distributed contained therein I agree that the balance Remaining should
be divided between John Kelly my son in law and Mary W. Osborn wife of
Marquis Osborn Dec'd I expected to make my house with the said Marquis
Osborn and Mary W. Osborn since Marquis Osborn has Decd. I therefore give
the portion I allowed said Mary W. Osborn to Josiah Osborn my great
grand son son of Marquis and Mary W. Osborn. his
Josiah X Osborn
mark
Signed sealed published and declared by Josiah Osborn the above named
testator as and for a codicil to his last will and testament this the twenty
seventh day of May Eighteen hundred and forty three.
John Enoch
John Kelly Jr.
Sworn to and subscribed in open court June 3, 1845 and afterwards to wit on
the 29th day of July 1845 the executor aforesaid William Henry filed in the
clerks office here his report of appraisement of said estate in the words
figures following ...
|
Death |
3 Feb 1845 |
West Liberty, Logan, Ohio, United States [1] |
Burial |
Huntsville, Logan, Ohio, United States [4] |
Address: Huntsville Cemetery |
Notes |
- Rev. Josiah OSBORNE (1750 - 1845) was the Baptist minister of Lost River, Hardy Co., Virginia [West Virginia after 1863]; Big Levels and Lewisburg in Greenbrier Co., Virginia; and Mackachack and Monroe Twps in Logan Co. Ohio, and author of the book on baptism "David and Goliath"(1807). He was the eldest son of George and Hannah OSBORNE of the South Branch of the Potomac River, and after 1762 of Lost River in Hardy Co Virginia.
In 1776/77 Josiah was a constable of West Augusta Co., Virginia (now in Pennsylvania) where he and his brother George had been paid off at Fort Pitt in 1775 after Dunmore's War against the Indians. Brother George was killed at Fort Laurens, Ohio, at the Forks of the Tuscarawas River on 23 Feb 1779 when Simon Girty and his Indians surprised Lt. John Clark's wood foraging party.
Josiah received George's bounty land claim and it was eventually used by Gov. Thomas Worthington in Ross Co., Ohio.
Josiah's grandfather, Jeremiah Osborne, came to the South Branch circa 1744 with his three sons George, John and Jeremiah Osborne, probably from Morris Co. New Jersey, where he may be recorded as the Jeremiah Osborne Jr. in the Hanover Twp cattle earmark records of 1740.
Josiah's mother was Annetje 'Hannah' WESTFALL, baptized 2 Feb 1729 at Kingston NY, a daughter of Abel Westfall and Annetje Bogaert. They left the Minisink region of the NY-NJ border and also came to the South Branch in the 1740s.
Josiah married Margaret circa 1778 before moving from Hardy Co. to Greenbrier Co. in 1794.
In Morton's History of Monroe County WV his wife is stated to be Margaret Alderson, but no supporting evidence has been found. If so, the only possibility seems to be that she was the youngest child born 1750/55 to the Baptist minister Rev. John ALDERSON Sr.
Cole's history of Greenbrier Co. states that the elder ALDERSON's only daughter Mary married a Mr. ORTON and moved to western Pennsylvania.
Josiah Osborne had five children: Mary who married William Henry Puthoff, George who married Mary Lohr, Jacob who married Susanna Henning, Elizabeth who married Susanna's brother Arnold Henning, and Susanna Osborne who married John Kelly.
Mary Puthoff moved to Ross Co. Ohio and died in 1821 at Ft. Michilimackinac in northern Michigan.
George moved to Kanawha Co. Virginia.
The other three children moved to West Liberty, Logan Co. Ohio with Josiah Osborne in 1823.
Among Josiah's grandchildren, the sons of Jacob (Thomas, Josiah, George, Jacob, William and John who were aged 25-35 when Josiah mentioned them in his first will in 1842) still remain untraced despite considerable effort.
Of Jacob's four daughters Sarah Curtis Osborne married James Stanage, Mary Osborne married William Arms, and two remain untraced.
--- Source: http://webpages.charter.net/gjansen/famosb.htm
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Person ID |
I5992 |
Watkins |
Last Modified |
31 Aug 2018 |
Family |
Margaret ALDERSON, b. 1755, Augusta County, Virginia, British America d. 1822, Logan County, Ohio, United States (Age 67 years) |
Marriage |
1778 |
Virginia [1] |
- "Josiah married Margaret about 1778 before he moved from Hardy County
to Greenbrier County in 1794. In Morton's History of Monroe County WV
but no supporting evidence has been found. If so, the only possibility
seems to be that she was the youngest child born about 1750/55 to the
baptist minister Rev. John ALDERSON Sr. Cole's history of GreenbrierCo
WV states that the elder ALDERSON's only daughter Mary married a Mr.
ORTON and moved to western Pennsylvania."
Source: Osborne Ancestry of the Jansen Daughters
Online at: http://revolution.3-cities.com/~gjansen/famosb.htm
|
Residence |
7 Aug 1820 |
Lewisburg, Greenbrier, Virginia, United States [5] |
- Census reports:
1 male 45 or more: Rev. Josiah Osborne, 70
1 male 10-16: ? Perhaps a grandson?
1 female 45 or more: Margaret, 65
|
Children |
| 1. Mary OSBORNE, b. 30 Apr 1780, Lost River, Hardy, Virginia, United States d. 15 Mar 1823, Ft. Michilimackinac, Michigan Territory (Age 42 years) |
| 2. George OSBORNE, b. 26 Mar 1782, Lost River, Hardy, Virginia, United States d. 10 Mar 1846, Monroe County, West Virginia, United States (Age 63 years) |
| 3. Jacob OSBORNE, b. 1784, Lost River, Hardy, Virginia, United States d. 1827/8, Monroe Township, Logan, Ohio, United States (Age 44 years) |
| 4. Elizabeth OSBORNE, b. 1786, Lost River, Hardy, Virginia, United States d. 1836, Monroe Township, Logan, Ohio, United States (Age 50 years) |
| 5. Susanna OSBORNE, b. 1783, Lost River, Hardy, Virginia, United States d. 27 Aug 1844, Monroe Township, Logan, Ohio, United States (Age 61 years) |
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Family ID |
F1133 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
10 Oct 2023 |