Elizabeth Osborn

Not the same as Elizabeth Oldham

Elizabeth Simpson

• Gender: Female
• Birth: circa 1736 Maryland
• Death: Scott County Kentucky, United States

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From information compiled by Jane A. Leavell:

http://littlecalamity.tripod.com/Genealogy/Osborne.html

Thomas Osborn (Wm, Wm, Benj) was born 10 April 1732 Baltimore Co. MD. He married Elizabeth Simpson on 3 August 1751 there. Barnes' Baltimore Families (Robert Barnes, Baltimore County Families 1659-1759 [1989]) lists children as:

• 1. William,
• 2. Sarah,
• 3. Mary,
• 4. Benjamin,
• 5. Francis,
• 6. Bennett.

We believe the family further included

• 7. Thomas,
• 8. Riller, and
• 9. Betsy.

Perhaps the latter three were not born in Baltimore Co. MD?

Our Thomas left MD for North Carolina before the oldest daughter was married in September of 1773; in 1784 they moved to Abbeville District of SC, where in 1802 Thomas is listed as a member of the Hogskin (later Little River) Meeting House.

In the Lincoln Co. NC Deed Book 3, p. 160, 10-9-1786, Thomas Osborn of Abbeville Co. to Mary Hill, Lincoln Co. NC; 10 pounds for 25 acres where said Mary Hill now liveth, part of a tract granted to Thomas Osborn for 100 acres according to the dimensions of a pattern granted to Thomas Osborn in our said office, signed Thomas (T) Osborn.

In the Lincoln Co. NC Deed Book 17, p. 17, 9-17-1793, Thomas Osborn, Pendleton Co. SC to John Bullinger, Lincoln Co. NC; 50 pounds for 75 acres being the larger part of a tract of 100 acres, 25 acres upon the south east end is excepted which he the said Thomas Osborn sold to Mary Hill lying and being in Lincoln Co. on the North fork of Mountain Creek; Signed Thomas (T) Osborn.

Pendleton District SC, p. 281/2, dated 8 September 1795 has Thomas Osbern Sr. to Daniel Putnam for 10 shillings stg. for 505 acres on Big Gnerostee, granted to Osbern by Thomas Pinckney, 1788, except 150 acres now laid out for Robert Skelton, on fork of Big Branch, bd. on E. by William Lesley, on W. by John Green, on S. by Skelton. Sighed: Thos. (T) Orsbern, Sr. Recorded 22 September 1796. They left South Carolina ca. 1804 for Scott Co. KY, where he died near Georgetown. Could this be the Thomas Osburn Sr. who died 1803 Scott Co. KY? His brother James administered the estate, and this Tom does have a brother James. A John Osburn and Bennet Osburn receive payment from what seems to be James Osburn's estate, and the John could be Tom's and James' brother, below. Richard Tiner is also mentioned, and Thomas's daughter Betsy married Richard Tiner/Tyner.

Disambiguation

Many family trees list Elizabeth Simpson as marrying Jesse Davis Oldham in Kentucky on Oct 21, 1757 in Kentucky and having 11 children, but is this a different Elizabeth Simpson? (Ben M. Angel notes: Kentucky, as with other lands on the Ohio River, would not be settled until after the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix - before that, the area was part of the Indian Reserve of 1763, and before that it was defended from European settlement by the Cherokee and Iroquois. Placement of anyone in Kentucky as early as 1757 should be verified by primary source documentation - few, if any, English families would have had the ability to settle in the region before 1768, when the first actual steps toward a "Vandalia" colony would be attempted - and of course cut short by the American Revolution.) She would have to have divorced Thomas Osborn and reverted to her maiden name, and the last 7 Osborn children wouldn't have been hers, but we have no record of a divorce or second marriage for him. It's tempting to keep the Oldham woman because she has a lengthy ancestral history; if she's not this man's wife, we have no parents for her.