Stephen Osborne

A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA (Soldier). DAR Ancestor # A084557

• OSBORN, STEPHEN
• Service VIRGINIA Rank(s): SOLDIER
• Birth CIRCA 1735, SOUTH CAROLINA
• Death ANTE 12-12-1820, SCOTT CO VIRGINIA
• Service Source KEGLEY, MILITIA OF MONTGOMERY CO VA 1777-1790, P. 51
• Service Description  1) CAPT OSBORN, MONTGOMERY CO MILITIA
• Spouse 1) COMFORT LANGHAM

Source: "Ancestral File v4.19," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/M7TN-36Z : accessed 3 August 2012), entry for Stephen OSBORNE.

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From rootsweb:

Thomas, James and Stephen Osborne, who are thought to have been brothers probably moved to the Clinch from some place in North Carolina. Stephen settled at Osborne's Ford (now Dungannon) and Thomas and James in lower Castlewood. The old log home of James Osborne is still standing just behind the Quillen home in lower Castlewood and it was in this house he was living when his daughter Lucretia was captured and carried away by the Shawnees. The home of Mrs. Russell Harman is built on the spot where Thomas Osborne was living when killed by the Indians. This tragedy occurred sometime prior to August 17, 1790.Tradition states that the attack on the Thomas Osborne family came early on a morning of a very foggy day. Upon arising it was found that some livestock was missing and a bound boy was sent to look for them. He was said to have been on a hill slightly to the northeast of the house when the fog lifted and saw the Indians approaching the house. He lay flat on the ground until the Indians were gone and thus escaped notice and capture. Thomas Osborne went to the door of the home and was shot while standing in the door, Lucretia Osborne, niece of Thomas and daughter of his brother, James, was visiting in the home. She fled the house and started toward her own home about a mile away across the hill. The Indians pursued and captured her in a cornfield just east of the house, Mrs. Minnie Osborne, wife of Thomas, and a "bound girl" named Betsy Walls were apparently captured in the house.The Indians quickly started with their captives up a narrow hollow in a southwesterly direction toward the present Bangor where Clinch River is shallow and easily forded, which would have put the river between them and the settlement quickly and thus on a direct course to their towns north of the Ohio River. After traveling a very short distance up the narrow hollow they observed that Mrs. Osborne was lame and they then and there tomahawked and scalped her under a large honey locust tree that stood well into the memory of those living in the area today.The family of James Osborne had long since given Lucretia up for dead, except her mother, who it is said looked every day at a path where she would appear if she ever returned. One day as the mother gazed at the path longingly her faith was rewarded for walking along the path was her daughter Lucretia and a strange man who turned out to be her husband. James Fraley, a militia Indian spy who many times fought

Stephen Osbourne, together with his parents and at least two brothers, James and Thomas, and probably several brothers in law, moved to the Yadkin River in Surry County, North Carolina. Sometime before the Revolutionary War, they went to New River in southwestern Virginia, where the range was fine, and the bear, deer, and wild turkey were in abundance. Around 1777 they settled along the Clinch River at Osborne's Ford (named for him), now called Dungannon, Scott County, Virginia.

Osborne's Ford was in Washington County until 1786, when Russell County was formed, and it fell into the boundary of Russell. When Scott County was formed in 1814, Osborne's Ford was in Scott. Early records in those counties indicate the Osbornes were people of stability and influence along the Clinch River. They owned considerable land and slaves. Stephen built a 2 story log house, and established a trading post in his home at which many travelers stopped by on their way to Kentucky. According to frontier standards, the big 5 room house of Stephen was a mark of wealth and distinction. The census of Scott County in 1820, the year that Stephen died, shows he owned 3 slaves. By that time, he had disposed most of his land and probably his slaves too, keeping only a minimum number in his old age as personal servants.

Stephen was of small stature, a brunette, and a baptist. He is buried on a hill on the old homestead just west of the ford. Comfort is buried near Pound, Virginia. She was large, a brunette, and a Methodist.

Reference:
Title: Genealogy of Hollon and Related Families Author: Clay Hollon Publication: 1958 Repository: Call Number: Media: Book Page: page 65

M: Will of John Langham-2662; Tryon Co., NC Wills 1765-1779

M,D: Will of Stephen Osborn-2488; Scott Co., VA Will Bk 1, p176

H: William Richmond vs. Heirs of Stephen Osborn-2488; Scott Co., VA MB 3-101

Will of Stephen Osborne - In the name of God Amen. I Stephen Osborne being weak in Body but of sound and perfect mind and memory Do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say first after the death of myself and wife Comfort Osborne I do set and will that my negroes woman Barbary her daughter Liny her son Westly, shall all be free and live and Enjoy all the rights and privileges of free people of coulor Clear of all slavery or incumbrand from all and very Person or persons as well as all my heirs as all others.

Secondly, I will that after our said deaths all my property both real and personal shall be equally distributed among my several children and equally divided among them As witness my hand and seal this first day of July 1817 hereby revoking all former wills made by me.

Teste Stephen Osborn (Seal;)

David Berry

James Fulton

VIRGINIA;

At a court held for Scott County at the courthouse thereof the 12th day of December 1820. The last will and testament of Stephen Osborne Deceased was exhibited in Court and proven by the oaths of David Berry and James Fulton the Witnesses therto and ordered to be recorded.

Teste

John S., Martin D.C.

Recorded in Will Book l.

page 176

[caleb osborn.FTW]

M: Will of John Langham-2662; Tryon Co., NC Wills 1765-1779

M,D: Will of Stephen Osborn-2488; Scott Co., VA Will Bk 1, p176

H: William Richmond vs. Heirs of Stephen Osborn-2488; Scott Co., VA MB 3-101

from https://familysearch.org/photos/stories/11402009

Ephraim Osborne, the patriarch of the Osborne families in the New River valley and three of his sons, Enoch, Jonathan, and Robert along with Ephraim's brother Stephen were members of the Herbert company. This family came to the New River valley very early (1765 or 6) from the Yadkin River valley (i.e. the "Jersey Settlement" in Rowan Co., NC).
Before North Carolina, their origin is more obscure, but Rita Sutton says that family legends place them as from New Jersey. Their naming pattern is quite consistent with the New Jersey Osborne family that originated in Connecticut and before that in England, but the connection to this family has not been established. It is possible that they instead are more recent immigrants from England or Scotland or Ireland who migrated to North Carolina from Pennsylvania (Charles Osborne hypothesis). It is now believed that the supposed connection to a Jonathan Osborne and a Greta Holman is a genealogical hoax played on a customer by a "professional" genealogist sometime before World War II, and propagated like wild-fire via the internet. In fact we know the names of the parties involved in the hoax.

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In 1783 Stephen Osborne purchased land from a family named Duncan on Clinch River and changed the name from Duncan's Ford to Osborne's Ford. This wide and shallow spot on the river was an excellent place for people to cross the river. A settlement grew up around the site of the Ford, and was called Osborne's Ford. Stephen served in the Revolutionary War under Captain Osborn, in Montgomery County, Virginia, in the Militia. In 1769 the county was called Augusta County. It was changed to Betecourt County in 1770, then Fincastle County 1773, then Montgomery County in 1776, Washington County in 1777, Russell County in 1787 and finally Scott County in 1814. Stephen married Comfort Langham in 1765 in Craven County, South Carolina. His DAR Patriot Number is A084557.

SOURCE: Find A Grave.com

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