John Osborne, of Weymouth

Summary

John Osborne, of Braintree and Weymouth, Mass. born ____ died Oct. 27 1686 (sic - date mixup with John Osborne of CT) Weymouth, Mass. He had a lot 30 of 4 acres in 1663 and lot 74 of 12 acres also. he was in Weymouth from 1639-1663. Braintree, 1663. Note his death place is unknown. He died in either Braintree or Weymouth most likely.

Married March 31, 1637, Mary daughter of Walter and Elizabeth Knight of Salem, Mass. born July 14, 1620, Eng. died ____.(Sic Anderson says there is no proof of this)

She was indicted for murdering her child but acquitted Sept. 19 1637. She was fined by General Court for giving quicksilver to her husband, July 29, 1641.

10 children.

Please don't confuse him with John Osborne of CT

he death date sometimes given for him of 27 Oct 1686 belongs to John Osborne of CT.

John Osborne of Braintree and Weymouth

John Osborne of Braintree and Weymouth arrived by 1639 to Weymouth. His parents and origins are unknown.[1] He married in England Mary who Raymon Meyers Tingley proposed was the daughter of Walter Knight of Salem.[2][3] However, Anderson in his review of Walter Knight of Salem could not identify the children nor the wives of Walter Knight of Salem.[4] Regardless of this dispute Raymon Meyers Tingley, has the only solid treatment of this family published to date. Wyman's Charlestown has a treatment of his son Ephraim.[5] Nora E Snow has a treatment of his daughter Patience.[6] Raymon Meyers Tingley has a treatment of his son William. See also History of Weymouth.[7] Anderson suggests that he may have also been the father of Matthew who died 3rd Month 1641 in Braintree.[8]

Children:

1. Martha[2]
2. John[2]
3. Mathrew[8]
4. Mary[2]
5. Patience[2]
6. William[2]
7. Walter[2]
8. Samuel[2]
9. Elizabeth[2]
10. Ephraim[2]

Sources

1. Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640 p 242 (Boston, Massachusetts. New England Historic and Genealogical Society. 2015) 247 Unknown; 1639; Weymouth, Braintree [NEHGR 3:247; Weymouth Hist 4:452]
2. Raymon Meyers Tingley, Some Ancestral Lines (Rutland, Vermont, 1935) 261 link
3. Torrey 2:1116 1637 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; OSBORN, John (1607-) & Mary [?KNIGHT] (-1678 at Charlestown?; by 1639(40?), ?31 Mar 1637?; Weymouth {Snow-Estes 2:101; Tingley-Meyers 12, 189, 261; Charlestown 716; Reynolds 31:128} link
4. Robert Charles Anderson, "Walter Knight" in Great Migration Begins 2:1139-42
5. Wyman, Thomas Bellows, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, 2 vols. (Boston: D. Clapp and Son, 1879) 2:716 link
6. Nora E. Snow, The Snow-Estes Ancestry , 2 volumes (Hillburn, New York, 1939) 2:101 link
7. George Walter Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, Volumes Three and Four, Genealogy of Weymouth Families (Weymouth 1923; rpt. Baltimore 1984, 2 volumes in 1) 4:452 link
8. NEHGR 3:247 link

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