HomeMy WebLinkAboutBiographies of Revolutionary War Veterans of Tompkins Co Abraham OsbornName: Abraham Osborn
Date of birth: 1756
Birthplace: Morristown, Morris, New Jersey, USA
Parents:Hur Osborn and Mary Hathaway
Spouse: Loretta Finch b Apr. 1763, Goshen, Orange Co., NY, a survivor of the Wyoming massacre of 1778 and sister of Asahel Finch, b.1772Goshen, Orange, NY
Marriage date: 1779 (DAR)
Place of marriage:Minisink, Orange, NY
Date of death: 1841 at the home of his son, Samuel Osborn in Lenawee Co., MI
Place of death: Woodstock, Lenawee, MI
Place of burial: Samuel Osborn’s farm (History of Lenawee County, Michigan)
Children:
1)Samuel Osborn b. 1784
2) Jesse Osborn b. 1786 Newburgh, Orange, NY d.1865 Coffey Co., KS m. 1809 Enfield, Tompkins, NY Rachel Chase, daughter of Isaac and Susan Chase of Enfield.
3) Loretta Osborn b. July 3, 1809, d. May 12, 1891, m. Nov. 1839 Daniel Millspaughb.Feb. 23, 1815
Pension Application File #:S29356
Place of enlistment:Minisink, Orange, NY
Service record:
State of New York
Tompkins County
On this 7th day of June personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Oyer and Terminer now sitting Abraham Osborn a resident of the town of Enfield in the county
of Tompkins and state of New York, aged seventy eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 2832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That he resided in the town of Minisink, Orange Co., New York when he entered the service.
That in the winter of 1775, the month and day he does not recollect, he enlisted for three months under Captain John Wisner in Col. Haythorn’s regiment of the New York state troops-that
he marched to New Windsor on the North River with his regiment-staid there for some time but cannot recollect how long, went from thence on the ice to Fort Montgomery-staid at Fort Montgomery
as a part of the garrison until the three months were out-was dismissed sometime in March 1776-cannot recollect the final time but the British had not yet got into possession of the
city of New York-that he was acquainted with Lieut. Sutton in the same company-also Capt. Logan in the same Regiment.
In the summer of 1776, he cannot recollect the day or month, but it was soon after harvest, he enlisted at Minisink aforesaid for five months in the state troops under Captain John Wood
in Col. Isaac Nichol’s regiment. Marched to King’s River and worked at the Chef-au-du-prieu that was thrown up to keep off a man of war that was expected-cannot tell how long they remained
there, but it was not long- marched next to Peekskill and there staid till his time was out which was about the first day of January 1777-was dismissed and went home-knew Captain Little
in another Regiment at Kings Bridge, also knew Lt. Dunning.
That he was out after that during the war at various times but cannot state his service with sufficient particularity.
That he has no documentary evidence, but he believes he can procure the testimony of Ebenezer Bartlett and Anthony Swartwood (?) who can testify to his service
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He also testified that he was born at Morristown in New Jersey, can’t tell the year but is 78 years old.
That he lived in Minisink nearly 20 years after the war-from there went to Milton, Cayuga Co.-from there to Enfield where he now lives.
State of Michigan
County of Lenawee
On this seventh day of March AD 1837 before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the county of Lenawee personally appeared Abraham Osborn who on oath declares that he is the
same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain John Wood in the Regiment commanded by Col. Isaac Nichol’s in the service of the United States that his name was
placed on the pension roll of the state of New York from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the state of Michigan where he intends to remain and wishes his pension
to be there payable in the future. The following are his reasons for removing from the State of New York to the State of Michigan that he has heretofore resided with Samuel B. Osborn,
his son. That he the said Samuel has sold his property in Enfield, Tompkins County, State of New York and removed to the state of Michigan, that the applicant has no other relatives
in the state of New York with whom he can reside.
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Pension Roll of 1835, Vol. II:
Abraham Osbornserved as a private in the New York militia. He applied for a pension while residing in Tompkins County. He received an annual allowance of $26.66 and received a total
of $79.98 in his life time. He was placed on the pension roll May 3, 1834 effective as of Mar. 4, 1831.
DAR Record:
Osborn, Abraham
New York: Private
Service Description:
1)Capts. Wisner, Wood
2)Cols. Hathorn, Nichols
History of Lenawee County, Michigan p.197:
Jesse Osborn
“He was the son of Abraham and Loretta Osborn, who were reared amidst the perils of Revolutionary times. They came from their old home near Ithaca, New York, at an advanced age, with
their son, Samuel, and settled on section four, about the year 1836. Grandfather Abraham was a soldier of the Revolution and Grandmother Loretta was one of those who escaped the massacre
at Wyoming. She was then about twelve to fifteen years old, and at that tender age was made prisoner by the Indians. She saw her father murdered and scalped and dared betray no emotion
lest those red devils should visit upon herself the same fate. And moved to desperation, she, in order to save the life of her little six-year old brother-Asel (Asahel) Finch, who afterward
lived at Tecumseh (near Woodstock), and was father-in-law to the late Judge Blanchard-carried him on her back sixty miles through an unbroken forest, with the gory scalp of her father
continuously in view, dangling from her father’s murderers and her captor’s belt. She and her little brother were afterwards ransomed and today the ashes of Abraham and Loretta lie side
by side, on a little elevation on section four, as peacefully and as sweetly as if the thunders of British cannon had never awakened their slumber, or the midnight yell of the savage
and the fire-fiend had never struck consternation to their hearts.”
Jesse owned the Silver Creek Hotel, the halfway house between Tecumseh and Jonesville and where Gen. Bower’s line of stages held one of its stations. It was on the banks of Silver Creek,
the outlet of Silver Lake.
Jesse was born in Newburgh, Orange Co., New York in 1784 where he lived with his parents Abraham and Loretta Osborn until he was a young man. His parents then moved to Cayuga Co., New
York. He married in 1809 Rachel Chase, daughter of Isaac and Susan Chase, of Enfield, Tompkins, New York by whom he had eleven children. Mrs. Rachel Chase was born in Coxsackie, NY in
1794 and died in Woodstock Oct. 21, 1851. Jesse Osborn built the first school house in 1834.
Loretta’s brother, Asahel Finch married Elizabeth in Cayuga Co., NY. Asahel was born in Catskill, NY on Dec. 4, 1775 and died in Waukesha WI in 1859. His wife, Elizabeth was born in
Durham, NY Aug. 1, 1778 and died in Milwaukee, WI in 1845.
Notes: Abraham Osborn was living in Enfield with his son, Samuel Osborn in 1836, when he moved with him to MI that year and died in Woodstock, Lenawee, MI in Mar. 1841 (pension file)
Sources:
Bender Clan Ancestry
Rivera Family Tree
Finch-Houghtaling Family Tree
Ancestry.com. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Original data: Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record
Group 15.National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Ancestry.com. New York Pensioners, 1835 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1998. Original data: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War,
in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. [New York Section].
Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.
DAR Genealogical Research System (GRS) online at www.dar.org