Re: Ephriam Osborne and Elizabeth Howard
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Ephriam Osborne and Elizabeth Howard
Pj Sisseck 4/28/01
Hi PJ
I just read the 20 notes or so from folks concerned with this lineage.From what I've read in the past year, they are most likely right about the Jonathan Osborne/Greta Holman thing being a wrong lead.The way the winds are blowing, this Osborne line seems tolead north to PA/NJ/NY and CT to persons having the same first names as the later settlers in NC.What would be helpful in the Osborne/Howard discussion would be a simple stating of documented facts.Let me lead off with a few rather general things, then let others list what is documented about these Osbornes and Howards in the time frame 1700-1760 (hopefully with specifics).I think this would be very useful since this line is monitored by a lot of serious Osborne scholars.
1) There was a John Howard who was one of the first explorers of the New River Valley in VA, WV in 1740. He was captured by the French and Indians in WV, shipped to New Orleans, escaped and made his way back to Virginia 27 months later after being given up for dead. The purpose of this exploration was to survey land for colonization.
2) A group of wealthy land owners in Maryland and Virginia formed the Ohio Company in 1748 and set out to survey the New, Kanawha and Ohio River valleys.The land owners may, or may not have included the Howard family.They hired Christopher Gist of the Maryland Gist family (intermarried with the Howards) to lead the survey.
3) I have read that Ephriam Osborne was in Christopher Gist's party (What is the source?).
4) Howard is a very common surname in SW VA, WV, SE KY and NE TN.These lines almost always hit a brick wall in the late eighteenth century.The Howards in this region often intermarry with persons who were "Long Hunters" and often were mixed race (European and Native American).
5) Elizabeth Howard, if she did marry Ephriam Osborne is almost certainly not the daughter of Elizabeth Gassaway (m. John Howard - note that I can't rule out children by someone else other than Elizabeth Gassaway). She is also almost certainly not the daughter of Joshua Howard who had a daughter Elizabeth who married William Wells. Documents from Maryland support the negative in both of these cases.There is a Cornelius Howard in Rowan NC at this time about which I know little.
5) The 1750s saw a large flood of immigrants to the forks of the Yadkin region from NJ and PA via Northern VA.Most of the persons intermarrying with the Osbornes in the next generation came from these two states.
At the present time I have kept Elizabeth's last name as Howard, but have no parents for her.I have followed the lead of a line I saw on New River Notes for Ephriam and have him born 21 Aug 1723 in Duchess Co. NY, m. 1748 or 1749 in Buckingham Co. VA or Rowan Co. NC (to Elizabeth Howard), d. 1794 Grayson CO. VA.I have as his parents Ephriam Osborne b. 1690, d. 2 Jun 1756 in Rowan Co. NC m. Mary Osborne b. 18 Jun 1696 Essex Co. NJ.I have no idea where this line comes from, but respect the source, so would be interested what the documentation might be for this line. Ephriam and Mary were second cousins.
Hopefully knowledgable Osbornes will chime in with the documented facts??!!
Jim Quinn
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