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Hi Joe,
I think the discrepancy in Ramsay's citation may be that he was working with the original records, while you're working from the books. OR, possibly, if he was working from a book, he may have been using some different edition. In my own case, I used ancestry.com's "NJ Calendar of Wills." Their stuff is often distorted because of they way they choose to format and present information, but I found some early wills that you do not include. I was interested in Ramsay's statement that they came from Elizabeth, NJ, as I am looking up other families there. Like you, I did not find anything on 346. However, I did find Caleb Osborne listed as 347(!) and others at 348(!), although the libers and folios are different. What was important to me is that they were at Elizabeth and had Caleb and Ephraim mentioned, although I didn’t find anything that mentioned Alexander.
Also while searching for Elizabeth information, I found a few early deeds and some were under Arsborn. With so many variant surname spellings and abbreviated given names encountered in early Colonial records, it is hard to determine proper identity when one is using search engines.
Page: 347 Name: Caleb Osborne Date: 22 Oct 1711 Location: Elizabeth Town Administration on the estate of, granted to John and Edward Osborne. Lib. 1, p. 328 Page: 347
Name: Edward Osborne Date: 10 Jul 1711 Location: Elizabeth Town, N. J. will of. Brother Jams, Joshua, son of Caleb Osborn, Samuel, son of Thomas Bancraf; the heirs of the real and personal estate. Executors--Efrem Osborn, Jams Osborn and Johnathan Lynly. Witnesses--William Looker, John Looker, John Radley. Proved June 14, 1714. Lib. 1, p. 476, and Essex Wills On the same sheet: Draft of an indenture, by which Benjamin Bunhill of Elizabeth Town binds himself, with the consent of his mother Abegell Bunhill, as apprentice to Anthony Ollife and wife; not dated. Page: 348
Name: James Osborne Date: 05 Oct 1716 Location: Elizabeth Town, Essex Co. yeoman; will of. Wife Sarah. Nephews--Josiah and John Osborn. Home farm adjoining Joseph Bounel, a lot of 6 acres next to John Osborn, meadow in Elizabeth Town. Personal property. The wife and nephew John Osborn executors. Benjamin Bounel, John Winans, John Winans junior witnesses. Proved October 17, 1716.
Lib. A, p. 39 Page: 348 Name: Jonathan Osborne Date: 28 Sep 1713 Location: Cape May Co. cordwainer; will of. Wife Mary. Sons--Bezelial, Nathan, Ananias; daughters Abiah, Ruth. Worldly estate. The wife executrix. Witnesses--Henry Young, Charles Robinson and George Taylor. Proved May 11, 1714. Lib. 1, p. 449 1713 Oct. 23. Inventory of the estate (£100.10.-, all personal); made by John Taylor and Benjamin Hand. Page: 348
Name: Stephen Osborne Date: 12 Jul 1694 Location: Elizabeth Town will of. N. J. Archives, XXI., p. 287 1698 July 1. Inventory of the estate (£14, all personal); made by William --- (names eaten out). Essex Wills Page: 348
Name: Caleb Osburne Date: 19 Nov 1716 Location: Elizabeth Town yeoman. Administration on the estate of, granted to John Osburne of the same place. Lib. A, p. 47
On pages 56 and 57 Ramsay states that John Nisbet/Nesbet may have accompanied Alexander Osborne to Pennsylvania, (citing the Taylor Papers, which refer to Lancaster County, and the Nisbet Papers), and relates that John Nisbet's son John married Alexander Osborne's daughter. I read that one of the Osbornes was a fur trader. (Can't find where it was now.) If this is so, then it would tend to go along with a Lancaster County stop, and might explain a lot about his Kinship associations, and might also connect these Osbornes to other Osbornes to be found in the Delaware, northern Maryland, etc., locales. NJ people often floated down the Delaware River to these areas. The Scotch-Irish were heavily settled in Lancaster County before they started moving on, as were other traders, who located along the Susquehanna River. (Including Abraham Pennington, the Cecil County Indian trader who moved first to Monocacy in Frederick County and then across the Potomac in Orange/Frederick County Virginia.
It is difficult to track these families because they used the same given names through generation after generation. Well, maybe that's one of those plusses, too! Maybe we can work on these together to sort out who's who. I have more information I'm developing.
Carolyn
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