Jonathan Osborn (abt. 1690 - bef. 1730)

Born about 1690 in Sussex County, Delaware, British Colonial America

Ancestors

Died before Mar 1730 before about age 40 in Sussex County, Delaware, British Colonial America

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Biography

Jonathan was a Friend (Quaker) , he worshiped at the Duck Creek Monthly Meeting (Kent, Delaware)

• Jonathan Ozburn was born to Matthew Ozbun and Mary (?) in Sussex County, Delaware.

• Jonathan Ozburn and Sarah Rowland's marriage intentions were published at Duck Creek Monthly Meeting in Kent County, Delaware in April and May of 1724.

Sources

Also see:

• U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935: Delaware: Kent: Duck Creek Monthly Meeting: Women’s Minutes, 1711-1830. Image 20. Database and images available at Ancestry.com: [1]

Jonathan Ozburn and Sarah Rowland

20 Second [Apr] 1724, intentions to marry. Ann Lodge and Sarah Russell appointed to enquire

18 Third [May] 1724, second announcement of intentions & approval

• F. Verne Osborn's records

• Delaware, Wills and Probate Records, , 1676-1971: Sussex: General index 1682-1948 Wills, book A 1682-1781. Image 419-420. FamilySearch.org [2] accessed 17 Oct 2019.

Will of MARY MIERS

Signed: 27 Aug 1727; Proved 7 May 1729

Heirs: children: John Miers,James Miers, Daniel Palmer, Jonathan Ozburn, Mary Palmer, Sarah Ozburn ; grandchildren Sarah Rowland, Samuel Rowland, John Rowland, Sarah Palmer, Joseph Palmer, John Miers, Elizabeth Miers, Sarah --? – obscured

Executors: not stated

Witnesses: William Burton, Edward Rickets, Judith Rickets

• Sussex, Delaware Orphan’s Court dockets and minute dockets, 1728-1802. Image: 12. Images available at FamilySearch.org [3]

3 March 1729/30

”Sarah Ousbun relict and widow of Jonathan Ousbun late of the County afs. Dec’d, petitioned the court for a division of lands and plantacon in this county -[?] Samuel Rowland, Esq., lately died possest of between ye heirs of Thomas Rowland late dec’d and Wm. Rowland.”

• Delaware, Land Records, 1677-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original source: Delaware, Land Records, 1677–1947. Recorder of Deeds, Sussex County, RG 4555, Subgroup 000, Series 030. Delaware Public Archives, Dover, Delaware.

Sussex county: Roll 006: Image 36 [4]

Purchaser: Anderson Parker, gentleman, of Sussex, Delaware

Seller: Joseph Cord, yeoman and his wife Jane Cord , of Sussex, Delaware

Date: 30 July 1784

Price £25 ; Property: part of a four acre lot in Lewes on southernmost street adjoining Block House Pond

Lot granted 1688/89 to Charles Hains, sold 1690 to Lancelott Beck(?), sold to Richard Williams 1691,sold 1692 to Mary Haslum'who afterward married with John Miers the elder, by whom she had four children: John, James, Mary, and Sarah Miers.

Mary [Haslum] survived her husband John and in her 7 August 1727 will left one acre of the lot to be used as a burying ground for her two sons John Miers [2] and James Miers and her sons-in-law Daniel Palmer, husband of Mary Miers, and Jonathan Ozburn [Osborn?}, husband of Sarah Miers. Son John Miers was the heir of the other three acres.

• Information from research by the Haworth Association Mary Haworth Miers will