Hezekiah Osborne (1739 - aft. 1801)

Born 5 Sep 1739 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, CT

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Goodrich) Osborne — married 13 Apr 1759 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, CT

Descendants

Died after Jun 1801 after age 61 in Hancock, Berkshire, MA [uncertain]

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Biography

Hezekiah Osborne was born 5 Sept. 1739 in Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, son of Jeremiah and Rebecca Osborne.^[1][2] He married in Ridgefield on 13 April 1759^[3] Abigail Goodrich, who was born in Ridgefield on 26 Feb. 1740, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Olmsted) Goodrich^[4].

Sometime after the birth of Hezekiah's son James Osborne in Ridgefield in 1760, he and his father moved to Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where in June 1766, they were part of a group that acquired land in the southern portion of the "Plantation of Jericho." Their land would later become part of the town of Hancock, Massachusetts.

In July 1780, the town of Hancock voted to settle with Hezekiah Osborn, "who would not collect the taxes because of Shaker principles introduced and adopted by himself and a few others in the south part of the town in June 1780."^[5] In April 1789, Hezekiah Osborn joined the main community of Shakers in Hancock ("The Church Family") but this was probably Hezekiah's son Hezekiah, who was born in 1768 and died in the community in 1813.

The senior Hezekiah appears in the 1790 and 1800 censuses for Hancock.^[6] In 1800, he was about 60 years old, living close to his son James Osborne and his wife's brother Daniel Goodrich. The final record of him is a deed dated 2 June 1801, in which he and son James sold land in Hancock to Darius Wadham.

Sources

1. ↑ The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records.
2. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP45-TC3P : 20 Feb. 2019), Hezekiah Osburn, 5 Sept. 1739; citing Birth, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272242.
3. ↑ The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records.
4. ↑ The Goodrich Family in America. A Genealogy of the Descendants of John and William Goodrich of Wethersfield, Conn., Richard Goodrich of Guilford, Conn., and William Goodridge of Watertown, Mass. Lafayette Wallace Case M.D., Author Role: Editor Publication: Fergus Printing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1889, Second Date, 1984. pg. 48
5. ↑ Thomas Cushing and Joseph E.A. Smith, History of Berkshire County, Massachusetts (1885), vol. 2, p. 65.
6. ↑ 1790 and 1800 Census for Hancock, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

See also:

• Osborne Origins, "Hezekiah OSBORN-7741" (cites: "The Barbour Collection of CT Vital Recs.", v36, "Ridgefield", Moore)