Hannah (Osborn) Mitchell (1721 - abt. 1794)

Born 14 Oct 1721 in Baltimore County, Province of Maryland

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Curtis Mitchell Jr. — married 24 Dec 1742 in St George's Parish, Baltimore, Maryland

Descendants

Died about Sep 1794 at about age 72 in Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Birth

St. George's Parish Register of Births, Marriages & Death Burials, 1681 - 1799

Hannah Osborn the daughter of Benjamin Osborn & Sarah

his wife was born the 14th day of October Anno Domini 1721." ^[1]

Hannah Osborn Mitchell and her daughters Martha Nevill and Mary Welch, and their families, went to Ontario in early 1790’s because of persecution because they were Loyalists.

A Letter by Hannah's nephew James Ozburn (another United Empire Loyalist) to Hannah's son-in-law Thomas Welch provides some family history (see transcription below).

Most information shows Hannah born in Baltimore County, Maryland, however one source says she was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania.

James Ozburn Correspondence

From Letter by James Ozburn, 1790:

Capt Welsh Living near ----- From: James Ozburn

Linkun County December 26/1790 Sir

After my Complaments to you and family I Beg Leave to in form you by the information of Soloman Oston to an aquantance of mine in form me that your Lady Mrs. Oston menshun my kname She thugh I was Likely to be of Distance a ralation of him and she was Desirous his whether I was of the family She Made Expect of no I can ashore her I thout -- Be very happy in answer hir Request and give hir Every Satafation in my power Lays I was born near the mouth of Susquahanna my Father and granfather my Father [sic] names was Benjamin Ozburn my granfather was Benjamin and as well as I Remember my Grat Gran Father name was benjamn when the County he Settle in bush River --- my father brthers sisters names William James Thomas Jacob John Sussey mareded John west ho in his Lifetime and the ---- Fryer Fery on Suscohanna Peggy was married to Joseph Baley Saley and Hannah was maried to two of the michels my mothers madan name was Rebeccah Hawkins. I Shall say no more in this Case Cannot give you any Firther Satisfation in Less a per Sonnal Conversation So more at present but Desiring answer the first oportunity

S------- your Frien and most abeadant James Ozburn

You will please to send or derect anything to ----- John Mill-- live 7 mils from thir

Loyalist Land Petitions

From Upper Canada Land Petition of Hannah Mitchell (5 Jun 1794)

. . . most Humbly Sheweth That your Petitioner on account of her Attachment to the British Government, arrived in this Province from Maryland the place of her Nativity, accompanying three of her Daughters and their Families in November last, with Intention and Desire to become a Settler in this Province. your Petitioner therefore most Humbly Prayeth that your Excellency will be pleased to take her case into Consideration, and Grant her Two hundred acres, or such other quantity of Land as to your Excellency shall seem meet, within this Province and that the Same be located on vacant Lands lying in the Township of Sugar loaf East, on Lake Erie, and your Petitioner as in Duty Bound will ever Pray.

[Signed] Hannah Mitchell

From Certificate of the Acting Surveyor General (26 Nov 1794):

I Assign to Hannah Mitchell the Lot No 24 first Concession, in the Township of Sugar Loaf East [Humblerstone] in the District of Home containing abt One Hundred & Ninety Acres being Twenty Chains wide by abt One Hundred Chains deep on the east and abt Ninety on the West…Given at Newark this Twenty sixth day of November one thousand seven hundred and ninety four [Signed] D W Smith Acting Surveyor General

From Land Petition of Thomas and Mary Welch (12 Jul 1796):

The Humble Petition of Thomas Welch and Mary Welch wife of the said Thomas Welch of the Township of Thorold Most Humbly Sheweth. That your Excellency and Honours were Graciously pleased on the 31st Day of May 1794 to grant leave to Hannah Mitchell mother to the said Mary Welch to locate for and in the name of said Hannah Mitchell Two hundred Acres of Land lying and being with the Township of then Sugar Loaf East now Humberstone, as by the Minutes or order of your Excellency and Honours together with the Acting Surveyor Generals Assignment for 190 Acres part of the 200 Acres aforesaid herewith Exhibitted will appear. And whereas the said Hannah Mitchell is since that time To Wit. in September 1794 Departed this life. And whereas the said Hannah Mitchell previous to her Decease did give and Deliver all her money and affects to her three Daughters Mary Welch, Martha Nevill and Elizabeth Nevill, the said 200 Acres of Land and a Small Sum of Money for the purpose of Improving the same excepted which money your Petitioners have expended in Improving the Land so Granted and Assigned as aforesaid and whereas the said Hannah Mitchell Deceased, did in her life time most Earnestly Request and enjoin of your Petitioners to procure to be Granted under the Great Seal of this Province unto Ephraem Cole Mitchell Grandson of the said Hannah Mitchell Deceased the said two hundred Acres of Land which said Ephraem Cole Mitchell is under the Age of Twenty one years, and is residing with your Petitioners. And whereas the said 190 Acres so Given and Assigned as aforesaid, is so much intersected by a Deep Sunken Swamp, that not much, if any more than the one half thereof is fit for Cultivation. Your Petitioners therefore most Humbly Pray That your Excellency and Honors will be pleased to take the Case of their Nephew the said Ephraem Cole Mitchell into Consideration, and order that a Royal Grant of Confirmation may Issue unto the said Ephraem Cole Mitchell for the Lot Number Twenty four in the first Concession of the Township of Humberstone so Given and assigned to the said Hannah Mitchell now Deceased aforesaid and your Petitioners also further Pray that your Excellency & Honours will also be pleased to allow or Order to be Granted to the said Ephraem C. Mitchell the Lot Number Twenty three in the first Concession of the said Township of Humberstone which is equally intersected by the said Deep Sunken Swamp, and your Petitioners as in Duty bound will ever Pray. [Signed] Thomas Welch, Mary Welch

From Land Petition of Thomas Welch and Mary his wife (5 Dec 1796):

. . .That Hannah Mitchell, mother to the said Mary Welch, late of the County aforesaid Deceased had in her life time Assigned to her Lot Number twenty four in the first Concession of the Township of Humberstone Containing about One hundred and Ninety Acres. That the said Hannah Mitchell in her life time at different times expressed to your Petitioners and others, a very great desire that her grand son Ephraim Cole Mitchell might have the said Lot of Land Granted to him, and on her Death Bed requested that your Petitioners would use their best endeavours to procure the Title Grant in his the said Ephraim Cole Mitchells Name, And as the Children of your Petitioners would Inherit, if the Title Grant should Issue in the Name of the said Deceased; and your Petitioners being fearful that their Children at a future period might not be so well disposed as your Petitioners are to do Justice to their Cousin the said Ephraim Cole Mitchell. Your Petitioners therefore most Humbly pray That Your Honours will be pleased to take the Case of the Fatherless Ephraim Cole Mitchell into Consideration and Confirm him the said Lot of Land, and as the said Lot is much injured by an Arm or branch of the great Cranberry Swamp which extends quite across the said Lot so as to render about the one half thereof unfit for Cultivation, that Your Honours will be pleased to Grant unto the said Ephraim Cole Mitchell in lieu of such useless lands, Such a quantity of Land within the said Township of Humberstone as to your Honours shall seem meet, and your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray. [Signed] Thomas Welch, Mary Welch

From Deposition of John Potts dated on 16 Nov 1796:

. . . On the Sixteenth Day of November Seventeen hundred and Ninety six, personally Came and appeared before me John Burch Esquire, one of His Majestys Justices of the Peace for the District aforesaid, John Potts of thirty two Years of Age, who being first Sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, Deposeth and Saith That he this Deponant was well acquainted with Mrs Mary Welch’s Family who resided in Harford County in the former Province now state of Maryland. That Thomas Mitchell, Father to the said Mary Welch, was to this Deponants Certain knowledge a true friend to the British Government during the late American War. This Deponant further Saith upon his oath aforesaid, that the said Thomas Mitchell in the time of the late war aforesaid, suffered much in his property by fines Trible Taxes &c on account of his Loyalty And further this Deponant Saith not [Signed] John Potts Sworn Before Me the day & date as Above [Signed] John Burch J Peace”

Sources

1. ↑ St. George's Parish, Harford Co. Register image 1058 / page 238

• National Archives of Canada, Upper Canada Land Petitions, Petition of Hannah Mitchell, 1794 (online at: https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-119.02-e.php?q2=29&q3=2533&sqn=601&tt=1040&PHPSESSID=rgi7t06a60or2jdheocn6v65f4).
• Letters by James Ozburn, 1790, 1799 in "Thomas Walsh Papers" B704, J.J. Talman Regional Collection, The D.B. Weldon Library, The University of Western Ontario, (Regional Collection shelf #1313).
• Upper Canada Land Petitions LAC “M” Bundle 2, Petition Number 126.
• Upper Canada Land Petitions LAC “M” Bundle 1, Petition Number 24.
• Upper Canada Land Petitions LAC “W” Bundle 2, Petition Number 7.
• Upper Canada Land Petitions LAC “W” Bundle 2, Petition Number 82.
• Upper Canada Land Petitions LAC “W” Bundle 4, Petition Number 69b.