Ruth (Stowell) Osborne (abt. 1687 - abt. 1755)

Born about 1687 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of John Osborne — married 30 Aug 1715 in Boston, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

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Biography

Ruth Stowell was the daughter of David Stowell and his first wife, Mary Champney. Her mother died in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1690, so she may have been born there a few years prior to that. On August 30, 1715, she married, in Boston, Massachusetts, John Osborn, son of John and Elizabeth Osborn of Boston. They had four children, all born in Boston: ^[1]

1. John, born May 16, 1716; married, int. Boston, Massachusetts, July 6, 1738, Anna Dene (Dean).^[1]
2. Frances, born April 26, 1718; died young.^[1]
3. Frances, born May 28, 1723; married, int. Boston, Massachusetts, April 20, 1749, William Dockum.^[1]
4. Sarah, born October 5, 1724; married, int. Boston, Massachusetts, November 1, 1744, Ephraim Morton, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Stowell, William Henry Harrison. Genealogy of the Stowell Family - A Record of the Descendants of Samuel Stowell of Hingham Mass. Rutland, VT: The Tuttle Company, Publishers, 1922. Citing: "4. David Stowell ... married first on 4 Dec. 1685, Mary Champney,... died 9 Sept 1690 ... Children:
   ii. Ruth (date and place of birth and death unknown), m. at Boston, Mass., 30 Aug. 1715, John Osborn, son of John and Elizabeth Osborn, b. Boston, Mass. 11 June 1672 [4 children w/ dates]."Page 32.

• Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts (Lewis Hist. Pub. Co., Boston, 1910) Vol. 1, page 45