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    1. [BRANSON-L] William Branson and Elizabeth - Yvonne's Antrim problem
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    3. Reading Yvonne's old post...I think I have a proposed answer. After reading the will of Benjamin Borden below, I suggest that the wife of William was Elizabeth BORDEN not Osborn. Now no one has to marry a nephew or have 2 daughters named Elizabeth?? ;) Full Context of Frederick County, Virginia Hopewell Friends History Benjamin Borden was born in 1692, a son of Benjamin Borden and ---- Grover, near Freehold, N. J., and died in Frederick County, Va., in 1743. He married Zeruiah Winter of West New Jersey, and came to Virginia sometime in 1732. He was prominent in the affairs of the county and was appointed to the first bench of justices on the organization of Orange County in 1734, and of Frederick County, when it was set off from Orange in 1743. He with others was the subject of religious persecution by the Orange court in October and November, 1737. His will, dated April 3, 1742, and probated October 9, 1743, in Frederick County, mentions his wife Zeruiah, his sons Benjamin Jr., John, and Joseph, and his daughters Abigail, wife of Jacob Worthington, Hannah, wife of Capt. Edward Rogers, Mercy, wife of William Fearnley, Rebeckah, wife of Thomas Branson, Elizabeth, wife of ---- Branson, and Deborah and Lidy, still single. Witnesses: Thomas Sharp, Lancelot Westcott, Edward O. Borden, Thomas Ha! nkins, and Thomas Rogers Sharon

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