That tallies with my research. The two generations of would seem to indicate a closeness between families, possibly geographic, like adjacent farms perhaps. Tracing the Osborns is like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle. Thanks for the input. Frank On Aug 1, 2012, at 6:28 AM, cmaguire54@aol.com wrote: > In answer to Frank Van Orden's question about John Osborn's wife. > The only information I have is that John Osborn's wife mentioned in > his will of 1770, was named Ann. This may or may not have been his > only wife. There was no Annatje mentioned as one of his children. > The will mentions wife Ann, children: James, John, Hannah, Mary, > Elizabeth, Phoebe, Sarah, Rachel, Martha and Nancy. Interesting > though that John who married Elizabeth Debaun had a child Annatje > b 1740 married Hendrick Young and their son Jacobus b 1774(same > year as my James Osborn 2) married an Elizabeth Osborn. That is > what I've found in my Osborn research. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYROCKLA- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message