Hello List! I am looking at these older posts, regarding the spellings of the surname, that were forwarded to me today: From: Chris and Frank [mailto:jacktar@mindspring.com] Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 7:06 AM To: OZMENT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OZMENT] 1790 Guilford Co, NC census Bear in mind that on an old county map in MD, the land owned by Martin W. Ozman was shown as being owned by Osborn. I don't recommend discarding the info. Frank Frank and Chris Courtney Moncks Corner, SC ----- Original Message ----- From: <EleanorCol@aol.com> To: <OZMENT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 9:00 PM Subject: [OZMENT] 1790 Guilford Co, NC census > After seeing one of John Alan Ozment's emails concerning the 1790 census, > I was lucky to find it on the Guilford Co, NC website. There are indeed > several OSBURNS very close to John OSMENT and living next to a couple of > Sullavens. By looking at the numbers, they could very possibly be our > OZMENTS. My question is this? Are we sure these are OZMENTS and not > OSBURNS? There were other OSBURNS further down the list, two that I can > remember were Daniel and Peter. Is the James OSBURN below one of our > OZMENTS? How can a name such as OZMENT be mistaken as OSBURN? > > Osburn, Sam'l.........................1-4-5-0-0 Next door to.... ** see spelling below > > Sullaven, Flurance...................3-2-2-0-0 Next door to .... > > Osburn, Rich'd sr....................1-1-2-0-0 Next door to..... ** see spelling below > > Sullaven, Joel..........................1-0-1-0-0 Two doors from...... > > Osment, John.........................1-1-4-0-0 11 doors from...... > > Osburn, James........................1-1-1-0-0 > > Eleanor Colson The 1790 census of Richard Sr & son Samuel does add up children-wise (if Samuel's sons John & Richard were born AFT 1790 census), and proves these two are indeed the same ones we know as Richard & Samuel OZMENT. **I read the spellings as OZBURN, with the second letter an obvious Z., the same as used in the John OZMENT entry below it. See the gif here, right-hand column: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/guilford/census/1790/494-95.gif I can add to this discussion that my Celia Ozment b1819 in Guilford, has her name entered 4 times on her marriage bond in Wilson Co TN as OSBURN, then on the marriage license issued by the County Clerk same day, as both OSBURN and OZBURN, and finally in the Justice of the Peace's own hand on the back of the marriage bond, she is certified married as Celia OZMENT. Her death certificate from Graves Co KY in 1886 reads OZMENT, the name given to the clerk by her children, and the cemetery record of her burial indicates Sealy OZIMENT. These permutations perhaps argue that the person writing down the data may have spelled what he thought he heard, rather than asking for the name to be spelled to him. [I have a well-documented MacDougall line on my father's side and can find record of every conceivable spelling, from Scottish Parish Records to Missouri cemetery records: MacDougall, McDougall, MacDougal, McDougal for my specific family-- it is a nightmare. Even the last living descendant of the line, my college-educated, genealogist grandmother, spelled it variously throughout her life.] I am fairly convinced my Celia is a d/o Richard b:1791 (m:Rebecca Pavey) the s/o Samuel who appears in the 1790 census. Is it possible Samuel, and then his son Richard, continued to use the spelling OZBURN interchangeably? If Richard b1733 was indeed an OZBURN, not an OZMENT, how does that significantly change our lineage? Are we tracing to a particular OZMENT family in Europe? ~Elizabeth in Palm Springs