Display Patriot - P-263691 - Samuel OSBUN/OSBORN/OSBURN

Samuel OSBUN/OSBORN/OSBURN

SAR Patriot #: P-263691

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State of Service: PA Qualifying Service: Private

DAR #: A084533

Birth: 1742 Kingston / Somerset / NJ
Death: 10 Jan 1832 bur / Richland / OH

Qualifying Service Description:

Pvt in Capt Andrew Swearingen's Company, Colonel David Williamson's Bn of the Washington Co PA Militia

Additional References:

Official roster III: Soldiers of the American Revolution who lived in the State of Ohio. Wilbur R. Branthoover, compiler. Veterans Affairs, Ohio. Reprinted by the Ohio Society Daughters of the American Revolution (OHSDAR). 1959
DAR RC # 923550 cites PA Arch, 6th Ser, Vol 2, pg 123
DAR Patriot Index - Centenial Edition, pg 2193

Spouse: Sarah Holmes
Children: Nancy; Isaac; Sarah; Samuel; Jacob; Nathaniel;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child
1958-03-21	OH	Unassigned	Mark Everton Houston (83435)	Isaac
2003-05-28	IL	16290	Dan B Ritchie (160416)	Nancy
2003-05-28	IL	16291	Mark O Ritchie (160417)	Nancy
2003-05-28	IL	16292	Paul Scott Ritchie (160418)	Nancy
2009-10-16	FL	36549	William Albert Roberts (166346)	Nancy
2020-05-08	NC	91294	Robert Miller Pittenger Jr. (215127)	Susannah
2021-02-05	NC	95600	Robert Miller Pittenger (218159)	Susannah

Burial:

Osbun-Pittenger (aka Pittenger, Pittenger-Wolford-Osbun, Wolford) Cemetery_(C-0373693)

Location:

Mansfield / Richland / OH / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

42697

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

n/a

Find A Grave Memorial #:

35395984

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Author: William Albert Roberts
Samuel Osbun, was born in Kingston, Somerset County, New Jersey in 1742 and died 10 January 1832, in Weller Township, Richland, Ohio. His mother died when he was a babe, he had one brother who died of Smallpox at the age of twenty. He had one sister who was married to a Mr. Dodd. Samuel was twelve years old when his father Samuel, died.
He never knew anything of his family history other than his father came from New York, who was a carpenter by trade and spoke with a Yankee dialect. He does remember playing in Princeton College, while his father was building it.
After his father’s death he was bound out as a shoe maker and tanner and served his time out. He worked six months as a journeyman and then enlisted in the British Army, in 1764 or 1765. He was out in what was called the French War, under Colonel or General Broadstreet, in King George’s light infantry. The army was commanded by General Gage.
He was ordered to lower Sandusky and was one of the six survivors of the sixty five whale boats that foundered on the rocky coast on their return. After his return he married Sarah Holmes (1751-1845) daughter of Obadiah Holmes and Mary Clum.

Manuscripts in the Virginia State Library, Department of Archives and History, Richmond Virginia, contain the following information:

Deposition by Robert Vance, Captain in the Armies of the United States in the war between the United States and Great Britain, states that Samuel Osburn, enlisted in the Virginia Line in 1776 or 1777, and served to the end of the war.
On the strength of this certification Samuel Osburn was given land bounty.

Payroll of Captain Charles Polk, Company 7 of Militia in Colonel Cox’s Battalion commanded by Colonel John Floyd, under the Command of General George Rogers Clark, on an expedition against the Indians in 1782. Commencing 19 October and ending 25 November 1782. There appears the name of Samuel Osburn, who was a Private.
Samuel and family settled in Cadiz, Jefferson County (now Harrison County), Ohio, and went into the mercantile business.

The children of Samuel and Sarah Holmes Osbun:
1. Nathaniel (1770-1846) married Anna Emmons
2. Nancy (1773-1841) married Peter Pittenger
3. Phebe (1777-1816) married William Gardner
4. Susannah (1778-1847) married Abraham Pittenger
5. William (1777- 1846)
6. Samuel (1781-1846) married Hannah Ross
7. Isaac (1783-1858) married Amelia Wood
8. Sarah (1789-1867)
9. Jacob (1793-1863) married Rachel Bradley
10. Mary Martha (1795-1857) married John N. Holmes
Sources:
Virginia State Library, Department of Archives and History, Richmond, Virginia
Deposition of Captain Robert Vance.
Pay roll of Captain Charles Polk.
The History and Genealogy of the Osbun Family, in the possession of William A. Roberts, SAR# 166346

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