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Orsborn (Osborn), Isaac Jr.

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Name Orsborn (Osborn), Isaac - The family name has been spelled Orsborn, Osborn, Osborne, and Osburn, but Orsborn is what Isaac used in letters to his parents and brother William and on deeds. Orsborn also is the name on the family gravestones in the Oakwood Cemetery in Grass Lake, Michigan, and on the gravestones of Isaac's and Millie's first and second sons Peter, and Isaac 3rd. Orsborn was used on Enos' Michigan death certificate. However, Isaac's brother William used Osborn in a letter to Isaac. [see documents].
Suffix Jr. Born 16 Sep 1792 Winslow, Lincoln, Maine - Birth date calculated from information on gravestone. The date was given as 15 Sep 1792 in the "History of St. Albans Maine". Birthplace is from his son Enos' death certificate (Informant was Enos' daughter Emma). [1]
Gender Male Residence 1815 Halfmoon, Saratoga, New York, USA [2]
Residence 1817 Mayfield, Fulton, New York, USA [3]
Isaac traded his home in Halfmoon for a house with a blacksmith shop and 2 acres in Mayfield. (Mayfield, Montgomery County until 1838 when Fulton County was formed.) Residence 1830 Mayfield, Fulton, New York, USA [4]
Land 1817 - 1846 Mayfield, Fulton, New York, USA Isaac had 13 land transactions in Mayfield. In the first transaction he traded his land in Halfmoon, Saratoga, New York for a property in Mayfield. The last was just before he moved to Michigan. Some of these properties were adjacent to land owned by Solomon Knapp.
Click here for a pdf of the complete list of transactions with brief summaries, some notes, and links to the images of the deeds.Died 11 Jan 1874 Grass Lake, Jackson, Michigan Buried Oakwood Cemetery (East Cemetery), Grass Lake, Jackson, Michigan Person ID I414 Martin-Bloom Last Modified 4 Feb 2016
Father Orsborn (Osborn), Isaac, b. Aft 1755, East Hampton, Suffolk, New York Mother Wyman, Sarah Married 15 Nov 1787 Winslow, Lincoln, Maine [1, 5]
Family ID F516 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Morse, Mille (Millie), b. 22 Aug 1793, Kent, Connecticut, USA , d. 20 Jun 1872, Grass Lake, Jackson, Michigan
(Age 78 years)
Married 23 Nov 1815 Halfmoon, Saratoga, New York, USA [6]
- Marriage place is inferred; Mille's father was living in Halfmoon at the time of her marriage.
- The Morse Genealogy says "they settled in Gloucesterville, N. Y.". Glousterville is doubtless a mis-transcription of Gloversville, the largest town near Mayfield where they lived. [6]
Notes - The following is in the brief Osborn genealogy in the History of St. Albans, Maine:
"Isaac Jr., born Sept 15, 1792; m. Millie Saliner (last name indistinct in records)."
I have found no other record of this marriage, and this record probably refers to Mille Morse. [1]
Children 1. Orsborn (Osborn), Peter Morse, b. 6 Oct 1816, d. 11 Jan 1824 (Age 7 years) 2. Orsborn (Osborn), Isaac 3rd, b. 8 Sep 1819, d. 10 Jun 1831, Mayfield, Montgomery, New York (Age 11 years)
+ 3. Orsborn (Osborn), Hannah, b. 29 May 1820, Mayfield, Fulton, New York, USA , d. 4 Dec 1882, Rockland, Manitowoc, Wisconsin
(Age 62 years)
4. Orsborn (Osborn), Jane Eliza, b. 10 Jun 1825, Mayfield, Montgomery, New York , d. 26 Mar 1846, Prairieville, Barry, Michigan, USA
(Age 20 years)
+ 5. Orsborn (Osborn), Selina, b. 6 Jun 1827, Mayfield, Montgomery, New York , d. 16 Nov 1904, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan
(Age 77 years)
+ 6. Orsborn (Osborn), Enos Cole, b. 18 Jul 1830, Mayfield, Fulton, New York, USA , d. 30 Jan 1913, Grass Lake, Jackson, Michigan
(Age 82 years)
Last Modified 10 Feb 2016 Family ID F160 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map Born - 16 Sep 1792 - Winslow, Lincoln, Maine Residence - 1815 - Halfmoon, Saratoga, New York, USA Married - 23 Nov 1815 - Halfmoon, Saratoga, New York, USA Residence - Isaac traded his home in Halfmoon for a house with a blacksmith shop and 2 acres in Mayfield. (Mayfield, Montgomery County until 1838 when Fulton County was formed.) - 1817 - Mayfield, Fulton, New York, USA Residence - 1830 - Mayfield, Fulton, New York, USA Land - Isaac had 13 land transactions in Mayfield. In the first transaction he traded his land in Halfmoon, Saratoga, New York for a property in Mayfield. The last was just before he moved to Michigan. Some of these properties were adjacent to land owned by Solomon Knapp. Click here for a pdf of the complete list of transactions with brief summaries, some notes, and links to the images of the deeds. - 1817 - 1846 - Mayfield, Fulton, New York, USA Buried - - Oakwood Cemetery (East Cemetery), Grass Lake, Jackson, Michigan = Link to Google Earth
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Documents 1815 Letter from William Osborn to his brother Isaac Orsborn Jr.
(2.5MB pdf) Topics include failure to sell Isaac's tools, purchase of land by Jeddiah, possibility of land trade between Jeddiah and his father, news of family and neighbors, plea for Isaac to come home or at least to write.
Click here for a transcription of all three letters.(48kB pdf)
I thank Lydia Howes for providing a copy of the letter.1817 Letter from Isaac Orsborn Jr. to his parents and his brother William
(2.5MB pdf) Topics include Isacc's swap for a new house and relocation to Mayfield. The birth of his first child Peter M. Orsborne, Pleas for letters from them.
Click here for a transcription of all three letters.(48kB pdf)
I thank Lydia Howes for providing a copy of the letter.1824 Letter from Isaac Orsborn, Jr. to his parents.
(1.1MB pdf) Tells them of Peter's death and that he and Mille have two more children, Hannah and Isaac. Asks them to write or to visit.
Click here for a transcription of all three letters.(48kB pdf)
I thank Lydia Howes for providing a copy of the letter.Land Transactions in Mayfield, New York by Isaac Orsborn Jr., 1817 - 1846
A compilation of thirteen land sales, purchases, and trades by Isaac Orsborn Jr. in Mayfield, New York with brief summaries, some notes, and links to images of the deeds.
Headstones Orsborn family plot
Buried in the plot are Isaac Orsborn, Millie Morse Orsborn, Enos Cole Orsborn, Mary Ann States Orsborn, and the following children of Enos and Mary Ann: Mary E. Orsborn Jecks, Isaac G., Ida, Selina, Nettie and 2 infant daughters. In 2011, Enos's and Mary Ann's headstones were hidden under the bush at the NE corner of the plot.Orsborn, Isaac and Millie Morse
Inscription on the Orsborn family obelisk.
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Notes - I thank Lydia Howes for providing copies of Isaac's letters, and Richard Anderson, another of Isaac's descendants, for providing leads on the Orsborn and Morse families.
- I thank Lydia Howes for providing copies of Isaac's letters, and Richard Anderson, another of Isaac's descendants, for providing leads on the Orsborn and Morse families.
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Sources - [S70] History of St. Albans Maine, Gladys M. Bigelow and Ruth M. Knowles, (Privately published by Gladys M. Bigelow and Ruth M. Knowles (1982)), p. 228.
- [S196] Document posted on this web site, 1815 Letter from William Osborn to his brother Isaac Orsborn Jr.
- [S196] Document posted on this web site, 1817 Letter from Isaac Orsborn Jr. to his parents and his brother William.
- [S133] 1830 US Census, National Archives and Records Administration, (ancestry.com), Mayfield, Montgomery, New York, Page: 282; NARA Roll: M19-95; Family History Film: 0017155.
- [S322] Winslow, ME: Vital Records, 1759-1892 (Online database), (From Lang, Sara Drummond, ed. Vital Records of Winslow, Maine, to the year 1892. [Auburn, ME, Press of Merrill & Webber company.] Published under the authority of the Maine Historical Society, 1937.), p. 264 https://www.americanancestors.org/DB390/rd/7130/264/4685275.
Sarah and Isaac Osburn, int. Nov. 15, 1787 - [S191] Morse Genealogy, J. Howard Morse and Emily W. Leavitt, (The Morse Society, New York, 1903), p. 224.
- [S70] History of St. Albans Maine, Gladys M. Bigelow and Ruth M. Knowles, (Privately published by Gladys M. Bigelow and Ruth M. Knowles (1982)), p. 228.