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View Tree for Thomas OsbornThomas Osborn (b. Bef. 1550, d. date unknown)

Thomas Osborn (son of John Osborn) was born Bef. 1550383, and died date unknown. He married Wilmeth.

 Includes NotesNotes for Thomas Osborn:
This name, variously spelled, has existed more than a thousand years. In ancient Saxon England it was sometimes spelled Osbjorn; the wife of King Egbert was an Osborne. Egbert of the house of Cedric, King of Wessex, united the seven Saxon kingdoms of Britain into one kingdom under the name England in 827, A.D. Earliest record of the Osborn family appears in a will of Harjanna and Julian Osborn of Kent, bearing the date of 1404. Family lived in and around Maidstone then, and is still represented there. The first Osborn in East Hampton was Thomas of Ashford in Kent who owned land in Hingham, Mass. before 1635, moved to Windsor, Conn. by 1637, and was one of the early settlers of New Haven, Conn. in 1639.

Thomas came to East Hampton in 1650 to 1651. His son John was one of the first settlers of Wainscott, five miles west of East Hampton village, and in the township. East Hampton was first named Maidstone because so many of its first settlers had come from that vicinity; and Wainscot was doubtless so named after a hamlet named Wainscot in England, near Rochester, and not very far from Maidstone.

A beautifully carved chest, said to have been brought from England by the first Thomas Osborne, was given to the John Howard Payne memorial house "Home Sweet Home" by the late B.M.Osborne.

Arthur Herbert Osborn of Princeton, N.J., who has, with Dr. Donald Lines Jacobus, traced his ancestry to Ashford, Kent, England as far back as 1540, says that Thomas Osborn 1, with his brother Richard Osborn, was one of the original settlers of the Colony of New Haven in 1638 coming there from Boston under the leadership of the Rev. John Davenport with a group of thirty or forty. He says that Thomas 1 was the son of John Osborn who in turn was the son of another Thomas Osborn, both of the latter born and buried in Ashford, Kent; and that he came to this country about 1634, removing to E.H. about 1648.

Children of Thomas Osborn and Wilmeth are:
  1. +Jeremy Osborn, b. Feb 04, 1569/70, Ashford, Kent England384, d. date unknown.
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