Richard Osborn

  General Notes:

From William Ward Roberts, Pioneers and Patriots of Pequannock 1639-1799, unpublished:

"Going on we arrive at the junction of Center Street with Post Road, Connecticut Turnpike and King's Highway. On the King's Highway, which is here diagonally crossed by the Post Road, stand three Colonial houses. The finest of these, a salt box house, is one of the best preserved Colonial dwellings in the Town. Built by John Osborn about 1702, it stands on land granted to Richard Osborn at a very early date, according to family tradition being a reward for his services in the Pequot War."

  Noted events in his life were:

• Emigration. ^490,209
He sailed from London, England on the ship "Hopewell," with Captain Thomas Wood who was bound for Barbadoes on February 17, 1634.

• Dates & Events. ⁴⁹⁰
Richard was in the company of Reverend Peter Hobart and drew for a home lot in the settlement of Hingham, Massachusetts in 1635. When he served in the Pequot war in 1637, he was known as "one of the gallant soldiers of Windsor, Connecticut." His name appears among the free planter of New
Haven, Connecticut in 1639, in which he signed the fundamental agreement, at the gather of the church on March 4th. He shared in the land divisions that took place in 1643. He took the oath of fidelity before Govern Eaton, 1 Jul 1644.

Richard moved to Fairfield, Connecticut sometime between 1650-1653, and purchased the home-lot of Thomas Pell which lie between John Cable's lot and that of Thomas Shervington. In 1671, the general court of Connecticut granted him 80 acres of land for his service in the Pequot War, which he planned on passed on to his heirs in 1707. He moved to Westchester, New York, and he deeded all of his home-lots, orchards, wood and timber along with uplands and meadow in Fairfield , his privilege in the undivided dues in Fairfield and his right and title to lands in the Colony of Connecticut to his son John and John's heirs. All this was provided that John paid all his debt and dues to Fairfield and the following sums of money to his other heirs
To the five children of his eldest unnamed daughter, twenty shillings each, when of age
To his daughter Priscilla's (widow of Cornelius Seely) two sons forty and two daughters twenty shillings each, when of age
To his daughter Mary's (widow of Thomas Bedient) three children forty shillings when of age
To his daughter, Elizabeth, fifty shillings
Besides his son John mentioned in his will, he had one other son named David who is said to have died as an old man. The unnamed daughter may be Hannah, named as daughter of Richard Osborn, and married to Nathaniel Baldwin on 19 Nov 1663.
~The history of Fairfield : Fairfield County, Connecticut, page 401

Richard married Sarah.