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Sarah Osborne

Re: Sarah Osborne

Posted: 20 Mar 2011 4:58PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am also decendented from Sarah thru the Redington and Level. Please contact me as soon as possible
VaDonna Whipple 2506 Linden Ave Iowa Falls Ia 50126 , or 641-316-4434

Re: Sarah Osborne

Posted: 23 May 2011 10:10PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am a line decendent of Sarah Warren Osburne through the Warren line. I have lots of verified facts on the entire family to the present time.

Re: Sarah Osborne

Posted: 21 Aug 2011 4:24AM GMT
Classification: Query
My family are direct descendents of Sarah & Robert Prince. I would be interested in sharing information. I am lacking on the Warren side of her family.

Re: Sarah Osborne

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 10:47PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: osburne, warren
Sarah Warren Osbourne was NOT a witch, but she was my 8th g grandmother. She married Robert Warren and had a farm. He died and she was older and left alone to care for the entire farm, and for the household. That meant she had to do the work of several people in one day! She tried to carry on but the place fell into disrepair and so she hired a local man, Osbourne, to help with the farm. He was there several years and as things can go, he became more than a hired hand. So the town got wind of it and proclaimed her a witch. Now Sarah had not been to meeting in several years and there was that hired hand living in....so they proclaimed her a witch. Makes sense to me...not!
So when the witch hunts began, she was quickly chosen and put in chains in "goal", now called jail. As the trials began and proceeded she lingered in goal. She died there, an old woman, and right after she died it was proclaimed that the whole witch hunt was a farce. The ones that were alive (there were men and women) were let go, but it was too late for Sarah and many others.
Mass hysteria created these witches. Most likely like Sarah the proclaimed witches were a little different or didn't go to meeting regularly, and so on.
That is what my research has shown me.....

Re: Sarah Osborne

Posted: 9 Jul 2012 8:44PM GMT
Classification: Query
First, minor : g-a-o-l, is the British spelling of the American Jail. Second, Sarah was the daughter of John Warren; her husband, as mentioned, was Robert Prince.
And, as noted, she was not a witch, nor were most of the others accused; in fact, there is some evidence that many people called village witches were so called either to have a reason to let them live on charity, without calling it such, or, conversely, to have an excuse to get revenge on them.
There were, I presume, as often stated, herbalogists who wwere either accepted or feared, depending; and superstition did ply a part.

Re: Sarah Osborne

Posted: 5 Aug 2012 2:33AM GMT
Classification: Query
Robert Prince was her first husband.

Re: Sarah Osborne

Posted: 5 Aug 2012 2:36AM GMT
Classification: Query
She married PRINCE who had a 150 acre farm. They had three children. He died shortly after their son, Joseph, was born. She later married her handyman, Osborne, and tried to have the land go to him instead of her two sons with Robert Prince according to his will. This lead to problems which resulted in her being one of the first to be named a "witch".

Re: Sarah Osborne

Posted: 9 Aug 2012 7:40PM GMT
Classification: Query
I think you're right. I got the information that she was first married to a Thomas Small from some GenForum posts many years ago. They mentioned as their source "The Witches of Salem" by Winfield Nevins. I checked that book and on page 62 it does say that Sarah had been married to Thomas Small before Robert Prince. But, I did a search on Thomas Small on rootsweb and he (if it's the same guy) actually seems to have been married to a Ruth Canterbury (or Cantelbury), in fact marrying her in 1662 or 1663. Sarah married Robert Prince 5 April 1662. I think the confusion may come from the fact that Alexander Osborn's second wife, whom he married in December of 1692 (remember, Sarah died in May)was the very same Ruth Canterbury who had been married to Thomas Small. He died in 1674/1675. I hope this is all correct.

Re: Sarah Osborne

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 11:24PM GMT
Classification: Lookup
Actually she married the worker Alexander Osborne. Her first husband was Robert Prince who died in 1675. She tried to get the large farm to herself and not her new husband and kids. Soon she was accused of witchcraft. She died in the Jail in Boston because she was terribly sick. Some say she was accused cause she tried to own the land from he 1st husbands will was uncommon and unnatural so it wasn't encouraged. I found all of this information on history cites, movies, documents, and a lot of internet cites. I could give them to you if you would like.

Re: Sarah Osborne

Posted: 29 Nov 2013 4:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 29 Nov 2013 4:29PM GMT
i can only reach up to my great great grandfather & mother Merritt & Mabel (Dohse) Osborne was wondering if there might be a connection... thy were from the batavia, New York area
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