Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14066, for White Osborn, Connecticut
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SERVICE
Conn.
Continental

Osborn, White

NUMBER
S. 14066
carded

CONTENTS
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3917   A.
New York
White Osborn decd
of Hamilton in the State of New York who was a Pri. of Ar. in the Compy commanded by Captain (blank) of the Regt. commanded by Col. Baldwin in the New York line for two years.
Conn and Continental Records corrected Oct. 9 1906 (illegible)

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany N.Y. at the rate of 144 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. & end 10th Hany. 1844, when he died.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of December 1849 and sent to L. M. Drury, Canandaigua N. Y.

Arrears to the 4th of
Semi=annual allowance ending

Increased from $100

Payable to surviving children, viz Sarah Carder & Mary Hough

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by J P Chase Clerk
Book D  Vol. 5  Page 119

(right column)
Let. L. M. Drury 12 Sept 1850
Let (illegible) R. S. Rose Feb. 22
&
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21,920
White Osborn
Rev. Pensioner
Declaration & certificate of Clerk
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State of New York
Madison County ss.

On this twenty third day of June one thousand Eight
hundred & thirty one personally appeared in open Court in the
Court of Common pleas of the said County of Madison, the same
being a Court of record & established as such by the laws
of the State of New York. White Osborn resident in Hamilton in
said County of Madison aged Seventy one years & upwards who
being first duly sworn, according to law & doth on his oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made
by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818. & the 1st of
May 1820. that he the said White Osborn prior to July
1777 had performed three tours of service in the continental
or in the State troops of Connecticut & in which he does
not now distinctly recollect & that said tours of service
in the whole amounted to Eighteen months, & that he the said
White Osburn sometime in the month of July (as he believes)
of 1777, at Wallingford in the County of New haven and State of
Connecticut enlisted for the term of three years, in Captain
Stephen Osburns Company in a Corps then commanded by a Major
Painter whose first name declarant does not now remember, that
he enlisted & did service as one artificer & was soon after transfered
upon the breaking up of Major Painters Corps (who as deponent
is informed & believes was dismissed or Cashiered for some cause)
to the Regiment of Colonel Baldwin who he believes was from
Massachusetts, that both said Corps, were upon the continental
establishment & that he served therein for the space of
three years & until (as he believes), the July of 1780 when
he was discharged at Danbury in the State of Connecticut
having fully served out the period for which he had enlisted
And he further states that he hereby relinquishes
every claim whatever to a pension except the present; that his
name is not on the pension roll of any state whatever, & not
on any pension roll to his knowledge or belief & that the
reasons for not making earlier application for a pension are
that altho he has ever been labouring under pecuniary
embarrassment for many years; he had hoped until very
recently to be able to extricate himself & acquire a
support without resort to the Charity of his country &
that it is only lately that he finds his increasing age
& infirmities have rendered him unable to do so, which is the
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only cause of his now applying
And in pursuance of the act of May 1, 1820
I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the
United States on the 18th day of March 1818, & that
I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner,
disposed of my property or any part thereof, with interest
thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions
of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain
persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States
, in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of
March 1818 & that I have not, nor has any person in trust
for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me
nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the
Schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed

Personal estate of Goods & Chattels I have none
except one old hoe & an old axe

I have an annuity of thirty five dollars a year
secured to me by James Hough

I have the title to a house & lot of land in the village of Hamilton County of Madison & State of New York worth Eight Hundred & fifty dollars & which is encumbered to its full value by the following mortgages & Judgements a more particular statement of which is hereto annexed

Mortgage to Samuel Osgood declared [?]
Thomas H Hubard
James Webb & Archibald Webb

Judgements in a Justices Court by confession & filed in the Clerks office of the County of Madison so as to make them a lien on the said real estate
Smith Mott &
Alpha Morse

And for the purpose of quitting [?] the above claims I have yielded the possession of the above mentioned house & lot under an agreement with the Lessee & the persons holding the above claims that the rest should be applied on the foregoing demands & other demands against  me the same has
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been so applied & the property is still encumbered to an amount exceeding its value as before stated

I have the following Notes which grew out of my
property that I hold in March 1818

Lyman Whiting's note dated Nov. 28, 1818 for $19.00 & inst
do ---- do - do (on. Inst) 19,00

Benjamin Deyo dated April 20, 1819 15,84

Samuel R Morgan " May 24, 1827 4,25

That the foregoing notes are not collectable
that the makers are insolvent & declarant does not know their present residence

That declarent is by occupation a blacksmiths & that he is unable to pursue it at all from
age & infirmity & that he resides with a widowed
daughter who is in indigent circumstances & unable to support him

That since the 18th of March 1818 the follow
charges have been made in my property under the following circumstances. that on the 18th of March 1818 declarant was possessed of a farm of about 108 ½ acres part of lots number 78 & 1779 in Pompey Onondaga County that
for about four years previous thereto & for several years
thereafter & up to the year 1828 declarant was
seriously ill so much so as to be unable for a considerable
part of the time to attend to business or to take charge of
his concerns - that in consequence of his own illness
& sickness of his wife who died in that period he
became embarrassed in his circumstances & was compelled
to borrow money & on the 14th day of February 1821
he gave to Joseph Higbee of Manlius in Onandaga
County a mortgage upon the said premises accompanied
by his bond in the penal sum of 250 dollars conditioned
to pay one hundred & twenty six dollars in one year
from the 25th day of December then last with interest
from that day, which bond & Mortgage were given
for money borrowed of said Joseph Higbee on or about
the said 25th day of December then preceding. That said Higbee
several years ago moved away from Onondaga into the
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western part of the State of New York but where
he resides, if living, declarant is unable to ascertain
& as the last he did hear from him he was durgnonly [?] M,
, declarant believes he is dead
And further that finding his pecuniary
embarrassments to increase upon him & that he
was unable to pay his debts, on the twenty third
day of March 1824 he sold & conveyed the
said farm to said Joseph Higbee (see deed
A ) for the sum of $1500, & said Higbee deducted
from that Sum the amount then due on declarant
bond & Mortgage to him, which as some payments
had been made amounted to the sum of $75.07
as he believes & said Higbee then gave up said
bond & Mortgage & acknowledged satisfaction as
appear from the papers hereto annexed (marked B )
that Higbee advanced to declarant at the time, or paid him
soon after a considerable sum of money & gave him a bond
& Mortgage upon the premises for the residue which bond
& Mortgage he afterwards paid, but as said mortgage was not
recorded & together with the bond was given up to said
Higbee when paid & as declarants recollection is
impaired
by old age & disease he is unable to state exactly
the precise sum for which it was given & how much
was paid in Cash at the time. But he states that
he had no other property or means to acquire money
than the proceeds of said farm & that out of the
proceeds thereof & the interest accrued thereon he
paid the following bona fide debts which accrued
in the manner hereafter stated, at the times hereafter
stated as nearly as he can ascertain the same

1824 to the land office of the State of New York on account of Escheated lands $78.75
Costs in relation thereto 4.25
Victory Birdseys Bill of fees as a Lawyer
in relation thereto 10.26
& Postage to Victory Birdseye 1.41
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1824 June 14, Joseph Gannett on note dated Sep. 7. 1822 for $60.00 given for a yoke of Oxen sold & delivered by Gannell to declarant 30.00

1824, Moses S Marsh Merchants account 25.19

1823. Oct 6 V Birdseye for Henry Seymour on Judy [Judg ?] in Onondaga Common Pleas founded on promissory notes given for Merchants accounts - 22.50

1824, April 1, Charles Leonard for V. Birdseye
on the same Judgt. 130.00

" June 22 balance in full of same - 8.93

1824, July 8 Joseph Bingham the amount of an
award growing out of a claim for labor 27.00

1825, Feb 26. John Smith for a farm of land in Pompey I bought of him - 150.00

1827, M S Marsh Judgment in Justices office
on Merchants account - 40.95

1827. Lyman Morgan on note to Ephraim French
for work & Labor - 46.88

1827. Joseph Gannett Notes for money lent & Oxen & a cow (with Inst)

1827. M S Marsh, Merchants account as stated
by Horace Wheaton - $69.62

1827. March 19. John Smith Judgt. in favor F.S. Sheam [?] 3.25

1828. Sep 4. Do do - 12.41
Corts - 1.60

1828, March 1. Hough note to John Smith for
borrowed money (proceeds of the other farm) - 40.00

1828, Samuel Baker for goods wares & Merchandise - 54.70

1828 Johiel Sterns services as a physician 42.23

N. Winter [?] of Pompey as a Physician & will paid at various times & declarant cannot now
State precisely when & is unable to procure aff. (as declarant believes) paid from 1818 to 1825. 100.00

And declarant further states that in
Feb 1825. he purchased of one John Smith of Pompey a farm of land being part of lot number 48 in that town & Containing about 49 acres of land,
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that he paid therefor the above sum of one hundred
& fifty dollars & gave his bond & Mortgage hereto annexed
for the payment of six hundred dollars interest in the manner
therein stated which bond & Mortgage he has fully paid
up & satisfied out of the proceeds of his farm sold to Higbee
at the times stated in the indorsments on said bond & in
the statement of account due hereto annexed. That said
bond & Mortgage were assigned by said Smith to one
John Fuller in trust for one Annible & that the payments
were made some to Fuller & some to one F.C. Annible for
the real owner

And the declarant further says that
on the twenty ninth day of Nov 1827, he sold & conveyed
by deed to James Hough of Pompey the said farm of land
he had purchased of John Smith for the consideration of one
thousand dollars expressed, of which five hundred
was to be paid in cash & an annuity of thirty five
dollars a year, to be secured to declarant during his
life only & then to cease which was accordingly
secured upon the said premises. & that the said
five hundred dollars & the annuity has been paid
declarant & expended as hereafter stated, & in his support

And declarant further states that soon
after the sale of his premises to John Smith he purchased
a lot of land in the Village of Hamilton Madison
County & State of New York & proceeded to make improvement
thereon & caused a house to be built thereon & in
the process of so doing contracted with one Curtis
Porter to dig the cellar furnish Stone & brick
& time & build said house so for as the
Mason work was concerned that said Porter did such
work & in April or May 1829. he paid him $175.
August 7. 1829, he paid him $50 & March 1. 1830
be paid him two hundred & ninety dollars
therefor, making in the whole five hundred &
fifteen dollars which he paid said Porter on that
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On Roll Baldwin
Artificer -
[?] July 1777 for [?]
3 years [?]
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State of New York
County of Madison ss

On this 25th day of August
1849 personally appeared before the subscriber
a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, Sarah
Carder resident of Hamilton in said County aged
sixty one years in June past who being first
duly sworn doth make the following declaration
in order to obtain the amount that may
be due to the heirs of White Osborne, deceased
under act of 7th June 1832
This declarant states that she is the daughter
of White Osborne deceased late of Hamilton
in said County who was a soldier of the
revolutionary war & a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of one hundred dollars
per annum, and who died at Hamilton in
said County on the 10th day of January
in the year eighteen hundred & forty four
(1844) - This declarant further states that
her said father left no widow surviving him but that he left two children surviving him whose names are Sarah Carder (this declarant) and Mary
Huff - And further says not-

Sarah Carder

Sworn & subscribed to
the day & year first
above written before me }
Thos. H Greenly Justice
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Whereas I, Mary Hough of Syracuse in the County of Onondaga N.Y. am a daughter of White Osborn late of Hamilton in the County of Madison deceased, who was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of
one hundred and forty four Dollars per annum, allowed
him for his services as an Artificer in the war of
the Revolution, and whereas I am advised that
his children are entitled to an increase of
his said pension- Now therefore I do hereby
constitute and appoint Samuel H. Marks, of
the County of Columbia, my true and lawful
attorney and agent for me and in my
name, and also in the name and behalf of
my sister Sarah Carder, to present and prosecute
our claim to such increase of pension
as we may be by law entitled to -

Witness my hand and seal this 17th day of
March A.D. 1851 -
Mary Hough

Executed
in presence of }
J Hurst [?]
M. Gilbert

State of New York
Onondaga County ss. On this 17th day of March A.D. 1851 before the Subscriber a Justice of
peace in and for said County personally
appeared Mary Hough, above named
and acknowledged the foregoing power
of Attorney to be her act and deed

J Hurst Comr of Deeds
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$37.501
April 1st 1824 Received of White Osborn
thirty seven Dollars & fifty
Cents & Receipted the same on a
Judg in favor of Victory Birdseye

John Smith

The above is in full of the above
Judgt. including a ton of hay I had of sd.
Osborne

V. Birdseye

No 4
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(C. 7.)

State of New York
Onondaga County SS . John Smith of Pompey in said County being duly sworn does depose & say that on or about the 26th day of February 1825 . he sold to White Osborne of Pompey then , & now of Hamilton a farm of land in Pompey for $ 750 . & said White paid dann in Cash one hundred & fifty dollars to Edward Annable for whose benefit the trade was made, & gave deponet a Mortgage upon the premises for the residue accompanied with the bond both which are hereto annexed in the penal sum of $ 1200 conditioned to pay $ 600 in the manner therein stated & Interest that on the 26th February 1825 deponent assigned said Bond & Mortgage to one John Fuller who is now deceased - That said assignment to Fuller was made for the benefit of one Edward Annible & that one F. C. Annible had charge of the papers and well [?] to receive payments thereon , & that the receipt or statement [?] signed F. C. Annible hereto annexed is the signature to the endorsements on the back of the bond is in the hand writing of said F. C. Annible with which deponent is well acquainted -- & that the signatures of John Fuller to the two first endorsements on the said bond are in his had writing with which deponent is also acquainted - & that deponent also
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received as enclosed [?] on the statement of F. C. Annible on the 2d. August 1826 twenty dollars in cash & his note for $1.48 of said White which was aflend [?] paid and this deponent accounted with said F. C. Annable for the same
John Smith

Subscribed & sworn this 17 June 1831 before me D Gott Comr. of deeds




John Smith
Affidavit
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MORTGAGE - Wm. Williams , Printer , Utica.

This Indenture, Made the twenty sixth day of February Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty five Between White Osborne of Pompey County of Onondaga of the first part , and John Smith of the place aforesaid of the second part , Witnesseth , That the said party of the first part , for and in consideration of the sum of Seven Hundred and fifty dollars current Money of the United States , to him in hand paid , the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged , Hath Granted , Bargained , Sold , released , Enfeoffed and Confirmed ; and , by these presents , Doth Grant , Bargain , Sell , Release , Enfeoff and Confirm unto the said party of the second part , in his actual possession now being , and to his heirs and assigns forever , all that certain tract or parcel of Land situate lying and being in the town of Pompey County of Onondaga being a part of Lot Number forty eight of the original division of the township of Pompey and bounded as follows viz beginning fourteen chains north of the South west corner of said Lot running thence East thirty six chains and thirty six links to the highway thence north in the centre of said Highway to a certain causeway , or Bridge thence west thirty six chains and thirty six links to the west line of said Lot then South on the west line of said Lot to the place of beginning containing forty nine acres be the same more or less To Have and to Hold , the above bargained premises , to the said party of the second part , his heirs and assigns , to the sole and only proper use , benefit and behoof of the said party of the second part , his heirs and assigns forever . Provided Always , and these presents are upon this Express Condition , that if the said party of the first part , his heirs , executors , administrators , or assigns , well and truly pay , or cause to be paid , to the said part , of of the second part , his heirs , executors administrators or assigns , the just and full sum of Six Hundred dollars in manner following viz four Hundred and fifty dollars on the first day of May next with interest & one Hundred and fifty dollars on the first day of October next with interest according to the condition of a certain Bond or Writing Obligatory , bearing even date herewith , executed by the said party of the first part , to the said party of the second part , as a Collateral Security , then these presents , and the said Bond or Writing Obligatory , shall cease , and be null and Void : But in case of the non payment of the said sum of Six Hundred dollars with the interest or any part thereof , at the time or times above limited for the payment thereof , then , and in such case , it shall and may be lawful for the said party of the second part , his heirs , executors , administrators or assigns , and the said party of the first part , doth hereby Empower and Authorise the said party of the second part , his heirs , executors , administrators or assigns , to grant , bargain , sell , lease and convey the said premises , with the Appurtenances thereunto belonging , at Public Auction , or Vendue . And on such sale to make and Execute to the purchaser or purchasers , his , her , or their heirs and assigns forever , good , ample and sufficient Deeds of Conveyance in the Law , pursuant to the statute in that case made and provided . Rendering the surplus monies , if any there be , to the said party of the first part , his heirs , executors , administrators or assigns , after deducting the costs and charges of such vendue and sale as aforesaid . In Witness Whereof , the parties of these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their Hands and Seals , the Day and Year first above Written . 

SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED , IN THE PRESENCE OF }
Daniel Gott
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State of New York
Onondaga County ss } On this 26 February 1825 came personally before me White Osborne to me known to be the person described in & who executed the within mortgage & acknowledged that he executed the same
Daniel Gott Comr.

In consideration of Six Hundred Dollars to me in hand paid the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged I do for myself & legal representatives sell & transfer & assign the within Mortgage to John Fuller his assigns & legal representatives & do hereby authorize the sd. John his assigns & legal representatives to collect all sums of money due on the within Mortgage & execute a discharge for the same as witness my hand & seal this 26th day of February 1825
John Smith
Edward L Fuller


White Osborne
To
John Smith }
Mortgage
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White Osborne
to
Joseph Higbee }

Record of Deed

A.
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E 2.
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John Smiths
affidavit
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(C. 11 )
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State of New York
Onondaga County ss } John Smith of Pompey in said County being duly sworn says that one Israel Shearer late of Pompey in said County on the 18th March 1827 recovered judgement before this deponent as a Justice of the Peace against White Osborn late of said town of Pompey for $ 31.50 - that on the 19th March 1827. sd. Osborn paid $ 3.25 as said judgment , that on the 4th Sept 1828 . said White paid on sd. Judgt $ 12.41 , as appears by this deponents docket . sd. White also paid this deponent in said suit $ 1.60 - that this deponent was one of the committee for building the Baptists meeting house in the Society of Pompey Orators [?] that sd. White subscribed for said meeting house $ 75 & paid the same in oratials [?] for building & other property during the years 1820 , 1821 , & that on or about the 1st day of Jany 1827 . this deponent loaned to said White & said White borrowed of this deponent $ 40 - that the James Hough on the 18 March 1828 settled with this deponent & gave him his note for the same & this deponent discharged & whet [?] from the same
John Smith

Sworn before me this 4. June 1831 . I also certify that I am acquainted with sd. John Smith that he is a man of good character for truth & veracity D. Gott Com of deeds
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KNOW all Men by these Presents , That I White Osborne am held and firmly bound unto John Smith

in the sum of Twelve Hundred dollars, to be paid to the said John or to his certain Attorney , Executors , Administrators or Assigns : To the which payment , well and truly to be made , I bind myself my heirs , Executors and Administrators , jointly and severally , firmly by these presents . Sealed with my seal and dated the 26 day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five THE CONDITION OF THIS OBLIGATION IS SUCH , That if the above bounden White Osborne his heirs , executors or administrators , shall and do well and truly pay , or cause to be paid unto the above named John Smith or to his certain Attorney , Executors , Administrators or Assigns , the just and full sum of Six Hundred dollars in manner following viz four Hundred & fifty dollars on the first day of May next with interest & the further sum of one Hundred & fifty dollars on the first day of October next with interest 

without any fraud or other delay , then this Obligation to be null and void ; or else to remain in full force and virtue . SEALED AND DELIVERED IN PRESENCE OF }

Daniel Gott
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Received on the within June 4th 1825 two hundred and eighty dollars and fifty eight cents John Fuller $ 280.58 Received on the within July 8th 1825 twenty one dollars John Fuller 21.00 Received on the within June 16th 1825 Ninety Dollars Received October the 25 182[?] Sixty nine Dollars Received January 12th 1826 fifty Dollars on the with In Pompey May 3. 1826 . Received on the within five Dollars F. C. Anible Pompey July 6 1826 received on the within twenty seven Dollars and fifty cents

F C Anible



White Osborne
to
John Smith }
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Bond

12/70
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5.83

D. 2.

Tranative [?] with + E. F. C. Annable & John Smith
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State of New York
Madison County } ss
Sarah Carder of the town of Hamilton in said County being duly sworn deposes and says that she is a daughter of White Osburn late of Hamilton who died on the 10th day of January 1844 and that the said White Osburn was a revolutionary pensioner at the rate of $ 100 . pr Ann , and that he left no widow . She (Sarah Carder) and Mary Hough are the only surviving Children of the said White Osburn

Sarah Card

Sworn this 16th day of Nov 1849 before me 

Thos. H Greenly Justice

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State of New York
Madison County ss James B Eldridge Sworn on his oath deposes and says that he is sixty four years of age that he now resides in Hamilton Village in said County and has resided there for about twenty four years last past That this deponent was personally acquainted with White Osborn late of Hamilton Village aforesaid deceased in his life time That said White Osborn resided in said Village for as much as fourteen years next preceeding his death That while said Osborn resided in said Village he was a United States pension which fact deponants know from having frequently made papers for the said Osburn to enable him to draw his pension from time to time and on making such papers this deponent copied his pension certificate and then would Examine the same , That said White Osborn departed this life about Six years ago to the best recollection of deponant this deponent attended the funeral of said Osborn but is unable to state precisely how long ago it was but thinks it was as above stated That the said White Osborn left him surviving Sarah Carder Widow and Mary Hough daughters of the said White Osburn deceased and from an intimate acquaintance with the said White Osborn and his family in his life time this deponant learned and believes that the said Sarah Carder and Mary Hough widow are all and the only heirs at Law left by the said deceased at the time of his death & further this deponent saith not James B Eldridge

Sworn & Subscribed before me Novem. 9th 1849 } 
Thos. H Greenly Justice