William Ozbun and Rebecca Cox

Their child:		Individuals in this page:		Their parents:
		William Ozbun	{	Mathew Osborn II & Isabell Dobson
Abraham Osborn	{	&
		Rebecca Cox	{	Richard Cox & Elizabeth Scarlett

William Ozbun (Mathew, Isabel) was born in 1725 ^OS1. He was probably the William “Ozburn” who produced a certificate from the Cold Spring Neck Monthly Meeting in Sussex County, Pennsylvania on the 20^th day of the 12^th month, 1747/8 to come under the care of Friends (Quakers) of the Warrington Monthly Meeting ^PE8. The records of the Warrington Monthly Meeting in York County, Pennsylvania stated that William Ozbun, the son of Mathew Ozbun of Warrington, and Rebeccah Cox, the daughter of Richard Cox of Warrington, made their first declaration of their intent to marry on the 20^th day of the 8^th month, 1750 and again on the 17th day of the 9^th month, 1750 ^US11,^CO14; William Ozbun and Rebeccah Cox were reported married at the monthly meeting held at Warrington on the 15^th day of the 10^th month, 1750 ^US11 and they were said to have married on the 5^th day of the 10^th month, 1750 at a meeting at the home of Richard Cox ^OS1.

William, Rebecca, and their two children joined his parents and relatives in North Carolina in 1753, settling approximately twelve miles south of Greensboro ^OS1. On January 5, 1754, William was received at the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in Orange (now Alamance) County, North Carolina by a certificate from Warrington Monthly Meeting in Pennsylvania dated June 4, 1753 ^HI4. A Warrington Monthly Meeting dated August 18, 1753, stated that William and Rebecka Ozburn had requested certificates to “Cain Creek”, North Carolina ^CO14.

William died at about the age of forty-three in 1768 ^OS1. His will, created on July 19, 1768, was witnessed by John Powell, Daniel Ozbun, and Thomas Bishop, and according to the date marked adjacent to the beginning of the will, seems to have been recorded on October 13, 1768 ^NO6:

I William Ozbun of the County of Ronn [Rowan] and Province of North Carolinia Yoa: [Yeoman] being sick and weak of Body but of sound mind and Memory and calling to mind the uncertenty of Life and certenty of Death and knowing that it is appoined for all men once to die I do make and ordain this my last Will and Testement in Manner and Form following that is to say first and prinsiapbly I commity my Soul into Hand of the Almighty God that gave it and my Body to be decently burryed at the Discretion of my Executors here after named and as to my worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless my with I give devise and dispose of the same in Manner & Form following. Imprimis: it is my Will and I do order that in the first place all my just Debts and funerel Charges be be [sic] paid and satisfied. Item: I give and bequeath to Rebeccah my beloved Wife one third Part of the Tract or Parcel of Land I now preses [possess] and the House I now live in to hold and preses during her naturel Life and after her Deceice to my beloved Son Abraham with fifty three Acres more joyning to the aforesaid Which Land I do give and bequeath to my beloved Son Abraham to him his Hairs & Assigns forever the fifty three Acres for him to presess at the Age of Twenty one Years and his Mothers aforesaid Thirds of Land at her Diceis Also I give to my Son Abraham a Mare and Gun which he now calls his which I alow to be his part of my Esta[te] rail & Pasenel [real and personal]. Item And I further order and will that the other Part of my Land to be sold at publick Vandue at the Time that my beloved Son Richard come to the Age of twenty one Years and the Price thereof to be equily devided among the Rest of my Children that shall live to come to the Age of twenty one Years to receive it. Item I further order and will the Rest of my movable Estate to be used in as nesesety my requier for the Seport of my dear Wife and Children at the Decretion of my dear Wife and William Reynoldsun and Samuel Ozbun the two last I likewise Constite make and ordain my only and sole Executers of this my las Will and Testement ratifiing and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testement In witness wherof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this 19^th Day of the 7^th Month in the Year of or Lord 1768

Rebecca Cox (Richard, Elizabeth) was the mother of Abraham, Richard, Thomas, William, twins David and Jonathan, Matthew, Elizabeth, and Isable (or Isabel). An anecdotal account of her horseback journey from Pennsylvania to North Carolina stated that she used an apple tree twig as a whip, and after she arrived, she poked it into the ground, where it sprouted and grew into a tree which bore fruit ^OS1. Seven of her nine children died in the space of eight weeks ^OS1. Thomas, who was twenty-six, died of an undocumented cause on November 7, 1781, but the other six siblings perished from “slow fever” ^OS1. Elizabeth died on November 23, 1781, and her younger sister Isabel was fifteen at her death on December 13, 1781 ^{HI4, OS1}. Then, three died in the space of three days: Mathew on December 26, twenty-nine-year-old Richard on December 27, and thirty-year-old Abraham on December 28 ^{HI4, OS1}. Finally, Jonathan died on January 3, 1782 ^{HI4, OS1}. Just two sons survived, William and David ^{HI4, OS1}.

The records of the New Garden Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina state that Abraham Ozburn, the son of William and Rebeckah Ozburn, was born on the 19^th day of the 6^th month, 1751 ^US11.

The records of the New Garden Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina state that Richard Ozburn, the son of William and Rebeckah Ozburn, was born on the 20^th day of the 12^th month, 1752 ^US11. The records of the Center Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina state that Richard Ozbun, the son of William and Rebecca Ozbun, died on the 27^th day of the 12^th month, 1781 and was buried on the 14^th day of the 12^th month at the Friends’ Burying Ground at the Center Meetinghouse ^US11. He allegedly never married ^OS1.

The records of the New Garden Monthly Meeting in Guilford County and the records of the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in Orange (now Alamance) County, North Carolina state that Thomas Ozburn, the son of William and Rebeckah Ozburn, was born on the 26^th day of the 1^st month, 1755 ^US11. The records of the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in Alamance County, North Carolina state that Thomas Ozbun, the son of William and Rebeckah, married Elizabeth Stout on the 17^th day of the 10^th month, 1776 ^HI4. Thomas and Elizabeth Ozburn were said to have been the parents of William, born about 1778, and Margaret, born about 1780 ^OS1. Thomas was said to have died on the 7^th day of the 11^th month, 1781 ^OS1.

The records of the New Garden Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina state that William Ozburn, the son of William and Rebeckah Ozburn, was born on the 14^th day of the 12^th month, 1756 ^US11. The records of the Center Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina state that William Ozbun of Guilford County, the son of William and Rebecca, married Mary Lowder on the 21^st day of the 11^th month, 1782 ^HI4. The records of the Center Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina state that William and Mary Ozbun were the parents of Richard, born on the 27^th day of the 8^th month, 1783, Thomas, born on the 10^th day of the 10^th month, 1785, William, born on the 1^st day of the 8^th month, 1787, Jonathan, born on the 6^th day of the 6^th month, 1789, Rebeccah, born on the 9^th day of the 1^st month, 1791, Hannah, born on the 24^th day of the 9^th month, 1794, Mary, born on the 24^th day of the 7^th month, 1797, and David, born on the 22^nd day of the 7^th month, 1799 ^US11. The records of the Center Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina state that William Osborn, the son of William, died at age eighty-seven on the 8^th day of the 6^th month, 1886 ^US11. The records of the Deep Creek Monthly Meeting in Yadkin County, North Carolina listed two sons of William and Mary Ozbun who were not included in the Center Monthly Meeting records; these were Matthew Ozbun, who was born on the 28^th day of the 10^th month, 1792 (and died on the 20^th day of the 8^th month, 1806), and Abraham Ozbun, who was born on the 28^th day of the 5^th month, 1803 (and died on the 30^th day of the 7^th month, 1807) ^US11. The records of the Deep Creek Monthly Meeting in Yadkin County, North Carolina state that William Ozborn died on the 14^th day of the 9^th month, 1813 (September 14, 1813) ^US11.

The records of the New Garden Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina state that David Ozburn, the son of William and Rebeckah Ozburn, was born on the 3^rd day of the 3^rdmonth, 1759 ^US11. David was said to have married Elizabeth Thompson, with who he was the father of Nancy, Mary, Jonathan (who was born about 1797 and died about 1881), Esther, Elizabeth, Lydia, Miriam, and Rebecca ^OS1.

The records of the New Garden Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina state that Jonathan Ozburn, the son of William and Rebeckah Ozburn, was born on the 3^rd day of the 3^rdmonth, 1759 ^US11. The records of the Center Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina state that Jonathan Ozbun, the son of William and Rebecca Ozbun, died on the 3^rd day of the 1^st month, 1782 and was buried on the following day at the Friends’ Burying Ground at the Center Meetinghouse ^US11.

The records of the New Garden Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina state that Matthew Ozburn, the son of William and Rebeckah Ozburn, was born on the 19^th day of the 3^rdmonth, 1762 ^US11. The records of the Center Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina state that Matthew Ozbun, the son of William and Rebecca Ozbun, died on the 26^th day of the 12^th month, 1781 and was buried on the 28^th day of the 12^th month at the Friends’ Burying Ground at the Center Meetinghouse ^US11.

The records of the New Garden Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina state that Elizabeth Ozburn, the daughter of William and Rebeckah Ozburn, was born on the 16^th day of the 5^th month, 1764 ^US11. The records of the Center Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina state that Elizabeth Ozbun, the daughter of William and Rebecca Ozbun, died on the 23^rd day of the 11^th month, 1781 and was buried on the 25^th day of the 11^th month at the Friends’ Burying Ground at the Center Meetinghouse ^US11.

The records of the New Garden Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina state that Isable Ozburn, the daughter of William and Rebeckah Ozburn, was born on the 18^th day of the 11^th month, 1766 ^US11. The records of the Center Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina state that Isabel Ozbun, the daughter of William and Rebecca Ozbun, died on the 13^th day of the 12^th month, 1781 and was buried on the 14^th day of the 12^th month at the Friends’ Burying Ground at the Center Meetinghouse ^US11.