Tenth Generation

780. Jonathan OSBORNE⁴ was born on 27 March 1697 in Warwickshire, England.⁷¹ He died in Unknown in James City Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.⁷¹ He has reference number 4661. Gretta HOLMAN and Jonathan OSBORNE were married on 1 July 1723 in Williamsburg, York County, Virginia, USA.^86,87,99

781. Gretta HOLMAN⁴ was born in 1701 in Warwickshire, England.⁷¹ She died in Unknown. She has reference number 14831.

Children were:

390	i.	Ephraim OSBORNE.
	ii.	Josiah OSBORNE⁴ was born in 1724.⁷¹ He died in Unknown. He has reference number 1312.
	iii.	Johannah OSBORNE⁴ was born in 1725. She died in Unknown. She has reference number 1313.
	iv.	Caleb OSBORNE⁴ was born between 1725 and 1731. He died in Unknown. He has reference number 28955.
	v.	Solomon OSBORNE⁴ was born in 1727.⁷¹ He died in Unknown. He has reference number 1316.
	vi.	George OSBORNE⁴ was born in 1728. He died in Unknown. He has reference number 1315.
	vii.	Jeremiah OSBORNE⁴ was born on 17 April 1729.⁷¹ He died in Unknown. He has reference number 1314.
	viii.	Enoch OSBORNE⁴ was born in 1730. He died in Unknown. He has reference number 1317. His brother Capt. Enoch Osborn was a Long Hunter in the New River of VA and NC The Long Hunters had long hunted and traded with the Cherokee. In many cases they had fathered Cherokee children and been in semi-married relationships with Cherokee women. In these cases, by Cherokee custom, a man who supports his wife and children honorably is inducted into the woman's clan. European-American hunters on Cherokee land not attached to the clans in this way were in a perilous occupation. That the New River men, many of whom had been Long Hunters and Indian traders, would hold back in the attack on the Cherokee in 1776-1777 is to be expected, considering the way in which the war was conducted and their past ties to the Cherokee. As an example, Capt. Enoch Osborne's brother Ephraim married Mary Brock who is the daughter of Aaron Brock, sometimes called by his Cherokee name Cutsawah or Red Bird (after which a tributary of the Kentucky River is named), and one of the Blevins married a granddaughter of Doublehead, a Cherokee head man. Long Hunters not allied with the Cherokee would have been regarded by the Cherokee as thieves and would have lost their harvest of furs if caught (one such dispossessed "thief" was the famous Benjamin Cleveland, scourge of the New River Tories). The Revolutionary War was an economic disaster for the long hunts as many of the furs and skins destined for England now had no market.
	ix.	Jonathan OSBORNE⁴ was born in 1731. He died in Unknown. He has reference number 1318.
	x.	Stephen OSBORNE⁴ was born in 1733. He died in Unknown. He has reference number 28954.