JOHN OSBORN DIARY March 7, 1819 - September 19, 1821

This is the second volume of the John Osborn diary that is known to exist, a transcribed copy of the 1800-1802 volume is on this site. This volume was discovered by Pat Osborne Hines, great-great-granddaughter of John, the diarist recently at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC in the Southern Historical Collection item #3397-z.

The following pages contain a transcribed version of a Diary written by a Mr. JOHN OSBORN March 7, 1819 through September 19, 1821. The transcription and checking the typed text against the original document was accomplished by Jim Osborn, Suzi Risher, Nicki Osborne and Harold Polk, to sent an email to any of these people just click on their name and a email form should appear.

The format used in this transcription is somewhat different from the original document handwritten by John Osborn. In this version each day starts as a new paragraph and the date of the entry is underlined, whereas in the handwritten original John drew a line between the dates. There are no lines in the text portion of the original document and in some cases the text that went with a particular date is difficult to determine. The persons names are typed in bold letters, and an index has been generated after the pages were transcribed and has been and placed as the last page in this presentation. An alphabetized index of the people mentioned in the diary is in the back of this file, a link to this index is provided below. The page number, as assigned to the original document by John Osborn, is shown in brackets "[ ]" at the top of each transcribed page. The capitalization and spelling of the names and text is the same as the original document as best that could be determined. Since the handwriting, especially in this copy, was difficult to read your comments are welcome if you disagree from the words in this transcription. From time to time comments will appear in the text inside brackets, "[ ]", these comments are not in the original document and are to indicate a torn page or some other problem with transcribing the document, to inform the reader that there is additional infomation in the following page, or to show an alternate spelling of the word.

The 1815 Mecklenburg Co., NC. tax list shows a JOHN OSBOURN (Stiller) listed in Capt. PETER RAPES Company along with WILLIAM ALEXANDER, Sr., WILLIAM ALEXANDER, Jr., Capt. JOHN OSBOURN and JOHN BLACK OSBOURN. These persons may be related to JOHN "STILLER" OSBOURN.

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