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Sarah Osborne Sarah Osborne was a native of Watertown, MA and was born as Sarah Warren . She married first, Thomas Small [Nevins] and second Robert Prince in 1662. When he died in 1674, Prince left his land in trust to his wife with the stipulation that it eventually be given to his two sons James and Joseph. She later married her hired hand, a young Irish immigrant, Alexander Osborne, whose indenture she had purchased. Although eventually the two were married, it would seem that there was prior impropriety. According to Nevins the couple appeared "to have been in comfortable circumstances. Their greatest cross was the illness which confined the wife to her bed much of the time." Apparently the couple attempted to gain full and permanent control of the Prince lands, denying for many years the patrimony of James and Joseph as stipulated by their father, Robert Prince, a dispute that lasted until at least 1720 [Boyer & Nissenbaum]. These last actions, that is attempting to deprive her own children of their inheritance, was considered by some in the village as betraying her own sons. Sarah died in Boston Prison, May 10, 1692. The Witches of Salem, Winfield S. Nevins,
Longmeadow Press, 1994
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