#9375. 4. AYRES. A. R. H., Jan. 2, 1923. Further information on the Osborn and Tolles families must come from those having more complete knowledge of them. The Abigail Gunn who married John Smith of Derby, was a daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Wheeler) Gunn of Waterbury and was born Jan. 13, 1740. John Smith cannot be placed with certainty, so I am informed. The probabilities are that he was a son of Thomas Smith of Derby. Thomas was son of John and Mary Smith and grandson of Nicholas “Seaversmith” of Milford.
I know of no connection between this family and that of John and Grace Smith of Milford. By reference to “Seymour, Past and Present,” you will find that Hannah Miles, daughter of Theophilus and Mary (Meeker) Miles married Ebenezer Hurd. Their daughter Sarah is described as Sarah Osborn in the distribution of the estate of her grandfather Theophilus. The Miles line, back to Richard the settler, is correctly given in this history, except that Theophilus (3) (Samuel 2, Richard 1), born March 17, 1677, at New Haven, married Bethia ___, who survived him. He had no wife named Mary Buel as there stated.