• General Notes

  Note: GreatIndian Fighter
  Osborne Bland (c1748-1820)
  
  Kentucky Census, 1810-90 Record
  Name: OSBORN SR. BLAND
  State: KY 
  County: Nelson County 
  Township: No Township Listed 
  Year: 1800 
  Record Type: Tax list 
  Database: KY Early Census Index 
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  NOTE:
  
  Osborn Bland, and wife, were taken prisoners by the Indians at the burned station on Simpson Creek, Nelson County; also, their son. He was bound, but his wife succeeded in slipping away, and was in the woods for seventeen days before she was found by some hunter; her husband returned after an absence of three years, and they reared a large and influential family. William Bland moved to Hardin County in 1831, and settled on Nolin Creek, where he remained until his death, at the age of about eighty-five. He was the son of John Bland, who married a Miss Osburn, natives of England and Ireland respectively, who immigrated to Virginia in colonial days. From Virginia they came down the Ohio River in flatboats, and landed at Louisville; thence proceeded inland to Nelson County, where he became an active and influential farmer. Mrs. Sarah (Peak) Bland was born near Frankfort, Ky.; she was a daughter of Daniel Peak, who married a Miss Holderman. He lived to be over ninety years old and participated in several Indian wars in colonial times.
  
  Source: Randolph Family Tree
  http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-
  
  Also reference is made from an old newspaper "The Saturday Gazette" published in Bardstown and dated October 1, 1841, which contains an article entitled "A Memoirs of the Burnt Station." It was an article compiled by Major Thomas Speed, partly from tradition and partly from the recollection of men living at that time who were boys at the time of the massacre by the Indians. The article is a ghastly recital of Indian warfare. The article speaks of the tragedy being done in August or September of 1782.
  
  Horrible atrocities were practiced by the savages - so gruesome that it is difficult to believe that they occurred in our own fair Nelson County and in dwelling on the details it is easy to understand why our state was referred to as the "dark and bloody ground."
  
  Source: KINCHELOE’s STATION
  Then called Burnt Station 1781-1782
  Article from Historic Nelson County, Its Towns and People by Sarah B. Smith, 1983
  
  http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyncgr/kincheloestation.htm
  

Details of Osborne's family with Letitia (Lettice) "Lettie"  HAMBRICK