1800 Federal Census PA, Fayette Co., Tyrone Twp. page 604
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Benjamin and Rebecca VAN OSDOL, natives of Pennsylvania, who removed to Indiana in 1816, coming down the river in a flat-boat to Rising Sun, where they landed in the summer of that year and located about three miles west of Rising Sun. Mr. VAN OSDOL was a carpenter and mill-wright by trade, which occupation he followed the greater portion of his life. He was a true type of the pioneer — an honest, hard working man. They brought four children with them from Pennsylvania, of whom Nathan Allen was the youngest, and is the only one now living [1885]. Mr. VAN OSDOL [Benjamin] died September 12, 1848, aged seventy-one years. His widow died March 5, 1844, aged sixty-five years.
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