OGBORN- Samuel Ogborn, sometimes spelled Ogbourne of Hopewell, Burlington county, bought land of Hendrick Gulick and Catherine his w. July 29th, 1712. The Ogborne family were early settlers in Burlington county. In 1761, Samuel Ogborne and Mary Ogborne were taxed in Middletown. Samuel was one of the members of the Middletown Baptist Church, 1793.

OLIPHANT- John Oliphant with others had land deeded to them August 19th, 1685, by John Harcutt. William Olivant or Oliphant bought for £32 a part of Robert Turner's share of land as Proprietors, about 1690. Among Scotch emigrants, named in Whitehead's History of Perth Amboy, who came over about 1685, was a William Oliphant, possibly the same shortly after named in Monmouth.

ONG, OUNG- Isaac Ong bought land of the Indians 1674, and was court crier 1683; his dau. Mary is named the following year. In 1699, Jacob Ong and another person were authorized by the Monmouth court to take a prisoner to Burlington. Jacob Ong is mentioned in Massachusetts Colonial Records, vol 5, as a plaintiff in a suit in 1679.

OKESON- In 1698, John Okeson of Hemstead, L.I., sold land in Freehold to John Robinson of Woodbridge. He bought a tract of land in 1706 in Freehold, of Clement Plumstead, per Richard Salter, his attorney, which tract began at an oak marked by George Keith. Okeson seems to be a name of Sweedish origin; if so, the Okesons may have come from Sweedish settlements on or near the Delaware. Tradition says that Captain Tom induced settlers from along the Delaware to take lands "on quit rents" in old Monmouth, now Monmouth and Ocean, and Okeson may have been one of the number.

OSBORNE- Richard Osborne is named in a land trial 1701. Samuel Osborne was a taxpayer in Shrewsbury 1764. In the Revolution Abraham Osborne was a lieutenant. The Osbornes early settled in Little Egg Harbor. Richard Osborne, according to tradition, came from Long Island. In 1648 Thomas and John Osborne settled at East Hampton, L.I.